My stash just grew again (2014)

[The Wooksta!]

Read the controversy this kit is causing on Britmodeller.  Looks nice but it's apparently well out in terms of accuracy.

[Steel Penguin]

from cosford
a 1:48 revel / monogram A10, ( engines for my Learjet)
a 1:48 hasa weapons kit ( b I thinks its the one with the Phoenixes in)
a 1:35 meng Tortoise
a 1:48 revell typhoon
and a tiger models 1:48 F5

[Martin H]

Just two from Cosford today. Both Italeri and both transfers to my stash From Howard of Effingham.

Lockheed HC-130J.
McDD RF-4E.

[McColm]

1/24 Tamiya Jaguar MKII Saloon 24151 high detail & carpet.
Going to source an e-type roadster and see if I can swap the models over one convertible and the other a two door sedan.

[Weaver]

Limited spend at Cosford today: very little that I actually need, so these were dirt-cheap "targets of opportunity":

1 x 1/72nd Hasegawa F9F-8 Cougar : hard enough to get that it was worth snapping up another one since the price was right

1 x 1/72nd VEB Plasticart Su-7 : another fuselage donor for another EE Thunderbolt (single-engined Lightning)

2 x 1/72nd Hasegawa F-105Ds, bagged with one set of decals and one snapped fuselage between them : dirt cheap bits-for-the-bits-box.

1 x Nice little book about RN post-war destroyers.

[Radish]

From Cosford....

1/35th Trumpeter Centauro armoured car with a very big gun.

[kitnut617]

1/72 Contrails Lockheed P-3 radome (the one above the rear fuselage).  Very nicely cast and quick service.

[Thorvic]

1/72 Contrails Lockheed P-3 radome (the one above the rear fuselage).  Very nicely cast and quick service.

Now have they done the correct legs ot just cloned a Hawkeye kit ?

[McColm]

2 x Eastern Express 1/72 Mig-29UB Fulcrums
Airfix 1/72 SAAB Viggen
1/72 Tiger Hobbies Spitfire float plane conversion
UStar Sander and 30 polishing heads

[kitnut617]

1/72 Contrails Lockheed P-3 radome (the one above the rear fuselage).  Very nicely cast and quick service.

Now have they done the correct legs ot just cloned a Hawkeye kit ?

I would say they're the correct ones Geoff, it doesn't look anything like the pylon from the Hawkeye (got one so I've compared them).  The only thing I see I would have to do, is to angle the legs forward & backwards a bit because they just go straight down at the moment.  I think I'll use it on one of my 1/72 Vickers Vanguard kits.  I can always get another for a RW build later. Only US$20 including postage (that's for the States & Canada though)

[The Wooksta!]

The Aston I mentioned up thread has arrived.  Very basic but buildable.  Think the scale is closer to 30th rather than 72nd as having compared it to the Airfix Jaguar XKR GT, it looks a shade bigger.

Clips together nicely o should be a decent build.  At the end of the day though, it's an Aston. 

1 x 1/72nd VEB Plasticart Su-7 : another fuselage donor for another EE Thunderbolt (single-engined Lightning)

PM me with your address.  I've a mould for the F3 belly tank which should look good.  I'd also use the wings from the new Airfix Lightning* for a later aircraft.  Wingtip Red Tops were mooted for Lightning and the drawings for the EE P.8 certainly had wingtip missiles and the F6 wing.

*The rest doesn't have to be wasted.  A cheap Airfix TSR2 can donate it's wing so you can do the projected delta wing Lightning.  And the TSR2?  F14 wings mean  you can do the proposed VG TSR2.

[Weaver]

1 x 1/72nd VEB Plasticart Su-7 : another fuselage donor for another EE Thunderbolt (single-engined Lightning)

PM me with your address.  I've a mould for the F3 belly tank which should look good.  I'd also use the wings from the new Airfix Lightning* for a later aircraft.  Wingtip Red Tops were mooted for Lightning and the drawings for the EE P.8 certainly had wingtip missiles and the F6 wing.

Cheers for the offer Lee, but I've already done a prototype P.7D with a small tank (half a Phantom centreline tank) here: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,34972.15.html . The next Thunderbolt will be an operational version seving in Vietnam, so if anything, an F.6 belly tank with it's guns would be more appropriate. If I go down that route, I've already got the tank donors, because the wings for these come from the Revellofrog F.6. I know they're not as nice as the new Airfix ones, but actually, their heavy, raised detail matches the Plasticart Su-7 fuselage very well, so the two look as though they're meant to be together.

[Howard of Effingham]

from the cosford show last sunday....

1/72 heller B-707
1/72 italeri B-66 destroyer [which took some finding and was only £10]

also a 1/72 resin conversion kit for the jaguar ACT and a freightdog upgrade set for the dornier do-335.

surprise of the day was paying just £5 for a box of 'odds and ends'. when i got this box home for a proper sort out
there were within UMPTEEN pairs of neomega resin ejector seats, two aeroclub canberra PR3/PR7 conversions,
two airmodel lightning T4/T5 conversions, quite a bit of other canberra aftermarket bits and some TSR2 resin and
etched brass sets as well.

it was a good day out!

[Steel Penguin]

Howard : you were fairly pleased with that at the show  sounds like it was even more of a treasure trove that you thought.

[PR19_Kit]

Having boggled at Howard's 'Lucky Dip' box of stuff at the show I can attest to the wonderments contained therein. Why doesn't that ever happen to ME though?