My stash just grew again (2014)

[Dizzyfugu]

This weekend: A Matchbox P-47 Kitpak (w. paint) for EUR 3,-. Could not say 'no'... 

[Thorvic]

off eBay

Hasegawa 1/72nd Avenger MKIV FAA (Suez)

From Hannants

Sword 1/72nd Lightning T4

[NARSES2]

Got the Airfix Spitfire Mk I/Mk IIa I wanted at Hendon. My alternative pre war build can now commence, and no I'm not going down Mike M's Hendon 1940 path.....nice as they are.

[NARSES2]

Via Ebay.
Scratchaeronautics CASA C212 Aviocar.

Had a look at this at Hendon. Looked very nice in the box. Kinda made me think of what would have happened if Short's had continued developing the Skyvan idea

[kitbasher]

Via Ebay.
Scratchaeronautics CASA C212 Aviocar.

Had a look at this at Hendon. Looked very nice in the box. Kinda made me think of what would have happened if Short's had continued developing the Skyvan idea

They did - they were called the SD330 and SD360 (or - more colloquially - 'Sheds').  The 330 became the C-23 Sherpa in USAF service.  I remember working them in and out of Fairford and Kemble.

[PR19_Kit]

Mike's would have been cheaper though.

The Rainbow's a SUPERB looking aircraft and even worked pretty well too. I've got the book about it and it's a terrific read.

Do you mean this one Kit?
World's Fastest Multi-Engine Piston Aircraft: Republic's XR-12 Rainbow & the Hughes XF-11 by Mike Michat.
It's excellent! In fact I nearly bought the Anigrand Kit a while back, but they are a lot of Money

That's the one, yes, Mike Michat's a pretty darn good aviation author to my mind.

I've got two XF-11 kits, but not a Rainbow kit sadly. (Yet......... )

[Gondor]

Anigrand XF-12 Rainbow. (from Mike McEvoy)

Green with envy mode full on! 

You could always buy one from here.

Gondor

Wrong XF-12! 

The XF-12 Rainbow is this one: http://www.anigrand.com/AA2057_XF-12.htm

Looks like I Bungled that then 

Gondor

[Martin H]

I was sitting next to him when he was comparing fuselage halves, one slightly longer than the other. I still think you could kitbash it by using a Lockheed Constellation C-69 fuselage and single fin from a PB4Y-2. Straight wings from a Shackleton.

That would be an interesting, if expensive kitbash

[lancer]

From Hendon, all 1/72

Hasegawa J7W1 Shinden
Eduard MiG15 'profi pack' Looks very nice upon looking at the kit and etch
Eduard L39 Albertross but in Edwards AFB markings, which will NOT be used - EVER!! I thing there's an ideal wiffing candidate there.

You know what really bugs me? When I don't have the readies, the kits I want are there almost taunting me. When I DO have the readies, they are nowhere to be seen!! Go figure!

[Rheged]

You know what really bugs me? When I don't have the readies, the kits I want are there almost taunting me. When I DO have the readies, they are nowhere to be seen!! Go figure!

This is a manifestation of Rheged's law of maximum cussedness.   Happens to me too.....and probably most of us!

[Howard of Effingham]

at the hendon show and the end of an EXPENSIVE weekend of model buying

1/72 airfix canberra B(I).6
1/72 airfix strikemaster [a very old boxing with omani AF and RAF Red Pelican aerobatic team decals]
1/72 airfix lightning F2A [my third one and that completes the first part of the cunning plan]
1/72 revell F8F-1 bearcat [thanks to kitbasher for this one]

also found a couple of new lightning T4/T5 decal sheets, a pavla resin cockpit set for the KP models MiG-15UTI and an EB cockpit set for the italeri/ revell   F3

there were many good models on the wiff stand but my favorite by a long way was McColm's superb Neptune.

[McColm]

1/72
C Scale white metal conversion for Tornado GR1.
Resin nose RF-4B/C/E.

[Radish]

I'm mad.

Just ordered 3 x Monogram/Revell 1/48th P-61s. They'll all be daft ones of course.

[Knightflyer]

Well I've just received through the post from E-bay a Dragon 1/200 Tu-95 'Oriental Express'

So yes, there now ARE three bears!  This one will be in RAF Bomber Command colours to accompany the earlier (and at some point, later) Avro/Tupolev (M)R.1 Chancellor

Bought it at this scale (1) because I got it cheap , and (2) because it saves me a whole 97mm wingspan space on the shelf! 

Importantly the large underfuselage radome is moulded seperately (and won't be being affixed ....well not to this kit anyway!  )

As an unplanned bonus there also appears to be at least one cruise / anti-shipping missile on the sprues.

mmmmm....wonder if the 1/200 Blue Steel from the Vulcan would fit anywhere ? ?

[Mossie]

Airfix 1/76 Forward Command Post, as a diorama background for all those Great War tanks I've got.