My stash just grew again (2012).

[The Wooksta!]

Given that there were so few Mk XIIs, flown by only 2 squadrons and you only ever get 4 decal options at most (the Sword/Xtrakit and CMR ones anyway), it's not surprising.

[Weaver]

From ebay:

2 x Pavla resin 1/72nd Folland ejector seats

1 x Artmodel 1/72nd MiG-23PD (the one with a fixed delta wing and lift engines)

The Artmodel kit is nicely moulded, but I suspect it has some accuracy issues. Can't say that bothers me personally for whiffing purposes, but anyone who wanted an accurate model of the PD might be disappointed:

1. The nose is too conical: more like a Mirage F1 than the full ogival radome seen on the prototype MiG,

2. I suspect that the front fuselage is too short: the intakes appear to be too close to the cockpit,

3. I also suspect that it should have a pronounced oval "flat" on the sides of the fuselage ahead of the intake.

[Army of One]

Ah......I got a steel mug painted......great it is...!!!

Plastic fairy has visited again with my eldest two coming over for a few days....1/72 Airfix Il2 and Sea Hurricane IIC......and Revell 1/72 Do17Z and 1/144 A10.....not a bad haul actually.....

[PR19_Kit]

......and Revell 1/72 Do17Z and 1/144 A10.....

Is the current Revell Do17Z the old Monogram kit or the old Frog one, the moulds for both of which are now owned by Revell?

[Army of One]

Not sure....it's an old moulding that's for sure.....how would I tell....?

[PR19_Kit]

Good question........

The ex-Monogram kit has very, VERY fine raised panel lines, whereas the ex-Frog one is notably cruder. Needless to say I only have the ex-Monogram one to hand.

By an odd quirk of mould making any wing from the Airfix-Frog-Monogram version of the Do17 will fit any one of the other kits, which is very handy if you want to make a Do17-P1 or -P2, which I did once.

[Army of One]

Well......it may just be the Monogram one....6x mg's with saddle drum mags....no wheel well detail....top wing is in one piece......minimal cockpit detail....and what looks like a solid plastic stand of the Games Work shop variety...

[The Wooksta!]

Apparently it's the Monogram tooling.  From what I've read, there's little to choose from shapewise with regard to the Frog and Monogram kits.

[Howard of Effingham]

think this i'll have been my last 2012 purchase..... 1/72 kit wise

1/72 airfix airacobra

but i have a cunning plan for the russian option in this kit, gonna adapt it onto one of the 1/72
supermarine spiteful kits AZ models do, and think what could have gone to russia as war supplies if
the war in the far east had dragged on into 1947. 

[Steel Penguin]

more Darleks    from the current dr who comic,  both new and clasic ones.

[Thorvic]

Recent additions:-

Revell B-17G Flying Fortress (wanted guns to fit on Avro Lincoln will use rest for PB-1W AEW )
Valom Bristol Brigand - real world early cold war

[Weaver]

From Modelzone Trafford Centre:

Italeri 1/72nd AH-1/AB-47 for £4.00. Nice little kit with several variants and, suprisingly, two MG options for the skids. I'm thinking about a turbine version for hot'n'high: sort of a US/Italian equivalent of the HAL Chetak.

Italeri 1/72nd M163 Vulcan air defence vehicle for £6.00. Turret moulding a bit disappointing, not least because when I looked in the box, I realised it was the same as the "mystery" M163 turret that's been knocking about in my spares box since forever....

Oddly, both kits and quite a few others were also on the non-sale shelves at full retail, wheras in the city-centre MZ, all examples of a particular kit are either at sale price or not, wherever they are in the store.

[McColm]

On the last day of the year;
1/72 Monogram EF-111A
1/72 Heller Lockheed Constellation L-749
1/72 Heller C-160

[Sticky Fingers]

Gave myself a christmas gift: a Vanship.

[NARSES2]

From my trip to RAF Hendon Museum and thus to the Little H next door. All 1/72

RS - Airacobra Mk I
SH - Seafire 45
AZ - Spitfire LF XVI

All with vouchers for Xmas plus a little top up 

The 8 year old I took to the museum loved it and got 2 Airfix starter kits - Harrier and Spitfire