My stash just grew again 2018.

[The Wooksta!]

No, it's closer to a flying wing.  The Japanese licence built four for use as bombers;.

[Old Wombat]

 I think you'll find the Junkers G38 is a 4-engined box-tailed monoplane ... but I have been known to be wrong in the past.

[TheChronicOne]

Wait, I haven't even named it or posted any pictures, how could y'all know what it is already? 

"I have another nutty airliner contraption on the way, too. This thing is... like... a biplane airliner?"

New paragraph, new subject. The one on the way is called a "Heracles."  I said it looks like some sort of bi plane airliner because, well, it has two wings and looks like an old airliner. 



It's definitely a biplane type of thing as it has ... well, two wings:

[Old Wombat]

Oops!

Helps if you don't skip bits as you read, doesn't it!

(One of the reasons I could never understand those "speed-reading" techniques that had you only read one side of a page, etc., the reader often missed SO much of what the book was about that it was a pointless exercise, unless the exercise was to "read as many books as possible whilst understanding none of them".)

[major]

Ooower! I've the original boxing of that, and the 'Black Box' reissue.
Just need your 1993 issue and I'd have the complete set! (Still unbuilt! ) 

[McColm]

I bought the Flifgtpath 1/72 Avro Lincoln conversion set, as every time I go on the Blackbird Models website they are sold out.
I have an idea for a retro-Shackleton , using the engines and a set of Lincoln twin tail fins, with the parts left over the Super Lincoln can be built.

[TheChronicOne]

Oops!

Helps if you don't skip bits as you read, doesn't it!

(One of the reasons I could never understand those "speed-reading" techniques that had you only read one side of a page, etc., the reader often missed SO much of what the book was about that it was a pointless exercise, unless the exercise was to "read as many books as possible whilst understanding none of them".)

Even w/out speed reading we're wired to sort of glance over things as we read, it's why that little trick where someone adds a word to a sentence and no one realizes it's there until pointed out works so well.   

[TheChronicOne]

Ooower! I've the original boxing of that, and the 'Black Box' reissue.
Just need your 1993 issue and I'd have the complete set! (Still unbuilt! ) 

Good luck, brotha!!!! I don't see a whole lot of these things, in any boxing, floating around. I was happy to find it and at what I consider to be a non price-gouging price. 

[Dizzyfugu]

That could be easily whiffed into one specimen that appears in a Yoko Tsuno comic (#5, IIRC) - G-AAXJ "Horus", which is a fictional ninth specimen:

[TheChronicOne]

Ahhh yeah, my type of shindig! One where I don't have to perform surgery! 

[zenrat]

...That could be easily whiffed into one specimen that appears in a Yoko Tsuno comic (#5, IIRC) - G-AAXJ "Horus", which is a fictional ninth specimen:

Two questions.  Are those RATO packs under Horus and what's the pink & white Mi-6 doing in the background.

[Weaver]

Just raided the Hobbycraft Black Friday sale, which I belatedly found out about last night. ALL Revell kits at half-price, but only in the shops (not the website) and each store may have different stock. The Stockport branch has now been denuded of these:

3 x Revell 1/72nd scale Hunter FGA.9s (RAF100 boxing) - £10 each 
3 x Revell 1/72nd scale DHC-6 Twin Otters - £4.75 each
Revell 1/112th scale X-Wing (Level 3 boxing) - £3
Revell 1/241st scale Millenium Falcon (Level 3 boxing) - £3
Revell 1/110th scale TIE Fighter (Level 3 boxing) - £3
Tamiya 1/35th German Field Drum set - £6

Other notable things left on the shelves (not an exhaustive list):

Lancaster Mk.I/III - £10
Dambusters Lancaster - £10
1/144th Atlantis Space Shuttle - £10
Shackleton AEW-2 - £18.50
BoB Eurofighter Typhoon
Loads of cars
1/87th Big Boy locomotive - £10
1/144th Space Shuttle + B-747 - £15(?)
1/72nd B-17F and B-17G - £15ish
1/48th WWII fighters (Corsair, Fw-190, others...)
Various Ships
1/144th Concorde

[Dizzyfugu]

...That could be easily whiffed into one specimen that appears in a Yoko Tsuno comic (#5, IIRC) - G-AAXJ "Horus", which is a fictional ninth specimen:

Two questions.  Are those RATO packs under Horus and what's the pink & white Mi-6 doing in the background.

Concerning the RATOs: YES! In the story the aircraft landed in a crater with high walls in the Himalaya region, is found in the course of the story and made flightworthy again. IIRC, the Mi-6 (in standard Aeroflot colors, it's supposed to be red but has been phazed out) is just there as a flying crane, delivering heavy material into the crater.





Would make a cool diorama, though, even though I am not aware of a 1:144 Mi-6?

[Weaver]

Would make a cool diorama, though, even though I am not aware of a 1:144 Mi-6?

Eastern Express do, or did, one.

[Howard of Effingham]

Got home voiceless after a weekend talking railways at the biggest model railway show in the country, to find a MONSTER parcel from the Big H just left lying on my doorstep! 

OMG! Was everything ok?

However Kit, it was a very pleasant surprise to meet you there.