My stash just grew again (2016)

[Bungle]

Been very remiss in not broadcasting my recent purchases but hopefully this will make up for lost time.

'We' (SWMBO and myself) recently got a little inheritance which 'we' have decided to spend on gutting the bathroom and putting a walk-in shower etc etc. 'We' have also decided to call in the professionals as I still haven't finished the kitchen I started two (three?) years ago.

Anyway there's money left over with the generous budget so 'we' decided to split the difference and spend it on ourselves. She surprisingly decided to buy more Swarovski Crystal rather than adding to the huge collection of shoes, me I was boring I bought models !

All 1/72 scale

Grumman JRF-5 Goose         AZ Models   Ebay
de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2      Cyber Hobby   Ebay   
Hawker Hartbeeste            Kora      On-line Shop
EFW C-3603 SCHLEPP         Kora      On-line Shop
Blackburn Ripon mk.II         Kora      On-line Shop
Saab B-18A                    Kora      On-line Shop
Yakolev YAK-54           AModel      On-line Shop
Folland Gnat F Mk.I               Special Hobby   On-line Shop
Hawker Hunter T.8M        ProResin      On-line Shop
Commonwealth CA-25 Winjeel  Cmr      On-line Shop      
De Havilland DH 104 Dove     Vami      On-line Shop  (£8 !)
Blackburn Botha Mk.I        PH Models   On-line Shop
Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor Sky-High      On-line Shop
Beriev Be-12 Chayka       Modelsvit      HobbyTerra
Douglas AD-5W Skyraider    Skale Wings   HobbyTerra
Henschel HS 123 B-1       Avis              HobbyTerra
Hunting Provost          S&M Models   KingKit   
BAC Jet Provost T.MK.5       Sword      KingKit
Douglas Skyray          Airfix      KingKit
Pilatus PC-21                  MPK              Ebay.de  (a Swiss manufacturer I've not come across before)
Saab 105                    Marivox      Ebay.de
Tai Hurkus-A                 Tanmodel      Ebay.de  (New Turkish manufacturer)
North American F-86K              Special Hobby   Ebay
Hawker Typhoon IB(new tool)   Airfix              Ebay
Vickers Vildebeest Mk. IV      Special Hobby   Ebay
Fairey Barracuda Mk.III      Special Hobby   Ebay

[Weaver]

Thanks to Home Bargains, I now have more Spitfires than I can shake a stick at.  I doubt I'll have to buy any more Airfix ones for at least 3 years, even at my somewhat prodigious build rate...

Pull the other one - You had that many Spitfires before the Home Bargains clearance sale !!!!!  , They just gave you a good reason to really over stock instead 

The frightening factor however is with the hundreds of Spitfires you have in stock you probably have build ideas for ALL of them (or a combination of multiple kits in some cases ! ) 

True. 'More Spitfires that Lee can shake a stick at' is like one of those discussions about which infinity is bigger than some other infinity...

[Leading Observer]

Bungle - I read through your list and I had to look up the TAI Harkus-A, as I'd never heard of it. New Turkish  trainer. What are your plans for it?

[NARSES2]

  Except Consett. 

Another place decimated when the steel works shut down  Used to be a reasonable place when I used to visit while it was open.

[NARSES2]

Been very remiss in not broadcasting my recent purchases but hopefully this will make up for lost time.

'We' (SWMBO and myself) recently got a little inheritance which 'we' have decided to spend on gutting the bathroom and putting a walk-in shower etc etc. 'We' have also decided to call in the professionals as I still haven't finished the kitchen I started two (three?) years ago.

Anyway there's money left over with the generous budget so 'we' decided to split the difference and spend it on ourselves. She surprisingly decided to buy more Swarovski Crystal rather than adding to the huge collection of shoes, me I was boring I bought models !

All 1/72 scale

Some nice stuff in the list mate  Should keep you going for a while 

Re the shoes. There's an upscale apartment for sale in London which has a special room designed to hold a minimum of 500 pairs of shoes  If you fancy it, it's being sold by Harrods estate agency 

[PR19_Kit]

Re the shoes. There's an upscale apartment for sale in London which has a special room designed to hold a minimum of 500 pairs of shoes  If you fancy it, it's being sold by Harrods estate agency 

Only 500? Nowhere near large enough if she's like many women I know of................ 

[Bungle]

Bungle - I read through your list and I had to look up the TAI Harkus-A, as I'd never heard of it. New Turkish  trainer. What are your plans for it?

No idea at present. Just saw it and grabbed it. I'm buying a lot of two seater 'trainers' at the moment so I think I'll probably do a real world trainer fest. Must admit I did a double take, didn't know Turkeys could fly !

[Bungle]

Re the shoes. There's an upscale apartment for sale in London which has a special room designed to hold a minimum of 500 pairs of shoes  If you fancy it, it's being sold by Harrods estate agency 

Only 500? Nowhere near large enough if she's like many women I know of................ 

Probably cater for her leisure wear, formal and work wear would probably take up the rest of the apartment and then there's the sandles and not forgetting the boots she uses on me when the Credit Card statement arrives.

[Knightflyer]

Well after following all the discussion on here I have now managed to hit one of my local Home Bargain stores

On the shelves - Spitfires 19s, Spitfire 22s, Typhoons 1bs , Dauntlesses and starter kit FW 190s

Left the store with 2 x 19s, 2 x 22s and 2 x Typhoons - I'll definitely be disposing of old Airfix Typhoons and MPM Mk19s

Thought - if a Wooksta is declared the SI unit for a large but finite number of Spitfire kits, do the rest of us have nano, micro or possibly milliWookstas of Spitfire kits in our collections?

[PR19_Kit]

Thought - if a Wooksta is declared the SI unit for a large but finite number of Spitfire kits, do the rest of us have nano, micro or possibly milliWookstas of Spitfire kits in our collections?

Nah, we're all down in the pico-Wookstas range, maybe even femto-Wookstas! 

[Green Dragon]

Bungle - I read through your list and I had to look up the TAI Harkus-A, as I'd never heard of it. New Turkish  trainer. What are your plans for it?

No idea at present. Just saw it and grabbed it. I'm buying a lot of two seater 'trainers' at the moment so I think I'll probably do a real world trainer fest. Must admit I did a double take, didn't know Turkeys could fly !

When you get hold of the Hurkas could you tell us what the quality is like? They are currently working on the CAD for a 1/72nd Buccaneer. Their 1/48th RF-84 looks great in photos. Only kit I have of theirs is the 1/48th F-5A that was never a fully finished tool but was released by Tiger Hobbies which is kinda clunky!

Paul Harrison

[Leading Observer]

not forgetting the boots she uses on me when the Credit Card statement arrives.

Don't get me started on the boots

[Weaver]

Hit the Home Bargains in Edgeley, Stockport, Droylesden, Clayton and Ashton today. Not very rich pickings: only one had resupplied, and that looked like a 'scraping the bottom of the barrel' job not a big box of nice, shiney kits. it did give me a chance to pick up four Ki-46 Dinahs, which I missed the frist time around, though.

No Spit Mk.I/IIs I'm afraid Lee. I might get out tomorrow, but Thursday is more likely. I'll try the two stores in Oldham which I havn't been to at all yet (hate Oldham, driving-wise).Whether I'll get a chance to do any others I don't know.

[The Wooksta!]

I'll definitely be disposing of old Airfix Typhoons and MPM Mk19s

Depending on which MPM 19 it is, you may be better off keeping it.  If it's the boxed one, their original, off to ebay with it but don't expect to get much. 

If it's their second, the bagged one that went in the Airfix BBMF Millenium set, hang onto it.  It's retooled using the Fujimi 14/19 as a basis for the fuselage with their own PRXI wing sprue.  A nice kit to build in it's own right and IMO as good as the Airfix kit, although the vac canopies have usually yellowed by now.

Weaver, if you can't find any more, don't worry about it.  I'm just being greedy.

Nice to know my stash is provoking some physics debate.

[PR19_Kit]

Nice to know my stash is provoking some physics debate.

Probably in places far removed from here too. It's almost a physical entity in its own right.