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Thank you Adi. I would like to see your collection, I know you have some beauties you’ve built.
Thank you Grant.
I suspect I will always have something waiting to be built... or finished.
Thanks Daniel.
I tried bonsai in the 70's. I sure could kill trees! I find that boats and airplanes aren't fussy about water nor soil.On another note, I picked up a new hobby…like I have time!
I am growing bonsai trees, the first is my boxwood tree, the others are a trident maple, an orange and a Brazilian rain forest tree (my fav) in the last pic.
They are all about 5 years old now.
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Yes, they are needy trees due to being miniaturized by limiting the soil to grow in and roots. That requires fast draining soil, fertilizer and almost daily watering and weekly pruning. Then a replant and root thining or grooming every 3-5 years. So not a very forgiving plant or tree.
I live by the Einstein definition of insanity, I don’t keep doing the same thing expecting a different result! 
Thats great information Dean, I know I have more plastic in my future, so it seems I have a huge inventory to choose from.Thanks Daniel.
Currently I have 39 WW2 aircraft built, and 12 in boxes waiting. Then I will probably have at least another 20 WW2 aircraft to be close to representing around 75-80% of the aircraft during the period. I started with fighter aircraft only, then dive bombers were included and now I will start adding bombers. I also have some duplicates of some aircraft, but obviously with different paint schemes.
On the WW1 aircraft I have 5 built and 4 in boxes waiting. There were obviously significantly less aircraft in that period. So I can’t say for sure how many more I would need to complete those or even what the availability is in 1/72 scale? I do look occasionally to see what’s out there.
On the fighter jets, well that would also be a very big collection! I currently only have 8 fighter jets and would probably end up with at the very least another 20-30 just to represent the US variants.
So, my current total for all 1/72 scale aircraft built is 52. I could see that doubling easily in the future.
As far as display area goes, it seems aircraft became increasingly larger over the years.
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I can fit around 12-16 WW1 aircraft per shelf. I can fit about 9 WW2 aircraft per shelf (fighters and dive bombers). Bombers will use a lot more shelf space.
And the fighter jets are at around 5-6 per shelf.
Absolutely! I used to build in 1/48 scale many years ago and they just took up too much room. So I ended up selling all of them. Then when I got back into building airplanes again I decide to go with 1/72 scale. They don’t have as much detail, but that means I can build them quicker and they take up less space, so it’s a trade off that’s worth it imo. And some of the newer 1/72 scale aircraft are close to having the same amount of detail as 1/48 scale.
. It is taking at least 3 coats to get full coverage and I have to put them on thin with a fine brush to avoid brush marks. I want the wood grain to still be visible. So it’s slow tedious work. The door and back panels are finished and I’m working on the main enclosure.
It’s going to look very nice, for sure with the visible woodgrain, Dean. It will stand as a eye catching statue. Looking forward to the mechanism, weights and bells.The grandfather clock is moving forward. But painting it has been somewhat maddening!
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As you can see there is still more coats to go on the areas already painted. Once painted and cured I can begin assembly. Looking forward to seeing it go together.
Thank you Peter. The gold clock face and movement, along with the gold weights and pendulum will look good with the black. The admiral didn’t like the stained wood look, so I decided to paint it and make look a little more modern.
