My Stash Just Grew Again (2011)

[Weaver]

Picked up a Revell 1/136 Martin P-6M Seamaster and five  (yes 5, such an odd number) 1/72 C-130J engines with propellers.

One on the fin, Trislander-style? 

[Weaver]

From a Hongkong company on ebay, who you'd think by now would have figured out how to ship models without getting them broken (..... ), a 1/12th scale "Sexy Moto Girl" for sitting on 1/12th bikes. With all the discussion of bike ideas of late, it struck me that I could use a rider, with feet on the ground, to hold up a sci-fi hover bike, thereby avoiding clunky "flying stands" and the like.

Before the clamour for photos starts.....

[The Wooksta!]

I'm not sure if Jays have rereleased the Ventura ones yet.

Both versions are listed as available/in stock in their website (http://www.jaysmodelkits.com/jaysmk/), and if my one experience of mail order from them is concerned then you should have however many you order pop through the letterbox within a week or so.

Ta.  I'll look at getting them later in the year.  Now I don't feel quite so guilty about using my only Stinger XV for the Alternate Spitfire project.

Not quite an addition, but very welcome.  Doing some tidying, I located a box with a trio of Novo Attackers in various stages.  This means they slot into the Alternate Spitfire project and I don't have to buy any more. I had a requirement for two, but the third gives me some room - the last one I started, the plastic was awful and repeatedly shattered.  Bearing in mind that the airframe parts are the only ones usable, it's thus a total loss.  Or maybe not if I do it as a flying one?

From ebay - Ventura Spitfire VIII.

[Daryl J.]

1/72:

Arii Mitsubishi Babs for daddy/kids projects
Fujimi Claudes
Hasegawa Nates

BdB's influence lives.   

[Thorvic]

Via a mate who was doing an order with the retailer in Hong Kong :-

Orange Hobby resin  1/700 ROKS LPH-6111 Dokodo

Think a cross between the JMSDF Hyuga and Otsumi, very clean casting and a VERY good price

[mkhulu]

Received the CMK razor saw blades and the Excel No 13 saw blades

2 x 1/48 Minicraft MC11628  Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket kits.

^ should look good with the SAAF Orange Springbok roundel

[GTX]

Today in the mail:

• 1/48 Eduard Westland Lysander Mk.III Profi Pack
• 1/48 Lindberg Curtiss Goshawk
• 1/48 Lindberg Curtiss P-6E
• 1/48 MPM HML Focke-wulf FW 187 Falke

Regards,

Greg

[McColm]

Hi,
Winging its way to me in 1/72 scale;
Airfix Nighthawk F-117 (at last I can build a swing-wing version)
Revell HH-3 Pelican ( thought of Royal Navy-grey and red, ASW)

[The Wooksta!]

A general tidy up of the modelling room - the same one that yielded the Attackers - also yielded an original KP Spitfire LFIXe.  I wasn't sure if it was there.  I knew I'd bought a cheap one but I thought that was the one I discovered a week or so back.  This is a result as I was after another one to mate with the later KP wing with the long span tips - the fuselage was retooled and now has a cutout for the tailwheel of the VII/VIII. The IX has a solid insert piece which isn't such a good fit.

Wish I knew where my CMR Speed Spitfire went as I want to nick the PR canopies from it!

[Army of One]

Arrived today........Trumpeter 1/700 Minsk that I won on evilbay....for a fiver..!! A fiver I say.....!!!! Well chuffed.......

[Radish]

At Staffordshire Moorlands.....Academy 1/144th B-29 for £1.50....to be RAF.

[Mr.Creak]

Trumpeter JGSDF Types 61 and 74 tanks in 1/72nd.
Never even knew there were kits of these until I saw them on Ebay.

[Weaver]

Trumpeter JGSDF Types 61 and 74 tanks in 1/72nd.
Never even knew there were kits of these until I saw them on Ebay.

Fujimi have been doing a lovely 1/76th Type 61 for ages.

[JayBee]

At Staffordshire Moorlands.....Academy 1/144th B-29 for £1.50....to be RAF.

Terry,

that is not a WhIf, unless you are planning to do something realy drastic to it.

[Radish]

Mine will most likely be a Washington MR.2