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My stash just grew again (2013)

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KiwiZac

#345
March 27, 2013, 12:35:57 AM
Got a nice package from Ukraine today:
x1 FROG/Novo 1/72 Westland Lynx minus decals and instructions
x20 Unicraft 1/72 Fletcher FU.24
x1 Unicraft 1/72 Hughes XV-9A
Zac in NZ
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Howard of Effingham

#346
March 27, 2013, 08:35:17 AM Last Edit: March 28, 2013, 03:53:24 AM by Howard of Effingham
at the hinckley show last sunday...

1/72 airfix firefly
1/72 airfix HH-53
1/72 airfix vampire T11
1/72 revell seaking [very old boxing]

an ancient scale-cast CH-53E conversion kit in 1/72 and two new paint stirrers.
Keeper of George the Cat.

PR19_Kit

#347
March 27, 2013, 11:21:54 AM
Quote from: Howard of Effingham on March 27, 2013, 08:35:17 AM
......an ancient scale-cast CH-53E conversion kit in 1/72 .......

Nice one! Scalecast did some good, and usually obscure stuff, that was one of them.  :thumbsup:
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Leading Observer

#348
March 27, 2013, 01:17:42 PM
Bit of a splurge on ebay last Saturday [Grief, Red Wine, Ebay & Credit card do not a good combination make :banghead:] has resulted in:
1/72 Northrop N9MA
1/72 XF-85 Goblin
1/72 Lockheed XFV-1
1/72 Vought F7U-3 Cutlass

Time to stop buying and start building
LO


Observation is the most enduring of lifes pleasures

PR19_Kit

#349
March 27, 2013, 07:02:07 PM
Quote from: Leading Observer on March 27, 2013, 01:17:42 PM
.......
1/72 XF-85 Goblin
1/72 Lockheed XFV-1
........

Time to stop buying and start building


Which manufacturers for those two?

And yes, we ALL say that last comment many, many times......
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Howard of Effingham

#350
March 28, 2013, 03:55:09 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2013, 11:21:54 AM
Quote from: Howard of Effingham on March 27, 2013, 08:35:17 AM
......an ancient scale-cast CH-53E conversion kit in 1/72 .......

Nice one! Scalecast did some good, and usually obscure stuff, that was one of them.  :thumbsup:

with the exception of one missing part... the cranked tailplane peculiar to the type

the instructions are LOUSY, though
Keeper of George the Cat.

kitnut617

#351
March 28, 2013, 05:55:28 AM
Quote from: Howard of Effingham on March 28, 2013, 03:55:09 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2013, 11:21:54 AM
Quote from: Howard of Effingham on March 27, 2013, 08:35:17 AM
......an ancient scale-cast CH-53E conversion kit in 1/72 .......

Nice one! Scalecast did some good, and usually obscure stuff, that was one of them.  :thumbsup:

with the exception of one missing part... the cranked tailplane peculiar to the type

the instructions are LOUSY, though

What's wrong with the Italeri kit, Trev.  I picked up one of those a couple of weeks back.
If I'm not building models, I'm out riding my dirtbike

Army of One

#352
March 28, 2013, 06:35:51 AM
Kingston MZ got a visit.....and I got a Trumpeter 1/35 BMP3 for £14....almost put it back n got 2 Revell 1/35 Marders for £7 each.......but I like the soviet APC....
BODY,BODY....HEAD..!!!!

IF YER HIT, YER DEAD!!!!

lancer

#353
March 28, 2013, 01:18:41 PM
I got myself an Italeri Merlin HC" today from West drayton. I only went into get my nephew the Airfix Vulcan for his birthday. Why am I buying so many helicopters these days? And is it curable?? :unsure: :unsure: :unsure: :unsure:
If you love, love without reservation; If you fight, fight without fear - THAT is the way of the warrior

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Thorvic

#354
March 28, 2013, 01:33:17 PM
Quote from: lancer on March 28, 2013, 01:18:41 PM
I got myself an Italeri Merlin HC" today from West drayton. I only went into get my nephew the Airfix Vulcan for his birthday. Why am I buying so many helicopters these days? And is it curable?? :unsure: :unsure: :unsure: :unsure:

Nope just look at OGLs trending towards the egg wisk corp (me thinks Aircav may be corrupting people  :wacko:)

As it happens i had a Revell Seaking AEW delivered today that i snagged off eBay  :banghead:
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Leading Observer

#355
March 28, 2013, 02:41:39 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2013, 07:02:07 PM
Quote from: Leading Observer on March 27, 2013, 01:17:42 PM
.......
1/72 XF-85 Goblin
1/72 Lockheed XFV-1
........




Which manufacturers for those two?


Valom & MPM
LO


Observation is the most enduring of lifes pleasures

Army of One

#356
March 28, 2013, 03:49:36 PM
Never have to many helicopters.....well....attack/armed helicopters at least..... :thumbsup:
BODY,BODY....HEAD..!!!!

IF YER HIT, YER DEAD!!!!

Weaver

#357
March 28, 2013, 05:08:09 PM
Courtesy of the Modelzone sale:

3 x Revell 1/72nd Fennek Recon Vehicles
2 x Revell Classics 1/80th Martin B-57Bs
2 x Revellobox 1/72nd Canberra PR.9s

And also, a DVD of Skycrawlers from HMV for £3.00  :thumbsup:
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

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 - Indiana Jones

Daryl J.

#358
March 28, 2013, 10:28:23 PM
Bought my birthday present:   Academy's beautiful ROKAF T-50.

Aircav

#359
March 29, 2013, 06:39:18 AM
Just happened to be in the Modelzone at the Metro Centre this morning and got the 1/350 Trumpeter HMS Montrose.  ;) ;D
"Subvert and convert" By Me  :-)

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