My stash just grew again (2016)

[The Wooksta!]

An Airfix Defiant from Uncle Frank which will be out of the box but a whiff.  Think about that one...

[Weaver]

From toda...sorry...yesterday's Bolton Show (Got home, ate, fell asleep then woke up to internet problems):

Monogram 1/72nd scale F-105G Wild Weasel - Cheers to Thorvic's EKFG powers!
(To be RAF-buys-US Canberra replacement)

Revell 1/52nd scale Star Wars Snowspeeder
(These Level 3 Star Wars kits (proper kits, not toys) look like very good value for money, which makes a change)

Heller 1/72nd Alouette III scrapper for £cheep
(Spares box: got no rotor blades)

Tamiya tape, Chisel blades & paint.


*Got home, ate, fell asleep then woke up to internet problems

[Thorvic]

Its amazing how tiring a show actually is even when its a local one 

Be interesting what you come up with for the Alouette III, as it certainly has whif potential, especially with a Sci-Fi twist.

[Dizzyfugu]

After a long time of waiting, I finally got hands on a cheap Heller T-28 Trojan/Fennec from evilbay.
And I got another 1:72 MPM He 100 for the stash - the Special Hobby kit is much better, but the MPM kit has potential.

[Howard of Effingham]

from the snowy Bolton Show yesterday.....

1/72 Frog Fairey Firefly
1/72 Special Hobby F2G Corsair
1/72 Tempest I conversion

also a large 'hold and fold' EB tool, superglue and a couple of decal sheets.

[Raptormodeller]

1:72 Lightning F6 came in the post today, looking forward to disfiguring, sorry, kitbashing it.

[NARSES2]

From Fenwicks in Newcastle, new tool Airfix 1/72 Stuka   Not on display as it has just arrived, sales assistant asked if I needed help and when I asked he went and got it from the storeroom  

First glance looks very nice.

Nose is separate so might be a latter version on the cards. Two seats, one plain intended for pilot the other with moulded seat belts, not seen these on an Airfix kit before ? So plain seat will suit aftermarket or tape belts. Canopy is provided with middle section open or closed but might be fun painting frames on open version ? I'll find out when I get one.

All round looks  

[The Wooksta!]

From ebay:
Ventura Spitfire F.XIVe

From Uncle Frank:
Amodel Henschel Hs 123A

[Martin H]

My first addition for this year. Despite the fact it was paid for as a pre order last August, from Coopers models. Who appears to have disappeared on line recently.

1/72nd Akatombo Blackburn B20.

[McColm]

1/72 Anigrand Martin SeaMaster

[Weaver]

Its amazing how tiring a show actually is even when its a local one 

Be interesting what you come up with for the Alouette III, as it certainly has whif potential, especially with a Sci-Fi twist.

Think it's more a matter of the getting up early...

I thought the Alouette might be good for an RAF-in'-Nam FAC aircraft based on a Strikemaster with a helo cabin front end, but it turns out it's too wide (the original idea of a Gazelle is too narrow), so it's got no plan ATM. Interestingly, it's exactly the same width as a Dauphin, and since 'everybody knows' that the early Dauphins were  way different from most of them, that raises the possibility of a JMN-baiting 'Dauphin prototype' model...

Another nice thing is that it has two engine options (SA316 & SA319). Since I already have a complete version of the kit, that means that however I build it up, I'll have three spare engines, with two of them identical.

[PR19_Kit]

1/72 Anigrand Martin SeaMaster

Now you've got TWO Seamasters? Wow.......... 

[Martin H]

Its amazing how tiring a show actually is even when its a local one 

Be interesting what you come up with for the Alouette III, as it certainly has whif potential, especially with a Sci-Fi twist.

Think it's more a matter of the getting up early...

I thought the Alouette might be good for an RAF-in'-Nam FAC aircraft based on a Strikemaster with a helo cabin front end, but it turns out it's too wide (the original idea of a Gazelle is too narrow), so it's got no plan ATM. Interestingly, it's exactly the same width as a Dauphin, and since 'everybody knows' that the early Dauphins were  way different from most of them, that raises the possibility of a JMN-baiting 'Dauphin prototype' model...

Another nice thing is that it has two engine options (SA316 & SA319). Since I already have a complete version of the kit, that means that however I build it up, I'll have three spare engines, with two of them identical.

Id say keep with the RAF/AAC FAC idea.
Give it the Dauphin main rotor set up. And rig it up like a Rhodesian gunship set up, they used either twin 303's or a single 20mm out of the side door.

[McColm]

1/72 Anigrand Martin SeaMaster

Now you've got TWO Seamasters? Wow.......... 

One more and I'll have a squadron! '

[kitnut617]

1/72 Anigrand Martin SeaMaster

Now you've got TWO Seamasters? Wow.......... 

Got an Anigrand one and a Combat Models one, both 1/72