My Stash Just Grew Again (2011)

[Weaver]

The Vautour IIN's armament was impressive, at least in theory: 4 x 30mm DEFAs, 116 x 68mm rockets and 4 x R.510 AAMs. That could ruin your day......

[lancer]

Am I the only modeller in Britain who doesn't give a fig about the Vatour?


Answers on a postcard to:
Blackmail
Behind the Waterpipes
Waterloo Station

No Lee you're not..

[MilitaryAircraft101]

From Ebay:
Ventura Spitfire F.VIIIc
Ventura Spitfire PR.XIX

From one of the guys on Britmodeller:
Ventura Spitfire F.XIV
Ventura Spitfire F.22
plus a slew of aftermarket detail bits - props, brass etch, exhausts, etc.

On a side note, how many spitfires do you actually have in the stash? 

[Aircav]

Free via my boss at work, a 1/700 Dragon HMS Darling, thanks Gary. 

[Thorvic]

Free via my boss at work, a 1/700 Dragon HMS Darling, thanks Gary. 

Would that be HMS Daring ?

[PR19_Kit]

On a side note, how many spitfires do you actually have in the stash? 

I had 92 at my last count, but Lee has a few of them now. 

[The Wooksta!]

On a side note, how many spitfires do you actually have in the stash? 

The simple answer is that I don't  know.  I know I came back from Telford with about thirty.  An ebay win saw me grab a stash of 39, there's 30 or so sitting in me Mam's loft.  I've won a fair few on ebay recently, so that's taken over a hundred and that's before I start going through the boxes to count them.  Probably another two hundred. 

I am actually building them though.  Some are long term stash for when I start building real ones but now I've got all the marks covered for The Plan, I can just start having fun with ideas.

[NARSES2]

Free via my boss at work, a 1/700 Dragon HMS Darling, thanks Gary. 

Slip of the tongue or this a "Navy Lark" build ? 

[The Wooksta!]

From Modelzone, in their sale:
3 x Cyberhobby/Dragon Meteor F.1s - £13 down from £28?  I wasn't turning them down.  I had planned to get just the two but they had three left and there was another tenner burning a hole in me pocket, so I snaffled all three.  

Apparently the ailerons are wrong for the F1 and the wings will need some sanding - you can see where the airbrakes have been filled in!  Looks a nice kit but I'm still convinced that the nacelles are oversized.  Did some test fitting of major components and unlike many of the Dragon horrors I've built in the past (the Ta 152C still gives me nightmares) it looks like it will actually fit together reasonably well.  The wing/fuselage fit is very positive. Not sure if I like the separate control surfaces though.  Seems a bit toylike and possibly a retrograde step.

Still want a trio of Revell Meteor F.IVs but that can wit till the new year.  I have a multitude of the old Frog/Novo kit well into double figures (at last count it was about 16 but I've a fair few whif ideas to use them up, not to mention real markings).

[Martin H]

One Azur/MPM Vautour IIN heavy fighter. Via An Ebay trader in Poland.

[Aircav]

Free via my boss at work, a 1/700 Dragon HMS Darling, thanks Gary. 

Slip of the tongue or this a "Navy Lark" build ? 

Oh, Sir..............................................Yes one letter too many. 

[Aircav]

Off Ebay the following, a 1/72 Roden Opel 3.6-47 Omnibus and a 1/144 Minicraft Boeing 737-400. 
The bus looks great, wish they did a 1/35 version.

[Green Dragon]

Is the Roden Opel bus the same type as the one in Where Eagles Dare?

Heller Mirage 2000B and a Fujimi Photo Cutlass arrived from ebay today.

Paul Harrison

[Leading Observer]

My stash nearly grew last week, but I was out, so the postie took it away again, and then left the keys in his van and some bxxxxr nicked the van and all its contents It was the Trumpeter 1/72 PLAAF J-20 "Mighty Dragon" and had come via Evilbay from China Now got totry and get it sorted out and Royal Mail are about as much use as a chocolate teapot

[Radish]

Modelzone Sheffiels:

Revell 1/72nd Kaydet
Pegasus Hubbies Su-185 tanky things...1/72nd....two of them in the sale.