Okay, there was no Mayan apocalypse and I still have 10 days left in the year, and of those 10 days I estimate I have 4-5 solid modeling days, so I may be editing this post to update what I got completed.  At any rate, my build plan for 2012 got totally side tracked by the Museum requirements, but I did have a good year!

For the Museum:

• Trumpeter Liberty Ship
• Tamiya Type VII U-Boat
• Hobby Boss Type IX U-Boat
• Tamiya HMS Prince of Wales
• Matchbox Halifax GR II

Theme builds:

• Academy General Motors FM-1 Wildcat & Wildcat V (Salute to the General)
• Academy & Airfix Tomahawk IIb (Shark Tank)
• Academy P-40B (Between the Wars)
• Airfix P-40B (Anniversary: Pearl Harbor)
• Hawk Javelin (rebuild your first model)
• Matchbox Mosquito PR XVI (Trench Warfare)
• PM Ta-183 (Whiff)
• CMR P-51H in Air National Guard markings (Minutemen)

I started a number of kits, only to be foiled by some sort of roadblock (usually work):

• Revell P-26A — Decals were complex and slow going
• Matchbox Halifax GR II (my first attempt) — too many complex corrections
• Dragon Arizona — Overwhelming
• MPM FM-2 Wildcat VI — Ran out of time
• Hobby Boss P-47D — No matter how much I try, the seam gets worse
• Tamiya 2 O-Class and 1 E-Class destroyers

Still, 15 completed models for the year is a good rate, and keeps me on pace to finish my stash before I shift to the workbench in the sky (presuming typical longevity, of course).

Thanks for reading…