My stash just grew again (2014)

[Chris Payne]

Just got back from SMW and I was quite surprised I hadn't spent as much as I normally do.

Added a items to the stash however, rude not to.

Aeroclub 1/72 Canberra B.2 conversion
Airfix 1/72 Limited Edition club kit - Harrier First and last.
Airfix 1/48 Folland Gnat T.1
Flightpath 1/72 Victor K.2 detail set
Hasegawa 1/72 F-16A ADF 'Veltro 51' (x3)
Kitty Hawk 1/48 F-35C
Revell 1/72 F-16A
Revell 1/72 F-16C 'Block 50/52'
Sword 1/72 Lightning F.1/2
Sword 1/72 Lightning F.3
Zvezda 1/72 SS-25 Topol (NATO reporting name 'Sickle') (a gift from Gregers and Sarah, cheers guys)
LVM Studios 1/72 detail kit for Zvezda Topol SS-25 "Sickle"

[Martin H]

SMW14 additions...........My turn!

all either 1/72nd or 1/76th.

Via the kitswap
Fujimi HH-53C Super Jolly green giant.

Via traders (various)
S&M models Andover C-1
Lonewulf Spitfire Rammer.
Unicraft Boulton Paul P100.
Mach2 C-21A Learjet.
Amodel Tupolev 134B Crusty B. (Backfire trainer)
Revell Tornado GR-1.
Revell Seaking Mk-41.
Belcherbits R-12 (SS-4 Sandal) IRBM.
Blackbird Avro Lincoln Conversion.
Freightdog Strike lightning set (x2)
Freightdog Sea Harrier F/A-2 AMRAAM belly pylons/rails (x2)
Matador models AC-4 Sentinal tank.
Matador models Chieftain 900 conversion.
C scale conversion sets (x5) covering Canberra's mainly plus C-130, Victor and Harrier GR-3

[Hobbes]

Whirlykits 1/72 Shorts SC.1 VTOL testbed
S&M VC-10 R.1 conversion set
2x Revell Long Beach off Weaver

Also some Deluxe plastic putty
and a pack of Swan-Morton blades

[Thorvic]

My SMW 2014 haul, more than i thought i had 

Blackbird Models 1/72 Lincoln conversion for the Airfix Lancaster BII
AlleyCat 1/72 Fairey Gannet AEW3
Freightdog 1/72 Saunders Row P177N
Sword 1/72 Harrier T4
Revell 1/72 Seaking Mk41
Airfix 1/72 E-boat
C-Scale 1/72 Canberra T18/22 conversion set
Aeroclub 1/72 Canberra B2 Conversion
Matador Models 1/76 Light weight Landrover
Belcher 1/72 Thor
Belcher 1/72 SS-4 Sandal
Coastal Craft 1/72 BPBco MTB476 - a very tasty resin and brass RN Motor Torpedo Boat

Plus various books and decals

[Green Dragon]

from telford today, all 1:35
an afc club Churchill bobbin tank,
from diopark  the twin 100cc Japanese bike pack
and from Zoukei mura inc  an Edelweiss experimental tank ( I have no idea whether its from a manga or anime, but it looked utterly brill on the stall, I just wish they hadn't run out of extra crew for it, though ill pick them up later)

The Edelweiss Tank is from an anime series called Valkyria Chronicles which was based on a video game of the same name. HLJ may still have some crew in stock if you can't source them in the UK.

Paul Harrison

[Radish]

The haul from SMW was:

Pegasus Hobbies "Mercury 9" for a bargain £18 or so.
Airfix 1/32nd "Old Bill" bus....civil one.....thinking of doing it "Old Bill" ie Police.
2 x SMER 1/24 racing cars.

[seadude]

Went to the Chicago IPMS Butch O' Hare Model Show and picked up in the vendor room:

AMT/Ertl X/YB-35 Flying Wing (1/72 scale I think?)  I may do this as a Soviet flying wing WHIF.
Moebius Original Battlestar Galactica
Moebius Battlestar Pegasus
Moebius Colonial Viper Mk.II
1/48 Academy F-22A

And.........in the last 2-3 months......and also tonight........I've been on a "stealth kick" so to speak and have bought the following:

Dragon 1/144 SR-71 Blackbird
Dragon 1/144 U-2R Spyplane
Dragon 1/144 F-117 Nighthawk
Revell 1/144 F-117 Stealth Fighter
Revell 1/144 B-2 Stealth Bomber
Trumpeter 1/144 Chinese J-20 "Mighty Dragon" Stealth Fighter
Trumpeter 1/144 F-22A Stealth Fighter
Trumpeter 1/144 YF-23 Stealth Fighter
Trumpeter 1/144 Sukhoi SU-47 Berkut FSW Fighter
Doyusha 1/144 F-35A Lightning II
Dragon 1/144 Stealth Helicopter "Operation Geronimo"
Dragon 1/700 USS Coronado LCS-4
Dragon 1/700 USS Freedom LCS-1
Dragon 1/700 USS Zumwalt Stealth Destroyer
Orange Hobby 1/72 Northrop Grumman X-47B Stealth Drone
Revell 1/144 USAF F-19 Stealth Fighter
1/72 RAH-66 Comanche Stealth Helicopter
1/700 Swedish VISBY Class Stealth Corvette
1/700 HMS Daring British Stealth Destroyer
1/700 US Navy Arleigh Burke Destroyer
Soviet Ka-58 Stealth Helicopter
TR-3A Stealth/UFO model kit
Soviet Pak-50 Stealth Fighter
1/72 Mig-37B Ferret E Stealth Fighter
1/400 French La Fayette Frigate
German Horten 229
1/72 SR-71 Blackbird w/ D-21 Drone
1/72 scale Tacit Blue Stealth Technology Demonstrator

And there's still more to get yet, but some kits are out of production and hard to find.

[JayBee]

Just back home from SMW.

About the same as I normally get.

1/72

Amodel   Beechcraft 2000 Starship
            Aero 45

Platz      X-47B UCAS

?       NIAI-1 Fanera-2 (Weird Soviet light transport)

Airfix      Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2 (Just wanted the transfers for : )

RS models   Bell FL-1 Airabonita

Freight    Strike Lightning conversion (x2)

Lonewulf   Me-163 Komet V-tail conversion
               F4U Corsair V-tail conversion

OO scale

Airfix Railbus (been after one of these at a reasonable price for SO long)

1/144 scale

Dragon Bell X-3 Stilleto

AKMory    Polikarpov I-16 (two in the box, tiny and you even get PE seatbelts  )

[The Wooksta!]

I've just unpacked my Telford haul...

1 Tamiya Mosquito B.IV
1 Frog/Novo DH Comet racer (comes with some very nice figures, although Operation Yewtrew may look unkindly on one as he looks a bit suspect.  The other looks like Herr Flick of the Gestapo...)
1 AZ/KP Avia S199 (tangentially Plan related)
1 Pegasus Defiant TT (will be an RAF nightfighter or radar spoofer)
1 AZ Fw 190D-11 (tangentially Plan related)
1 Aoshima Ta 152H (see above - RAF markings for this one and it may get started later today)
1 Heller 43rd Jaguar XJS (goes with my Provence Moulage Astons)
2 Frog DH Hornets
1 Revellogawa He 111H plus a set of Heritage Merlins to do the Spanish one (tangentially Plan related)
1 Heller TR33 Shooting Star (been wanting one for years as a 2 seat RAF recce bird)
1 Airfix new tool Hurricane I rag wing
1 CMR Sea Vampire T.22
2 Rareplanes Blackburn Firebrand TF.5s
1 Xtrakit Meteor F8 (god knows why as I have more than enough and I'm still wanting to get shot of an Airfix one I bought a few years back.  Oh, yes.  It was a fiver.  Can never resist a bargain)
1 MPM Blenheim V from the kitswap, which I intend using for converting the Airfix Blenheim to a V.

And yes, I'll put me hands up and confess to buying a Unicraft Bv P.211A (the swept back wing one).  Been wanting a kit of that for years.

Plus some superglue, scalpel blades (15s) and something like Krystal Kleer, which I've yet to try.

From PR19Kit - Rareplane Supermarine 224.

That's about it really.

Oh, nearly forgot - just a few items relating to The Plan:
45 Spitfires (individual kits - various marks)
1 AZ Spitfire 9 Joypack
5 Seafires
1 Spiteful (Airmodel, looks like a reboxed CMR kit, the tool of which is, I strongly suspect, the origin of the original Pegasus kit and the RS Resins one)
3 Seafangs
1 Attacker
1 Swift (Xtrakit)
Plus two Brigade conversions, a Seafire XV and a Spitfire XII, although the only difference is the decals and box art as the plastic is the same in both.

I probably am certifiable...

[Howard of Effingham]

hmm, apart from getting annoyed about the exiting arrangements from SMW  AGAIN! [which i will be writing to the exec' of IPMS about and the people at the International Centre too, to voice my concerns. i has to be done, btw]

i did manage to buy a few items, but it was even nicer this year to catch up with all sorts of folk, especially Nick,
Mossie and Dork the Kit Slayer and chat with a few traders i have got to know. how helpful to have principal
suppliers in the shape of freightdog and model-kraft next to the what-if? SIG stand!!! 

added, bought and given to me.....

two volumes on the wars in the congo/DRC/Zaire in recent decades by tom cooper [who also kindly signed them]

the third volume of the SAMI series on the F-4 Phantom [an end of show freebie which others took advantage of
too! and why not!!!]

1/72 azur Vautour IIN
1/72 special hobby Dougalas D558-1 [the original version]
1/53 williams brothers kit of the aircraft amelia earhart went missing in [there are other options for the same a/c type]
1/72 academy F-35A [from the pocketbond stand who threw in a free takom co' 1/35 figure too]
1/72 HP Harrow/Sparrow vacform [from alex from IPMS brampton]
1/72 hasegawa EA-6B and fujimi flightdeck handling tractor and crew [ nick!]

and several decal sheets, paint, resin and a tamiya painter's turntable. the biggest of these items was though
the excellent 1/72 scale resin conversion for the  Avro Lincoln  from Glenn Ashley of Blackbird models. this is a complex conversion but excellent one, for which i intend using the spares to wind up others and use his Mau-Mau
Campaign decal sheet [which was fought in Kenya, which was where my late mother was born] for a real lincoln.

[Steel Penguin]

Green Dragon / Paul   thank you for that  it may be something I have too look for.

[Nick]

My total haul from Telford...

Another Revell SST set for the bargain price of £12, they go for £40 on ebay!
Fuji T-1 jet trainer, a rare bargain in the kit swap and just £3.
Pioneer BI-2 Soviet rocket plane for the silly price of £1.25, too cheap to ignore.
Matchbox BAe Hawk. I got inspiration for this and a Hawk 200.

From Lift Here Models of Serbia, an IAR-99 Soim. It's a Romanian jet trainer that looks very much like a BAe Hawk but with a squarer wing.... 

Books:
A Fighter Pilot's Call To Arms, Stanislav Fejfar. This is a modern translation of his wartime diary. He was in the Czechoslovak Air Force in 1938, escaped the German takeover to join the French Air Force via the Foreign Legion in 1939. He was posted to North Africa, then went back to France to start shooting down the Germans, went back to Africa and then sailed for the UK. He then flew with 310 squadron during the Battle of Britain and died in 1942 flying with 313 Sqdn from RAF Hormchurch.

AFVs in Irish Service since 1922. A shop damaged copy for only £2     Over 200 pages in glossy colour.

F-4 Phantoms: Overseas Operators. Silly to turn down a freebie!

Also picked up an LED daylight bulb for my model table lamp. It's much brighter and clearer than the standard bulb with less yellowy shadows formed.

[NARSES2]

Well back from Telford after a bit of rotten journey, although no where as delayed as the journey up 

Only added 1 kit ! RS 1/72 Bloch MB 151 - and thanks to Jim for explaining the reason for the name change from MB to Dassault. I had the completely wrong end of the stick

1 Book - Japanese Secret Projects V2

Loads of tools and other ancillaries inc. some Uschi Van de Rosen stuff, loads of paint and some brush cleaner from Delux Materials which I shall report back on.

So apart from the book, which I wasn't aware of, the plan was adhered to  There was nothing really that I needed kit wise but I did spend a lot on the other stuff so a different set of traders got my money for a change. Mainly those with attractive young ladies serving 

Airfix however look as though they will be getting a fair bit of dosh from me over the next few months with their forthcoming kits 

[pyro-manic]

Green Dragon / Paul   thank you for that  it may be something I have too look for.

If you're referring to Valkyria Chronicles, I wouldn't bother. It was a pretty poor series tbh.

[The Chaos]

Evening everyone, from Telford back and souvenirs. Kits, magazines, tools, accessories and what for my Girlfrind.