My Forgotten Hobby III

Updated 5 January 2025

Having build another model kit, I have updates my to-do list. I now consider my to-do list more as a list of my collection of unbuilt model airplanes. I thought a few years ago that it was a great idea to have a to-do list of what I have in my collection, especially when Amazon was always putting on ads whenever I was opening my computer and going on the Internet.

This was before Plaza Japan started hitting me with the same.

I was hoping that I could be avoiding going on another spending spree, and planning ahead on my next builds by setting up some priorities… Well I was being wrong and I kept adding more model kits in my collection. This is now the updated list of model kits as of January 5, 2025.

Planes (65) Academy (1)

USN TBF1-3 Avenger (bought Spring 2023)

ICM (1)

Ju 88 C-6 (bought on January 21, 2020)

Airfix (2)

Boulton-Paul Defiant (bought in 2018)

Battle of Britain and Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 (bought in 2018)

Eduard (10)

P-39 Weekend edition (bought in December 2019)

Spitfire Mk IX (bought in December 2019)

Spitfire Mk XVI Weekend edition (bought in January 2020)

Me 110 E (bought in January 2020)

Me 109 G-4 (bought in February 2020)

FW 190 D (bought in March 2020)

Me 109 E-3 (bought in March 2020)

FW 190 A-8 (bought in March 2020)

Hawker Tempest Mk V (bought in June 2020)

P-51 D (bought in June 2020)

Tamiya (28)

Bristol Beaufighter Mk VI (bought after 2000)

Hawker Harrier (bought in the 1990s)

de Havilland Mosquito (bought in 2018)

P-47 M (bought in 2019)

F4U-1/2 Corsair (bought in August 2019)

F4U-1D Corsair with tug (bought in 2019)

Me 262 (bought in December 2019)

FW 190D (bought in January 2020)

IL-2 Sturmovik (bought in February 2020)

Bristol Beaufighter TFX (bought in June 2020)

P-38 F/J (bought in June 2020)

P-47 D Razorback (bought in September 2020)

P-51 B (bought in September 2020)

P-38 F/J (bought in 2021)

Mitsubishi G4M Betty (bought in 2021)

Fairey Swordfish (bought in 2021)

De Havilland Mosquito Mk IV (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk I – old version (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk I – new version (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk Vb (bought in 2021)

Spitfire Mk Vb – tropical version (bought in 2021)

Mustang Mk III (bought in 2021)

Heinkel He 219 (bought in 2021)

Heinkel He 162 (bought in 2021)

Avro Lancaster (bought in 2023)

P-38J (bought in 2022)

Nakajima J1N1 Gekko (bought in 2023)

Revell (1)

B1-B (bought in 1990s) IN PROGRESS

Monogram (18)

De Havilland Mosquito IN PROGRESS

Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk (a gift from a WWII veteran air gunner in 2010)

Hawker Typhoon (bought in the 1990s)

Pro Modeler SB2C Helldiver (bought in 2022)

Pro Modeler A-26 B Invader (bought after 2000)

B-24 J (bought in the 1980s)

B-25 J (bought in the 1990s)

B-58 (bought in the 1980s)

F4 Phantom (bought in the 1980s)

F-80 (bought in the 1980s)

F-84 (bought in the 1980s)

A6 Douglas Skyraider (bought in the 1980s)

F-100 (bought in the 1980s)

F-101 (bought in the 1980s)

F-102 (bought in the 1980s)

F-105 (bought in the 1980s)

F-106 (bought in the 1980s)

F-117 (bought in the 1980s)

I have bought all these to reminisce on the good old days…

Hasegawa (2)

Douglas Dauntless (bought in 2018)

Nakajima B5N Kate (bought in 2021)

Trumpeter (2)

Vickers Wellington Mk III 1/72 scale (bought in February 2020)

Vickers Wellington Mk III 1/48 scale (bought in April 2022)

Ships (1) Trumpeter (1)

USS Saratoga CV-3 1/700 scale (bought in 2019)

So with so many model kits waiting to be built, I still realize that it’s not that important if I build them all… Just having them is.