My Stash Grew Again 2020

[NARSES2]

Academy F-35B it is then

Are you going to put a prop on the front of it then? 

Nope I just fancy building one, but in full colour markings, maybe special markings for a special occasion ?

[PR19_Kit]

Academy F-35B it is then

Are you going to put a prop on the front of it then? 

Nope I just fancy building one, but in full colour markings, maybe special markings for a special occasion ?

Much better, with that all-over grey and the greyed out national markings it's difficult to tell one F-35 from another!

I've got the Academy kit (I think, it may be Italeri one) but unless I can think of something a bit brighter it's not even coming out of the box. It needs Whiffing anyway, maybe even LONGER wings than the C version? 

[kitnut617]

I've built one of the Fujimi F-35B's as a Sidetrack variant (got a thread on here somewhere IIRC) but the other one will be something different. But the scheme I'm going to do it in will be like what the two-green Harriers got painted in, only with each green being slightly metallic looking so it has the same sheen as the grey ones appear as (if I can pull it off) .

[AeroplaneDriver]

First kit arrival in a few weeks.  Courtesy of Mr Squadron's 25% off 4th of July sale I finally picked up a Hobby Boss A-4E TRAM Intruder. 

[kitnut617]

Just placed an order for an Academy 1/72 F-35B and a decal sheet with RAF & RN markings through Sprue Bros. Reading up on it and looking at the sprue shots, it has the gun pod too ---

[The Wooksta!]

On order from ebay in the Ukraine:

Pepelatz Blohm und Voss P207.03, which looks like this:




I've been waiting for one of these for well over twenty years...

It was only afterward I started thinking of a British version using an Attacker with a buried Centaurus and a contraprop on the back.  Must get that Swift nose done...

It has *FINALLY* arrived...

Oh, and some cluster bombs from Gondor arrived yesterday.  The Brick they're going to get hung from is already underway.

[Gondor]

Many thanks people re the info on the various F-35 kits, and especially the sprue shots Robert 

Academy F-35B it is then

I concur with the above person, which is better than I almost started to type 

Gondor

[Gondor]

Many thanks people re the info on the various F-35 kits, and especially the sprue shots Robert 

Academy F-35B it is then

Me too I think after a closer inspection of this F-35A. Then some 617 Sqn decals for it --- unless it already has them 

The UK has only ordered the F-35B not the A version so it won't have UK decals in it.

Gondor

[kitnut617]

Many thanks people re the info on the various F-35 kits, and especially the sprue shots Robert 

Academy F-35B it is then

Me too I think after a closer inspection of this F-35A. Then some 617 Sqn decals for it --- unless it already has them 

The UK has only ordered the F-35B not the A version so it won't have UK decals in it.

Gondor

See my reply in #952   

[Howard of Effingham]

Many thanks people re the info on the various F-35 kits, and especially the sprue shots Robert 

Academy F-35B it is then

Me too I think after a closer inspection of this F-35A. Then some 617 Sqn decals for it --- unless it already has them 

I think it needs Special Markings and a Special Paint Scheme. WW2 Lancaster Bomber Command scheme for example.

Why not reform 35 Sqn and use use the emblems they used in the 1970s and until disbandment?

[Gondor]

Many thanks people re the info on the various F-35 kits, and especially the sprue shots Robert 

Academy F-35B it is then

Me too I think after a closer inspection of this F-35A. Then some 617 Sqn decals for it --- unless it already has them 

The UK has only ordered the F-35B not the A version so it won't have UK decals in it.

Gondor

See my reply in #952   

Youu mean #951 and I was pointing out the version the UK has as much as anything else.

Gondor

[McColm]

Another Airfix Avro Shackleton AEW.2.

[Spey_Phantom]

arrived from Aliexpress today

-2 x Mini Hobby Models 1/144 SAAB Viggen
-3 x Mini Hobby Models 1/144 SAAB JAS-39 Gripen

[NARSES2]

On order from ebay in the Ukraine:

Pepelatz Blohm und Voss P207.03, which looks like this:




I've been waiting for one of these for well over twenty years...

It was only afterward I started thinking of a British version using an Attacker with a buried Centaurus and a contraprop on the back.  Must get that Swift nose done...

It has *FINALLY* arrived...

Oh, and some cluster bombs from Gondor arrived yesterday.  The Brick they're going to get hung from is already underway.

Oh, I like that Lee, but then I do have a "thing" about Blohm und Voss 

[The Wooksta!]

You're not the only one.  I did make a start on a master to scratch one a few years back - 1998, I think... - but did nothing more than cut out the shape in plastic card.

Oh, and the Modeldecal sheet with 607 Vampires on it arrived this morning, courtesy of SideshowBob's decal sale.  I think I've now got enough to do all the aircraft I've got assembled.

Edit:  I do have the Unicraft* "kit" of the P.207.02 and it looks like one of his less worse ones.  I refuse to use the word "better" as that would imply an improvement.  No, still the same vile resin and low, low quality standards...


*This was one of the ones I got bitten with, the worst being the nigh unbuildable Bv P.203.