My stash just grew again (2012).

[Weaver]

From ebay, an MPC X-Wing, for what would have been a very reasonably price  had it not turned out to be part started, badly, which wasn't mentioned in the description...

[Martin H]

..............help.......................

your gonna need it

[TallEng]

Whilst on holiday in England a couple of weeks ago i popped into the Modelzone store in the Butts center, Reading.
(I think it's called the Broad street mall now)  to get some Airfix Spitfire 22's, unfortunately they had none but they did have an Academy C-97 Statofreighter for £9  .
I had no idea what to do with it, but a bargains a bargin right?  Anyhow showing it to Dad later on that evening he said to me what you going to make from that? (he knows I don't always build it exactly like it shows on the box )  So I said Flying boat. 'cos if you close your eye's and squint a bit it's got a bit of Princess about it? Dad agreed.

Regards
Keith

[Aircav]

..............help.......................

your gonna need it

I know, read loads about the kit in the past but still always fancied one, ordered the Flower Class Corvette Agassiz book lastnight and I was thinking about doing her ramming a U-boot coning tower but I just may do her in a force 9. 

[NARSES2]

So I said Flying boat. 'cos if you close your eye's and squint a bit it's got a bit of Princess about it? Dad agreed.

Regards
Keith

It does, doesn't it 

[Thorvic]

..............help.......................

your gonna need it

I know, read loads about the kit in the past but still always fancied one, ordered the Flower Class Corvette Agassiz book lastnight and I was thinking about doing her ramming a U-boot coning tower but I just may do her in a force 9. 

Could prove expensive .....

http://www.djparkins.com/acatalog/Flower_Class_Corvette_-_Detail_Sets___Replacement_Fittings.html

Just about everything you need to detail the kit

[Aircav]

Plastic card and sprue is a lot cheaper  

[Weaver]

Whilst on holiday in England a couple of weeks ago i popped into the Modelzone store in the Butts center, Reading.
(I think it's called the Broad street mall now)  to get some Airfix Spitfire 22's, unfortunately they had none but they did have an Academy C-97 Statofreighter for £9  .
I had no idea what to do with it, but a bargains a bargin right?  Anyhow showing it to Dad later on that evening he said to me what you going to make from that? (he knows I don't always build it exactly like it shows on the box )  So I said Flying boat. 'cos if you close your eye's and squint a bit it's got a bit of Princess about it? Dad agreed.

Regards
Keith

I have a plan to mate a 1/144th Minicraft Stratocruiser with the bottom half of an Airfix 1/144th Boeing Clipper to make a Stratoclipper. However, I may never get around to it, so if you want to do it in 1/72nd, please go ahead! One difficulty is that the Stratocruiser's wing is too low, so you'd have to move it to a scratchbuilt hump above the pressure cabin. Not undoable, just more work.....

[The Wooksta!]

From one of the guys on Britmodeller:

Two Airfix PR19 fuselages (sans engines) plus tailwheels, doors and tailplanes.

The guy who sent them was the dude that did the spectacular Sea Whirlwind, the link for which I posted some time back (go and look for yourselves).  I asked if I could have the rear fuselages and they arrived yesterday.  Means I can do another couple of F.VIII contraprop Spits.

[Aircav]

Forgot to mention that I picked up a 1/18 Solido 1969 2CV Camionnette at the Shildon show today. 

[proditor]

Airfix 1/600  HMS Suffolk
Academy 1/800  USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 
Matchbox 1/700  HMS Duke of York 
Trumpeter 1/700  USS Blue Ridge 
Trumpeter 1/700  Russian Cruiser Moskva

[Martin H]

one A model 1/72nd scale Lisunov Li-2 NB arrived from Hannants today

[Radish]

Hey Martin,why not try converting it into a C-47??

OR there was a Yugoslavian AF Li-2 with DC-3 engines fitted as the originals were crap.

[pyro-manic]

Academy Fw190D-9
Revell P-26A Peashooter
Revell Heinkel He115B/C

The Dora will wear a polished metal interceptor scheme, the P-26 is to be a parasite fighter, and the He115 will likely lose the floats and become a landplane. IJN perhaps?

[Martin H]

a Pair of Matchbox Wessesx HU-5's arrived from Kingkit today. Along with a set of Civi Helicopter decals (includeing three Wessex options) from Hannants