My stash just grew again (2013)

[Radish]

Hobbyboss 1/72nd F-86F-40....to become another Me 666G.

[Radish]

Needed to pop into town, so impulse buys were the Revell 1/72nd P-26, which might end up as the Bristol something....wrote an article on it once in What If?....crap model, ideal for doing silly stuff.

Also a Revell 1/720th Germanm Navy "Admiral Hipper" which was around Norway in 1940, so ideal for Biggles this year. A pretty simplistic kit, ideal for me, and I'll play withit a bit.....sadly it will not be flying or intergalactic.

[The Wooksta!]

Not even steampunked?

[Green Dragon]

First kits of the year for me from Marionville Models near Edinburgh.
Airfix 1/72nd Gnat, Spit 22, Canadair Sabre/F-86EM, Harrier GR9 and Vampire T.11 (last two were gift set versions coz they didn't have standard ones).
Revell 1/72nd NH-90 Naval version
Revell 1/72nd Mil Mi24V Hind E (the Zvezda kit)
Revell 1/48th F-5F Tiger II
Revell Battlestar Galactica (£19.99, Moebius kit was on a shelf above for £51.99)
Revell BSG Viper MkII
Revell BSG Viper MkVII
Testors 1/48th OV-10A Bronco
5 GW Citadel paints
4 x Plastruct tubing
2 x Plasticweld
3 x Milliput
One tube of Greenstuff
10 packs of No.11 Swan Morton blades and a No 4 scalpel handle
and a Mitre Box.

Only went in for putty and knife blades!

Paul Harrison

[Thorvic]

Delivered this week:-

Special Hobby 1/72 Mk47 Seafire
Hasegawa MSDF TBM-3S2 Avenger (off eBay for a reasonable price rather than listed RRP)
Wolpack Decals 72-058 which included the markings for the UK F-35B in 1/72nd 

[deathjester]

First kits of the year for me from Marionville Models near Edinburgh.
Airfix 1/72nd Gnat, Spit 22, Canadair Sabre/F-86EM, Harrier GR9 and Vampire T.11 (last two were gift set versions coz they didn't have standard ones).
Revell 1/72nd NH-90 Naval version
Revell 1/72nd Mil Mi24V Hind E (the Zvezda kit)
Revell 1/48th F-5F Tiger II
Revell Battlestar Galactica (£19.99, Moebius kit was on a shelf above for £51.99)
Revell BSG Viper MkII
Revell BSG Viper MkVII
Testors 1/48th OV-10A Bronco
5 GW Citadel paints
4 x Plastruct tubing
2 x Plasticweld
3 x Milliput
One tube of Greenstuff
10 packs of No.11 Swan Morton blades and a No 4 scalpel handle
and a Mitre Box.

Only went in for putty and knife blades!

Paul Harrison 

Crikey!  Did you hear Champagne corks popping as you left the shop?  Someone must've gotten a good comission off of that little lot!!

[kitbasher]

Delivered this week:-

Special Hobby 1/72 Mk47 Seafire
Hasegawa MSDF TBM-3S2 Avenger (off eBay for a reasonable price rather than listed RRP)
Wolpack Decals 72-058 which included the markings for the UK F-35B in 1/72nd  

First impressions of the Seafire?  Seen nothing about it on t'interweb other than catalgue listings.

[kitnut617]

Just before I headed down to Yuma for a week and while I was waiting for the wife's massage to finish, I went and browse around the nearby LMS in Calgary.

Airfix 1/72 Harrier GR.9  (still haven't had the chance to look at the plastic yet)
Airfix 1/72 Bristol Bulldog (blister pack)
Hasegawa 1/72 Weapons Pack #IV

plus a bunch of hobby sundries

as an aside and many moons ago, I was at the Farnborough Airshow with my Dad and they had a Bulldog flying.  I wasn't paying attention and my Dad said 'watch this because you will never see one of these again'.  He was right, the following day during it's flying display it crashed ( the pilot was killed)

[The Wooksta!]

Delivered this week:-

Special Hobby 1/72 Mk47 Seafire
Hasegawa MSDF TBM-3S2 Avenger (off eBay for a reasonable price rather than listed RRP)
Wolpack Decals 72-058 which included the markings for the UK F-35B in 1/72nd  

First impressions of the Seafire?  Seen nothing about it on t'interweb other than catalgue listings.

It's much the same kit as the SH Seafire 46, just with the addition of the undernose deeper scoop.  Ooodles of spares.

It's nice, although from the few test fits I've done, I'd fit the lower wing to the assembled fuselage before adding the upper wings.  If you assemble the wing first, it doesn't want to fit properly.  The Xtrakit 22 was like that, as well as the much vaunted Hasegawa VII/VIII/IX which some imbeciles think is better than the Airfix IX.  They're wrong.

Collected from Uncle Frank:
Airmodel MiG 21 Ye-8  - the one with the underfuselage intake.  Although it's a complete vacform kit with resin bits (all tooled by MPM before they became MPM for Airmodel), I'll be using it as a conversion kit, with the wings and tailplanes coming from a Hasegawa one I have in the bits box.  Markings?  Indian.

[TheSybarite]

Damn you all. Bidding on eBay on a Hasegawa A-7, which will be done in Royal Navy colours.

[Mossie]

Airfix 1/72 Grumman Widgeon/Gosling, courtesy of Army of One, cheers Hank!

[NARSES2]

Quick trip to Southern Expo yesterday in the rain

AZ P-26 Foreign users boxing. Nice toolong and some unusual markings - Phillipines, Chinese and Guatemalan. I'd no idea that the Guatemalans used these into the early 50's ! Apparently they were "smuggled" to them by the US in the 40's ostensibly as trainers ? In the 50's they were sold back to collections in the US. No idea if true or not but sounds good 

PM Floatplane Spitfire for the floats

Freightdog Tempest VI bits. Really nice as one has come to expect from Colin and he's some interesting bits and pieces coming for the new Airfix Typhoon. Saw some examples 

Eduard mask for the B-18 Bolo

[The Wooksta!]

Chris, I'd bin that PM Spit.  Ony usable bits are the prop and even then only just.  The floats are awful charicatures of the real Spitfire ones - they're more like clown's shoes.  You'd have been better off getting the Eastern Express one, as the floats in that are absolute beauties.  Ill fitting, yes, but wonderfully detailed.

[kitbasher]

Chris, I'd bin that PM Spit.  Ony usable bits are the prop and even then only just.  The floats are awful charicatures of the real Spitfire ones - they're more like clown's shoes.  You'd have been better off getting the Eastern Express one, as the floats in that are absolute beauties.  Ill fitting, yes, but wonderfully detailed.

I've used the Eastern Express 'floaty bits' too and they're fine.  The PM 'Floatfire' - dunno how good or bad that is, but at SMW2012 I recall PM Man having a re-worked version on his stand (not far from the SIG stand IIRC).  This had replacement resin parts that he said were far more accurate (sure I've seen a thread on this on Britmodeller - searched but can't find it) and would fit the Italeri Spitfires.  And think that's the story.  Don't know if it's available yet, and if so under what name.

[NARSES2]

Cheers Gents. I want them for one of my Hurricanes so I'll see if I can do anything with them, if not they didn't cost much at all