My Stash just grew again (2008)

[Jschmus]

From Hungate's at Greenbrier Mall - Lindberg 1/72 HH-3E Jolly Green Giant

From Debbie's RC World - a slew of Tamiya acrylics - Flat Brown, J.N. Green, J.N. Grey, J.A. Green, J.A. Grey, Sky, Light Sea Grey, Dark Sea Grey and Desert Yellow.  I've been goofing around with camo schemes, and I needed some different colors.

[K5054NZ]

MISB IMC 1:32 Bell JetRanger! Was gonna do it as the machine from Blue Thunder, but now thinking of R/W as the BIII my dad used to fly on ag work...

[frank2056]

From Sprue Bros. - they were having a sale - a bunch of 1/144 planes:

Revell-Germany Mig-31 - This sucker is big!

Platz P-51D
Platz N1K2-J Shinden-Kai (early)
Platz P-47D

The Platz kits are fantastic; great decals, fantastic surface details (the cockpits are usually just a seat) and one or two build options. Each box comes with two kits, so one can be built OOB and the other Whiffed.

Frank

[Aircav]

Aquired off EB, an 1/72 A-Model Yak-28 and a 1/72 Zvezda Mig-31 

[Spey_Phantom]

An Italeri 1/72  P-51 Mustang I "Razorback" was added to the stash today (the model is in fact more of a 1/72 A-36A Apache)

[Brian da Basher]

Arrived today from the Great White North and the incredible generosity of one Mr Howling Mouse:

Republic of Texas custom decals in various scales

which are stunning and outstanding and amazingly well-printed!

Mr Howling Mouse, have you ever considered doing contract work for HobbyCraft?

Brian da Basher

[Weaver]

Well my stash has increased, but only by a teeeny, tiny bit........

I missed the auction for a 1/72nd AN-72P in the UK, but I was pleased to find another one in the States for a very reasonable price, which I promptly snapped up. It arrived yesterday and.....

.....it's the 1/288th scale version that uses exactly the same box art.

And yes, the dunce's hat is mine alone, because the vendor DID state the scale in his auction.


More hilarity: just saw this description of the aircraft on a website:

"An-72P - military transport turbojet aircraft of patrol service constructed by Antonov OKB. The aircraft provides the patrol service within 200 miles zone day and night, disclosure of disturcers of the peace, air desant, determination of ships, launching of uncontrollable missles and throwing down of bombs with calibre of 100 kg. "

[TsrJoe]

had a lunchtime looksee today into my local hobby store where i noticed the new Zvezda Peyakolev Pe.8...i got to thinking what to do with it (apart from building it as the aircraft Molotov arrived at Leuchars in!) when i recalled 'mav's profile of a Finnish transport example... another added to the 'to build' pile...whilst there i also spotted the Italeri A.10 Thunderbolt and AH.1W Cobra, again recalling the profiles recently posted on here those also were added to the pile, waaaaa...lol... and just because i needed some model filler... i soo love this forum 

cheers, Joe

[lancer]

Litteral translations to English can be hilarious sometimes...

[Weaver]

Litteral translations to English can be hilarious sometimes...

Particularly when they have no English speaker to check it with.........

http://livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/07/17/Chinese_restaurant_takes_the_cake_for_naming_error

[Martin H]

from Ebay. Italeri Caproni CA-311

[kitnut617]

Having found that the Gladiator is utterly useless (other than the decals), it's going in the junk box. 

You're not kidding, it's garbage    I just bought one but I don't remember the kit being like this before (was a long time ago though) and I think it had a seperate pilot figure, not this 'Frog' style of pilot' head moulded into the fuselage halves.  In fact this kit doesn't even have location pins on the fuselage halves, is anyone sure it is actually the 'old' Airfix kit and not some other manufacturers kit reboxed like where the Fulmar and Sea Fury has come from.

[Weaver]

Well my stash has increased, but only by a teeeny, tiny bit........

I missed the auction for a 1/72nd AN-72P in the UK, but I was pleased to find another one in the States for a very reasonable price, which I promptly snapped up. It arrived yesterday and.....

.....it's the 1/288th scale version that uses exactly the same box art.

And yes, the dunce's hat is mine alone, because the vendor DID state the scale in his auction.


More hilarity: just saw this description of the aircraft on a website:

"An-72P - military transport turbojet aircraft of patrol service constructed by Antonov OKB. The aircraft provides the patrol service within 200 miles zone day and night, disclosure of disturcers of the peace, air desant, determination of ships, launching of uncontrollable missles and throwing down of bombs with calibre of 100 kg. "

Just got a chance to have a proper look at this kit - what a swizz! It's boxed as an AN-72P (maritime patrol version), with appropriate artwork, but the only concession the actual kit makes to that is an extra clear blister for the cockpit side: no 23mm gunpod, no bulged u/c fairing, no 57mm rocket pods, nothing! 

Also, does anyone have any idea why it has SIX cockpit glazings (of at least two different shapes) on one sprue, together with what looks like a clear nose cone? As far as I know, there is NO variation in the AN-72's cockpit windows from one version to another, and no clear nose option either.

EDIT: oh I get it - the same 1/288th range has an AN-24, AN-26, AN-30 and AN-74 in it. I bet they make the glazings for ALL of them on one sprue, since they're so small. Pity they don't tell you which is which though.......

[frank2056]

EDIT: oh I get it - the same 1/288th range has an AN-24, AN-26, AN-30 and AN-74 in it. I bet they make the glazings for ALL of them on one sprue, since they're so small. Pity they don't tell you which is which though.......

I have every kit in that series; you can figure out what goes where by looking at the boxtops, and they do build up nicely. They're also good fodder for a scaleorama to 1/350.

[elmayerle]

Off Egay, a couple of the Heller 1/72 Harrier T.4 kits.  One will become a T.4a in RAuxAF markings and the other will get mod'd into either a TAV-8C or my take on what the T,8N should've been, with a radar nose from the original Maritime Harrier proposal (likely taken from an aold Airfix NA.39 that I'm removing the intakes from as part of an effort to convert either a Forg or Matchbox S.2 back to a S.1.