My Stash Grew Again 2019

[Old Wombat]

You know when you go into a store & a model or two follow you home? Well, that happened to me today!

Went into my local Toy World, which has a decent selection of models, paints, etc., to get some Tamiya paints when, lo & behold, I spy a table covered in model kits!

Spitfires, Mirage 2000's, F-18, F-16's (single & two seaters), Harriers, in 1/72 & 1/48 scale, $20 each!

Also, their model selection has doubled in the last fortnight since I was last in to get some paint. The lass who owns it (I've known her since she was in high school & her dad owned the store) said that model kits & railway stuff have really taken off recently &, if it sells, she's stocking it. Sounds good for the hobby here!

So, I buys me paints (3 x XF-7 Flat Red) & I'm followed home by;

1 x Hasegawa 1/72 A-37A/B Dragonfly (A12-00142) - Will be Australian Army Aviation Corps, Light COIN
1 x Tamiya 1/48 RN Sea Harrier FRS.1 (61026) - I have another, one will be RAN FAA, the other RAMAA
1 x Tamiya 1/48 Douglas F4D-1 Skyray (61055) - No idea why, I sold my last one to Volkodav (over on BtS) - I'll put it aside & have a think on it, although an idea is already forming in my warped little mind!

[Gondor]

More decals for my stash from eBay

1 x 1/72 Modeldecal set 88: Royal Air Force Meteors: F.8, FR.9, NF.11,F - 3, 10, 13 + 33 Escadres

1 x 1/72 Tasman V7205  F4H-1, F3H-2M, RAAF Mirage IIID, RCN F2H-3, RF-8G, F4H-1, RNZAF F4U-1D + FJ-1 Fury    Been after this decal set for a while for the F4H-1 decals as they are the only ones I know about for very early F-4 Phantoms 

Glad you liked them !    My wife thanks you for your contribution to her shoe collection.

My only complaint would be that they didn't have the platic bags that they came in

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

So, I buys me paints (3 x XF-7 Flat Red) & I'm followed home by;

1 x Hasegawa 1/72 A-37A/B Dragonfly (A12-00142) - Will be Australian Army Aviation Corps, Light COIN
1 x Tamiya 1/48 RN Sea Harrier FRS.1 (61026) - I have another, one will be RAN FAA, the other RAMAA
1 x Tamiya 1/48 Douglas F4D-1 Skyray (61055) - No idea why, I sold my last one to Volkodav (over on BtS) - I'll put it aside & have a think on it, although an idea is already forming in my warped little mind!

In my mind's eye I have this vision of Womby walking down the street with those three kit boxes walking along in convoy behind him, having grown legs of course. 

[Weaver]

So, I buys me paints (3 x XF-7 Flat Red) & I'm followed home by;

1 x Hasegawa 1/72 A-37A/B Dragonfly (A12-00142) - Will be Australian Army Aviation Corps, Light COIN
1 x Tamiya 1/48 RN Sea Harrier FRS.1 (61026) - I have another, one will be RAN FAA, the other RAMAA
1 x Tamiya 1/48 Douglas F4D-1 Skyray (61055) - No idea why, I sold my last one to Volkodav (over on BtS) - I'll put it aside & have a think on it, although an idea is already forming in my warped little mind!

In my mind's eye I have this vision of Womby walking down the street with those three kit boxes walking along in convoy behind him, having grown legs of course. 

Something like The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discword books:

[NARSES2]

So, I buys me paints (3 x XF-7 Flat Red) & I'm followed home by;

In my mind's eye I have this vision of Womby walking down the street with those three kit boxes walking along in convoy behind him, having grown legs of course. 

I'm intrigued by the bulk purchase of Flat Red 

Also, their model selection has doubled in the last fortnight since I was last in to get some paint. The lass who owns it (I've known her since she was in high school & her dad owned the store) said that model kits & railway stuff have really taken off recently &, if it sells, she's stocking it. Sounds good for the hobby here!

More power to her elbow 

[ChernayaAkula]

There are real-world Bo-105 with TOWs. A quick websearch shows Swedish ones as being the most common.

The Spanish have some with an Rh.202 20mm cannon under the belly.

Of course, you could still do TOW or 20mm and make it a whif by putting it in different markings. There are LOTS of Bo.105 users. How about a Finnish one with Russian AT-6 Spiral missiles?

I knew about the Swedish Bo-105s and their TOW fit (actually have one of those planned as a real-world build), I just wasn't clear enough in my wording. I was thinking of a different TOW fit, looks-wise. Not the semi-faired HeliTOW launchers the Sewdes use, but either a "raw" quad-pack as on the Lynx or the streamlined dual-round pods used on the MD-500/OH-6. Another option would be the triple launcher as used on the UH-1 in Vietnam.....

But a Finnish one with AT-6s, hmmm.... oh, you're evil!  You know this has to built, right? And not just in a plain green, but in a splinter-y camo like their tanks use, right?
For the sensors, I guess one could use the sighting unit and periscope from a Mi-24 chin, flip it around and stick it on the cockpit roof.

[TallEng]

Two Roden VC-10s, one with BOAC colours the other is a RAF K.4
(although both kits have the same sprues) BOAC Tanker anyone
That's me sorted for the 'Engines more or less' GB

Regards
Keith

[TheChronicOne]

Wait a minute!! Does this mean 6 or 8 engine VC-10?! 

[TallEng]

Wait a minute!! Does this mean 6 or 8 engine VC-10?! 

I guess you'll have to wait and see.....

Regards
Keith

[Gondor]

Wait a minute!! Does this mean 6 or 8 engine VC-10?! 

I guess you'll have to wait and see.....

Regards
Keith

Now that gives me an idea 

Gondor

[TallEng]

Wait a minute!! Does this mean 6 or 8 engine VC-10?! 

I guess you'll have to wait and see.....

Regards
Keith

Now that gives me an idea 

Gondor

Slight thread drift here....
But I can see a twin fuselaged VC-10 with the 8 Engines inbetween the top of the fins...

Regards
Keith

[Old Wombat]

I'm intrigued by the bulk purchase of Flat Red 

Nothing special, I just mix my own Hull Red & I like having a couple of spares of any colour lined up, just in case (&, so far, I haven't had a jar of Tamiya paint go "off" before I've finished it, with the exception of a couple of their metallic paints).

[Gondor]

Now that gives me an idea 

Gondor

Slight thread drift here....
But I can see a twin fuselaged VC-10 with the 8 Engines inbetween the top of the fins...

Regards
Keith

Not from me you won't 

Gondor

[jcf]

Wait a minute!! Does this mean 6 or 8 engine VC-10?! 

I guess you'll have to wait and see.....

Regards
Keith

Now that gives me an idea 

Gondor

Slight thread drift here....
But I can see a twin fuselaged VC-10 with the 8 Engines inbetween the top of the fins...

Regards
Keith

[TheChronicOne]

That's some nutty stuff right there.