My Stash Grew Again 2019

[Spey_Phantom]

first order straight from Eduard 

-3 x 1/144 A-4F Skyhawk
-3 x 1/144 Focke Wulf Fw190D

arrived today

[strobez]

I just picked up the 1/144 AC-130A kit from Minicraft today.  Only problem is that it doesn't have the four-blade props, only the three-blade ones.  All the other Minicraft C-130As come with a choice, but I guess I didn't do my homework.  I put a post up in the swap section to see if anyone's got some to trade.

It seems like a nice kit though. I'm actually a bit surprised at how small it is... for some reason I think the C-130s are huge.

[DogfighterZen]

Oh yeah...



Found this one in a Portuguese modelling store, last one in stock...

[TheChronicOne]

Whuuuuu!  It's a Whif-'n-a-box!   

[DogfighterZen]

To go with the F/A-20C from the same company. 

[Weaver]

From MartG via Ebay, two of his 1/350th Traveller spacecraft: a Type A Free Trader and a Type S Scout 

This is what I'm talking about: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=43899.msg771916#msg771916

MartG's Ebay page: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/martg1960/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

[Howard of Effingham]

From the Paint Rack....

1/72 Sova-M/A Model Gulfstream G-550 J-STARS

Two sets of 1/72 Quickboost resin air intakes for the Mirage F1 which might seem daft but you get three intakes per pack so one spare pair at least will go on a mash up I have planned.

[Gondor]

1 x 1/71 Revell Vickers Wellington B. II

Bought off eBay in the hope I could possibly use it for another project but the detail is too good so it will probably be real world right out of the box.

Gondor

[Rheged]

1 x 1/71 Revell Vickers Wellington B. II

Bought off eBay in the hope I could possibly use it for another project but the detail is too good so it will probably be real world right out of the box.

Gondor

As an exercise in numpty-boggling, build it OOB but mark it up as a Fleet Air Arm navigator trainer.

[Gondor]

1 x 1/71 Revell Vickers Wellington B. II

Bought off eBay in the hope I could possibly use it for another project but the detail is too good so it will probably be real world right out of the box.

Gondor

As an exercise in numpty-boggling, build it OOB but mark it up as a Fleet Air Arm navigator trainer.

I did think that I should probably use markings for a squadron that didn't use that version of the aircraft.

Gondor

[chrisonord]

Just picked  my matchbox  lightning t55 up from the post office.  Yet more nostalgia  for me. I will have  to look very carefully at where I can  put pylons  on it and  not  overload the wings,  as I want to retain the IFR probe on it. It could be a  weapons test aircraft,  like the meteor  NF14 I am doing,  or a strike  aircraft  about to be  sent to Malaysia/Borneo  in 1964.
Chris

[Weaver]

Just picked  my matchbox  lightning t55 up from the post office.  Yet more nostalgia  for me. I will have  to look very carefully at where I can  put pylons  on it and  not  overload the wings,  as I want to retain the IFR probe on it. It could be a  weapons test aircraft,  like the meteor  NF14 I am doing,  or a strike  aircraft  about to be  sent to Malaysia/Borneo  in 1964.
Chris

Saudi T53s had a wing pylon outboard of the u/c bay with quite a high rating: 1000lb bomb or 2x MATRA pods at least. Aeroelasticity might be an issue with something long and finned like a missile though.

They also proposed (cleared?) the overwing drop tank pylons for twin MATRA JL-100 rocket+fuel pods on each one. As the Jaguar had proved, Sidewinders will fire just fine from overwing pylons and the position has good 'look-up' into a turn for IR weapons, so this looks like a definite possibility for extra AAMs.

BAC put forward many schemes for advanced Lightnings based on 'T55s' (i.e. two-seaters with the long belly tank) or two-seaters with an even longer belly tank that covered the normal missile pack position. Many of these had fuel in the front and back of the tank (no guns) and a removeable weapon pod in the middle of it that could take retractable rocket packs, conformal bombs (including a tac-nuke) or pylons for bombs, rocket-pods or ASMs. Clearance with the undercarriage legs and the ground is the main limitation.

Alleycat do the wing pylons IIRC, and Freightdog do a slightly different belly-pack with pylons conversion, originally proposed as a ground-attack conversion for the RAFG F.2As.

[chrisonord]

Just picked  my matchbox  lightning t55 up from the post office.  Yet more nostalgia  for me. I will have  to look very carefully at where I can  put pylons  on it and  not  overload the wings,  as I want to retain the IFR probe on it. It could be a  weapons test aircraft,  like the meteor  NF14 I am doing,  or a strike  aircraft  about to be  sent to Malaysia/Borneo  in 1964.
Chris

Saudi T53s had a wing pylon outboard of the u/c bay with quite a high rating: 1000lb bomb or 2x MATRA pods at least. Aeroelasticity might be an issue with something long and finned like a missile though.

They also proposed (cleared?) the overwing drop tank pylons for twin MATRA JL-100 rocket+fuel pods on each one. As the Jaguar had proved, Sidewinders will fire just fine from overwing pylons and the position has good 'look-up' into a turn for IR weapons, so this looks like a definite possibility for extra AAMs.

BAC put forward many schemes for advanced Lightnings based on 'T55s' (i.e. two-seaters with the long belly tank) or two-seaters with an even longer belly tank that covered the normal missile pack position. Many of these had fuel in the front and back of the tank (no guns) and a removeable weapon pod in the middle of it that could take retractable rocket packs, conformal bombs (including a tac-nuke) or pylons for bombs, rocket-pods or ASMs. Clearance with the undercarriage legs and the ground is the main limitation.

Alleycat do the wing pylons IIRC, and Freightdog do a slightly different belly-pack with pylons conversion, originally proposed as a ground-attack conversion for the RAFG F.2As.

Cheers for that H,
I will look in to the alleycat and freightdog  stuff for it. 1000lb is quite  a weight for  that  pylon too, I  didn't think  it could  carry  so much. I shall  investigate  more with all that  information 
Chris.

[McColm]

Two 1/72 Revell Avro Lancasters 04300 and 04295. One will become a ASR.1 and the other used as spares for various builds.

[TheChronicOne]

I made my own model kit out of spares. It is a new addition to my stash, so, IT COUNTS. 


I joke a wee bit, but I'm also completely serious. I, meticulously, scoured my spare parts and managed to gather up a complete aircraft. I'll make a thread for it soon, but there are some details here if anyone is interested to read about it:

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=42778.3180;topicseen