Re: My stash just grew again (2017)

[The Wooksta!]

Better to get a new tool Airfix F2a or F6 than cobble together the abysmal Matchbox or antediluvian Airfix F3.  The investment will repay itself with a far superior result.

[PR19_Kit]

Doesn't someone do a resin small size belly tank to convert the new Airfix F2A to an F3?

It may have been Odds and Ordnance before they sold their stuff though.

[Thorvic]

Doesn't someone do a resin small size belly tank to convert the new Airfix F2A to an F3?

It may have been Odds and Ordnance before they sold their stuff though.

http://www.alleycatmodels.co.uk/early-english-electric-lightning-conversion-for-f1-and-f3-new-f2a-airfix-kit-6376-p.asp

It was AlleyCat who did the conversion

Although Sword do the F-3 as a kit

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SW72082

[Snowtrooper]

Better to get a new tool Airfix F2a or F6 than cobble together the abysmal Matchbox or antediluvian Airfix F3.  The investment will repay itself with a far superior result.

The thing is, I have two Mbox single-seaters (plus possibly salvageable remains of further two) and one two-seater, one Early Triassic Airfix, and one Trumpeter in the stash, and all together I paid less for them than I would have to pay for a single new tool Airfix. Even if they eventually get built they're not going to be show-quality models anyway, so unless I run into some REALLY cheap new-tool Airfix and would suddenly have an inspiration what to build of it beyond what's in The Plan*, this is going to be it.

*) non-whiffed Tiger Squadron F.6, non-whiffed F.2A, GR.3B Lightning Strike, FRS.7 Sea Lightning in Aeronavale markings (Su-17 wings instead of the "real" VG wings with bits and bobs from a MiG-23 thrown in the mix too), F.8 (single-engine variant, using Su-17 fuselage and the leftover Lightning wings), F.6A (modernized version in late-80's laodout)

[Martin H]

Doesn't someone do a resin small size belly tank to convert the new Airfix F2A to an F3?

It may have been Odds and Ordnance before they sold their stuff though.

http://www.alleycatmodels.co.uk/early-english-electric-lightning-conversion-for-f1-and-f3-new-f2a-airfix-kit-6376-p.asp

It was AlleyCat who did the conversion

And its a pig to instal. Ive done it twice now and each time ive had to butcher the resin to get it to fit.

[McColm]

Another 1/72 Hasegawa Shinmiew PS-1/
US-2 flying boat
Donor for the HP Sea Victor build.

[Gondor]

Received today from Leading Observers stash reduction

1 x 1/72 Matchbox BAe Hawk 200 

Gondor

[TheChronicOne]

Cool!! Those a neat lil airplanes. I have that same kit in my meager stash. 

[Thorvic]

Picked up another Airfix Puma off ebay, although not the last version boxing that I would like, also got some more decals from Hannants for RN helicopters (modeldecal Wessex, model art Merlin and SAR Seakings)

[McColm]

1/72 Heller Lockheed C-121 MATS
1/72 Hasegawa Lockheed P-3C update II

[chrisonord]

Today on a car park somewhere in an East Lancastrian town 2 dubious looking characters did a dodgy looking deal, involving a bag full of Humbrol enamel paints and a 1/72nd scale Mirage III BZ.
Cheers H
Chris

[McColm]

Won on eBay;
1/72 resin Rockwell B-1B jet exhaust pipes flared.
1/72 FlightPath RB-47H conversion set.

[PR19_Kit]

1/72 FlightPath RB-47H conversion set.

That's a good find, it's a cracking conversion. 

I've had one 'in build' for over 20 yrs now, and it's STILL nowhere near done. 

[Squizzette]

Recently arrived from Wombats Stash Rationalisation.

1/72 Italeri Piasecki H-21C Shawnee (Flying Banana).
I thought this might WHIF to a simple RAAF lifter.

1/48 Tamiya Douglas F4D-1 Skyray.
Now this may be for my first ever WHIF I think. Always loved the shape of the Skyray so I have a thought of re-scaling it to a 1/72 two-seat RAAF strike aircraft. Maybe like an early idea similar to the later F-16XL.

Squizz

[Old Wombat]

Neat!

Glad they arrived safe & are going to be used wisely.