Antonyp's work...

[AeroplaneDriver]

There are just too many cool models to reply to individually!

Dude, great stuff!  I love the Swedish stuff and the Comanche, but I think my favorite is the RN Skyray.  Such a cool looking aircraft to start with, seenign it in RN colors though is so cool!

Nice models!

EDIT-Sorry I mispelled your name, typing too fast today!

[Captain Canada]

Hey....good call, Aeroplane ! Even I was dreading the task of replying to all those !



But I still might, anyway ! There's just too many good ones to pass up on !

 

[Ollie]

Never pass an occasion to raise your total amount of posts...



BTW, great work Anthony!!

         

[anthonyp]

Thanks, guys!  Glad you like them!

I just wanted to share, and I figured if I was gonna share, time for a POSTING BLITZ!!

The Swedish stuff sorta came to me as I was finishing up the Gripen (which was the first one built).  It was originally going to be a USN fighter, but I found a Draken and Viggen on the bargain table at a local hobby store, bought them for nearly nothing, took them home, opened them up, and decided Sweden needed a carrier or two.  Deciding on paint schemes and decal placement was the challenging part, as construction of the actual model just seemed to go waaaay too easily.

The Skyray was either going to be a RN or a MarineFlieger bird.  Since I already had three MarineFlieger planes, I figured the British needed something.  Originally this was to be accompanied by a naval Javelin, but the Javelin's nose melted off due to some odd reaction with some Tamiya modeling putty (and I didn't even use that much!).  The top of the Skyray's tail also melted off (this one was entirely my fault as I was gluing another model, and as I was putting the cap back on, I didn't notice a glob of glue dropped onto the Skyray.  By the time I saw it, the plastic was already plyable at the tip, so I yanked it off and figured it'd be some sort of modification the RN or MarineFlieger would do.).

More will be coming, just sometime next week, probably.  Expect a USN MH-73B (USN Tiger PAH-2), another Soviet naval helo (AMT Hokum), a USN SH-65B Dolphin, the finished Finnish A-10E, an S-4C (ASW plane based on the E-2C), and a modern USAF F-108 (Anigrand).  After these are done, it's back to the stash.  Whoops, forgot the German carrier too!

Like I said, browsing these forums helped reawaken something I used to take a lot of joy in.  Y'all do some really good work, and everyone's got really interesting ideas.  I just wanted to share some of my own.

         

[Radish]

How much time has he got?
I reckon he's a Time Lord working in different dimensions!!!
Bloody fantastic stuff. Just amazing!!
A message to us all.....build, build, build!
TERRIFIC....carry on please.        

[Patrick H]

Hey....good call, Aeroplane ! Even I was dreading the task of replying to all those !

I started doing so, despite the sheer amount of posts but it is becoming to much  

Absolutely wonderfull models Anthony. Keep up the good work.



Patrick

[Geoff_B]

Yeap no other way to handle the sheer volume of production. Nice work and hopefully should prompt others to get their group build concepts completed or inspire the reat of us with fresh possiblities from mainstream kits.

Well done Ant and i'm glad your focus is towards the What-if concepts.

Cheers

G B)  

[nev]

Yeah, couldn't reply to all of em, but great stuff.  How long did it take you to build em all?  

[Gary]

It is an inspiring collection. I think I'll have to lock the door to my office and finish my Latin American weekend build I started two weeks ago.

[Hunter Gatherer]

Yep I'm with you guys. Nice to see the new guy 'spreading his seed' wide and far !

Inspiration anybody ?

IJ.

[anthonyp]

Yeah, couldn't reply to all of em, but great stuff.  How long did it take you to build em all?

I started building the first ones back in September of last year.  Built slowly, but steadily.  The winter was especially weird around here this year (lots of snow one day, week later it melts, week after that repeat process), so I got to build a bit more.  Really, it was just 15 minutes here, twenty minutes there spread over weeks and months, though I did have multiple kits going at any given time.  

I gotta agree with what was said in another thread about finishing a kit.  It's the best feeling to actually get the thing off the bench  

[Leigh]

Anthony that's a really awesome collection, planes always look better when operated by Sailors. Thanks for sharing.

[NARSES2]

Can you imagine what I thought after a week away ! Great work, show's what can be done with a change of markings, paint scheme etc

Chris