My stash just grew again 2018.

[Weaver]

Ol' boy was selling this for $15 and shipped it to me for another $8. I figured "what the hell " and bought it. 




Kind of brings me back around to my roots a bit. One of the models I build back in the day as a kid was a B-17, although a G model. I might just build this one pretty soon instead of letting it into the stash.

Nice. The fact that it's an early one means there's no tail turret, so it's relatively easy to make whiffy civilian versions of it.

[TheChronicOne]

Y'all gon' kill me but I think I might just make it OOB.      Long-term, way back in the back of my mind, goals are to some day have an example of each variant lined up. From what I can gather, getting kits of the older types is a bit fraught with "danger" in the ways of finding them and finding them for a decent price so I have to be choosy with what I want to do with it.

THAT SAID, I already have an old airfix G model than I'm going to retro-whif into a pre-war paint schemed version with blue fuselage and yellow wings as if WWII never happened, yet, they continued to improve upon and update the aircraft anyway. So... it's a G model that will be painted like it was from the 1930's. Only reason I haven't started it yet is that it came with no clear parts, so I got some from Revell for their kit and naturally they don't match up very well so I'm waiting to learn more and practice my skills before I try it.

[PR19_Kit]

THAT SAID, I already have an old airfix G model than I'm going to retro-whif into a pre-war paint schemed version with blue fuselage and yellow wings as if WWII never happened, yet, they continued to improve upon and update the aircraft anyway.

Oh yes, I LIKE that idea! 

[NARSES2]

Nice. The fact that it's an early one means there's no tail turret, so it's relatively easy to make whiffy civilian versions of it.

I to have always liked the early ones.

As for the lack of a tail turret . The one in the 1943 film Air Force got some rearward defensive armament simply by cutting the tail cone off and John Garfield lay in there with a 0.5" m.g. sticking out the back 

[jcf]

The Air Corps changed to bare metal or overall aluminum paint/dope
on metal skinned tactical aircraft in 1937, Advanced Trainers followed
soon after. The official tech orders were issued in March and September
1938, respectively. Planning for the change had begun in 1935 and the
reason was the cost savings, and the blue/yellow scheme was only
continued until the existing stocks of paint ran out. Older aircraft like
the B-10 were refinished in overall aluminum paint.

[TheChronicOne]

Fascinating stuff, I did not know that. Probably in my top 5 if not all time favorite paint schemes so you'd think I'd know more about it. If time, money, and gusto were not factors I'd make damn near every plane in existence in it.    In fact, when I get to it, I'll likely build some little rinky dink kit so it can have an escort. A p36 or something or... a P-51 or...  something, in matching paint.


More stuff in the mail today. This one is pretty neat. Seller had it listed for $11 in an auction setup but had been a few days with no bites. It had "or best offer on it" so I decided, instead of making a lower offer, to make one higher instead! It worked, I offered $13 and they accepted. Score!  $11 for shipping. Here's the thing, they had it mis-listed in the wrong category. It wasn't even in models and kits, period, and was way out in a different category under toys.  Anyway, I feel like I got a good deal, and I feel like I helped them out by offering more than they were asking instead of less and they might not have even sold the thing so I hope it worked out well for them (I assume so, since they accepted my offer...). I never seen this one before so I had to have it.


Mexican Air Force!


I'm amazed it got here alright, however, as they merely wrapped it in bubble wrap and stuff it in an envelope. 

[PR19_Kit]

A Lodela 727, nice one Brad. 

They're not exactly rare but they come have all sorts of different decals to the standard Revell ones. It's the straight Revell 727-100 plastic, but moulded in Mexico, which means it'll fit pretty well.

[TheChronicOne]

Oh neat!! I always figured they were just boxed that way, I didn't know they were Hecho in Mexico.    Good to know it's of better quality, rather than the opposite, as is often the case according strictly to stereotypes. Negative media attention sometimes has people believing Mexico and anything from is something straight out post-appocalyptica.   AHEM BUT ANAYWAY....   I have ONE other Lodela kit, the Patrula Boat thingy.     I was pretty stoked when I got it, too, because I really like Mexican stuff as a subject matter. It's so easy to find so much stuff in American markings, not so easy to find Mexican stuff (at least in my experience).

As sort of an aside, there seems to be a pretty healthy model building community in Mexico, which is nice to know. They had some sort of shin-dig in Mexico City recently and I'm always seeing guys from Mexico posting in FB groups, etc.     

[McColm]

1/144 Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
1/72 started Revell Blohm & Voss Bv222A
1/72 vacform Be-12 Mail flying boat and An-12 Cub.
1/72 Grumman Wild Cat float plane conversion set

[Hobbes]

Freightdog 1/72 Avro 720 Rocket Fighter
Freightdog 1/144 DARPA Space Cruiser
Stransky 1/144 Gates Learjet 35

[Gondor]

Popped into Home Bargains this afternoon only to walk out with

1 x 1/144 Revell MiG 29 "The Swifts"
1 x 1/144 Revell MiG 31 Foxhound

also got a small precision bottle of Revell glue from Hobbycraft

Gondor

[nighthunter]

OTW:

1/72 Limberg Centurion MBT
1/72 Xtrakit Supermarine Spitfire Mk.22
1/72 RPM FT-17
1/144 F-86F Sabre
1/72 Fujimi MiG-21 "African Mig"
1/76 Matchbox Sherman Firefly

Arrived:
1/72 Limberg Centurion MBT
1/72 RPM FT-17
1/144 F-86F Sabre
1/72 Fujimi MiG-21 "African Mig"
1/76 Matchbox Sherman Firefly

Bonus that came with the Centurion: Airfix HO/OO Mk.IV Male Tank

[Dizzyfugu]

On the way:
- An Airfix Spitfire Mk. I (new mold)
- A new set of Estonian insignia from Blue Rider

Could become an effective combo, if the British delivery had taken place in time, just like the Polish Hurricanes. 

[Dizzyfugu]

And some more:
- An ESCI Ka-34 "Hokum" (the fake one)
- An 1:72 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk. I
- An 1:72 Italeri SdKfz. 234, the kit with the characteristic antenna frame

[The Wooksta!]

Don't know how much you paid for the Hasegawa Spitfire, but you were robbed.  It's one of their really early kits and it shows.  As a Spitfire, it lacks the distinctive gull wing underneath, like so many other kits of it's time, (although Revell got it wrong 20 years ago).  For a long time, it was the only source of the flat canopy and the two blade prop, whilst the four spoke wheels are handy for other Spitfires., but it was superceded 40 years ago by the old tool Airfix mk Ia (and shapewise, that still hold up today).

Even as whiff fodder, it's horrible.  I've got one in the "Cabinet of Doom".  I've a backstory to get round it, but I've yet to write it.