My Stash Just Grew Again (2011)

[Weaver]

From Coppelstone Castings:

One pack of 25mm (roughly 1/48th) 1920 pilots: two full figures and four "busts", all resplendent in leather flying gear, scarves, handlebar moustaches etc....

One pack of "Frisky Penguins".



http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=HA

[Weaver]

And this morning, from Scotia Grendel:

One pack of five tank hatches
One pack of ten ball-mount machine-guns

Both for 25mm figs so approx 1/48th scale.


http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_43&sort=20a&page=2

[Thorvic]

From eBay via Royal Mail i received the 1/700 Trumpeter Roma italian WW2 Battleship.

[TsrJoe]

from lhs. Jamiesons models, AZ Models Spitfire 21 and  Finnish/Latvian Martinsyde

... is it just me being picky but are some companies churning kits out recently which 'should' be better, the old Pegasus Models 'limited run tooling' Matinsyde is stil a much better and sharper representation of the type methinks, the newer one looking like it has girders welded onto the fuselage as ribs and a 'roughness' or lack of finesse to areas such as the footholes and radiator. the resin engine block looks nice tho. all for £14 

The AZ Spitfire 21, (possibly one for Lee to comment?) iv not checked it as yet against drawings, but against the real one hanging at Glasgow Museums (yip i wandered along with kit in hand!), the tail looks small, too curved in section, the wings look 'odd' too re upperwing bulges and maybe in outline shape? (years ago i made a 21 using an Airfix Spitfire V fuselage, old Frog 14 tail, a resin Griffon nose and Pegasus 24 wings which looks 'sharper' shapewise!)  

ah well, heres hoping Eduard rerelease their 21 at some point, iv heard thats stil the best kit f the mark from the box !!?  

[chrisonord]

Today arrived a bit of extravagance for me, and yes it will get hidden from the grouppenfurer
From Hannants an Anigrand Sikorsky s-67 Blackhawk. It looks like I will have to do a fair bit of modification to it as the kit weaponry looks useless.Something I was not expecting from a kit that cost so much. I will do this as a US Marines Helicopter escort, will probably get some AAM's and a pair of gun pods.
Cheers,
Chris.  

[pyro-manic]

Arrived today, from the Modelzone sale: one Revell 1:35 Unimog 2t truck. Good price, but the kit looks a bit disappointing upon inspection. It's rather crude, lots of flash and mould lines, etc. Still, for what I want it for it will do just fine.

[The Wooksta!]

The AZ Spitfire 21, (possibly one for Lee to comment?) iv not checked it as yet against drawings, but against the real one hanging at Glasgow Museums (yip i wandered along with kit in hand!), the tail looks small, too curved in section, the wings look 'odd' too re upperwing bulges and maybe in outline shape? (years ago i made a 21 using an Airfix Spitfire V fuselage, old Frog 14 tail, a resin Griffon nose and Pegasus 24 wings which looks 'sharper' shapewise!)  

ah well, heres hoping Eduard rerelease their 21 at some point, iv heard thats stil the best kit f the mark from the box !!?  

The AZ wing has a better shape than the Xtrakit/MPM one (and I loathe that kit now).  TBH, I haven't looked at the tail on the 21 as the only one I've started (actually the Seafire F45 boxing but same plastic) is going to be a Seafire F46 so the fuselage went straight into the airframes spares box, but I'll compare it later.

The Eduard one was a reboxing of the Aeroteam kit with a load of resin and etch.  Horrid kit to build (I built 2 and ditched all that I had left - approx 4), the wing is way too thick and if you went for the contraprop option, the rudder was too small as you'd need an F18 one withthe larger trim tabs.  IIRC, I was sure it was a copy of the original 1996 Czechmaster kit.  The current CMR kit also has a contraprop option but yet again, it doesn't have the F.18 rudder.  Neither does the AZ contraprop boxing, but if you've their F.14 boxing (high or low back, doesn't matter which), the F18 rudder will be spare.

The best Spitfire F21 from the box was the old Airkit resin one from 1990.  I think I've some spare F21 wings that Paul Lucas did sometime later.  

Today's Spitfire acquisitions were limited to a pair of Hobbyboss Vbs, one of which will be converted into the PR.XIII by the removals of the cannons.  The other may end up as an Australian one, possibly as a Seafire Ib.

Total Spitfires purchased in June to date: 18.
On order: 3 Brigade Spitfire T.IX conversions

[chrisonord]

It looks like I will have to do a fair bit of modification to it as the kit weaponry looks useless.Something I was not expecting from a kit that cost so much.

Welcome to the world of Anigrand. 

It looks like I will be doing a reverse of the norm with this thing ie upgrading a resin kit with stytrene parts  :rolleyes:I think I will canibalise an AH-1w for the cockpit and the weapons and if I can get it to fit, the canopy. I don't like vac form canopy that comes with the kit, I don't trust my compitance at cutting it out properly, so if I can get a cobra canopy to work then that will do for me. The gun turret looks like it will get junked too in favour of a cobra one also.
Now to find a cheap parts donor Ah-1w
Chris.

[anthonyp]

Stopped into my LHS today just to see what was there, and walked out with some things I did not think I would:

1/72 Revell Space Shuttle Stack (for about $25 less than I'm seeing it online for)
1/350 Trumpeter USS Independence LCS-2 (will scale-o-rama to a 1/700 carrier type thing)
1/700 Dragon combo Admiral Nakhimov and USS Dallas pack

[Martin H]

one Matchbox Saab J29 and one Matchbox TF-104G. via a local (to me) seller on ebay

[ChernayaAkula]

1/72 Revell Do 228 - three of those, with two to be whiffed
1/72 Revell EC 145 Polizei/Gendarmerie - contains high landing gear bits for an EC 135
1/72 Revell EC 135 Österr.Polizei/Bundespolizei
1/72 Revell EC 635 Military
1/72 Revell MAN 7t milgl truck
1/144 Revell AH-64D Longbow Apache

And from HLJ:
1/72 Kotobukiya Jigabachi AV with Tachikoma from GITS:SAC 2nd Gig

<...> the Xtrakit/MPM one (and I loathe that kit now).  <...>

Why's that?

[Army of One]

Today arrived a bargain purchase from that well known bay of evil. A 1/72nd scale Airfix Mil Mi-24 A/D for the bargain price of £3.85, plus £2.50 postage
Many thanks to Army of one for pointing this out to me  I will be able to make another Hind pure gunship now too.
Cheers,
Chris.

Mate.....any time for a fellow with similar taste......glad you got it it for the bargain price... ..can't wait to see what you do with it......

[Thorvic]

Got the Matchbox Sea Cobra if thats any use (ex Revell/Italeri i assume rather than Matchbox's original Cobra)

G

[chrisonord]

Got the Matchbox Sea Cobra if thats any use (ex Revell/Italeri i assume rather than Matchbox's original Cobra)

G

hya Geoff,
That would do the trick just nicely for some of the bits I can use.Just let me now how much and when I can pick it up, and I will be over.
Cheers,
Chris.

[Daryl J.]

Porco Rosso alternatives in 1/72 including the Aichi Paul, Laura, and Seiran, and a Glen.     There's a Jill and a SM-79 also on the way for conversion to single seat runabouts for some rich whiffer in the late 1940's.