My Stash Just Grew Again (2011)

[Green Dragon]

I got the military Yak 40 myself.

The moldings look pretty decent, though the landing gear legs have a touch of flash to be scraped from them.

All the parts are on one sprue, the engraved surface detail is nicely restrained. However, as all the subjects are VIP transports, popping those lines with a wash probably wouldn't be done. I know the Czech AF Yak-40s I've seen are spotless in real life.

The paint callouts are quite general.

The decals look quite nicely printed All of the windows are in decal form including the cockpit.

Looks like it could be simple enough to be a nice weekend project.
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Cheers for the review upnorth, a lot closer to buying one now!  Only Yak-40's I've seen were a couple of the Yugoslav Government ones, spotless too!

Paul Harrison

[Thorvic]

Had the Art-Model 1/72 Mig-23PD delivered today, looks rather tasty  but not sure if using photos rather than drawings is all that great for the assembly instructions

[Green Dragon]

Got a Hasegawa Fuji T-1 and Weapon Sets 1, 2, 3 & 4 off ebay delivered today.

Paul Harrison

[The Wooksta!]

From ebay:
Heller Spitfire LF.XVIe - Humbrol phototop box, so should be in silver plastic and with an untwisted fuselage. 

[Weaver]

From ebay, Matchbox 1/72nd Fiat G-91Y, incomplete but very cheap: bits for the bits box......

[McColm]

<...> As one of the prototypes had a fixed wing? <...>

One of the Su-24's prototypes? Yes. The T6-1 had wings similar in shape to the Su-15's. CLICK!
If you look at the pic, the Su-24's prototype looks more like a TSR.2-ski than the F-111-ski it's often slagged off as.

Another odd fact is the wing of the TSR.2 is the same size as the Dassault IVA, (almost the same shape).

Didn't the T6-1 alos have lift engines behind the cockpit for STOL?

[Radish]

7 inch high figure of a nude kneeling Medusa. This will take extensive research of the naked female form to paint accurately. I've never met a Gorgon....but some women have come pretty close!!! This project will take a long time to complete due to the extensive and meticulous research needed.

[MilitaryAircraft101]

7 inch high figure of a nude kneeling Medusa. This will take extensive research of the naked female form to paint accurately. I've never met a Gorgon....but some women have come pretty close!!! This project will take a long time to complete due to the extensive and meticulous research needed.

Need a hand? 

[Radish]

No thanks, I'll use both of mine though

Also, the postie has just delivered:

1/72nd Emhar A7V German WW1 tank (for the IPMS Stafford display 2012)
1/72nd Armourfast Pz IV G tank (2 in the box)...look very nice.....one'll appear with ghostly Vikings attacking it.

1/144th Minicraft AC-130A."Azrael Angel of Death"....also built as real for the IPMS Stafford display. Looks a lovely kit and will be built in flying mode, probably mounted on....a skull.

[Rheged]

1/72nd Emhar A7V German WW1 tank

I'd be very interested in your comments on this kit.....my younger son (the undergraduate military historian)  has  just added this one  to his Christmas wish list"............... if it doesn't need too much fettling........"  Prevoius Emhar items he's  set about have ranged in quality from the sublime to the "cor blimey!"


He's used Armourfast  kits in the past too, and rates them as  "reliable".

[Radish]

Had a look inside the box...it looks OK.
I built the 1/72nd Whippet and enjoyed that....spent a lovely afternoon at Telford drybrushing it for Biggles!!

[Rheged]

Had a look inside the box...it looks OK.
I built the 1/72nd Whippet and enjoyed that....spent a lovely afternoon at Telford drybrushing it for Biggles!!

I have passed this on. The youngest Rheged says "Extremely TA! for your information"

[Captain Canada]

Been eying it up for years, and finally went for it....the 72nd scale Academy KC-97L. Looks a beauty, and the box art ain't half bad as well !

Also walked out with the little Academy 144th scale F-4E and the Airwaves Sea King PE set.

[Radish]

From Hannants today:
"AA" kits....

2 x 1/48th Chengdu F-7E( Chinese early MiG-21 but with a double-delta wing)..possibly real for one, as a Pakistani F-7PG
2 x 1/48th Shenyang F-8IIM Finbacks....not sure what to do.....yet!!

[lancer]

7 inch high figure of a nude kneeling Medusa. This will take extensive research of the naked female form to paint accurately. I've never met a Gorgon....but some women have come pretty close!!! This project will take a long time to complete due to the extensive and meticulous research needed.

Lots of razzle magazines then Rad eh?