My stash just grew again (2016)

[NARSES2]

Re the "new" Tamiya wavy line tape. All the magazine reports I've seen are good, but they do tend to be 1/48 or larger.

I think it's the thickness of the stuff that is making me slightly ambivalent about it ? Be very interested to see/hear what others think 

Anyway not an addition to the stash but got my usual "Legends of WWII" calendar for 2017 this morning. This years collection of superb action paintings are :-

Jan - Beaufighter attacking a Freighter
Feb - New Zealand P-40
Mar - RAF Harvard
Apr - Martinet
May - Oxford
Jun - Sea Otter in the sunset/rise
Jul - Sunderland moored in the early war dark earth/green scheme
Aug - Swordfish in a Channel Dash scene
Sep - Tiger Moth
Oct - Whitley
Nov - Tempest V
Dec - Gladiator

2018 dates - Spitfire VIII

[Hobbes]

I stopped by my new LHS yesterday. Got an Airfix Comet plus some paint.

[proditor]

From Squadron and Free Time Hobbies:

1/700 USS Gato - Hobby Boss
1/700 Type VII U-Boat - Hobby Boss
1/48 A-10 Warthog - Tamiya
1/48 BELL OH-13S SIOUX - Italeri

[Chris Payne]

My birthday prezzie from the missus finally arrived today.

Airfix 1/72 Handley Page Victor B.Mk.2(BS)

[PR19_Kit]

All these folks talking about Airfix Victors....

What's the kit like then, and what's its Whiffing potential?

[Thorvic]

Finally got the AlleyCat Shackleton T4 conversion for the Airfix kit today

Plus I managed to snag a Revell 1/700 USS Independence light carrier which had two kits in the box  and a Tamiya 1/700 USS Bogue escort carrier.

[Martin H]

From todays Hamex swapmeet.
and all 2nd hand.

72nd scale
two Hasegawa Vipers (F-16A ADF "Veltro51" and F-16B+ "Flight test Center".

1/144th
Novo Vickers super VC-10. At such a knocked down price it would have been rude not to rehome it.

[Dizzyfugu]

In the pipeline: an Airfix 1:72 Venom T.11 trainer for a conversion project, and, following the tip of a friend, in a LMS I snatched an Airfix 1:72 BAe Hawk (Red Arrows anniversary edition) for less than EUR 4,-, probably as kitbashing fodder. The Red Arrows markings might find a good use elsewhere, though...

[Old Wombat]

OK, weird purchases for me today;


Aircraft in the scale of Mordor ... 1/72!

Italeri B-58 Hustler
Airfix Catalina PBY-5A
Airfix SAAB Draken
Airfix  BAC Jaguar GR.1
Airfix NA RA-5C Vigilante
Zvezda Mil Mi-28A Havoc*
Hasegawa Kfir C2*
Hasegawa Mirage F.1C*
LEE Kamov Ka-50 Hokum
ACE Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot
Idea Mil Mi-24 Hind-E

Plus a few tools & paint brushes, etc., from a bloke selling off his stash in nearby Hahndorf for $160 (excluding the extras, that's about $14.55 each - not bad, really).

Most of these will be built as RAN, Army or RAAF aircraft from my Royal Australian Marines alt. time-line. Others may be built OoB or become parts donors for other builds.

* = sealed in plastic (but not for much longer)

[Army of One]

Oooh.......my fave 3 attack helo's in one buy.....and a glorious hard as nails soviet mud mover....great buys.....be interested to see how they turn out n what weapons you use......

[Rick Lowe]

From Old Models Decals (at the last IPMS meeting for the year):
1/144 Kiwi Pacific Corsair Roundel transfers... not for a Corsair, though... 
(I've had the whif on the go since before this time last year but glad I held off completion until these existed.)

I recently used a set of John's RNZAF Boing 727 markings and I'm really impressed. These things turn out to be relatively Rick-Proof, which is a good thing... 

Cheers

[The Wooksta!]

Finally got the AlleyCat Shackleton T4 conversion for the Airfix kit today

Still waiting for mine, although I'm tempted with an operational version of the prototype, with the nose barbettes, tail turret and type C markings.

[The Rat]

All these folks talking about Airfix Victors....

What's the kit like then, and what's its Whiffing potential?

Leafy roundels?    http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal10/9401-9500/gal9434-ZAP-Bailey/01m.jpg

[Dizzyfugu]

I wonder how this combo would look like in all-over ADC Grey and with e red-and-white cheatline?

[Librarian]

Tamiya N1K1-Sa Gekko

Hasegawa N1K2-J Shidenkai

Hobbycraft P-26 USAAC

Airfix Ju 87B/R

All 1/48...got oh-so-many ideas fermenting in the nugget