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Since we are all sharing, I got out a few from home, most are damaged and dusty but I'm used to that, I must have lost/broken about 90% of all the 100odd models I've done over the years (since age 7 or 8!)
Revell 1:72 109 G-10, decals went all wrong so I'm going to try and redo it as a captured RAF version since I have some spare RAF markings somewhere
Academy 1:320 B-52F, tiny (considering its a B-52) and cheap at a couple of pounds it makes a nice little desk ornament.
Italeri 1:72 AH-1W, like most of my helicopters, this has been broken, they are so delicate, pity as it was quite nice, I think I have the rotor as one piece still and just the other skid so should be salvageable.
Revell 1:24 Ford Escort Rally, The first time I have actually tried to make a car rather than buy one preassembled. Managed to make a meal of it and cut the axles too short so the wheel offset is shorter than it should be, doh! also built it stage by stage so didn't realise I had put a crossmember on backwards until after the glue had set, whoops, required a hachet job to fix, still it doesn't look too bad as long as you ignore the wheels and dont look underneath. Oh I also forgot the seatbelts as well
, otherwise I was quite pleased with the interior. The bonnent even sits slightly off kilter with the shutlines just like a real one 
(Ford build quality)
Revell 1:72 109 G-10, decals went all wrong so I'm going to try and redo it as a captured RAF version since I have some spare RAF markings somewhere
Academy 1:320 B-52F, tiny (considering its a B-52) and cheap at a couple of pounds it makes a nice little desk ornament.
Italeri 1:72 AH-1W, like most of my helicopters, this has been broken, they are so delicate, pity as it was quite nice, I think I have the rotor as one piece still and just the other skid so should be salvageable.
Revell 1:24 Ford Escort Rally, The first time I have actually tried to make a car rather than buy one preassembled. Managed to make a meal of it and cut the axles too short so the wheel offset is shorter than it should be, doh! also built it stage by stage so didn't realise I had put a crossmember on backwards until after the glue had set, whoops, required a hachet job to fix, still it doesn't look too bad as long as you ignore the wheels and dont look underneath. Oh I also forgot the seatbelts as well
, otherwise I was quite pleased with the interior. The bonnent even sits slightly off kilter with the shutlines just like a real one (Ford build quality) 
Italeri 1:72 F-5, Swiss Airforce markings, the one good thing about Italeri, aside from the cheap price is their range of decals included in the kit for lots of different countries, I always like to go for the unusual/less common ones.
Unknown 1:72, F-14A, originally I had it in USN colours but couldn't resist turning it into an Iranian Tomcat once I got some Iranian decals I had to repaint it, since I had no idea what Iranian colours looked like I guessed (this was before the internet provided a valuable research tool)
A cheap kit I got somewhere 1:72, F-15A, finished in demonstrator colour scheme, except I didn't have any red so I used artistic licence and made it black, which looks far better anyway.
Unknown 1:48 F-16A, in Danish markings looking very dusty and a bit worse for wear, this one is quite old, I can't remember much about it.
Airfix 1:72 Harrier GR3, RAF markings, put together and painted fairly quickly, probably too quickly.
Italeri 1:72 Harrier Gr7, just one I did for my brother recently, this is in the preliminery stages, underneath you see the box for the Yak 38 which he also requested, never have I seen such a poor quality kit, an absolute nightmare, I eventually got it to resemble something looking like a Yak 38, actually it looked quite good once all painted up, still if I never do another 'A-Model' kit again it will be too soon. So guess what brand the Il-2 I am doing next is....
Italeri 1:72 Hawk 127, RAAF colours, the only Hawk 100 kit I have seen so far, and required some chopping up since many parts were still Hawk 60 parts (mainly the wings), colours scheme is my own invention (tried the proper one but it looked too boring so I 'improved' it
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Italeri 1:72 F/A-18A, RAAF colours, a bit dusty and dirty after being in storage, still one of my favourite models, as you can see I usually leave my models berefit of armament and attach them later with bluetac so I can change loadouts if I wish.
Airfix 1:72 Hurricane MkIIB, Turkish colours, it was a typical RAF one before I went decal crazy and turned it into a Turkish one, actually the scheme is pinched from Turkish spitfire but I thought it looked good and stole it
unknown 1:72 Ju-87 'stuka', in Eastern front winter colours, might have been a Revell kit, can't really remember that far back now
Academy 1:144 Ju-88A4, North African colour scheme, I remember it took quite a bit of tracking down to find this particular model, there was a whole series of 1:144 models of which I was trying to collect them all, this was part of the WW2 collection and there was also a modern aircraft collection as well. This was one of the better and more accurate ones, some of the others were laughably poor such as the F-15 and F-111 so I have given most of the others away.
Cant remember what brand 1:72, KA-50, This is an interesting model, it was produced from spy shots of the Ka-50 when western sources couldn't believe that it was a single seater. As it happens it is a single seater and the two seat Ka-52 version employs a side by side layout, making this model a non-existant type, like those 'F-19 stealth fighters' which you can still find floating around sometimes. Mine has lost most of its two tier rotor assembly and undercarriage unfortunately.
Academy 1:144 MiG-21bis, A tiny thing, painted in afghan campaign colour scheme, this is one of the modern collection I mentioned earlier.
Academy 1:144 MiG-25P, Another in the modern collection, this thing is monstrous in size, even in 1:144, and dwarfs the MiG21 which would be in danger if being sucked into the huge engines, a fearsome looking machine and one of my favourites.
Unknown 1:72, MiG-29, just a cheapy I picked out of bargain bin somewhere, I think it was reject because some of the parts damaged and warped though the only real noticeable thing is a bad wing warp on the port wing. Actually turned out quite well in the end, though I managed to break it putting it back into storage again
Airfix 1:72 P-40M, actually it's supposed to be a P-40E but looks more like an M to me, and the colour scheme (RAAF PTO, 1942-3) is not 100% accurate but from my research RAAF P-40s, in new Guinea at least, wore haphazard schemes by that stage of the war so I think I can get away with it
Academy 1:144 Seaharrier FRS1, another tiny one from the modern collection, god knows how I painted something so small, then again I wasn't that big myself back then...
Airfix 1:72 Spitfire Mk1, god knows how many spitfires I have done, must be almost 10 by now, surely this is the most modelled aircraft ever? (along with the P-51) I even have some 1:144 spitfires somewhere, probably the smallest models I have.
Zvesda 1:72 Su-24, something I recently put together, you can see the Gr7 again in the background and also my Italeri 1:72 Kfir C7 in it's previous colour scheme, I have since put the proper one on.
Italeri(?) 1:72 Typhoon, Originally I had it in Spanish CASA demonstator colours with wheels down, canopy open setup as an exhibit, then I got the game EF2000 and had to rejig and repaint it into a wheels up RAF version, looks a bit dirty now though.
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