Re: My stash just grew again (2017)

[TheChronicOne]

I just cracked open brew #2. I may wind up three sheets to the wind by the end of tonight meself! 

I shall be observing my post box with enthusiasm!! Your stuff is going out Monday. I got my Novemeber money a bit early so that helps!   

YAAA!! Coool... 
Dang i just finished a bottle of my boss' red called Dialog... yes, i'm talking to myself down here in the cave... all by myself...
Remeber Green Day's Dookie album? The hidden track... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8VXnvbc1c0

Not quite by yourself with the guitar playing dog?  18 guitar pics.   

Just me, my two dogs... the stinky ornery one I gave a bath to today and the geriatric 14 year old that can't decided if she wants to stay in or go out.  And mama.. all 86 years of her and, just as ornery as the dogs.   

As a side note... I see more often than you might think... pictures on Facebook of peoples' pets chewing up their model kits projects?!?!  Glad my dogs don't chew up my models. Glad mama doesn't either. 

[TheChronicOne]

Brad C.  Have you opened the Airfix Lightning?
I ask because some unscrupulous people have been known to fill older rarer kit boxes with a random selection of empty sprues (so they feel and rattle right) and then shrink wrap them feeling fairly safe in the fact that a collector will never rip off the plastic and devalue their purchase.
Which is why the first thing I do with a sealed kit is open it.

Those all in that post were ones I ordered that day. I don't normally post stuff here until it is in my hands but it was relevant at the time to the conversation. Y'all got me all tempted and wanting that kit.    Others were tag-alongs. Thanks for the advice.. I hadn't planned on it, but I'll crack it open when it gets here. I'm going to build it anyway so I don't quite care too much about the collectible value.

It's disappointing to me that in a hobby such as this, scumbags lurk. People stealing models.... people packing sprue-garbage into kit boxes... sheesh.   

[PR19_Kit]

The FROG Sea Vixen isn't too bad, it suffers a bit from quite thick moulding, and is apparently not that accurate, but this is WhiffWorld, right?

Yours is bound to be in better shape than the Novo kit from the same moulds as the flash level with be 1000% lower. I have one of each and you can hardly work out where the Novo parts end and the sprues begin, it's THAT bad. 

[TheChronicOne]

Holy crap, dude.. that's BAD!     Like a whole other airplane could be built with the flash trimmings.     My sea venom isn't like that, or the previous owner did away with it all at some point, but man the canopy could reflect bullets, FO SHO. 

One thing I noticed first about this thing was how friggin heavy it was... you ain't-a-lyin' about that thick plastic. Wow!! I guess it'll be stout. Also of note is this weird marble looking pattern on the surface as if it cooled down too rapidly or something. Thought that was a bit curious. Black plastic, too. Not got a whole lot of kits in blastic.

Wasn't all too bothered by the inaccuracies. Sometimes I AM and pass on a kit, but this thing was priced right and having seen the end result of a couple, I can live with it! Nose shape is wrong and a few other things but you're right... this is whif-world and in fact this is destined to be, I think, a USN bird. Some of that glorious late 50s, 60s, and early 70 stuff.... CAG bird with tons of colors and lil decorations and fancy fonts and stuff all over the place.

[McColm]

Won on eBay;
1/144 FResin Br.765 Sahara, been after one of those for ages. There's plenty of whiffing ideas in the engine department and on the military roles.
1/24 Lamborghini Diablo

[Weaver]

That Airfix Lightning was released in about 1973 from memory.  Wasn't factory sealing back then a couple of strips of sticky tape?

Good score though Brad C.

Distributor sealed then!      Like Hase kits (or a good sized portion of... if I seem to indicate that I'm saying ALL of them are, someone will surely show up to tell me that for 12 minutes on Saturday in 1984 they shrink wrapped four kits or something). They aren't sealed out of the factory and if one is found in shrink wrap, it was put on sometime after it left the factory.

I'm stoked to have it and I'm going to get the other versions as well so I can make a series of Lightnings. Most likely to be made real world, however. That's fine.. I'll get some duplicate kits at some point in the future and will make something nutty. 


I have to admit, though, I more stoked about the Bulldog (that livery!!  ) and that Welly. That Welly is supposed to be quite nice. I don't know much about them, myself, but the weird windows have always intrigued me and I've shot down a couple dozen in flight sim game so I've been looking for one for awhile now.

The Shooting Star is also a really nice kit.

Oh nice!!! I love them lil jets.    Good to know the kit is a winner. I haven't built a whole ton, but I've built enough to know that some of the old Airfix stuff builds up well, and some don't (Looking at you, F-5 Freedom Fighter!!  )   

I would still like to get my hands on the Platz T-33 with the patriotic livery, though. 

The Airfix Fouga Magister builds nicely too, although it's rather rivety.

I'm currently robbing bits from the Airfix Hs 126 and although I'm not actually building it, it certainly looks like a nice kit, to the point where I'll be acquiring another to replace this one at some show or other next year.

[rickshaw]

The FROG Sea Vixen isn't too bad, it suffers a bit from quite thick moulding, and is apparently not that accurate, but this is WhiffWorld, right?

The best Sea Vixen I know of is the High Planes one.  It can be built either as an FAW.1 or an FAW.2.  It is a typical low pressure, limited run model but is well worth the effort to make it apparently.  I have one in my stash.  It is still available but sans decal from High Planes in Singapore.  Not a real problem cause you can pick up third party Decal sheets from Evilbay reasonably cheaply.

[zenrat]

The FROG Sea Vixen isn't too bad, it suffers a bit from quite thick moulding, and is apparently not that accurate, but this is WhiffWorld, right?

The best Sea Vixen I know of is the High Planes one.  It can be built either as an FAW.1 or an FAW.2.  It is a typical low pressure, limited run model but is well worth the effort to make it apparently.  I have one in my stash.  It is still available but sans decal from High Planes in Singapore.  Not a real problem cause you can pick up third party Decal sheets from Evilbay reasonably cheaply.

And obviously none of us would use RW decals anyway.   

[Nick]

From yesterdays London Model Show I picked up two kits and a nice pair of pointy tweezers. My previous tweezers have a bent end where I dropped it.

Somehow I was persuaded by Narses that the AZmodels SR.53 was worth getting  so I succumbed. Looks good, quite simple, clearly just a reboxing of the prototype kit.

On the way in I saw some very cheap kits at Mr Models. Later I went back and got the MisterCraft AH-1G Cobra for a bargain £2.95. On comparison it is a low quality reboxing of the Matchbox kit from 1972. 

[NARSES2]

Couple of kits from yesterday's London Model Show, both 1/72.

AZ Curtiss Mohawk Mk III. I already have the H-75 boxing of this and it's a nice kit. I'm thinking RAF Desert AF ?

AZ Potez 540 Transport version. The box clearly says " Heller/SMER parts with new alternative plastic parts" so I asked the guy if I could have a peak inside the box. Well all the sprues are bagged separately and someone has done an excellent job of cleaning them up. If you didn't know, you'd think it was a new tool  Anyway either a Vichy French bomber in the France/Thailand War or RAF/Free French air ambulance in Egypt ?

[chrisonord]

Today arrived an impulse buy 1/72nd scale zvesda Iskander-M SS-26 stone. Very nice kit as per Zvesda, are you listening modelsvit??!
The vehicle will be one of 4 thought to have been purchased via 3rd parties by the Cartel, and as such, caused the mother of all S***storms within the Honduras government and the U.S congress. Each Iskander has a very large bounty on its head,and all operatives within Nicaragua will have their work cut out finding these vehicles
Chris

[Rheged]

The FROG Sea Vixen isn't too bad, it suffers a bit from quite thick moulding, and is apparently not that accurate, but this is WhiffWorld, right?

The best Sea Vixen I know of is the High Planes one.  It can be built either as an FAW.1 or an FAW.2.  It is a typical low pressure, limited run model but is well worth the effort to make it apparently.  I have one in my stash.  It is still available but sans decal from High Planes in Singapore.  Not a real problem cause you can pick up third party Decal sheets from Evilbay reasonably cheaply.

I shall bear this sage  advice in mind if I ever finish the Fleet Air Arm Javelin Triton that started out as a refugee from Bungle's stash reduction. I was wondering about an RAF Vixen to accompany it.

[ericr]

And obviously none of us would use RW decals anyway.   

certainly not me 

[Thorvic]

I shall bear this sage  advice in mind if I ever finish the Fleet Air Arm Javelin Triton that started out as a refugee from Bungle's stash reduction. I was wondering about an RAF Vixen to accompany it.

The RAF Vixen would be quite tasty in the same All Weather interceptor role 

[Dizzyfugu]

An Italeri 1:72 Do 217 K-1. Basically I was/am after the engines, as donor transplants for a potential "Amphibian" GB project.