1/48 Accurate Miniatures Stormvik

[philo426]

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[philo426]

[stikpusher]

Nice Sturmovik! I love that kit. Mine fell victim to a marauding German sympathizer housecat. 🤨

[philo426]

Real model menace!

[stikpusher]

Jun 5, 2023 14:46:17 GMT -5 philo426 said:

Real model menace!

She is! Took out my completed Sturmovik, F-80, and Mustang IA, and heavily damaged my P-47 & F4U. Not to mention damage to several other incomplete shelf queens.

[philo426]

Can you rebuild them?

[Medicman71]

Looks great!

[philo426]

Thanks!

[stikpusher]

Jun 5, 2023 15:06:16 GMT -5 philo426 said:

Can you rebuild them?

I repaired the Thunderbolt & Corsair. The others were damaged beyond economical repair, so stripped of usable parts, then trashed. The shelf queens are slowly being repaired where needed and completed. 

[philo426]

I wrecked my Mavis three times until I got lucky and found a large enough plastic display case to protect it.

[Leon]

Nicely done!

[philo426]

Thanks!

[armornutii]

 Ah ha, name to a name....the man lift in the back gave it away.

[keavdog]

Nice job. I've got the "true" two seater from Tamiya in the stash. Mean looking airplane - and so many ways to spell it

Shturmovik, Stormovik and Sturmovik

[stikpusher]

Jun 5, 2023 15:06:16 GMT -5 philo426 said:

Can you rebuild them?

The CATastrophe…😢



“Who me?”

[Tojo72]

Very nice build,I too need to jump on the Tamiya one in my stash.

[philo426]

Yes might be doable but do you want to?

[keavdog]

What a disaster Stik - cat looks like a little bandit too!

[stikpusher]

The cat was a little bugger. Thankfully she lives over a thousand miles away now, so my models are now safe. 😉

Most of the damage was to the landing gear, and other little breakable bits. I have a Zvezda IL-2 replacement in my stash now, plus still have the Accurate Miniatures IL-2M in my stash from before this incident.

[deafpanzer]

Cats like to jump on kits while dogs like to chew model kits... can't we just get along? Maybe your cat wants you to focus on armor kits from now on? So sorry it happened...

[stikpusher]

Jun 6, 2023 18:38:23 GMT -5 deafpanzer said:

Cats like to jump on kits while dogs like to chew model kits... can't we just get along? Maybe your cat wants you to focus on armor kits from now on? So sorry it happened...

Lol! I don’t know if you can see in the photo, but this cat took out land, sea, and air subjects… must want to be a Marine, fighting on all three places… That was years ago so the pain of that day has faded… 😵‍💫

[tcoat]

Jun 6, 2023 18:38:23 GMT -5 deafpanzer said:

Cats like to jump on kits while dogs like to chew model kits... can't we just get along? Maybe your cat wants you to focus on armor kits from now on? So sorry it happened...

I had a cat that had a thing for 1/32 props. Wouldn't knock anything down or damage a single part on 1/48 planes but would chew up 1/32 props like they were candy. I now have at least a couple of aircraft fitted with props that they would never ever have used in real life. 

[TJ]

Great looking Ilyushin

[406 Silverado]

Camo looks great on this one Eugene! These AM kits really had alot of details packed into them and were quite ahead of their time when they came out. I've still got an old AM Dauntless kit that I'd like to get to. Just beautiful work man.

[philo426]

Thanks!It really is a good kit and fit was quite good!