2023 Year-end review

Day 676 since you know what…

Updated 12 January 2024 with what is left to build.

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Sunday December 31, 2023

First let’s start with my 2023 resolutions I wrote back on My Forgotten Hobby VI.

First resolution:

I won’t be buying another model kit in 2023, Pro Modeler Curtiss Helldiver SB2C-4 being the last one bought in 2022.

Not kept since I have added three more in 2023…

Tamiya 1/48 Avro Lancaster

Tamiya Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden

Tamiya Nakajima J1N1-Sa

Second resolution:

I won’t start a new build before I finished one.

Not kept…

Third resolution:

I won’t change my mind when I have decided on something.

Not kept because I always keep changing my mind.

Fourth resolution:

I will stop complaining about unclear instructions and how many tiny parts there are in ICM model kits.  

Kept, but just partly, especially when I haven’t built ICM Ju 88 C-6 night-fighter yet…

Fifth resolution:

My Forgotten Hobby VI will be the last sequel to My Forgotten Hobby. It will end on December 6, 2023 exactly 10 years after I had published my first post.

Not kept. I have added two sequels since: My Forgotten Hobby VII and this one you are now reading.

Sixth resolution:

I will not be posting everyday, but I will still count the days until February 24, 2023…

Partially kept… However I will still be counting the days until Russian troops leave Ukraine.

Now what about my collection of unbuilt model kits as of December 31, 2023…

Planes (73)

Academy (2)

USN SB2U-3 Vindicator (bought Spring 2023)

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 (11)

P-39 Weekend edition (bought in December 2019)

Spitfire Mk IX (bought in December 2019)

F6F Hellcat Weekend edition (bought in January 2020)

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 (29)

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)

Nakajima Ki 84 (bought in 2021) in progress

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)

Mitsubishi Raiden Jack (bought in 2023)

Revell (1)

B1-B (bought in 1990s)

Monogram (21)

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

Hawker Typhoon (bought in the 1990s)

SBD Dauntless (bought in the 1980s)

Vought Kingfisher (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-8 Crusader (bought in the 1980s)

F-80 (bought in the 1980s)

F-84 (bought in the 1980s)

A6 Douglas Skyraider (bought in the 1980s)

A7 Corsair (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 (4)

P-40 E (bought in 2018)

Douglas Dauntless (bought in 2018)

Zero Type 52 (Minicraft/Hasegawa) (bought in 1990s) in progress 

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 (2)

Trumpeter (2)

USS Lexington 1/700 scale (bought in 2019)

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

Model kits completed in 2023

1. ICM Junkers Ju 88-A12
2. ICM Dornier Do 17-Z
3. Trumpeter Z-30 Monogram MiG-29
4. Academy P-51A
5. Monogram P-61 Black Widow
6. Revell Fighting Deuces Series Bf 109
7. Frog Bristol Beaufighter Mk 21
8. Revell B-29
9. Aurora CF-100
10. Aurora CF-105
11. Monogram AH-1S Cobra helicopter
12. Aurora P-38
13. Monogram AH-64 Apache
14. Monogram UH-1 Hog
15. Monogram de Havilland Mosquito Mk VI 

Will My Forgotten Hobby VIII be continued on January 1st, 2024?