My stash just grew again 2018.

[PR19_Kit]

Oh sorry, I mis-read your post. 

The same is true though, the USAirfix 727s are the same plastic with US market unique decals. One reason why they may have higher prices is there can't ever be any more as Airfix modified the moulds to make the -200 years ago. But there's always the Revell -100 in the same scale though.

[TheChronicOne]

Ahh ok! They are indeed both rather choice decorations if you ask me. A couple of the best liveries ever. Definitely one reason I picked them up.

Well that's that mystery solved...   

[strobez]

Walk into local hobby shop looking for an airbrush nozzle and some sandpaper...

"Oh, look! A new Area 88 kit! The F-104G from Hasegawa..."

Walk out with new kit...

I'm beginning to think that building model kits and buying model kits are two separate hobbies... 

[TheChronicOne]

They kind of are, aren't they? Two facets to the same hobby. I get as much enjoyment from looking for and snagging kits as building them. I can also say the same for the "casual" research portion. Sometimes planning for and researching a build can be a lot of fun. 

[NARSES2]

And finally kit wise 1/32 Wingnut Wings Junkers D.1 Been looking at these and wondering if what people said was true. Finally decided that a) as it was a monoplane, b) it was what I considered a fair price and c) it was direct from then at the show I'd take the plunge. Looking at it in the box it does look stunninig. Guy on their stand, who'd built the one on display, reckoned that as there was almost zero rigging it could be built in 3 days  We shall see, or not 

The instruction manual for this kit is absolutely superb and I for one had no idea there were so many detail photographs knocking about for a type that wasn't built in that great a number and built and served in a time of chaos. Research is fantastic.

The other thing I like about the manual is that they name the parts, they are not just a sprue letter and number. So you actually know that you are fitting the oil pump and not the petrol pump  Now I know why companies stopped doing this all those years ago, but I do miss it. Most of what I learned about aircraft bits and bobs back then came from old Airfix instruction sheets 

[Old Wombat]

Now I know why companies stopped doing this all those years ago, but I do miss it. Most of what I learned about aircraft bits and bobs back then came from old Airfix instruction sheets 

I'm assuming economic reasons but it could just as easily be because they gave up caring. I'm often frustrated by not having a clue what I'm fitting to what where &, in a few cases, I've put the wrong thing in the wrong place because of poorly illustrated instructions where a description of the item would have been enough for me to think "Nope, you're not a magneto coil, you're an oil filter!" or similar.

[NARSES2]

Now I know why companies stopped doing this all those years ago, but I do miss it. Most of what I learned about aircraft bits and bobs back then came from old Airfix instruction sheets 

I'm assuming economic reasons but it could just as easily be because they gave up caring.

Basically because in the early 60's or thereabouts they started to export to countries where they used a different language from their own. Before that most companies markets were domestic. I do have a vague notion of some Heller kits however that had instructions in French and German ? Once the Treaty of Rome had settled down then it was far, far easier to export across European borders and therefore written instructions as such became a hindrance to sales.

[Tophe]

Bandai 1/550th Medea/Midea Gundam transport plane#

The Medea is a carrier for Gundam Mobile Suits, VTOl being allegedly achieved by means of fans in the undercarriage pods.
The actual model is tiny, with a wingspan of under 6". Info: http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Medea

Thanks a lot! I did not know this twin-boomer, and I love it/her!

[Hobbes]

Basically because in the early 60's or thereabouts they started to export to countries where they used a different language from their own. Before that most companies markets were domestic. I do have a vague notion of some Heller kits however that had instructions in French and German ? Once the Treaty of Rome had settled down then it was far, far easier to export across European borders and therefore written instructions as such became a hindrance to sales.

Yup. Translations are expensive and take up space, pretty soon your 8-page instruction sheet becomes a 32-page booklet, which leads to a bigger box and more expense in that area, etc.

[Dizzyfugu]

An 1:72 Hobby Boss MiG-15 single seater and two Modelcollect Heer '46 models, an E-50 Jagdpanzer and an E-75 38cm Sturmmörser with tail casemate layout.

[zenrat]

Basically because in the early 60's or thereabouts they started to export to countries where they used a different language from their own. Before that most companies markets were domestic. I do have a vague notion of some Heller kits however that had instructions in French and German ? Once the Treaty of Rome had settled down then it was far, far easier to export across European borders and therefore written instructions as such became a hindrance to sales.

Yup. Translations are expensive and take up space, pretty soon your 8-page instruction sheet becomes a 32-page booklet, which leads to a bigger box and more expense in that area, etc.

Put any Ikea furniture together lately?  No words whatsoever on their instructions.  Designed to be misunderstood in any country worldwide.

[PR19_Kit]

Put any Ikea furniture together lately?  No words whatsoever on their instructions.  Designed to be misunderstood in any country worldwide.

Just like a Mach 2 kit in fact...... 

[Thorvic]

Off Amazon and at a decent price (but not under Black Friday sales AKAIK) an Italeri 1/72 G.222 transport aircraft.

May form the basis for the long postponed DH-129 STOVL Transport that would be smaller brother to my HS-681, as I managed to find an original brochure for the type at SMW 

[NARSES2]

Modelcollect Heer '46 models, an E-50 Jagdpanzer and an E-75 38cm Sturmmörser with tail casemate layout.

I've been looking at the range at a couple of shows I've been to this year and am sorely tempted.

[kitnut617]

Off Amazon and at a decent price (but not under Black Friday sales AKAIK) an Italeri 1/72 G.222 transport aircraft.

May form the basis for the long postponed DH-129 STOVL Transport that would be smaller brother to my HS-681, as I managed to find an original brochure for the type at SMW 

So that was what you were proudly showing in the photos on SPF

I've got one of those G.222 kits too, and the C-27J Spartan