More found kits....

[Bungle]

Fifty quid is a bit steep.  Sorry.    How about just the Neptune?

Frustrating isn't it. To send the Neptune by Airmail comes in at £14.05 which doesn't make sense really two kits together (and over their size limit) £50+ but you could send the two individually for £28 ! What a way to run a business. Anyway if you want just the Neptune lets say £30 all in.

There is one other option - going by sea estimated 84 days for delivery thats £8.50. If you can wait that long call it £24.

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

No time wasted - your wife,  does she have a twin.... living in the UK owns lots of shoes and calls her husbands hobby an 'obsession' ? 

[zenrat]

I thought they'd stopped the surface mail service?  I'd wait that long.  It would make the eventual arrival of the kit a nice surprise.

Nope surface mail is still offered by Royal Mail. I assume it's by sea but you never know given there's now a freight rail service between the UK and China.

The last kit I sent to you by surface went by air anyway, given the time it took. Royal Mail must have felt sorry for it 

I wish I could claim it was the result of professional courtesy. 
There is no reciprocal surface service.  i guess the ships never return?

[rickshaw]

Fifty quid is a bit steep.  Sorry.    How about just the Neptune?

Frustrating isn't it. To send the Neptune by Airmail comes in at £14.05 which doesn't make sense really two kits together (and over their size limit) £50+ but you could send the two individually for £28 ! What a way to run a business. Anyway if you want just the Neptune lets say £30 all in.

There is one other option - going by sea estimated 84 days for delivery thats £8.50. If you can wait that long call it £24.

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

No time wasted - your wife,  does she have a twin.... living in the UK owns lots of shoes and calls her husbands hobby an 'obsession' ?

Well, she was born in the UK.  Perhaps your wife was an abandoned twin when my wife migrated to Oz?   

[PR19_Kit]

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

Have you decreed 'No more handbags or shoes!' in return Brian? What's good for the goose etc...............

[Rheged]

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

Have you decreed 'No more handbags or shoes!' in return Brian? What's good for the goose etc...............

This makes me realise how lucky I am.   Madame R and I each draw £50 a month from our main joint account. That's our pocket money and we can spend it on whatever we want without comment by the other partner.  Larger expenditure usually uses birthday/Christmas money.  Madame has even said that I can spend my first ever week's old age pension on "books, models, single malt or anything else that takes my fancy"   

[rickshaw]

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

Have you decreed 'No more handbags or shoes!' in return Brian? What's good for the goose etc...............

No,  I value my conjugal rights too much, Kit!   

Anyway, she is a professional Philosopher.  She has no interest in such frippery.  She just likes the occasional book...

[Leading Observer]

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

Have you decreed 'No more handbags or shoes!' in return Brian? What's good for the goose etc...............

No,  I value my conjugal rights too much, Kit!   

Anyway, she is a professional Philosopher.  She has no interest in such frippery.  She just likes the occasional book...

Normally I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories, but in this case I am convinced that the distaff side have been colluding [to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent] to prevent us spending on our hobby, as SWMBO here has issued an almost identical decree

[Snowtrooper]

Hmm. Testors B-2.

Even if a miracle happened and I happened to build it, there is no practical way to display a 1/72 B-2 anywhere. However, it does have those delicious AGM-69 SRAM shapes, the only ones of their kind in that scale and in styrene (ignoring Ozmods resin copies thereof). Oh well, postage to Finland would probably kill the idea even if it was possible to package it to weigh under the magic 2kg limit. Or would it?

Of course, if someone else here would like to have the rest of the kit but still be willing to part with the SRAM's...

Have to say its a big kit the box is 50x30x10cm and actually that is spot on the Royal Mail limit. So with only internal packing and a brown paper outer this could go for £8.80 Air mail. A Courier if you want it sturdly boxed on the outside would cost £14.00.

Plus I would like £30 for the kit seeing as its going for between £45 and £60 on evil bay.

Let me know how you feel.

Have you ever considered a career in sales? At that price, I must simply invest in a larger storageroom than what the apartment block has to offer Also, I like to live dangerously, so let's see if the Royal Mail accepts it and delivers it in one piece. Though, I've had sprues in a bubblewrap envelope come through intact while a sturdy box often seems to invite the ire of a herd of rabid elephants

Joking aside, packages through mail usually arrive to me in better shape than those through couriers, and of course the sturdier the box, the larger the temptation to stack things on it until it starts to fail.

PM sent.

[Bungle]

I'll mark the box EXPLOSIVES Handle very carefully. My son used to be a postie and a fragile sticker was like red flag to a bull. Crunch !

Kit being carefully wrapped.

[Weaver]

Oh the single life for me, the single life for meeeee.....

I just had a courier deliver something (not a kit) to the wrong address: the one that used to be mapped to my postcode before Ordnance Survey fixed it, oh, seven or eight years ago now, and it gradually died off. hasn't happened for a ges now:  guess the low rates don't let them pay for satnav updates...

[zenrat]

Sorry, it appears SWMBO has decreed, "no more kits!"  I am sorry to have wasted your time, mate.  I'd like a Neptune but it appears other people have other plans for my hard earned sheckels...   

Have you decreed 'No more handbags or shoes!' in return Brian? What's good for the goose etc...............

No,  I value my conjugal rights too much, Kit!   

Anyway, she is a professional Philosopher.  She has no interest in such frippery.  She just likes the occasional book...

Normally I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories, but in this case I am convinced that the distaff side have been colluding [to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent] to prevent us spending on our hobby, as SWMBO here has issued an almost identical decree

Has anyone checked for the existence of a Whifwife facebook group or similar?   

[Gondor]

Has anyone checked for the existence of a Whifwife facebook group or similar?   

There is The Sprue Widow run by TsrJoe's other half

Gondor

[batcode]

hi mate out intrest what kits if any are left???

[Bungle]

hi mate out intrest what kits if any are left???

Just a few.... 

This everything I have looking for trades or sales

1/72nd Scale Bagged kits possibly missing instructions or decals or both (from various combination sets)

Airfix   GWC Truck  Pending
Airfix   Willis Jeep    Pending
Airfix   Sherman Tank
Airfix   DUKW
Airfix   Messerschmitt bf-109G
Airfix   LCVP           Sold
Airfix   L:CM Mk.III  Sold
Airfix   Sherman Tank
Airfix  Bristol Bulldog
Revell  Fuchs    Sold
Revell  Luchs    Sold


1/72nd boxed

Academy   Boeing KB-29P Tanker
Airfix     Supermarine Spitfire
Airfix     Hawker Hurricane
Airfix     Hawker Hurricane Special Edition
Airfix  Hawker Hurricane Mk.1
Airfix    BAe Nimrod
AModel   Antonov An-71 AEWR     Sold
AmTech   Boeing EC-135H/E   Pending
Aoshima   Japanese Navy E16A - No.6
Aoshima   apanese Navy M6A1 Seiran - No.5
Aoshima   KAWANISHI E15K1 Shiun "Norm" - No.4
Aoshima   Japanese Navy C6N1 Myrt - No.3
Aoshima   Japanese Navy A7M2 - No.2
Aoshima   Japanese Army Ki-100II - No.1
Aoshima   Kawanishi E15K 1 Siun "Norm" - old box
Eidar   Fuji FA200
Emhar   Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3
Emhar   North American FJ-4 Fury
Esci           Red Baron set of WWI fighters
Esci          Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder B   Sold
Frog         de Havilland Hornet
Frog         de Havilland Gypsy Moth
Frog         Lockheed P-38J Lightning
Frog         North American A-4 Skyhawk  Pending
Frog        Hawker Typhoon
Frog        Grumman Bearcat
Frog        Macchi MC.202
Frog        Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Frog       Fairey Swordfish
Frog       Hawker Hunter  Pending
Frog        de Havilland Sea Venom
Frog        Hawker Hurricane II
Frog       Hawker Tempest V
Frog       Mustang P.51B
Frog       Heinkel He.162
Frog       Lockheed P-38J Lightning (bad box)
Frog       Messerschmitt me-410
Frog      Grumman Avenger
Frog      Vought Corsair
Frog      Avro Shackleton (several of these)
Fujimi   Nakajima B6N Tenzan
Fujimi   Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
Hasegawa   Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat
Hasegawa   Grumman F9F-8 Cougar
Hasegawa   Grumman F9F-2 Panther
Hasegawa   Grumman F11F Tiger
Hasegawa   Vought Corsair
Hasegawa   McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II   Pending
Hasegawa   Heinkell he-51-B2
Hasegawa   Lockheed P-2 Neptune   Sold
Hasegawa   Martin SP-5B Marlin         Sold
Heller   Messerchmitt me-108
Heller   Focke Wulf fw-56 Stosser
Heller   Hawker Hurricane
Heller   Morane Saulnier MS 225
Heller   Polikarpov I.153
Heller   Mureaux 117
Heller   Morane Saulnier MS406
HobbyBoss   Bell p-39 Airacobra
Italeri   Mil Mi-28 Havoc    Sold
Italeri   Bell AH-1T Sea Cobra  Pending
Kader   dh Venom FB.4
KP   Avia B-35
KP   IL-10 / Avia B-33
KP   Avia B-534
KP   Avia C-2
KP   Avia CS-199
KP   Avia B.21
KP   Siebel Si 204
KP   Aero C-3A
KP   Avia B.534
Mach 2   Vickers Valiant
Monogram   Curtis F11F-C2 Goshawk
Monogram   Boeing P-12
Monogram   Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Big Bad & Beautiful   Pending
Monogram   Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Jet Engine Sound
Nu-Been   Brieve Be-6 Madge
Pioneer   Focke Wulf TA-154
Pioneer 2    Supermarine Spitfire Vc
PM   Fokker D.21
PM   DFS-194
Premier   Fokker D.21
Revell   MiG-31     Sold
Revell   Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker
Revell   Northrop B-2 RTB (Old Boxing)    Sold
Revell   B2 Advanced Technology Bomber   Sold
Supermodel   Reggiane Re.2001
Supermodel   Fiat G.55
Supermodel   Aer.Macchi C.205 Veltro
Tamiya   Aichi M6A Seiran
Tamiya   Douglas Skyray    Sold
Tamiya   Mitsubishi A2M6 Zero
Tamiya   Mitsubishi J2M Raiden

1/48th Scale

Italeri   Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet
Monogram   Curtiss P-40 Tiger Shark
Monogram   Grumman TBM3-Avenger
Monogram   British SE.5A
Monogram   Grumman TBF Avenger
Monogram   Huey Hog
Monogram   Republic F-105F Thud
Monogram   Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Monogram   McDonnell F-14A Tomcat
Monogram   Hawker Harrier
Monogram   NA F-86 & MiG-15
Monogram   F-4 Navy Phantom
Monogram   Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
Monogram   NA F-86 Sabre
Monogram   Republic F-105G Wild Weasel
Monogram   F-19 Stealth Fighter
Monogram   F-117A Stealth 
Monogram   Mirage 2000 
Monogram   F-4 Phantom II 
Monogram   F-4 Navy Phantom   
Monogram   Douglas A/B-26 Invader 
Monogram   F-102 Delta Dagger   
Monogram   Republic F-84F   
Monogram   Northrop F-5E Tiger II   
Monogram   Northrop F-5F  Aggressor 
Monogram   NA F-86D Sabre Dog
Monogram   Grumman Panther
Monogram   Vought Corsair F4U-4
Monogram   Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Monogram   Grumman F-14A Tomcat  (different boxing)
Monogram   Republic F-105G Wild Weasel Tomcat
Monogram   McDonnel F-101 Voodoo
Monogram   NA F-100 Super Sabre

1/600th Scale

Revell   Nimitz


Some of this will be going on ebay in the near future. SWMBO wants them out of the bedroom to make room for shoes.

[Leading Observer]

PM sent