My stash just grew again (2015)

[JayBee]

Arrived yesterday, courtesy of our very own PR19,

an Airfix VC-10.

Now I have something to use my S&M Poffler conversion on. 

[Gondor]

The twin-boom, roll-on-roll-off type 170.

Does that sentence refer to the Bristol Freighter you bought?

If so you have got your information wrong on several points.

1) A Bristol type 170 only has a fuselage and no booms
2) Airfix did not sell a twin boom transport aircraft
3) Are you sure it's not a Nord 2501 Noratlas?

Gondor

[zenrat]

From the Southern Model Club show (a very small show but worth it for the swap meet).

All the One True Aircraft Scale.

Airfix Battle of Britain Airfield set (Spitfire 1a, two refuelling trucks, many little men, vac form revetment base, brushes & paints).  Not what i'd usually buy but at the price it was worth it for the kits & brushes and if I paint up the base it can make many appearances with finished builds.
Airfix Mosquito Mk II, something else and XVIII with a few decals used.  Too cheap to refuse and the used decal is one of the red dots for the roundels.
MPC (ex airfix) F2H Banshee and a Hobbycraft F2H-3 Banshee.  That'll be an interesting comparison.  Both were the same price.  According to the interweb the Hobbycraft one is almost identical to the Airfix except the panel lines go in instead of out.
Bilek Mig 21 PFM.  Yes, another Eastern Block Mig 21.  One day i'll build one.  This one has engraved panel lines.  Roll on Cold War GB.  I can build an entire air wing of 21s (OK, I can build four).
A Model Yak 28R (which says P on the end of the box) and an A Model Yak 28PP.  One was more than the other and yet they were from the same seller.  Odd.  The cheaper one has a bigger decal sheet.  Both seem to have a high number of parts made of a strangely dense and heavy plastic.  I haven't opened the bags yet or grokked the instructions.

[PR19_Kit]

A Model Yak 28R (which says P on the end of the box) and an A Model Yak 28PP.  One was more than the other and yet they were from the same seller.  Odd.  The cheaper one has a bigger decal sheet.  Both seem to have a high number of parts made of a strangely dense and heavy plastic.  I haven't opened the bags yet or grokked the instructions.

DON'T open the bag! 

You'll never get all the bits back in there again. My Yak 28R kit box bulges in the middle now, and I suspect the kit has grown to around 1/65 scale since I opened the bag....

[McColm]

The twin-boom, roll-on-roll-off type 170.

Does that sentence refer to the Bristol Freighter you bought?

If so you have got your information wrong on several points.

1) A Bristol type 170 only has a fuselage and no booms
2) Airfix did not sell a twin boom transport aircraft
3) Are you sure it's not a Nord 2501 Noratlas?

Gondor

The twin boom refers to an actual proposal by the Bristol Aircraft Company but not built and is mentioned in two topics on this site.

The Airfix kit is the Bristol Superfreighter based on the Bristol type 170 Freighter. Magna do two resin conversion kits- long nose and short nose with tail, metal/resin wheels, engines, canopies and oil coolers.

I'm building two Whiffs based on this kit;
Amphibious AEW
Autogyro Gunship

[Gondor]

The twin-boom, roll-on-roll-off type 170.

Does that sentence refer to the Bristol Freighter you bought?

If so you have got your information wrong on several points.

1) A Bristol type 170 only has a fuselage and no booms
2) Airfix did not sell a twin boom transport aircraft
3) Are you sure it's not a Nord 2501 Noratlas?

Gondor

The twin boom refers to an actual proposal by the Bristol Aircraft Company but not built and is mentioned in two topics on this site.

The Airfix kit is the Bristol Superfreighter based on the Bristol type 170 Freighter. Magna do two resin conversion kits- long nose and short nose with tail, metal/resin wheels, engines, canopies and oil coolers.

I'm building two Whiffs based on this kit;
Amphibious AEW
Autogyro Gunship

I was trying to decipher what you meant to say because you had three separate and distinct sentences written. If you had written "Bristol Freighter - to be built as a twin boom variant" then I would have understood.

Gondor

[McColm]

Sorry, just get carried away with ideas entering my head

[The Wooksta!]

Another AZ Spitfire IX UTI from Uncle Frank.  It looked a little lonely in the shop.

[KiwiZac]

Airfix 1/72 TSR.2MS. Because it's cheap!

[The Chaos]

From Airfix,
The New Beaufighter TF X
And a Spitfire Mk IXc

[zenrat]

A Model Yak 28R (which says P on the end of the box) and an A Model Yak 28PP.  One was more than the other and yet they were from the same seller.  Odd.  The cheaper one has a bigger decal sheet.  Both seem to have a high number of parts made of a strangely dense and heavy plastic.  I haven't opened the bags yet or grokked the instructions.

DON'T open the bag! 

You'll never get all the bits back in there again. My Yak 28R kit box bulges in the middle now, and I suspect the kit has grown to around 1/65 scale since I opened the bag....

Heh he heh. 
I've been reading up on these kits and most are not complimentary.  Although from the pics they don't look as bad as the A Model Yak 38 which I have taken out of its bag and which is terrible.

[Dizzyfugu]

The cyrillic "R" is written with a "P" letter...?

[zenrat]

Don't know Dizz, but they use an R on the top of the box and a P on the end.

[PR19_Kit]

The Broplan vacforms of the Yak25/28 series are more accurate than the A Model offerings to my mind, but are a lot more difficult to build of course.

I'm trying to cross-kit a Broplan 'Mandrake' (U-2 or PR19 equivalent...) with an A Model Yak-28, and although it's possible I've taken 3 years over it so but with nothing much to show for it.....

[KiwiZac]

Two Modelcraft 1/72 Sea Vixens - no boxes but with good-condition decals - arrived from the US via eBay today. They were cheaper than a single boxed one from Novo or anyone else! Both will be whiffed, one sooner than the other...

EDIT: Okay, so it turns out it's one Modelcraft kit with two sets of decals and a Russian one (Eastern Express? The instructions are in Cyrillic and I don't recognise the logo) with decals. So I have three lots of Sea Vixen decals!!