My Stash just grew again (2008)

[Aircav]

Just back from the Tyneside show, nice to see everyone but it was quite, on the buying from I got the following

AMT Klingon Bird of Prey
Smer 1/72 Amiot 143
Revell 1/72 Bell 412
Hasegawa 1/48 Hughes 500 Defender
plus some 1/48 decals for the He162 and Me163

[Weaver]

Matchbox 1/72nd fest:

2 x CF-116s (F-5Bs) (various whiff ideas)
2 x Mystere IVAs (to become ersatz MiGish things)
1 x P-40 Warhawk (to provide retractable gear to the Lysander)

[Radish]

On our trip t'North, a journey that involved 3 hotels, charming people, instructions worthy of a fantasy fiction prize and a bottle of wine....and that was just Thursday afternoon!!!!!....bought just a few items...

1/72nd Trumpeter M4A1 Sherman (it'll be real, Ugandan)
1/72nd Trumpeter Mid production M4 Sherman (it'll be real, British)
1/72nd HaT Sherman M4...real again, British most likely....or.....?/
1/72nd HaT T-34/85....they're terrible but will appear as examples based in Africa.
1/35th Tamiya T-62......it'll be real, probably Algerian?
2 x Ventura 1/48th Israeli Mosquito decals......for Israeli sesquiplanes, etc..

On my return home....big boxes!!.....containing.....

2 x 1/72nd Revell Fokker E-III
3 x 1/72nd Fokker D.VII
2 x 1/72nd HaT Renault FT-17 tanks
1 x Airfix 1/72nd Defiant NF.1
1 x Airfix 1/72nd Dornier Do.17E/F....to be possibly Israeli or???
1 x Revell 1/72nd Heyford
1 x 1/48th Lindberg SE.5A
1 x 1/48th Lindberg Curtiss P-6E

I'd better start building!!!

[Geoff]

At T'Northern - Freight Dogs pale roundel decals,(? for a Tu-16)
                     Egyptian and post war Brit decals
                     A book on VTOL Yaks, lots of pics of proposed models!
                     A BTR-70 with SAM-9 battery for the RAF Regt.
                     Airfix Pucara, initial thoughts were for the Welsh Frontier Force, but
                     a chat threw up the fact that the SAAF were interested in them!
                     A shed load of Tamia rattlecans.           

[Weaver]

I had that 262 kit and the fuselage just doesn't want to go together, the problem being that they retooled the Heller two seater and kept the tub.  Replace it with one from a Revell kit or alternately, try convering it to the Schnellbomber variant with the cockpit in the nose.  he rest of the kit is fine.

The builder in the review I was reading simply cut the back half of the tub off: the "ragged end" is invisible under the rear canopy deck anyway.....

Alternatively, just leave the tub out altogether and stick a tarpaulin over the cockpit!

Or do a factory-floor diorama, with the fitters looking at the single hole and two-place tub and the engineers sctaching their heads over the blueprints.......

[Martin H]

just got home from the northern show after a 4 hour drive.

came way with

Airfix D0-17
Airfix Pucara
Monogram Boeing 737 100 (a steal at £10)
RVHP RC-12Q (at 50% off marked price)
RVHP C-21A Learjet (at 50% marked price)

All 1/72nd

[Thorvic]

Just back from North Show, curry and then dropping Overkiller and Pat back at thier respective homes.

Stash wise was limited:-

Freightdogs excellent Antiflash decals
Jens Brit Bits C-130J engines
Airfix Puccara
(pair of cheap Airfix 1/144 Dc-10)

Plus new Secret Projects book on Space programs

G

[K5054NZ]

Ordered so probably a couple of days off, YES ANOTHER Airfix 1:72 Mossie II/VI/XVIII. Whiffed. I'm scheming a major scheme. Eyes peeled.

I'd like to say Airfix Pucara..........damned lack of Pucara.....

[Howard of Effingham]

from richard [SIG member but not on line]

the fuselage and other bits from a RoG repop [older version] of the lightning F6

richard. got plans already.

hthn

trevor

[AeroplaneDriver]

The last batch of my recent ebay madness arrived today.  Six of the kits were from a local seller, and I had planned to pick them up, but other things got in the way, so he offered to ship all 6 for $6.  Nice change from the people who want $15 shipping to send a tiny box by regular mail!!

Anyway, today I got:

Airfix 1/48 Buccaneer

from the local seller, all sealed except for the Apache:

Airfix 1/72 Chipmunk
Emhar 1/72 MiG-3
Academy 1/72 P-47D
Tamiya 1/72 Mosquito NF.XIII
Tamiya 1/72 F4D Skyray
Monogram 1/48 AH-64

all 6 for under $20!

[nev]

RVHP RC-12Q (at 50% off marked price)
RVHP C-21A Learjet (at 50% marked price)

All 1/72nd

Arghghgh! Who was selling RHVP kits at 50% off?  Would like their U-35 Learjet....

Anyway, I just received the Dr Pepper Resins Barak conversion for the Tamiya 1/48 F-16.  Now all I need is the kit and the decals....... (I won it in a raffle on ARC for my XF-2A model).

[Brian da Basher]

Arrived in the mail today from a trade with a fine gentleman on another forum, all 1/72

Monogram F-11C-2 Goshawk
-with spats!

Novo-Export Bleriot XI

both together only $6!!!

Brian da Basher

[Aircav]

Just picked up a 1/48 Fujimi Jetranger off EB 

[kitnut617]

Two packages were at the post office for me yesterday, a MPM 1/72 Wellington Mk.II via Hannants and a Silver Cloud 1/48 Martin Baker MB5 via Aviation Megastore (in Holland)

[Howard of Effingham]

Well it's been over a year since I fed the ebsy monster, but this past week I went on a bit of a fling and picked up a bunch of kits on there at good prices. (The Stash Acquisition Act of 2008 I call it).

hmm, do you think you could get this thru the state house never mind the reps' or the senate, AD?

thanks for the smile the idea has given me...... 

Covert ops, my friend, covert ops...

indeed. that's why i gave you a C-20 captains ticket oevr in the 2008 story.