Discoveries in my stash.....

[Radish]

Chaps, while sorting in my loft due to extensive plumbing work, I've discovered stuff that I'd forgotten I had or thought I'd sold.

All now to be kept, of course, and made.....

2 x 1/72nd Monogram F-82s
1 x Revell 1/72nd F-105D
Several....can't count how many, Italeri 1/72nd F4U5/7 Corsairs
ESCI 1/72nd C-130E

Dragon 1/35th V-2

Monogram B-58 Hustler
Monogram 1/48th B-17g....it'll be a KG200 machine and will be built for June 2009, a display by QSG at RAF Molesworth.
Monogram 1/48th B-24D Liberator
Monogram 1/48th B-25J (glassnosed) Mitchell x 2
Monogram 1/48th C-47

ESCI 1/48th FJ-2/3 Fury
ESCI 1/48th F-86E Sabre...as re-released by Italeri so I'll have plenty of decal options.

More further exploration to come.

[The Rat]

TEASE! 

[elmayerle]

without trying to be overly detail-retentive, does the FJ-2/-3 include the different noses, especially the intakes, for the two variants?  The FJ-3's J65 pulls in rather more air than the FJ-2's J47 and the intake needed to be enlarged to fit.  If the intake is the same as the F-86E, it's likely only accuarte as a FJ-2.

[Radish]

That's why I'm building it as an FJ-2 for which it's reasonably accurate.
I'll probably do it real if I can find suitable decals at a show, but not till next year.

The B-17G will be done after Christmas......

[Jeffry Fontaine]

without trying to be overly detail-retentive, does the FJ-2/-3 include the different noses, especially the intakes, for the two variants?  The FJ-3's J65 pulls in rather more air than the FJ-2's J47 and the intake needed to be enlarged to fit.  If the intake is the same as the F-86E, it's likely only accuarte as a FJ-2.

The Esci FJ-2/FJ-3kit has very little to offer in the form of excess parts.  It is pretty much the same as the F-86 kit with some extra pieces for the unique shaped fuel tanks and a set of plugs to insert under the canopy to raise the cockpit parts up ever so slightly to give it the appearance of an Fury instead of the Sabre kit that it started out as.  One of the disappointments that I found with the kit after trying to build it several years ago.  It did not hurt to have both of the Esci kits on hand like Terry does to make the comparison. 

[Dork the kit slayer]

 I agree with everything said about the kit,not much detail no arrester gear etc.......still made a nice model for its day and a little (lot) of TLC I reakon you could have a winner on your hands


This is my old dog from the eighties (when it was released?)

[Radish]

Nice one

[Radish]

Meanwhile up in the loft I discovered :

1/48th Mirage F.1C an ESCI kit as well as the Italeri release.
1/72nd Heller T-28 Fennec
8 x Mirage IIIE 1/48th by Italeri (ESCI)
AMT 1/72nd YB-35
4 x ESCI 1/72nd F-111
Academy 1/72nd B-29

No plans to displose of any.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Meanwhile up in the loft I discovered ... ... ... ... No plans to displose of any.

Terry,

I sure hope you have something special in plan for that 1/48th scale B-58 Hustler kit.  If you need suggestions for it, please let us know

[Radish]

The B-58 will not be real.

RAF....either very stained all gloss white or a dirty all-over dark grey.

SEAsia colours of the RAAF

RAF WW2 Bomber Command scheme.

Or something daft

[Jeffry Fontaine]

The B-58 will not be real.

RAF....either very stained all gloss white or a dirty all-over dark grey.

SEAsia colours of the RAAF

RAF WW2 Bomber Command scheme.

Or something daft

Maybe marked up as a participant in the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight?

I suppose you are ruling out PRU Blue and Pink as well?

[philp]

Since they are rereleasing the kit in October, you could do all of them 

[Weaver]

1. A couple of UPK-23 gunpods, swapped for a pair of Red Tops, with Mr. Pyromanic - Cheers! 

2. From ebay, two JB Models Saladin Mk.2 armoured cars. Don't know what I want them for yet, I just know that I want them.....

BTW, the seller is an LHS who are flogging off more JB stuff at a knock-down price, and have lots of other interesting stuff, particularly for wargamers/armour fans:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Peakdale-Models-and-Collectables

[Whiteraven_97]

The B-58 will not be real.

Or something daft

How about a Swedish Viggen-inspired scheme?

THAT would be amazingly daft...

[Captain Canada]

Nice finds, Radish ! Those big 48th scale Monogram piston powered birds are pure modelling joy, I tell ya !