My Stash just grew again (2008)

[Howard of Effingham]

In my opinion it's not just the quality, but the price.  The kit fit and detail is superb, but it can be had for $17-18 on the shop shelves here in the US and for 9 pounds in the UK.  Quality may be slightly less than the latest Tamigawa stuff, but the price is a lot less too.  To me it's just about a perfect kit.  Another that fits this bill to me is the Tamiya 1/72 F4D Skyray.  It's a superb kit and retails in the US for around $15.

AD! 'ow about a mid to late 1960's F-6A in ANG markings ala the F-100? or say a hunter F6 in the tan and greens
wrap around that the A-7D/K's the ANG had with in both cases a moderate load of cluster munitions and AIM-9B/D
for self defence. perhaps the F-6A could use the centerline pylon for a pave spike designator

i'll PM you when my plans are firmer. iirc there are or were two airlines that fly/flew across the pond from BHX which
is a few minutes flying time from coventry airport, but plenty of time yet...  thanks for the offer of help!

trevor

[Nick]

Firstly I must say CONGRATULATIONS to Trevor. Hope all went well on your first day!

Went up north this weekend and took a nice detour to Haworth and Pennine Models as recommended by other members. Cracking little (and I do mean little!) shop with a truly decent and wide range of kits. Wanted to go on the steam trains too but the KWVR were only running a limited service.
While there I picked up a Trumpeter 1/72 JL-8/K-8 Karakorum which is a Chinese/Pakistani jet trainer. Looks rather like an MB326 or 339 but more clunky.
Thinking of a Third World nation scheme like Ethiopa or Chad.

Walking trip in the Lakes got washed out on Saturday night with flooded tents and no visibility so we spent Sunday window-shopping in Keswick. Came home with a nice Georgian sash with counterweights and moving panes  
Actually I found Lakeland Toys and Hobbies which is a proper toyshop with all manner of fun and games including a nice range of model kits. Just a note for future reference.

[AeroplaneDriver]

I've been in Lakeland Toys a few times,  not a bad selection for a shop that is more 'toy' oriented.

Just arrived via the ebay fairy;

2 x Matchbox Hawk 200 (been wanting one of these for ages!)
1 x Encore Polikarpov R-5 (to be sent to young B777)

[Maverick]

Well, a rather large package arrived via Aircav today.  My first thought.... "Esci make big AV-8 boxes"... aaaah no.

Esci AV-8B x 2... plus
Italeri AV-8B
Hasegawa AV-8A (all 72nd)

Tamiya SHAR
Tamiya Harrier GR.1 (both 48th)

To say i'm speechless would be an understatement...

Thanks again Steve.

Very Happy Mav!

[NARSES2]

Walking trip in the Lakes got washed out on Saturday night with flooded tents and no visibility so we spent Sunday window-shopping in Keswick. Came home with a nice Georgian sash with counterweights and moving panes  

So who's the brave young lady then Nick ? 

[lancer]

Walking trip in the Lakes got washed out on Saturday night with flooded tents and no visibility so we spent Sunday window-shopping in Keswick. Came home with a nice Georgian sash with counterweights and moving panes  

So who's the brave young lady then Nick ? 

Someone he met in little minge I suspect...

[Howard of Effingham]

Firstly I must say CONGRATULATIONS to Trevor. Hope all went well on your first day!

thanks nick! it went very well thanks.

this afternoon i had week 2 of 5 on a volunteer TA placement at a local CofE primary school, good fun and
well i enjoyed myself and gained a little more experience too. three weeks to go and its summer time!

should be out adding to the stash a bit tommorrow as i have an interview in rugby in the morning and then
one in stratford on avon on thursday. fact is i might have lunch in the green dragon pub on thursday after
the interview.....  already got plans for the RoG catalina in 1/72 that has been re-released. i fancy
adding two say RR Dart or GE/P&W type turboprops of about 2,500 eshp instead of the piston engines.

now off to the story.

[frank2056]

From Sequioaranger (Craig) - a 1/72 Victoria Products XB-42/XB-43 vacuform. It just cries out to be whiffed!

[Weaver]

Bumper harvest today - the postie must have been saving them up 'cos they were all posted on different dates....

Airfix Viggen
Heller Spitfire Mk.XVI
Academy MiG-21F-13
Airfix Pucara

So which is wildly out of scale, the Academy MiG-21 or the old Airfix one I've got? It looks like the latter's fuselage would fit inside the former's..... I got the Academy one to rob the canopy for my Avro Atom project, but it won't do because a) it's so much bigger than the Airfix one that it won't fit, and b) it's a cock up: it has a HUGE solid panel area at the rear, which almost meets the windscreen frame, and which is just plain WRONG. Pity, 'cos the rest of it looks like a nice kit.

MAN is the Pucara BIG....     And wierd: separate cockpit side consoles, seat cushions and headrests,  quite a few tiny bits on the sprues which just arn't used at all and NO weapons... Anyone wanting to build it up straight is going to be wondering where you get a set of those little pointy bombs they carry on centreline MERs......

The Heller Spit is a pretty little thing: very delicately molded (I've always liked Heller kits). Shame it's made of black plastic though: that'll make it an arse to paint in light colours. I'm almost tempted not to whiff it......(almost  )

[Howard of Effingham]

hmm, good haul today and all from joto hobbies in rugby which i visited twice! 

first haul on the way to the interview....

1/32 airfix japanese multipose figures [and these are for someone at the model club i go to]

an umbrella radish would be proud of..... the end of the handle you hold it with has a wooden green frog on it,
which is mounted on a spring and you can twang backwards and sideways... 

THE RED BEARD MOMENT! 

back at joto i treated myself to the following..... the above needed some serious styrene based retail therapy!

1/72  RoG GR1 with weapons
1/72  fujimi flight deck crew set #1 with carrier tractor [they had three on the shelve, but one will do..... as i have two already of this set.
1/72 airfix gloster meteor F8 for £6.99 and they had been delivered while i was at the interview!  
needless to say even after this i needed a liquid lunch so in the rugby tavern on north street i'd a very nice
chilli con carne, salad and 2 pints of greene king's IPA to get over the bite of the chilli, never mind the interview!

third and final interview [for this week] is tommorrow in stratford on avon.

trevor

[Mossie]

WOW!  I had one of these moments at work a month or so ago Trev.  It was on one of the few hot days we've had, several students were sunning themselves on the grass.  Two very pretty girls where lying front down with their feet to me, & one was wearing a short skirt.  She was wearing knickers, but it didn't leave much to the imagination!

Revell 1/72 Horten Go 229, along with some C type roundels, both from Hannants.

[kitnut617]

Pick up some oldies from one of my favorite second hand webstores,

Frog 1/72 EE Canberra PR.7 -- ( not sure what makes it a PR.7 except for the decals - very basic)

Matchbox 1/72 Dauphin 2 SA 365N

Italeri 1/72 A-129 Mangusta  (been after one of these for a while)

Arii 1/72 Bede 5 & Bede Micro Jet (two separate complete kits) (but guess what, on opening the box I find there's -- four complete kits and the box was in it's original sealed wrapper     )

Robert

[Scooterman]

1/48 MPM Best Choice JAS-39D Gripen.  Italeri kit with all kinds of resin, PE, white metal, vac canopy and killer decals.  Will be real world SAAF.  Would like another for WHIF but at $70 US, only one for Scooterman. 

[AeroplaneDriver]

hmm, good haul today and all from joto hobbies in rugby which i visited twice! 

first haul on the way to the interview....

1/32 airfix japanese multipose figures [and these are for someone at the model club i go to]

an umbrella radish would be proud of..... the end of the handle you hold it with has a wooden green frog on it,
which is mounted on a spring and you can twang backwards and sideways... 

[  during the interview  ]

[there was VERY NEARLY a sharon stone moment and really as it was the headteacher i truly didn't want to look..... 
I DON'T NEED TO SAY if you have seen 'fatal attraction' you will know where to use the freeze frame  ]


back at joto i treated myself to the following..... the above needed some serious styrene based retail therapy!

1/72  RoG GR1 with weapons
1/72  fujimi flight deck crew set #1 with carrier tractor [they had three on the shelve, but one will do..... as i have two already of this set.
1/72 airfix gloster meteor F8 for £6.99 and they had been delivered while i was at the interview!  
needless to say even after this i needed a liquid lunch so in the rugby tavern on north street i'd a very nice
chilli con carne, salad and 2 pints of greene king's IPA to get over the bite of the chilli, never mind the interview!

third and final interview [for this week] is tommorrow in stratford on avon.

trevor

Don't you mean "Basic Instinct"?  "Fatal Attraction" is what happens if you pay too much attention during the Basic Instinct moment. 

As for your haul...quite a good day I'd say.  That RoG Tornado is a superb little kit with excellent weapons. 


My own additions today were waiting when I got home from work.  All from the eBay fairy:

1/72 Italeri (Esci) Sea Harrier
1/72 Fujimi A-4E/F Top Gun/RAN markings
1/72 Eduard L-39

The A-4 and L-39 were from the same seller, both for under $10.

[K5054NZ]

Arii 1/72 Bede 5 & Bede Micro Jet (two separate complete kits) (but guess what, on opening the box I find there's -- four complete kits and the box was in it's original sealed wrapper     )

Good deal that, huh? Apparently the four kit boxing is hard to come by! Any chance you'd be willing to let two go? 

Arrived today:

Hasegawa 1:48 A6M2 Type 11 Zero. To be done RW as the "Blayd Zero" which is a type 21.

Off to the local courier office - diff company! - for another bumper 1:48 haul soon.