My Stash just grew again 2010

[Steel Penguin]

thank you Narses, ive a horrible feeling that the inter war stuff will involve words like "resin" "limated edition" and "HOW MUCH!"
though the possibility at the moment is that ill move from 1:35 to 1:48 or to 28mm as some of the wargaming companys are doing lots of Pulp novela stuff and theyre doing vehicles to go with it.

[NARSES2]

thank you Narses, ive a horrible feeling that the inter war stuff will involve words like "resin" "limated edition" and "HOW MUCH!"
though the possibility at the moment is that ill move from 1:35 to 1:48 or to 28mm as some of the wargaming companys are doing lots of Pulp novela stuff and theyre doing vehicles to go with it.

My thoughts exactly. As you say some of the wargamming models in 28mm will probably be your best bet for the inter-war period. Although there is some in 1/35 but in expensive resin. There is a trader who does the show circut who has a lot of the stuff but my wallet cowers in it's pocket when ever I go near his stand. There is at least one wargame company doing a "British Civil War" themed range at the moment. Set in the 30's and based on Edward VIII refusing to abdicate and this sets all sorts of factions off...Royalist, Fascist (Oswald Mosley), Republicans, Democratic Socialists, Marxists, Ruralists and thos just determined to keep the fighting out of their own areas. Bit like the UK breaking down into Patchwork World. They do have some light armour in the range and are promising to expand to include some of the "experimental" mediums from the period and earlier.

[The Wooksta!]

Latest ebay wins:
Airkit Spitfire F21 (my favouritest bestest resin Spitfire kit ever!)
Frog Lancaster

From my LHS: 1 tin paint.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

part of my drive to do every type of tank the Uk has used.

Didn't realise until very recently that we were issued a (small) number of M24's in 1945. And the superb little Italeri kit has just been re-issued 

Ian

[Steel Penguin]

thank you Ian
on the list with it then.

[Cliffy B]

Just picked up one of Minicraft's 1/144 R5D Transports from my local HobbyTown USA for only $14!!!!!!  I got the Polar Expedition from Admiral Byrd's post-war ice flow mapping mission.  Really nice looking plane with Cartograf decals.  I'm going to whiff if for my Greenland Air base dio project.

They put almost all of those 1/144 airliner/transport kits on the markdown rack with giant %50 stickers on all of them.  I might go back and get anther one or five    Never really understood how a transport or non-military airliner is $25-35 when a bomber of the same scale and size with many more parts is $10-16.  Any ideas???  No wonder they were on the markdown rack!

[NARSES2]

part of my drive to do every type of tank the Uk has used.

Didn't realise until very recently that we were issued a (small) number of M24's in 1945. And the superb little Italeri kit has just been re-issued 

Ian

I assume for use in the invasion of Japan Ian ? I've read that all the equipment was to be US made for logistical reasons and may have meant we got Pershings as well.

[Thorvic]

We had 500 Pershings on order and i think the Bovvie one is a survivor of the evaluation batch we had for testing. We also had M4A6 Shermans which was the Sherman VII in addition to the Chaffee.

The British Army involved in the Invasion of Japan would actually equip and ship out from Canada, and use the US supply train which is why it was to be all US kit where possible. British forces would have mainly focused on sweeping through the East Indies using our own kit.

[pyro-manic]

This new Airfix Spit Mk I thing is getting silly, even Hannants havn't got it in stock  bit of a conspiracy against us Southerners me thinks. Never mind when I lead the revolution and build a wall from The Wash to the Bristol Channel all will be avenged 

I'm in Weymouth (can't get much further south!) and my LMS round the corner (bloody dangerous, that!) has a big pile of them, as well as the Hurri I.

I took a jaunt to Plastic Pastimes on Friday. Whoops! Came away with the following, all in 1:72 of course:

Heller Caudron-Renault C-714 (Zeppelin-borne parasite fighter, or possibly a racer with a Hispano 12Y engine?)
Heller Mirage F1 CR (Not sure yet. Markings will be used for tone of my France GB builds)
Heller F-84G Thunderjet (as for the Mirage, I need the markings for the France GB)
Italeri F-15E Strike Eagle (not sure, but it was cheap - £5! Might bash it into ElectricBlue's baby eagle)
Airfix Bristol Bulldog (don't know, but again, cheap, pretty machine, basic but decent kit. Might get camouflage for the Munich Crisis, or floats, or a bright aerobatic scheme)

Plus a few pots of paint from Xtracrylics and Tamiya.

[thedarkmaster]

Got a

1/144 scale Pe8 today as well as a Dash 8 and a Airfix Defiant which may go on floats for the Pirate GB 

[The Wooksta!]

The last Meteor won on ebay arrived today in a MASSIVE box relative to it's size.  Could have fitted ten boxed ones in it.

[Slerski]

Airfix 1/72 Buccanneer (thinking German  ) and Italeri Jaguar T2/E (will be RW)

[ChernayaAkula]

Got a Revell 1/72 F-4F in the JG 71 black and silver anniversary scheme today. Will be real world, I think. 

[Weaver]

From the bay of evil, Academy 1/48th Tiger II (complete with motor kit) for peanuts. Will be donating it's turret to the Tank Girl tank (I think).

[NARSES2]

From the BIG H via the man in the red van.

Airfix 1/72 Hurricane Mk I - may need another the Irish option looks very nice
Airfix 1/72 Me 109 E
Special Hobby 1/72 Nakajima Ki -115 (Battle of Tokyo WIF boxing)
A Model 1/72 Il 40 Brawny : possibly Polish or Hungarian or Soviet but in a brown/green/blue scheme rather then NM.

The remarkable thing about this was that unless they worked Bank Holiday Monday it got here the day after they received the order !!!!