Received today from various sources

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72390 SF-37 Viggen 'Swedish Eyes'

1 x 1/72 Aerocraft ACMK7202 Fairey Tactical Strike Aircraft GOR.339 Project 75 'Hi-viz'

1 x 1/72 Airfix A04003 Supermarine Swift FR.5

Gondor

From Hobbycraft, with the asisstance of a 15% club discount voucher that was due to run out tomorrow:

Revell 1/72nd P-51D Mustang - the old and very basic one they're selling for £6.50.
This is going straight in the spares box because I want to cut the radiator intake out of it to use on my Tophe build.

Academy 1/72nd IDF AH-64A Apache - £9.00 RRP (!)
This provides a lot useful bits for the money: it includes 16 x Hellfires + 2 x rocket pods (so you can build it with the RPs and still have a full set of Hellfires left over), 2 x twin Stingers and the optional Longbow radar, which is a very tasty little moulding with all sorts of possibilities. The armoured seats are nice and the TADS/PNVS bits are all moulded seperately so you could use them to update some other helo.

on order:

-2x Academy 1/144 Douglas C-47 Skytrain
-1x Academy 1/144 Douglas C-118 (to be built as a Syldair DC-6 from "TinTin: Destination moon")
-1x Academy 1/144 Boeing E-3A AWACS

Recieved to-day from the Big H

Mikro-Mir     Hunting Provost T1     Burmese, Malaysian. Muscat and Oman, Iraqi, Sudan.
                    Hunting Provost T1    Rhodesian, Irish..

The last one is slightly confusing as the box artwwork shows a Malaysian one.

JayBee

I won a Rareplanes vacform Spiteful on ebay a few days ago (not exactly 'won', I was the only bidder....) and it arrived today, nicely packed and in perfect condition.

On opening it I was surprised to see it had a two seat canopy as well as the normal single seat one, and I'd never heard of a two seat Spiteful, ever. But it turns out the extra 'canopy' is actually the moulding for the long nose intake fitted to the later Spitefuls! 

Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but injection landing gear from from one of the numerous Attacker kits I have will feature I'm sure.

The Japanese Yen is rubbish at the moment (100 to the AU$) which means it can be worth buying from japan based online retailers.
I've been sniffing about HLJ and there is definitely stuff which while not exactly a bargain, is cheaper (even allowing for postage) than it is here.
Of course this might not apply for other currencies or other shipping destinations.

Received from the BIG yellow H

1 x 1/72 Tarangus TA7205 SAAB 37 Viggen AJS/AJSF/AJSH Sweedish Air Force aircraft

1 x 1/72 Special Mask M72043 AJ/JA/SF-37 Viggen (Single Seater) Splinter Camo

Gondor

Quote from: zenrat on July 12, 2024, 05:08:02 AMThe Japanese Yen is rubbish at the moment (100 to the AU$) which means it can be worth buying from japan based online retailers.
I've been sniffing about HLJ and there is definitely stuff which while not exactly a bargain, is cheaper (even allowing for postage) than it is here.
Of course this might not apply for other currencies or other shipping destinations.

Oh believe me, it's definitely worthwhile in the UK. Managed to order several Hasegawa kits for a tenth of what they normally cost here and even with postage, still works out much much cheaper   

one more order:

-1 x Minicraft 1/144 C-130 (3-prop option, bagged kit with no decals)
-3 x KP Model 1/144 Gates Learjet 35

Quote from: Charlie_c67 on July 12, 2024, 10:36:41 AM

Quote from: zenrat on July 12, 2024, 05:08:02 AMThe Japanese Yen is rubbish at the moment (100 to the AU$) which means it can be worth buying from japan based online retailers.
I've been sniffing about HLJ and there is definitely stuff which while not exactly a bargain, is cheaper (even allowing for postage) than it is here.
Of course this might not apply for other currencies or other shipping destinations.

Oh believe me, it's definitely worthwhile in the UK. Managed to order several Hasegawa kits for a tenth of what they normally cost here and even with postage, still works out much much cheaper   

Be interesting to hear how long the postage takes and HM Customs reactions ; if any ?

Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 11, 2024, 08:59:01 AMI won a Rareplanes vacform Spiteful on ebay a few days ago (not exactly 'won', I was the only bidder....) and it arrived today, nicely packed and in perfect condition.

On opening it I was surprised to see it had a two seat canopy as well as the normal single seat one, and I'd never heard of a two seat Spiteful, ever. But it turns out the extra 'canopy' is actually the moulding for the long nose intake fitted to the later Spitefuls! 

Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but injection landing gear from from one of the numerous Attacker kits I have will feature I'm sure.

I'll pass along some resin tailfins and tailplanes as they are both undersized and the wrong shape, possibly some radiators too.

"This calls for a celebration!  Vyv, throw another record player on the fire!"

I've snagged a very rare Airmodel Junkers Ju 90 on eBay.  And by rare I mean I've never seen one, ever.

Classicplane do a resin one, but they are very hard to get hold of.

Amazingly, about four or five Ju 90As survived the war.

Quote from: NARSES2 on July 13, 2024, 05:14:54 AM

Quote from: Charlie_c67 on July 12, 2024, 10:36:41 AM

Quote from: zenrat on July 12, 2024, 05:08:02 AMThe Japanese Yen is rubbish at the moment (100 to the AU$) which means it can be worth buying from japan based online retailers.
I've been sniffing about HLJ and there is definitely stuff which while not exactly a bargain, is cheaper (even allowing for postage) than it is here.
Of course this might not apply for other currencies or other shipping destinations.

Oh believe me, it's definitely worthwhile in the UK. Managed to order several Hasegawa kits for a tenth of what they normally cost here and even with postage, still works out much much cheaper   

Be interesting to hear how long the postage takes and HM Customs reactions ; if any ?

Been about 3-4 weeks each time I think, not had anything from customs as the items have tended to be well under the limit. Long may that continue as well!

Quote from: Charlie_c67 on July 13, 2024, 04:48:31 PMBeen about 3-4 weeks each time I think, not had anything from customs as the items have tended to be well under the limit. Long may that continue as well!

Thanks for that info    Worth looking at 

My stash just grew again...........Maybe? 

At my local model club meeting yesterday, a fellow modeler won a 1/350 scale Hobby Boss USS Arizona battleship kit in our raffle. He asked me if I wanted it. I said I'd take a look at it and if I didn't want it for any reason, I'd give it back to him. If I decide to keep it, I was thinking of turning it into a what if type project if the Arizona had not been sunk and had been upgraded and continued service after Pearl Harbor.
Another better option if I don't want the kit is to buy a bunch of photoetch and other aftermarket accessories to bundle with the kit to make it better, then put the entire kit/package in my model club's auction next year and see if we can get some good bids for it.