My stash just grew again (2014)

[Mossie]

Assuming it's the Hobby Boss kit Trev, it's a lovely little kit.  Did one myself a few years ago now:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,29135.0.html

The only things to watch for are the horizontal tails, they're only held on by a fine location pin and I managed to knock mine off many times.  Leave them till the end and don't dry fit them often.

[Dizzyfugu]

A 1:72 Ka-27 etc. decal sheet from Begemot. Will find multiple uses!

BTW: the Hobby Boss A-7s are really great kits. Got an A-7E in the pile, too (with a plan, of course...), and it is the best Corsair II rendition in 1:72 I have so far come across. Good value for money.

[Thorvic]

An original Airfix TSR2 with Freightdog PR set, Xtradecal and Model Alliance TSR2 Decals from a stash sale on BM

[Daryl J.]

H-B F-84F
Trumpeter Skywarrior

[Pellson]

- ca 1963 edition Heller Super Broussard
- 1968 edition Airfix Beagle Basset 206
- 1973 edition Airfix HP Jetstream
- 1983 edition Matchbox Provost
- ca 1984 edition Revell OV-10B Bronco (the glass arsed variant)
- 2002 edition Airfix Skyvan

All to be just-a-little-whiffed into relevant service during the late cold war era.

[Dizzyfugu]

Yesterday an Airfix Buccaneer arrived - to be modified for USMC use in the Vietnam era (grey/white, with lots of iron bombs).

[Thorvic]

Yesterday an Airfix Buccaneer arrived - to be modified for USMC use in the Vietnam era (grey/white, with lots of iron bombs).

Is that the current Issue with the Gulf War, RN and SAAF options ? as that gives a nice selection of optional droptanks and pylons from the older issue with just the martel/sea eagle option.
You should have a word with Colin at Freightdog about the Buccaneer sets as they do a replacement Nose and Tail plane set and an alternative open bomb bay that would allow you to show the full payload.

Cheers

Geoff

[Dizzyfugu]

Yes, it's the current one. The USMC idea is not mine - stumbled across a respctive model picture some time ago, and the Bucc looked magnificient in a 'Nam disguise! I'll change some things, anyway, even though the basic airframe will persist. But main mods will be paint scheme and markings as well as ordnance: 24 bombs on MERs should look great (literally) on/under a Bucc?

[Thorvic]

Yes, it's the current one. The USMC idea is not mine - stumbled across a respctive model picture some time ago, and the Bucc looked magnificient in a 'Nam disguise! I'll change some things, anyway, even though the basic airframe will persist. But main mods will be paint scheme and markings as well as ordnance: 24 bombs on MERs should look great (literally) on/under a Bucc?

Yeap 24 sounds about right two tandem TERs on the inner pylon single TER on outer pylon, two setd of TER in the bomb bay unless you switch those to less larger or alternative weapons 

[NARSES2]

Direct from Airfix with a delivery time of just under 48 hours from placing the order 

Avro Lancaster B.1 (F.E.)/B.III. This will be built as a Far East A.F. aircraft in my own little alt WWII scenario
Tiger Moth. I have some plans for this one.
New tool Hurricane Mk I with the metal wing. This will be out of the box, real world. I'll be using my supply of "fabric" wing Hurricanes for Wif World.

Also in the box was another Diamond Jubilee key ring (a corgi this time) now I have 2 they can go to my great nieces 

[NARSES2]

I'll change some things, anyway, even though the basic airframe will persist. But main mods will be paint scheme and markings as well as ordnance: 24 bombs on MERs should look great (literally) on/under a Bucc?

Never realised she could carry as much  Just got so used to the standard Brit austerity load I suppose

[Dizzyfugu]

Did not do any serious research concerning the load - it's a bit inspired by the original Matchbox kit box art, which shows IIRC Buccs with twelve 1.000 lb bombs on four TERs - and I was SO disappointed when i bought the kit that the whol thing was totally blank.

It's probably late childhood trauma management...  


Quick check revealed a total load capacity of 12,000 lb (5,443 kg), but not how much the hardpoints could carry. But 24 bombs @ 500 lb could (theoretically) be carried...   Maybe she receives USN-typical, beefier TF-41 engines (from the A-7) for some extra oomph... and becomes the B-72.

We'll see  

[seadude]

Recieved in the mail today:
2 pkgs of: http://www.freetimehobbies.com/1-350-orange-hobby-lockheed-martin-f-35c-2-groups/
2 pkgs of: http://www.freetimehobbies.com/OHN0307468/

Ordered last night:  (1 pkg of each of the following)
http://www.freetimehobbies.com/1-350-trumpeter-ah1w-super-cobra-helicopter-set-x12/
http://www.freetimehobbies.com/1-350-trumpeter-uh1n-huey-helicopter-set-x12/
http://www.freetimehobbies.com/1-350-black-dog-deck-tractors-accessories-set/

[Howard of Effingham]

1/72 trumpeter TA-7C corsair

Is that the same kit as the Hobbyboss one ? Can't say as I've heard of it......

thanks captain! my typo error.....

[Dizzyfugu]

Two Su-25s... One is the new kit from ART Model, directly ordered in the Ukraine. It features several resin parts, and the ART Model kits I already built (their F8F Bearcat is nice, as well as the Ye-8 prototype) and is intended to end up as a real world aircraft, from a Soviet Navy training unit.

The other one is the Hobby Craft kit -intentionally bought because it must be SO far off of the real thing that it should be a good basis for a whiffy conversion!  Additionally, the kit's construction with separate engine nacelles makes it most suitable for what I intend to create from it... in the near or far future, though.