My stash just grew again (2016)

[The Wooksta!]

From ebay:

Revell Spitfire mk IIa (new tool)
Eduard Spitfire mk IXc Early

[Knightflyer]

Yesterday

Revell Wellington Mk.II
and
Revell Merlin HMA.1

both from the Birmingham Ian Allan Bookshop (again!) and both £10 each

[NARSES2]

Revell Spitfire mk IIa (new tool)

So what's the verdict on it ? You have a few now

1/72 Fujimi Mitsubishi A5M4 Hayabusa

Nice kit

[The Wooksta!]

Verdict on the Revell new tool?  Accurate shape let down by vile wheels, incorrect canopy, incorrect u/c doors, awful prop, wrong ailerons (metal when they should be fabric for mk II), incorrect oil cooler, wrong shape radiator. 

Basically, it's a Va, not a IIa but you have to fix so many bits (using spares from an Airfix IIa built as the early mk I -0 and even then, you can't fix them all!) that you're better off just getting the Airfix kit and not having to faff about.

I have five now, and that's four too many...

[Dizzyfugu]

That Pikachu is the first kit my wife ever built! The ears wiggle when you move the head. He's not too big.

Oh, with special effects!? 

[NARSES2]

Verdict on the Revell new tool?  Accurate shape let down by vile wheels, incorrect canopy, incorrect u/c doors, awful prop, wrong ailerons (metal when they should be fabric for mk II), incorrect oil cooler, wrong shape radiator. 

Basically, it's a Va, not a IIa but you have to fix so many bits (using spares from an Airfix IIa built as the early mk I -0 and even then, you can't fix them all!) that you're better off just getting the Airfix kit and not having to faff about.

I have five now, and that's four too many...

Cheers Lee, I won't bother, but it does beg the question why do you have 5 ?

[kitbasher]

Verdict on the Revell new tool?  Accurate shape let down by vile wheels, incorrect canopy, incorrect u/c doors, awful prop, wrong ailerons (metal when they should be fabric for mk II), incorrect oil cooler, wrong shape radiator. 

Basically, it's a Va, not a IIa but you have to fix so many bits (using spares from an Airfix IIa built as the early mk I -0 and even then, you can't fix them all!) that you're better off just getting the Airfix kit and not having to faff about.

I have five now, and that's four too many...

Cheers Lee, I won't bother, but it does beg the question why do you have 5 ?

Tis whifworld, Chris - Brother Wooksta will build 5 OOB whifs that assume the numerous kit faults are real world design features 

[PR19_Kit]

They're cheaper in bulk. 

[Thorvic]

A pair of Hobby Boss USS Momsen DDG-92 Arleigh Burke IIA Destroyers in 1/700, from Creative Models via eBay.

Looking to use one as the basis for the hull of a new RN Type 26 Frigate  in 2017, the other may follow r may be built as it.

[The Wooksta!]

Cheers Lee, I won't bother, but it does beg the question why do you have 5 ?

I  ordered 3 from Uncle Frank but couldn't resist the first one on ebay.  Got number 5 as part of a lot with the Eduard 9.

[zenrat]

How big (or small) is the Pikachu model?  I have some 1:6 figure models at home, and I wonder how the ...thing's relative size might be?

It'll stand about 4" tall when completed.  I was guessing with 1/6 scale as none is given on the box but from the cartoons a Pikachu is about the size of a large cat so that seems about right.