Re: My stash just grew again (2017)

[TheChronicOne]

I think my backwards take on the question stemmed from video games, to be honest. I'm probably over-thinking the whole thing but cartoons, TV shows, and movies all would seem to apply, too. Using a recent example... Strobez's magnificent Studio Ghibli Projects; if they were not altered in some way, would they still be "what if" and qualify for the SFGB? My own Ferengi ship... it's fictional, and, at some point was "What if" but if I had built it as a stock Ferengi Marauder as depicted in the show, would that be a "what if" or did it only become a "what if" when I changed it to a Starfleet ship?

My simplistic take, and many would disagree, is that anything that isn't real CAN/COULD be classed as a Wif. Sci-Fi and Fantasy are merely sub sections of the genre. However others might well say that "What If" modelling is in fact a sub section of those genres - you pay your money and take your choice   

Anyway from the BIG H a IBG PZL-23 

Love it... I think I'm going to adopt this position as mine as well. Lots of options and wiggle room this way! 

Got in a really nice looking kit today. AMK's L 29 Delfin.

My first AMK kit. It sure looks nice!! The paint job on the box art sold me. It's like some Ukranian air show plane or some such "aerclcub" livery from 2010.



Transfer sheet is awesome..  version for 5 different planes so I have a slew of extra roundels and stuff for other projects. 


EDIT: Oh man, I got to take a closer look at this thing yesterday and do some reading up on the kit. This thing is glorious!!!!

Detailed cockpits
Detailed ejection seats
Positionable canopies
Positionable leading edge flaps
Positionable Fowler flaps
Photo-etched details in the flap wells
Positionable rudder
Positionable elevators
Positionable speed brakes
Detailed landing gear and wheel wells
Positionable nose bay door

And for some reason (I suppose it was just cheaper and more efficient to do it this way) , it came with two identical sprues... the ones that contain the wheels, seats, fuel tanks, antennas, and other things. Some of the stuff there are the right number of (like one fuel tank per each sprue) but a lot of the other stuff wind up being extras.

This is going to be a lot of fun to build when I get to it in 2024. 

[rickshaw]

Wasn't built, Chris.  It is a Whiff-Panzer from the get go.  It was an attempt to use up light production capacity that Skoda had at the end of the war and find a continued use for the 38(t) chassis.

Ah, that explains it. Cheers mate 

Strangely it looks "early" war rather than "late" war to me. The front of the superstructure in particular reminds me of an early Stug III, just has that feel about it.

It was a late war design though, where they simplified the manufacture as much as possible - in this case they just built up a superstructure and put a gun which might be useful to the recce units.  It couldn't traverse very far and it had the square armoured cover over the recuperaters, which was a common trait to the L/24 75mm gun.

[NARSES2]

It was a late war design though, where they simplified the manufacture as much as possible - in this case they just built up a superstructure and put a gun which might be useful to the recce units.  It couldn't traverse very far and it had the square armoured cover over the recuperaters, which was a common trait to the L/24 75mm gun.

I thought the square covers were similar to those on one of the armoured cars (I refuse to get involved the number jungle  )

[Chris Payne]

Just back from a local model shop with a couple of additions to the stash.
Airfix 1/72 Canberra B.(I)8 x2

[Thorvic]

From the Glasgow Show yesterday:-

Matchbox Westland Wessex,
AMK Kifr (yes its very nice)
Hasegawa F-111D/F
Fujimi KV-107

I picked up a Counter Invader for Snow Trooper as a holy grail kit

And my special buy

Coastal Craft 1/72 Fairmile D MTB 730 - this is the fully booted and suited version of this kit with fore and aft 6 pounder guns, Twin 20mm, the twin Vickers tubs and 4 18 in torpedo tubes. This was the one I wanted when I first saw Martin Blundell creating the first coastal craft kits some years ago but had to wait for this version too appear, and sadly I was unable to pick it up last year. Its a long term project as Resin, White Metal and Etch so wont be started for a year or two.

[ChernayaAkula]

Recent additions to my stash:

Amodel 1/72 AS-9 Kyle - 2 big missiles + carts
AZ Model 1/72 AH-1G Cobra - for a fiver, sans decals - good deal, I think!
Eduard 1/72 Mi-24 Hind Czech Combo - my third Czech Dual Combo and Zvezda Hinds No. 15 and 16 respectively 
Hobbycraft  1/72 Sabre Mk. 6 - there's no such things as too many Sabres!
Kitech 1/72 AH-1Z Viper -  pretty cheap. Donor kit for some radically different AH-1 Super Cobra.
Mach2 1/72  AS-550 Fennec Danish Army - my first Mach 2 kit. Surely they can't be THAT horrible, now, can they? Yes.  They.  Can. 
Modelsvit 1/72 Yak-140 - idea is to build a production version of this, possibly with some AAMs
Plastyk 1/72 HH-3 Jolly Grean Giant - horrible kit, but maybe good fuselage donor for an American Hind-ish conversion.
Revell/Italeri 1/72 AH-1W Super Cobra - came started, but with the updated exhausts - cheap!
Special Hobby 1/72 Spitfire Mk.21 contra-prop - on sale at a tenner, I got this one for all the spare parts included in this release - props, canopies, radiators, underwing stores,...

Revell 1/118 Martin PBM Mariner - the plan is to use it as a basis for a scale-o-arama 1/72 fighter/fighter-bomber

TAKOM 1/35 AML-90 - gorgeous little kit.

Just back from a local model shop with a couple of additions to the stash.
Airfix 1/72 Canberra B.(I)8 x2

Score! 

[The Wooksta!]

Just snaffled on ebay:

Eduard Spitfire mk IX triple combo "Czech The Boys are Back" boxing.  40 notes and free postage.  The one I have cost me 51 notes and TBH, is a bargain at that price anyway, given the HUGE decal sheet in it

[Dizzyfugu]

My fourth Heller 1:72 He 112 (for the stash at the moment) and a Trumpeter (Modelcollect) 1:72 E-50 MBT with an 88mm gun, both ebay wins.

[Howard of Effingham]

the postman has just called with a box from Bungle....

one off 1/72 Matchbox F-101 voodoo.

let the butchery commence! cheers Bungle

[McColm]

1/72 Airfix AC-130H, 1/72 BAC Concorde.

[Snowtrooper]

I picked up a Counter Invader for Snow Trooper as a holy grail kit

So, should we start negotiating over PM?

[Snowtrooper]

Haven't updated my spree for a while, so here goes. All 1/72 unless otherwise mentioned.

From BtS:
Italeri SR-71 Blackbird - non-whiffed. May use the D-21 drone elsewhere...
Testors/Fujimi U.S. Navy Deck Crew & Fire Engine - more bystanders for the "you can be my wingman anytime" diorama in The Plan

From Kingkit:
Airfix F-15E Strike Eagle - EF-15G Wild Weasel, with ALQ-99's and Sta1/9 activated (yes I know it's a B with an extra sprue, see if I care)
Italeri EA-6A Wild Weasel - non-whiffed (yes, I know I have to extend the radome by 3mm or so, but the more accurate Fujimi would have cost twice as much)
Italeri F-4G Phantom Wild Weasel - European One wraparound or Hill camo, that is the question. Probably the former as it's rarely seen on fast movers.
Revell 1/100 Easykit A-10 Thunderbolt - scale-o-rama'd into SAAB B3LM

From local modeling forum:
Revell 1/144 White Knight & SpaceShipTwo: acquired mainly for the Virgin Galactic decals going to the TSR.2 commercial satellite launcher (based on the Stratos 4 MS boxing), but the rest? Should I make an exception to my preferred scale and scratch the SS2 and scale-o-rama the D-21 drone (see above) into 1:144 (or even smaller) stealthy orbital vehicle and give the mothership USAF markings?

From local almost-as-evilbay:
Hasegawa RF-101C Voodoo - non-whiffed
Italeri YF-12A The Thing - spice it up with "operational" squadron markings? Also a nice lesson, always check local sites first: I had barely finished lamenting how on evilbay these things were precious indeed if they even came to sale, and then came across a bargain

From evilbay:
Academy F-15E Strike Eagle - two Popeyes (from Skunkworks Israeli weapons set) under the wings, centreline datalink,  four SLAM's in fuselage pylons, Sta1/9 activated (yes I know it's a D with an extra sprue, I still don't care)
Academy F-8E "U.S. Marines" - non-whiffed (mainly to get the twin Zuni tubes so I can copy them for other projects)
Hasegawa EA-6B Prowler x 2 - mainly for the ALQ-99 pods, of which there are 10: one goes to "In HARM's Way" (w/ 2 gasbags and 2 HARM's), one to a "War on Terror" whif (ALQ, gasbag, SLAR from OV-1 Mohawk, Litening pod, SDB rack), the rest go to EF-111B, SAAB 37G Wild Wiggen, EA-18B Electric Hornet, EF-15G Electric Eagle
Hasegawa Europe Aircraft Weapons Set - for various projects
Hasegawa Kawasaki T-4 (earlier mould) - SAAB B3LA
Italeri AV-8B Super Harrier - yes, I know it's an inaccurate early kit but well suitable for the purpose I have for it - nose goes to the weird A/B hybrid from the Mercs video game (tail end from a GR.3), tail goes to a fictional "GR.5 prototype" (nose from a GR.3) in Raspberry Ripple
Italeri AV-8B Night Attack Harrier - USMC, desert camo, slightly earlier timeframe to get it to Gulf War I
Italeri Jaguar T.2 - Luftwaffe: in my whiffverse, to reduce the accident rate their fast jet crews were also trained in Europe before moving on to type training, not just sunny US Southwest
Kinetic F-16D Block 52+ - VPAF F-16V in "snake" camo and loaded with cluster bombs, CFT's go to the F-16XL-based "F-16I". The boxing handily comes with the half of the Skunkworks US/NATO Modern Weapons Set which can be utilized elsewhere...
Monogram B-1B - will get a Sniper pod and War on Terror decals, but what to do to those ALCM's? 8 go of course to the Testors B-2A, for the rest I could build a second weapons bay and CSRL, but by not doing that I could put them on planes they don't belong to!
Monogram EF-111A Raven - whiffed "B" model with two extra ALQ's and two HARM's

[Thorvic]

The Italeri YVA-8B can be handy for Harrier projects especially the AV-16 as it has the original double row of intake blow in doors and can be mated with some careful cutting to the Italeri Sea Harrier FRS1 fwd fuselage

[Thorvic]

I picked up a Counter Invader for Snow Trooper as a holy grail kit

So, should we start negotiating over PM?

Yes that would be fine 

[Dizzyfugu]

Several German tank project models in 1:72 from Trumpeter/Modelcollect:
- E-50 MBT with 105 mm gun
- E-100 Weapon Carrier w/128mm Gun
- VK.45.02(P)V
- VK.45.02(P)H