My stash just grew again (2014)

[Gondor]

From the Scottish Nationals today

Found in the Kit Swap a Hasegawa 1/72 J7W1 Shinden, the SS19 boxing with the pre painted canopy.

Revell 1/72 F-4F Phantom II 50th Anniversary markings for the Richtoven squadron.

Gondor

[Nick]

My little haul in Perth was simply 3 Matchbox kits in 1/72.
1x HS Hawk in box.
2x BAC Strikemaster, one in box as new.
The other one was in a bag and started but is missing the right side jet intake (Part no 5), if anyone has a replacement?

[PR19_Kit]

From today's MK show :-

1) ex-Frog Shackleton from Knightflyer 

2) Eastern Express  1/144 Beriev 200 Altair amphibiian. I didn't even know the kit existed until I saw it on a vendor's stand  today. 

Yes, I KNOW I said I wasn't going to buy any more kits this year, but an Altair? No contest!

[Army of One]

From MK show today......an Italeri Mi24 Hind D/E, Zvezda Su39 both 1/72 and an italeri 1/35 sherman. From NARSES2 a matchbox spitfire ix/xvi and a fury biplane. From Knightflyer got an old Shackleton and a Sea Vixen......the shack seemed like a good idea at the time....dunno what I'm gonna do with it....when asked by a few peeps why I got it 'coz I ain't got one.....' was all I could answer....but absolutely love the Sea Vixen.....wish I'd got another two of them instead of the shack.....ah, hindsight.......

[McColm]

Got the 1/72 Revell BV 222 kit off eBay along with a Hunter two seat conversion kit.
Found a Jaguar E-Type 2+2 hard top in need of repair, I wonder if the roof will fit the XJS-V12.
Seen a four door BMW 5 series also in 1/24 .

[Howard of Effingham]

over last weekend i got.....

1/72 valom brigand B1 [with some fetching pakistani AF artwork on the box cover]
1/72 AZ model airspeed oxford T1 [real world with this one]
1/72 valom lockheed XFV-1
1/72 airfix hawk RAFBF 'design a hawk' winner's boxing.
1/72 academy F-18 'chippy ho'
1/35 academy M247 Sgt York AA tank [been after one for years]
1/35 italeri M109 SP gun

[NARSES2]

Limited haul at MK

Airfix Arado 196. This now starts a chain of 4 linked builds which will all gain bits from the previous kit and in the end should complete the circle   All Balkan War IV builds.

Also got a couple of brushes, some Milliput and some paint.

[Spey_Phantom]

1 new addition, a Revell 1/144 Eurofighter Typhoon (single seater) 

[Green Dragon]

Four 1/48th Esci kits from ebay:
Aermacchi MB326
Mirage 2000 Prototype
A-4E US Navy
A-4E Blue Angels

Paul Harrison

[Knightflyer]

Well apart from selling Shackletons and Sea Vixens (hooray – slight stash REDUCTION finally ) at Milton Keynes I bought

2 x S&M 1/144 Viscount at £1 each – definite whiff fodder!
A Novo Westland Wallace for £2 – I've already got one to make 'real-world' but picked this up. It's moulded in dark blue plastic, so maybe a high altitude PR aircraft? ...it did after all fly over Mount Everest!

When I got home I found I'd won the following on Ebay
MPM Spitfire Mk.18
Xtrakit Swift FR.5 – finally for less that the reduced price Hannants are selling them for
Magna Martin-Baker MB.3

And on Monday I managed to get round to picking up the Freightdog parcel from the Post Office, it contained ...

Freightdog 1/72 'Brits at Sea Pt.II' decal sheet
Freightdog 1/72 'Gods of Sea and Fire' decal sheet
TwoSix Decals 1/72 Vickers Viscount 745D 'ETPS' complete kit 
Freightdog / Airdecal 1/72 Hawker P.1109A conversion set
Pegasus 1/72 Airco DH-5 with new decals + etched struts
Pegasus 1/72 Martinsyde Elephant

So this is it, the buying MUST STOP! I hereby give notice that if any of you see me reach for my wallet at a model show (and it isn't in the food/drink queue!) you have my permission to beat me senseless with a blunt Starfix Spitfire, or similar object!

[The Wooksta!]

If you can, I'd sell on the MPM Spit - the whole fuselage has a suspect shape and the nose is way off, being very banana shaped.  I don't like the wings either and the way they fit, you can't use a new one to try and salvage it. The wheels look nowt like anything fitted to any mark of Spit.  The prop, decals and the brass might be useable. Horrid kit*, although I like the box art.

Better off with a Ventura/Jays kit or the more recent AZ kit.  Failing that, a Fujimi FR14e with the Freightdog XVIII conversion.


*Their PRXIX was similar, although they redid it totally for the Airfix Millenium set and it's a warmed over Fujimi Spit.

[Nick]

Apparently I am now the owner of a 1/72 Frog Shackleton!
I saw a pair on display at Perth and they are bigger than I expected, not sure what I was thinking. 

I have a scheme in mind but have to find suitable Lincoln or Lancaster markings first.

[The Wooksta!]

Won on ebay:

Box containing a load of Spitfire bits, including an Airkit C wing conversion.

It's supposedly 3 Tamiya kits but to my eye, it's an Airfix mk Ia and an unidentified Ventura kit, plus a wealth of extras.

[Thorvic]

Off eBay an Xtrakit Hunter T-7, may do another P1130 project if Colin still has any of the Freightdog conversions in stock.

[zenrat]

Arrived from the UK today courtesy of Evil-Bay - a pair of 1/72 Pavla resin Double Wasps (for late B-26).  Obviously they will go nowhere near a Marauder...