My Stash just grew again (2009)

[Howard of Effingham]

From that nasty siren of a site ebay,
Airfix Kaman seasprite, I was going to make it into an armed rescue helicopter but it would need too much work, so it might be just an un armed utility copter,with a winch and a FLIR pod.

chris, i am plodding along with making this kit at the mo' and well you may have noticed this but the kit does include a small winch.

mine is being done SFTB, but i do have a second in the stash.....

its one of airfix's best small helo kits i think.

[JayBee]

At the Scottish NATS at Perth this weekend:-

Fujimi F7U-3M Cutlass
Hasegawa P-40N 1/72
Sweet Hurricane 1 (fabric wing)
Sweet Sea King (Yes! Yes! Yes!)
AND
the brand new Two seat hunter conversion (resin) from ODDS & ORDNANCE!

The later is not yet really on sale as the canopy is still to be produced, (TSRJoe get a move on) but it does take the Matchbox one.

I did not get the four kits that I was looking for, but I aint complainin'.

JimB

[chrisonord]

From that nasty siren of a site ebay,
Airfix Kaman seasprite, I was going to make it into an armed rescue helicopter but it would need too much work, so it might be just an un armed utility copter,with a winch and a FLIR pod.

chris, i am plodding along with making this kit at the mo' and well you may have noticed this but the kit does include a small winch.

mine is being done SFTB, but i do have a second in the stash.....

its one of airfix's best small helo kits i think.
The seasprite just has something about it that I think makes it a proper helicopter. The Polish have now got some seasprites in service soI might look at what upgrades and mods they have done to theirs.
Cheers,
Chris

[chrisonord]

today I got my goodies from Narses2, an airfix saab tunnan, and an airfix vigilante, and thankyou very much for these Chris.
Also from ebay I won an Airfix Grumman Widgeon, this will join the one the missus brought back from the car boot sale on Sunday, except she paid 2 quid for the one she got The vigilante is going to get F-15 e engines and tails, and 4 MER's worth of free fall ordnance, and more besides 
The tunnan,...hmm, it is too low to put a prop on so I will have to see, one of the Widgeons is going to get turbo propped  and civil marked, yes you read that right, and it won't get any armament either.
Cheers,
Chris. 

[ChernayaAkula]

^ Chris, how about making a swing-wing Tunnan?  Like the Bell X-5. 

[Aircav]

I am buying mostly today a Revell 1/48 Dakota from the LMS and it comes with 9 paratroopers. 

[Spey_Phantom]

revell 1/200 ETV Waker added to the stash today.
this will become a Leutonian Navy anti-piracy vessel 

[Martin H]

Im finaly home from the Scots nationals. (via a few days at TSRjoe's place in Glasgow)

At the show i got
two Matchbox Canberra PR-9's
an Airfix Canberra B6. (later traded with TSRjoe for a book)
(all three came from the same trader and only cost £20 for the three)

also got hold of a Valom Su-6 (Stormovik rival)
and a Beechnut (remember them?) Curtiss A 12 shrike.

while at Joes I also raided Jamasons models.
Beechnut P-51H
ARII Cessna 172
Zvesda IL 2 Stormovik
Revell Jaguuar GR-1A.

ohhh I almost forgot...I also came away from the show with a dirty great peice of wood shaped like a sheild.
The IPMS Dundee What if? award for that old Ford Trimoter tiltwing I did a while back.

[chrisonord]

^ Chris, how about making a swing-wing Tunnan?  Like the Bell X-5. 

That sounds way out of my building expertise I will have to have a good look at the barrel,to see what ideas spring out.
Chris.

[pyro-manic]

Picked up a Revell Hunter FGA9 today. I need the drop tanks for napalm canisters on my Sandfly Mosquito. Not sure what I'll do with the rest of it yet...

[NARSES2]

also got hold of a Valom Su-6 (Stormovik rival)

ohhh I almost forgot...I also came away from the show with a dirty great peice of wood shaped like a sheild.
The IPMS Dundee What if? award for that old Ford Trimoter tiltwing I did a while back.

Which version of the SU 6 did you pick up Martin ? - they do 2 different ones.

Congratulations on the trophy, the Ford was always a good model. 

My stash finally succumbed to the Tamiya 1/48 scale Fo 335 that's been staring at me in Modelzone for about a year  If I can get the markings - probably Hungarian.

[NARSES2]

Picked up a Revell Hunter FGA9 today. I need the drop tanks for napalm canisters on my Sandfly Mosquito. Not sure what I'll do with the rest of it yet...

Pyro there's a pic in "2nd Tactical Airforce - vol 4" of a Typhoon carrying napalm tanks which are painted in red primer, which is very weathered. Might make them stand out a bit ?

[Mike Wren]

an awful 1/144 Hobbycraft B-2, to be scale-o-rama'd into a 1/72 F-117 replacement as mentioned here http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,17149.0/highlight,b-2.html, it looks hopeless in the box so should be ideal for chopping about! but have to finish my Anigrand A-12 first...

[Jschmus]

A week or so ago, Jeff Fontaine posted a link to the "1/72 Missile Page" which features an extensive collection of rockets and missiles, all modeled in 1/72.

http://one72guy.awardspace.com/

The author posted a want list, and I found something listed that I had.  I emailed him, and he was indeed interested in what I had, and was willing to trade for any of various bits listed on his "Trading Block".  I sent him the pair of RBS-15 ASMs from the Italeri JAS-39 Gripen kit in exchange for the following from Hasegawa's 1/72 JASDF Weapons Set:

2 x AAM-3s (with launch rails)
2 x JM-117 with GCS-1 guidance heads
6 x Mk 82 with GCS-1
2 x TER

Not a bad trade, if I may say so.

If you're on the lookout for unusual stores, you should definitely check out his collection.

[ChernayaAkula]

Two Academy 1/72 F/A-18A Hornets. Got absolutely no idea what markings I'll build these in, but having enough Hornets is a good thing. 

That sounds way out of my building expertise <...>

Pfffffttt, yeah, right, after the awesome Taipan and T-34s.  Shouldn't be too hard, really. You could make a glove section like on the Flogger or the swing-wing Sukhois. Then you'd have to add some "flesh" to the parts of the wing where the disappear into the fuselage when swung back. Easy-peasy!