Mustang's 2021 Few....

[mustang1989]

Well folks....production for this year was NOT a very productive one as far as completions go and I've usually got a car or two in the year BUT.....I was happy with what I did get out.

My first completed build was a first in a while for me because I haven't started an aircraft build in a long LONG time but I've always wanted a Me-262 to be in my display case and I've been wanting to build a Franz Stigler bird (whether it be a 109 or a 262) for a while and I finally made it happen with a Tamiya 1/48 offering. Not my usual style of opening everything up but I just couldn't disrupt the beautiful lines of this aircraft too much. This one took somewhere around the 7 month marker to finish.

 

Then I had a Revell Boss 302 engine from the 1970 Boss 302 Mustang kit that I built as a part of a community project and was pretty happy with this outcome as well. This took me almost 2 months to build.
 

 

And then another "first" for me. I ended up building my first ever all metal PE kit. A Fokker Dr 1 in 1/70 scale from Metal Earth. This one, while only taking a couple of days to build, was a pretty fun build for me. Challenging, but a pretty quick finish that I felt pretty good about.
 

 

Aside from these three builds I've had a 1967 Mustang Fastback build that I've spent the last 5 months building and will hopefully be finished up in the next couple of months. I had planned originally for it to be a fairly quick build but the more I built on it , the more detail I wanted to put into it so.....I'm now looking for a completion within the next couple of months. After that....I'm not sure what I'll tackle next. I've got another aircraft build that I've been wanting to tackle now for 25 years and then there's another Maverick project that I'd really like to do.  We'll see how it goes.

[bisc63]

Quality over quantity anytime! Very nice builds all around, and as much as I love the properly scaled details on that engine, you really had me at Me-262. Great job on that one.

[Dave Armstrong]

I LOVE the Me 262! Very well done!

I also build military aircraft, and like you haven't built one in a while, been too wrapped up in my cars.

[bbowser]

Add me to the 262 club.  The Fokker is very cool also.

[mustang1989]

7 hours ago, bisc63 said:

Quality over quantity anytime! Very nice builds all around, and as much as I love the properly scaled details on that engine, you really had me at Me-262. Great job on that one.

Thanks Rusty. Was really glad to have you along on the build.

7 hours ago, Dave Armstrong said:

I LOVE the Me 262! Very well done!

I also build military aircraft, and like you haven't built one in a while, been too wrapped up in my cars.

Thank you as well Dave. I hear you man......I stepped away from aircraft for a while as I really had to work on mastering my paint and weathering processes some and I really wanted to learn how to pull off nice paint jobs on auto builds. Thing was.....that I ended up REALLY liking auto building. lol 

3 hours ago, bbowser said:

Add me to the 262 club.  The Fokker is very cool also.

'Preciate that Bruce. That Fokker was a change of pace for me as I've never built one of those kits before and have wanted to build a DR 1 for a while now.

I've always been a fan of the 262 but even more so after I read the book A Higher Call by Adam Makos. It's a truly remarkable story and one of the main characters is Franz Stigler who flew both the Bf-109 as well as this Me-262, " White 3" at the end of the war with JV44. If you enjoy reading at all I can promise you, you'll enjoy this book.

This was the artwork that I patterned the paint scheme after for it.

[stevez]

great 262, reminds me of the blue oyster cult album cover. 

[baycolony]

Great eclectic mix of your usual quality.  It seems that we have caught the same aircraft bug.  Maybe this is a symptom of Covid...?

[Classicgas]

Like Rusty said,  quality  not quantity.  Your  builds are always stellar Joe. 

[slusher]

Great looking builds, Joe…

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[mustang1989]

On 1/7/2022 at 8:51 AM, stevez said:

great 262, reminds me of the blue oyster cult album cover. 

 

On 1/7/2022 at 9:14 AM, baycolony said:

Great eclectic mix of your usual quality.  It seems that we have caught the same aircraft bug.  Maybe this is a symptom of Covid...?

 

On 1/7/2022 at 10:09 AM, Classicgas said:

Like Rusty said,  quality  not quantity.  Your  builds are always stellar Joe. 

 

On 1/8/2022 at 2:38 AM, slusher said:

Great looking builds, Joe…

 

On 1/8/2022 at 5:51 AM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

Thank you all so very much for the comments and sorry for the late reply guys. Had a family emergency pop up in mid January and it's been a slow comeback for me. My mom passed in late January and I took some time to be with my dad afterwards which in turn stalled out all my modeling projects and forum time. Getting back into the swing of things on forums as well as at the bench though. Thanks again fellas.