I was offered the Hornby Junior Paddington train set at a price I couldn't refuse. It's compatible with 00/ho gauge track. It's basic which suits me, powered by AA batteries and has a light which only works with the power car. However the couplings don't work with other Hornby rolling stock.
I'll be repainting the set and adding a front name plate. The accessories will be recycled and the plastic track weathered
I'll probably buy another set and extra carriages.
Found another one, one red and one blue.

Quote from: killnoizer on January 28, 2024, 01:04:21 AMAnd one of those ugly Bloch Bombers (. I converted the same kit last year together with a mk.IV Tank ) .
This Thing could give a proper Dieselpunk style plane I think !   
It's a very vintage kit from Czechia , known for their precision   
They were sold well in the former East German communist  republic  .

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I have one of those (without the box) but mine will be Real World(ish?).

Snaffled a Dragon Heinkel He 219 on eBay.  I already have the requisite longer span wings and resin Jumo 222 engines, so it'll end up as a B-3.  Probably with a FuG 240 radar nose than the usual antlers.

Lower the wings to a mid-fuselage location and give it a retractable undercarriage, a mid-step between the high-wing MB.200 and the low-wing MB.210.

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Quote from: killnoizer on January 28, 2024, 01:04:21 AMAnd one of those ugly Bloch Bombers (. I converted the same kit last year together with a mk.IV Tank ) .
This Thing could give a proper Dieselpunk style plane I think !   
It's a very vintage kit from Czechia , known for their precision   
They were sold well in the former East German communist  republic  .

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I have one of those (without the box) but mine will be Real World(ish?).

I do not understand 😂  .... ?
What do you mean ?
This one is also "real" i think .   
Excuse me please, i'm german

I mean that I will build it (as well as I am able) to represent a Real World aircraft.

A shop in Lindsay, about an hour away, was advertising a Heller Saab J-29 Tunnan for $5 Canadian, regular $19.99. Postage brought it to $21.90, about what it would have cost me in gas to drive up there, which probably would have been fruitless because they deal strictly on-line now. Plans are for a very obscure, but legitimate, air force, with an actual connection to Saab...

Uncle Frank is holding an Eduard Weekend Fw 190 A-8 standard wing for me.  This is what I should have bought as a basis for the E, rather than the F I did get.  Still, I can still do something interesting with it.

 
   

Sale cancelled, looks like they misread their inventory and the model was not actually in stock.

Quote from: The Rat on January 29, 2024, 07:59:18 AMA shop in Lindsay, about an hour away, was advertising a Heller Saab J-29 Tunnan for $5 Canadian, regular $19.99. Postage brought it to $21.90, about what it would have cost me in gas to drive up there, which probably would have been fruitless because they deal strictly on-line now. Plans are for a very obscure, but legitimate, air force, with an actual connection to Saab...

Just went into a charity shop to drop some of my late Aunt's stuff off, and came out with a new tool Airfix 1/72nd Willys Jeep starter set for the princely sum of £4...
The box is squashed, but the kit's all there.

The kit's interesting and has a lot of optional parts in it, some of which don't feature in the instructions, which makes me think they intend to reissue it in a different livery at some point.

You get: the Jeep, a 10cwt trailer, a 75mm pack howitzer and an air-drop platform (for the Jeep only). The Jeep's front wheels can be glued at an angle to show it steering. You can built the Jeep as British Airborne (no guns or canvas top, spare tire on front or back), or US Army (.30 cal or .50 cal MG on pedestal, Canvas top up or down, spare tire on back. You can build the Trailer with the cover on or off and when it's off there's a crate and four jerrycans to go in it.

Unused parts on the sprues include two Vickers K guns and an alternative bonnet (hood) with some kind of grid on it. These make me think that they intend to issue it as either LRDG or SAS at some point. If they do then the 75mm and the trailer are going to have to be included, even though they're destined for the spares box, because of the way the sprues are laid out.

Whiff-wise, it occures to me that you could use the air-drop platform to sling it under a helicopter, since Jeeps were in service for decades after the war.

Scored this last night .
Oz Mods 1/48 C-130A Hercules Conversion Kit

I've had plans and part of those plans was replacing the props with something more in tune with what I'm thinking.
These fit that bill very nicely 👌 

The Chieftain Marksman and the Accurate Armour Conqueror arrived in the mail today and man the Conqueror is heavy ..well it is resin but what's getting me is the quality..it's pretty good but not mind blowing amazing..could be it's age I'm thinking.
One I don't like are the tracks ..their not good at all ..these I'm going to find replacements for.

The Marksman is very nice but again link and lenght tracks so their going bye-bye to .

Went and snaffled another pair of Ta 152Es from eBay.

Quote from: Weaver on January 30, 2024, 10:44:21 AMJust went into a charity shop to drop some of my late Aunt's stuff off, and came out with a new tool Airfix 1/72nd Willys Jeep starter set for the princely sum of £4...
The box is squashed, but the kit's all there.

The kit's interesting and has a lot of optional parts in it, some of which don't feature in the instructions, which makes me think they intend to reissue it in a different livery at some point.

You get: the Jeep, a 10cwt trailer, a 75mm pack howitzer and an air-drop platform (for the Jeep only). The Jeep's front wheels can be glued at an angle to show it steering. You can built the Jeep as British Airborne (no guns or canvas top, spare tire on front or back), or US Army (.30 cal or .50 cal MG on pedestal, Canvas top up or down, spare tire on back. You can build the Trailer with the cover on or off and when it's off there's a crate and four jerrycans to go in it.

Unused parts on the sprues include two Vickers K guns and an alternative bonnet (hood) with some kind of grid on it. These make me think that they intend to issue it as either LRDG or SAS at some point. If they do then the 75mm and the trailer are going to have to be included, even though they're destined for the spares box, because of the way the sprues are laid out.

Whiff-wise, it occures to me that you could use the air-drop platform to sling it under a helicopter, since Jeeps were in service for decades after the war.

It's a nice little kit.  I built one on the pallet as a load for the Logistics GB.  I was so impressed I immediately bought a second one.
It's been out for a while so you would have thought that if they were going to release other boxings they would have done so by now.

Savoia Marchetti SM-82 Libyan Clipper  - 21 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Quote from: Old Wombat on January 29, 2024, 02:53:14 AMI mean that I will build it (as well as I am able) to represent a Real World aircraft.

Oh , ähhh , yes , THAT real , I remember that thing