My Stash Just Grew Again (2011)

[Weaver]

Hi!  I've got a 1/48 V-1 from a job lot of kits we got, and I do owe you for those SNEB pods you sent for the Spartan!

You have PM.

[The Wooksta!]

Another AZ Spitfire won on ebay, this time the new Vb with the LF boxing.  That's long term stash.

[Weaver]

From ebay:

Revell easykit ARC-170 Spacefighter from Star Wars. Snapped up because it was a MUCH more reasonable price than the RRP, purely because the box is a bit battered: contents still sealed though...

[GTX]

Some armour for a change:

1/35 Dragon Hetzer Jagdpanzer/Flammpanzer 38

Regards,

Greg

[NARSES2]

Second Airfix 1/48th Seafire XVII - one to be built with folded wings one without 

[Weaver]

From ebay:

Airfix 1/76th Scorpion tank. Cheap: I'll need more tracks to bugger up when I do another Trackrover (took three sets to get one useable one last time.... )

[McColm]

I can't get the tracks on them either!!
revell 1/144 Harrier GR7

[ChernayaAkula]

From the LHS:

1/144 RoG F/A-18E Super Hornet - looks really nice in the box (on the other hand, what does that even say? All modern kits do!)! Looks a lot nicer than the Dragon offering. The engraving is much finer. Some details more accurate. Decal sheet is superb. The stencil portion for one bird is bigger than the complete Dragon sheet for two birds! Looks like a winner to me.
Wonder what it will look like when built? For some reason (can't even quite put my finger on it), I can always tell a Revell 1/48 or 1/72 F/A-18E from Hasegawa's F/A-18Es, which look a tad more "like a Super Hornet".
Going by Revell's display at Intermodellbau in Dortmund, an F/A-18F and an EA-18G Growler will also come (when, though, is another question - been waitin' for the Rafale B for close to a decade!). The display had an assembled F/A-18E testshot with some EA-18G-specific parts.


From evilBay:
1/144 F-toys F-105D in "Euro One"
1/144 F-toys Kawasaki T-4
1/144 F-toys EH-101 in Japanese colours (got this one twice)

Pretty neat and rather cheap. They don't look half-bad straight from the box, but I plan to strip them, assemble them like real kits (i.e. glue) and then paint them. Probably in whiffed markings.
Stripping them off their paint should also enhance the fit. The fit seems so good that the paint on the seams causes fit problems! Once the paint in those places is scraped ff, they fit like a glove.

[Mossie]

I did the C, a few years back, converted it to an A simply by sanding off some of the fairings on the fin.  Can't comment on the Superbugs, but I've also got the Dragon kit of the F/A-18C on the shelf, I'd say the two kits are very comparable, with pluses & minuses in different areas.  Fit was okay for the Revell kit, with a bit of work needed on the intakes especially.

Inspiration for you, here's mine the Revell C that I did in Marineflieger colours:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,19670.0/highlight,marineflieger+hornisse.html

[Howard of Effingham]

from a visit to modelzone in b'ham on wednesday....

2 RoG arado ar-240 nightfighters
RoG Me P1099 heavyfighter [for a nightfighter conversion]
2 hasegawa weapons sets #13 [includes AIM-9X]
RoG F4U corsair [the italeri moulding with the nightfighter radome]

[Weaver]

I can't get the tracks on them either!!
revell 1/144 Harrier GR7

Pain, arn't they?  The pins are too short, and the tracks are so narrow that by the time you've got enough heat in there to melt the ends of the pins, you're melting the whole track!   I ended up stitching them with grey thread, but even that can cut through the rubber if you're not careful.  


Bring back Matchbox's T-buckle-style ones I say!

[Mr.Creak]

Mini-staplers work ok on "rubber band" tracks. Or if I'm feeling adventurous I sew the joint together. Really!

[kitnut617]

Or if I'm feeling adventurous I sew the joint together. Really!

I used to do that with my tanks way back in the late 60's/early 70's

[NARSES2]

Or if I'm feeling adventurous I sew the joint together. Really!

I used to do that with my tanks way back in the late 60's/early 70's

And me 

[Radish]

Some werewolves, penguins, meerkats and a duck.

2 x massive 2 ft long water-blasters (to be a zwilling space ship) and a smaller 9" water pistol, again to be a spaceship.

"Iron Sky" t-shirt....printed for me.

Several MiGs of a jet persuasion to be real (1/48th)
Several jets of a MiG persuasion (I/72nd)....a mixture of real and bonkers.

A polka dot pink, and a bright cherry red chemise, several dream catchers and leapard pattern wellies.

Party on dude