My Stash just grew again (2008)

[Howard of Effingham]

something i forgot from sutton coldfield!

ordered a set of phil parkes decals for the RoG dornier 228-200......

'COCONUT AIRWAYS'

and as phil told me, don't try looking on any of the airliner site for this carrier as its a total what if! 

[Mossie]

I don't wanna be bus driver all my life,
I've seen too much of Brixton town, in the night ,
Fly away on Coconut Airways,
Climbing high, Barbados sky!

Woah, I'm going to Barbados....!!!

[Martin H]

Now u pair are realy showing your ages.........

From E day in Prague.
HR Resin Renard R38
HR Resin Renard R40
HR Resin Renard R42
In total all 3 cost me less than half what it would have getting them in the UK.

and I also gained 3 Eduard Nieuport Ni-17's. These were the free kit u were given each time you paid to get in. althou the 3rd one i was given free by the organisors as i was helping a trader (ADH publishing).

Word of note on prices in the czech rep.  home grown kits/extras ect can be cheaper than getting them in the UK, but imported stuff tends to be very simler in price to the UK. so there are bargins to be had but not if your looking for that must have tamigawa(for example) kit

[pyro-manic]

1:72 Revell Swordfish torpedo bomber. Four quid.

[Mossie]

Now u pair are realy showing your ages.........

Aye, not getting any younger!  I've wondered a couple of times about 'Musical whiffs', there's a handful of songs about with aircraft references.  We're Going to Barbados Coconut Airways was one that always perked my ears up (whiff wise the song drives me slightly nuts!), obviously Mr Parkes has een listening to the same song!

The other one I always thought would make a good dio is Slades 'Wheels Ain't Comin' Down'.  There's a line that goes 'it was a 1950's prop job, that had seen much better days'.  IIRC it's a this really happened to Slade on their attempt to crack the US, they were booked on a dodgy airline & they real thought they were going to die a rock & roll plane crash death.  I just imagine a battered 1/144 DC-4, with suitably modded N gauge railway rock band figures, boarding the plane & one of them giving a pool of hydraulic fluid a curious glance.....

Then (I'm thinking too much) there's 'Rock the Casbah' reference to the jetfighter pilots tuning in.  I always imagined some kind of generic cold war fighter with generic arabic markings with the pilot with a tranny radio on the coaming!

[Aircav]

Had a great time in Prague and at E-day with Chris, GeoffP and Martin.
Added the following to the stash

1/72 Zvezda Su-39
1/72 RS Arado 76
1/72 AZmodels HC-2 Heli Baby x2
1/72 AZmodels Zlin Z-242L x3
1/72 Amodel Mi-1
1/72 Amodel Ka-126
1/72 Kora Jagdpanzer E-10
1/48 Smer Mi-2
1/48 Special Hobby Sikorsky R-4
1/48 Eduard Avia B.534
1/32 HPH Avia B.534
1/72 CMK TSR2 resin sets x3

some Tamiya german uniform badge transfers, 1/16 and 1/35
Finnish national transfers
1/48 HR model Avia B.534 Transfers

Plus three books, one on the Beaufighter, one on the Avia B.534 and one on the T-27 tank

Well worth going, some great deals such as the Eduard Avia B.534 was half price and if you ever go to Prague you have to go to the Wings Club with is a Czech Air Force theme restaurant at Lucemburska 11, food is excellent, you will never go hungry with the portions and its cheap too.

ps, already saving up to go back next year 
pps, almost forgot after you've payed the entry fee for the show they were handing out Eduard kits so on the Saturday I got the double 1/144 Avia S-92 (Me262) kit and on the Sunday a Nieuport Ni-17 

[Geoff]

From E-Day

Neuport 17 on the door - entry costs about £4 but then you have a choice of a free kit which would cost about £4!   
AML Fiat G-50 with skis
MPM Fokker D-XXI
Finn and Estonian decals.
Then Steve and Chris went back for day 2 and bought me an Amodel SU-11 cos I wouldn't buy it on the first day, Cheers!
All 1/72nd.

I also got a 1/48th Moko Morane from the MPM shop for £7!

From Kbely Museum
Smer Hoplite in 1/48th a "Klicklack" kit ie. a snap togeather kit for kids but has potential.

From the market 2 tee shirts one - "KGB Still Watching You", the other "Avtomat Kalashnikov - The World Massacre Tour" from a nice Vietnamese lady.

[Jschmus]

This has to be the first time I've ever bought back a model I sold to someone but when I saw them go on offer, I had to reacquire them,  From Jeffry Fontaine:

1/35 Tamiya JGSDF Light Armored Vehicle
1/35 Tamiya JGSDF Iraq Humanitarian Assistance Team

[NARSES2]

Back from Prague with the following additions to the stash

Eduard 1/72 Albatross V & Nuieport Ni 17 - these were my "free" entry kits

1/72 AZ Models Breda Ba65 A80 - Spanish Civil War markings
1/72 AZ Models Breda Ba65 A80 - North African markings : looking at Hannants I saved about £5 each on these

1/72 RS Do 17K

1/72 Vallom Hampden Mk I

1/48 AZ Models Firefly F1/FR I - always refused to pay the UK price but the Czech price was irresistable

1/72 Techmod Transfers - SU25, just for the tail marking of a Frog smashing a tank with a hammer 
Fokker XXI markings - for my Spifire GB build, Mustang MK III RAF, Wildcat IV for a Miles M20 I'm building.

Xtrakit Meteor T7 was out but not my thing

Very good show. Prices were interesting for Central and Eastern European kits. Approx £4/£5 lower for 1/72 and up to half price on 1/48. Very noticable that the differential between 1/72 & 1/48 was not as high as in the UK. Resin kits were variable - Martin got a great deal on HR but others were very near UK prices.

Kleby Air museum was fantastic, especially the 1919 through 1945 collection - oh the 534, Spad and the IL 2 

Prague has to be one of the most beautiful cities I've been to and is thoroughly reccommended, if only because there are 4 model shops in a square mile !

[Sauragnmon]

Just had a delivery arrive - an ACE T-90 and TOS-1 in 1/72.

[AeroplaneDriver]

Nice little packet from the Hannants Man today:

1/72 Revell Red Arrows Hawk T.1
Aires 1/48 Spitfire F.24 cockpit set
Paragon 1/48 Jaguar Flaps and Slats
Paragon 1/48 Tornado Flaps and Slats
Airwaves 1/48 Buccaneer Cockpit PE set

[Howard of Effingham]

this morning.....

all airfix and one item [guess which?] was 1/76 and not as the others are 1/72.

there are no prizes, 

NA B-25 mitchell
DH tiger moth
88mm gun and tractor

[Nick]

Yesterday saw me in Modelzone buying a HobbyBoss Me-262 and 4 pots of Revell Aquacolor paint. These are not for me but a birthday gift for my sisters boyfriends 9 year-old boy.

Gotta encourage the hobby somehow!

[Spey_Phantom]

placed a big order today, will get 40% discount on these 

1/72:
Revell EC-135 VIP (planning Wallonian training version)
Revell Eurocopter EC 145 (to become armed UH145 in flemish markings)
Italeri Boeing JSF X-32 (for the "replacement for the dutch F-16" GB on another forum)
revell Seaking Mk41 w.Skua (to become RW Mk48 (belgian))

1/144
revell Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark"
Academy SU-22 FITTER
revell Suchoi S-37 Berkut
academy SU-25 FROG FOOT
trumpeter Ilyushin IL-76 transport (Leutonian air force)

[Mossie]

Airfix Typhoon Mk.IB, from Monk Bar Models in York.  Only really bought it for the decals.