My Stash Just Grew Again (2011)

[JayBee]

Just acquired the Revell 1/72 Tu-22 Blinder - thats a big old box! Next question - how to do it? RAF? RN? Luftwaffe perhaps?

It's got to be one of the  RAF/RN  "agressor" joint  training squadron;  the "Boscombe Bandits" 

I vote for Israeli 

[Thorvic]

Received the Cyberhobby Sea Vixen FAW1 from China as the UK prices is prohibitive. Not too bad looks good in the box but will have to see how it builds

[Thorvic]

Just acquired the Revell 1/72 Tu-22 Blinder - thats a big old box! Next question - how to do it? RAF? RN? Luftwaffe perhaps?

How about Indian Air Force in one of the camo patterns they use on their strike aircraft, or an interesting twist would be to see one in Warsaw Pact scheme East German, Czech, Polish 

[The Wooksta!]

I had Indian in mind when I got mine, but decided to sell it on as it was too big.

[The Wooksta!]

Received the Cyberhobby Sea Vixen FAW1 from China as the UK prices is prohibitive. Not too bad looks good in the box but will have to see how it builds

According to the blurb on Britmodeller, the nose is all to cock and the shape of the fins/booms is suspect.  And given that the fit of the Dragon Luftwaffe stuff was uniformly horrid, I doubt it'll be any better. 

Personally, for the price, it should be a damn sight better than Dragon are putting out.  For the same money I can have a 48th Airfix one, which has been universally acclaimed.

[NARSES2]

New tool Revell 1/72 Halifax B Mk I/II - very nice  

Having inspected the kit in detail I have one caveat to the above...the instructions. Very crowded, appear to offer 3 versions when only two are included on the transfer sheet and I have no idea which of the 3 possible exhaust types go on which, and as said why 3 ?  Kit, excellent, instruction sheet, poor

[Green Dragon]

Delivered from ebay over the last few days:-
Academy A-37 Dragonfly
Airfix OV-10D
Dragon Arado Ar234B with an Airwaves Etch set and resin gunpack
Dragon P-61
2 X Hasegawa 1/48th Hughes 500D (Both CHP version)
Hasegawa Shinmeiwa PS-1
Italeri AB 204B
Italeri H-21C Gunship (£8.74 inc. Postage, no way was I paying 25 notes for the new release!)
Tamiya 1/48th Ta183
Tamiya 1/48th German Infantry
Tamiya US Infantry and a big tub of Twiglets to get the whif building back on track! 

Paul Harrison

[The Wooksta!]

I'm hoping that Modelzone will still have some of them cheap Meteor F1s next thursday when I get paid as I'd like a pair to salt away.  I'm thinking of a Zirkus Rozarius one for starters - the Airfix F.III I did in their scheme some years back has a collapsed u/c.

[Aircav]

Got the 1/16 Revell Ford Model T car from work, going to convert into a WW1 Ambulance.

[Green Dragon]

Three more just arrived.
Airfix Bf109G (the new one)
Italeri 1/48th OH-58A Kiowa
Starfix Jolly Green Giant (never had a Starfix kit before though I have heard the horror stories!)

Paul Harrison

[Gondor]

Starfix Jolly Green Giant (never had a Starfix kit before though I have heard the horror stories!)

Starfix was the name used for marketing Airfix in the US.

Gondor

[Weaver]

From ebay:

Heller 1/72nd Gloster Javelin T.3 - got the two T.3s and two FAW.9s I need to make an Avro Avenger and an Ambassador now.....

Hobbycraft 1/72nd F-89C Scorpion. Dunno why: it was cheap 'cos it had no decals....

'S wierd - I went through a phase of IL-28s throwing themselves at me, now it seems to be F-89s....

[Weaver]

And from ebay today:

KP 1/72nd Aero C-3A (Siebel Si.204). typical old KP fare: nicely moulded, but with odd patterns and surface effects in the plastic. The big nose glazing is a disaster though: scratched, flawed and with opaque patches....

[kitnut617]

Starfix Jolly Green Giant (never had a Starfix kit before though I have heard the horror stories!)

Starfix was the name used for marketing Airfix in the US.
Gondor

Hmm! no it wasn't --- Starfix is a name used by two companies neither associated with Airfix, one was a Russian company that re-popped Frog and Hasegawa kits, the other is an Israeli company which produced a number of re-pops of other manufacturers kits, none being from Airfix moulds.

MPC was the company set up in the USA to produce Airfix kits in the USA, went under the name Airfix Craftmaster, then just MPC, then later another company called USAirfix was the producer of Airfix kits for the USA.

[PR19_Kit]

Yeap, two of the same kit, I wanted the old Monogram kit as it has the original unclipped wing that the F-15 first flew with, now one can be used to do the prototype,........

Ah yes, I have one of those too, in pale blue plastic. I've got mine half-done as 'Streak Eagle', the one that broke the time-to-height records but gave up when I found it was finished in about 30 different metallic shades of bare metal! Now I have a working airbrush setup I may return to that project.