My stash just grew again (2015)

[PR19_Kit]

Got yet another Airfix fabric winged Hurricane I at the LHS y'day, for which I have a devious plan............. 

Something with the wings...? 

Hehehe, actually no, but as you mention it...... 

A standardish wingspan Tri-Cyclone?

Nooooo, something more 'normal', for me anyway. 

[KiwiZac]

Very glad to get this long-OOP, quite rare kit off eBay for less than US$30:


Unfortunately - despite the very cool box art - it doesn't have the smaller OH-6-specific doors I was wanting, so it will go something a little like this:

[Weaver]

Trumpeter 1/72nd JH-7A Flying Leopard, from ebay.

It's a completely new tooling compared to the horrible old FBC-1 and looks, in the box, much better. The fuselage is certainly much shallower and in proportion. Got some interesting stores with it too, including four Sea-Eagle-like AShMs and four missiles that look like ASMPs. Sadly, there's no information about any of these, but as whif-fodder, they're very tasty.

The reason I want this is to turn it into an invented British type built in the late 1960s as an alternative to buying the Phantom. After all, it's powered by two Speys and looks like a Jaguar/Tornado mash-up so why not. Thoughts are to replace the Russian-looking fin with a Tornado one, lose the ventral fins and fit Jaguar-style guns.

Glad to hear they improved the kit and got the proportions right this time 

Good idea on adapting it to a late 60s RAF type, in effect it becomes a fixed wing alternative to AFVG based on the Jaguar Trainer. Should be an interesting one that I look forward to seeing. A 1/48th French Jaguar fin might provide what your looking for as would be easier to add RWR than scaling down the RWR on an RAF version kit. Might be worth seeing if both are provided in the larger scale kit as might be easier  to get a surplus fin then from somebodies stash ?

I've just offered up a spare 1/72nd Tornado fin against it and it looks pretty good. The area is only about 10% bigger, but the Tonka fin has much more sweepback on the trailing edge so it's area would be on a longer moment arm relative to the CofG. I think that makes it possible to dump the ventral fins, or at least make them smaller.

The old FBC-1 kit may be making one contribution: it's 3-panel winscreen. The JH-7A has a one-piece windscreen which looks anachronistic for the period.

There are some other intriguing differences between the two kits. Although the JH-7A kit is much better than the FBC-1, it's also simpler. It has two-piece wings instead of the earlier kit's separate control surfaces, and despite having a much better cockpit, it has a one-piece canopy instead of a four-piece one. It's almost as though they had an arbitary parts count to stick to and the increased loadout of the JH-7A had to be paid for somehow.

[The Wooksta!]

From ebay:

Airkit Seafire F.45 (Thanks to the Evil Kit Finder General!)

Airwaves Seafire F.III conversion
Non folding wing but with an Airkit centre section and an Aeroclub Spitfire F.XII fuselage conversion, there's another naval training machine that I've planned that I have all the bits for.

From Uncle Frank:
Hobbyboss Hawker Typhoon.   
Really wanted it for the decals but the rockets will come in handy for a post war Tempest - or a wartime mk VI in Italy, come to that - and the rest as a Royal Navy machine.

[Dizzyfugu]

A Matchbox F4U, a Matchbox Supermarine Walrus w/o box, a vintage Airfix Fairey Battle and a Matchbox Tempest

[Captain Canada]

Went to a couple of flea markets today. Found one wih many a model. Some great prices and some crazy ! Found an Amodel 144th scale HU-16 Albatross for $7, a Dragon A-10 for $4, and an old Matchbox T-2C for another $4. Prob sneaking back tomorrow ;-)

[Captain Canada]

Oops....stumbled in there again....2 x USMC Harrier, an F-106, and a Dragon EA-6B Prowler. Lots of cool weapons in that one !

[zenrat]

AMT/Matchbox 1/24 Sunbeam Tiger - a thank you from a mate for driving him to club meetings while the docs won't let him
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[PR19_Kit]

AMT/Matchbox 1/24 Sunbeam Tiger - a thank you from a mate for driving him to club meetings while the docs won't let him

Oooooh, LOVELY car! 

I've got the Blueprinters version, in the 'plain white box' 'cos I had the pleasure of working on the project in the 60s. I didn't know they'd done it in an M'box version too.

[zenrat]

It's 1/25 not 1/24 - my mistake.
It's a kit i've wanted for ages.
I saw a real one years ago at a car show when I was about 16 and I couldn't get over how little of the engine was visible in front of the cowl.
The Matchbox release is moulded in BRIGHT yellow and has a pic of the bodykitted version on the lid.
I'll probably build it stock but with a RHD conversion done.

[Dizzyfugu]

Another 1:72 Academy P-47 with bubble canopy for the stash - have plans, after the successful Ki-104 surgery... 

[Captain Canada]

Stopped at that little antique joint again ( whilst peddling out to Hurlburt  ) and grabbed a Dragon Kfir, as well as a Heller F-4, that seems to have a brown coloured half-built aswell as a white one still on the sprues. Cool.

[seadude]

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[Howard of Effingham]

Stopped at that little antique joint again ( whilst peddling out to Hurlburt  ) and grabbed a Dragon Kfir, as well as a Heller F-4, that seems to have a brown coloured half-built as well as a white one still on the sprues. Cool.

how about captain.... a USAF AFSOC F-4 in latest AFSOC grey camo scheme?  with a few new lumps and bumps......

[PR19_Kit]

I saw a real one years ago at a car show when I was about 16 and I couldn't get over how little of the engine was visible in front of the cowl.

Tell me about it! To change the plugs on the #4 and #8 cylinders on a Tiger you have to access them via two small circular 'hatches' on either side of the gearbox tunnel INSIDE the cockpit! 

Having said that, the extreme engine setback gives almost 50:50 weight distribution and sublime handling on the 260 engined Mk 1s. The later 289 engine Mk IIs are a tad more brutal to my mind, more like a Cobra.

[Maybe this should be in the Cars & Trucks section..... ]