My Collection
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:52 pm
Greetings:
Here is my collection. I put a little description with each piece for the unknown pieces or unfamilar ones to the 1/18 guys. These pieces are all displayed in a spare bedroom which I use as a storage spot for my teaching materials not currently in my classroom or that are not needed. Anyway on to the collection. My apologies things are a little congested right now and it's too cold here to move many of these outside for photos.
The pride of my collection is certainly the 1/18 Blue Angels Hornet. I never decaled it and don't think I will, I kind of like it as is. I can't wait for Airstrike's BA Hellcat to go with this as well as the BBI Thunderbirds F-16
This is an airshow shelf. On this shelf is the 9 plane Red Arrows 40th Anniversary Set offered by Corgi in 2004. These planes are in the 1/100-1/150 range. Also on this shelf is a new Corgi Red Arrows Hawk featuring the 2008 color scheme, a Blue Angels Hornet, Thunderbirds F-16 and in the back is an Aermacchi MB-339 from the Frecce Tricolori (this got smashed in the mail but I got it back together somehow.) The larger plane is Corgi's Mig-29 in Russian Swifts Aerobatic Team colors.
This is my other airshow set. This is a 1/100 scale 8 plane formation set of the Patrouille de France Aerobatic Team. They fly Alpha Jets. This set was made by Atlas.
This is another special piece in my collection. This is a Cox .049 Gas Powered 1911 Pusher from the 1960's. This was given to me by my grandfather. I cleaned it up, replaced some parts and it looks great. The cardboard display was used in hobby shops to display the "store model" and to get people to buy it. I found that stand on ebay and had to have it. Hard to believe such a neat model was only $10 new. You can see the nose of my 1/18 Hellcat in the background
This is one of my Authentic Models Jennys. They are beautiful models and well detailed but very large and very delicate. The tail of the Hellcat is visible. These are postwar barnstorming colors.
Another Authentic Models Jenny, this one in British training colors.
This is the Authentic Models Sopwith Camel, this one's got a 29 inch wingspan. The problem with these models is they do not come apart, like the XD and BBI stuff. I love these models but they might be finding a new home because they are so hard to store and move around. On the small handmade shelf behind the Camel is a Curtiss Pusher I made from a crashed Cox version I had found at a local antique store. I made that plane the early version with the front control piece. Between the Jenny and the Camel is a metal handmade Wright Flyer piece which is rather interesting.
The Hellcat is tucked in the middle. Thank goodness for folding wings!
These are a lot of my 1/32 aircraft. Some of the 21st 1/144 birds fill in the front
The Pearl Harbor P-40 and Zero with the Seeman 109 and P-51 Donald Duck version.
The Atlantic Avenger needs its own shelf
Some more 1/32 stuff, Spit, P-47 & P-51B
More 1/32, my custom B-25 and BBI's F-4J
This is the one top shelf featuring the very large Authentic Models Spad and some 1/32 birds.
The other top shelf, Authentic Models huge Fokker Triplane, behind the Triplane is the Daisy June Corsair
The Jolly Roger Sabre occupies the top of the storage boxes in the one corner.
The Tiger Meet F-104, somehow I have four F-104 schemes, too many on clearence I guess
The Spitfire shares the next shelf with the BBI 1/32 warbirds
BBI's big boys get the top two shelves, the F-16 and F-18. I've substituted the F-104 pitot tube on the F-16 because I have no idea where the F-16's is
A very small shelf in the corner has the FOV P-39 and a small bank of the Goodyear blimp which is one of my favorite pieces ironically. The small F-18's in front were on a cake my students had at the end of the year last year for our school part and have found their way into my collection
The final piece in the collection is a Raptor, this is a repainted PTE bird. It got scuffed moving and needs some touch up, but isn't bad
Currently in storage includes 3 F-104's, a P-47 and a couple of 1/32 birds.
There is also a PTE A-10 currently under customization
I have to catch up on helios as I have none
Here is my collection. I put a little description with each piece for the unknown pieces or unfamilar ones to the 1/18 guys. These pieces are all displayed in a spare bedroom which I use as a storage spot for my teaching materials not currently in my classroom or that are not needed. Anyway on to the collection. My apologies things are a little congested right now and it's too cold here to move many of these outside for photos.
The pride of my collection is certainly the 1/18 Blue Angels Hornet. I never decaled it and don't think I will, I kind of like it as is. I can't wait for Airstrike's BA Hellcat to go with this as well as the BBI Thunderbirds F-16
This is an airshow shelf. On this shelf is the 9 plane Red Arrows 40th Anniversary Set offered by Corgi in 2004. These planes are in the 1/100-1/150 range. Also on this shelf is a new Corgi Red Arrows Hawk featuring the 2008 color scheme, a Blue Angels Hornet, Thunderbirds F-16 and in the back is an Aermacchi MB-339 from the Frecce Tricolori (this got smashed in the mail but I got it back together somehow.) The larger plane is Corgi's Mig-29 in Russian Swifts Aerobatic Team colors.
This is my other airshow set. This is a 1/100 scale 8 plane formation set of the Patrouille de France Aerobatic Team. They fly Alpha Jets. This set was made by Atlas.
This is another special piece in my collection. This is a Cox .049 Gas Powered 1911 Pusher from the 1960's. This was given to me by my grandfather. I cleaned it up, replaced some parts and it looks great. The cardboard display was used in hobby shops to display the "store model" and to get people to buy it. I found that stand on ebay and had to have it. Hard to believe such a neat model was only $10 new. You can see the nose of my 1/18 Hellcat in the background
This is one of my Authentic Models Jennys. They are beautiful models and well detailed but very large and very delicate. The tail of the Hellcat is visible. These are postwar barnstorming colors.
Another Authentic Models Jenny, this one in British training colors.
This is the Authentic Models Sopwith Camel, this one's got a 29 inch wingspan. The problem with these models is they do not come apart, like the XD and BBI stuff. I love these models but they might be finding a new home because they are so hard to store and move around. On the small handmade shelf behind the Camel is a Curtiss Pusher I made from a crashed Cox version I had found at a local antique store. I made that plane the early version with the front control piece. Between the Jenny and the Camel is a metal handmade Wright Flyer piece which is rather interesting.
The Hellcat is tucked in the middle. Thank goodness for folding wings!
These are a lot of my 1/32 aircraft. Some of the 21st 1/144 birds fill in the front
The Pearl Harbor P-40 and Zero with the Seeman 109 and P-51 Donald Duck version.
The Atlantic Avenger needs its own shelf
Some more 1/32 stuff, Spit, P-47 & P-51B
More 1/32, my custom B-25 and BBI's F-4J
This is the one top shelf featuring the very large Authentic Models Spad and some 1/32 birds.
The other top shelf, Authentic Models huge Fokker Triplane, behind the Triplane is the Daisy June Corsair
The Jolly Roger Sabre occupies the top of the storage boxes in the one corner.
The Tiger Meet F-104, somehow I have four F-104 schemes, too many on clearence I guess
The Spitfire shares the next shelf with the BBI 1/32 warbirds
BBI's big boys get the top two shelves, the F-16 and F-18. I've substituted the F-104 pitot tube on the F-16 because I have no idea where the F-16's is
A very small shelf in the corner has the FOV P-39 and a small bank of the Goodyear blimp which is one of my favorite pieces ironically. The small F-18's in front were on a cake my students had at the end of the year last year for our school part and have found their way into my collection
The final piece in the collection is a Raptor, this is a repainted PTE bird. It got scuffed moving and needs some touch up, but isn't bad
Currently in storage includes 3 F-104's, a P-47 and a couple of 1/32 birds.
There is also a PTE A-10 currently under customization
I have to catch up on helios as I have none