My Stash Grew Again 2020

[Hobbes]

from the LHS: Airfix 1/72 new tool Bucc S.2

[The Wooksta!]

*FINALLY* retrieved from the post office:

Care package from Howard of Effingham containing some insanely well wrapped 3 row SNEB pods for use on TSR2 and Buccaneers in my Eagle in the Falklands

The second parcel was from SideshowBob's scrapyard clearance, containing a wheels up DH Hornet plus a spare fuselage, and an original Hawk Swift, complete with moulded in national markings and serials.  I think this could well end up as an F3 used as a decoy at RAF Acklington in the 1960s.

[DogfighterZen]

Only thing that hasn't been delivered yet is the Yahu IP, that one's actually coming from Poland, not the UK like i'd previously said...

Picked it up at my parents house yesterday. Although it's a very nice part, i might end up using it on the Hasegawa Mirage F.1 kit because the Special Hobby kit has a few IP options and there's a more modern version in there with MFDs and it would be more suitable for the version i wanna build with it which is the South African F.1AZ. Still, i've recently found that SH have an AZ kit planned for release sometime in the near future, along with Mirage 3,5, IAI Nesher kits in 1/72 so i may end up waiting for those kits to come out...

[Spey_Phantom]

part 2 of my airbrush upgrade has arrived today 
a Fengda FD18-2 compressor 

[Gondor]

Received this morning from eBay,

1 x 1/72 Italeri Westland Wessex HU-5
1 x 1/72 Vacform Ju388 Fuselage and Canopy

From Aerocraft

1 x 1/72 Buccaneer S.1 Exhaust and Airbrake conversion set to go with the intake set I already have

From Model Hobbies

1 x 1/72 Academy Brittish Army AH-64D "Afghanistan"

Gondor

[The Wooksta!]

Which 388 conversion?  Airmodel did 4 - K/L-1, J-1, J-3 (with the Morgenstern nose, although they said it was to have the BMW801TJs, so it's still a J-1 - any airframe subtype ending in a 3 would have had Jumo 213E/F engines) and the L-0.  Only the latter is any good, as they're all undersize.

[Gondor]

Which 388 conversion?  Airmodel did 4 - K/L-1, J-1, J-3 (with the Morgenstern nose, although they said it was to have the BMW801TJs, so it's still a J-1 - any airframe subtype ending in a 3 would have had Jumo 213E/F engines) and the L-0.  Only the latter is any good, as they're all undersize.

slideshowbob said it was the K version fuselage. All there is I described, just the fuselage, canopy and tail fin.

Gondor

[AeroplaneDriver]

My little birthday getaway ended up with visits to no less than three hobby shops!  The last one was one I haven't been to in many years, and they still had some of the same kits not he shelf, now unbleached beyond recognition. Makes you wonder why the owners wouldn't move them around a bit.  But anyway, most of their kits were ridiculously priced, but I did find a small stack labeled as estate sale kits that included an unopened ESCI Fokker F.27 Friendship for $20.   This is the same kit I turned into an RAF Guardian gunship many, many moons ago so I couldnt resist so I can maybe give the gunship idea another crack one of these days. 

[Steel Penguin]

a Bandai Eva 00 prototype model for myself today, unsure of the scale, but it has a 1:35 Rai and Gendo ( boo hiss) in with it.

[The Wooksta!]

Which 388 conversion?  Airmodel did 4 - K/L-1, J-1, J-3 (with the Morgenstern nose, although they said it was to have the BMW801TJs, so it's still a J-1 - any airframe subtype ending in a 3 would have had Jumo 213E/F engines) and the L-0.  Only the latter is any good, as they're all undersize.

slideshowbob said it was the K version fuselage. All there is I described, just the fuselage, canopy and tail fin.

Gondor

IIRC The K conversion is also applicable to the L-1 too.  Compare it to your Toad fuselage and you'll  see what I mean about it being a bit on the slim side.

The Toad conversion for the K/L had the camera ports moulded in the deep bomb bay and Pete Long (owner of Toad) just told you to fill it for the K.

If and when you do get round to building it, use the Italeri 188 rather than the Matchbox one that Airmodel tell you to use and then use the Jumo 213s supplied with that rather than the decidedly poor 801TJs in the Airmodel conversion.  They'd give you either a K-3 or L-3 depending on whether you're building a bomber or recce machine.  I *might* have a mould somewhere for the tail barbette and mount.

The preproduction L-0s are some of the really interesting 388s.  I did want - and still would if not for my ban on Luftwaffe - to do a few of them. 

Anyhoo, nabbed an Aifix Blue Steel Victor from Uncle Frank and sold on a spare Buckmaster.  The same buyer is taking an Airfix Shattipuss off me hands too, ironically he sold it to me a few years back and he wants to do an eearly prototype with the nose barbettes.

[Gondor]

Which 388 conversion?  Airmodel did 4 - K/L-1, J-1, J-3 (with the Morgenstern nose, although they said it was to have the BMW801TJs, so it's still a J-1 - any airframe subtype ending in a 3 would have had Jumo 213E/F engines) and the L-0.  Only the latter is any good, as they're all undersize.

slideshowbob said it was the K version fuselage. All there is I described, just the fuselage, canopy and tail fin.

Gondor

IIRC The K conversion is also applicable to the L-1 too.  Compare it to your Toad fuselage and you'll  see what I mean about it being a bit on the slim side.

The Toad conversion for the K/L had the camera ports moulded in the deep bomb bay and Pete Long (owner of Toad) just told you to fill it for the K.

If and when you do get round to building it, use the Italeri 188 rather than the Matchbox one that Airmodel tell you to use and then use the Jumo 213s supplied with that rather than the decidedly poor 801TJs in the Airmodel conversion.  They'd give you either a K-3 or L-3 depending on whether you're building a bomber or recce machine.  I *might* have a mould somewhere for the tail barbette and mount.

The preproduction L-0s are some of the really interesting 388s.  I did want - and still would if not for my ban on Luftwaffe - to do a few of them. 

Anyhoo, nabbed an Aifix Blue Steel Victor from Uncle Frank and sold on a spare Buckmaster.  The same buyer is taking an Airfix Shattipuss off me hands too, ironically he sold it to me a few years back and he wants to do an early prototype with the nose barbettes.

I had no intention of using the Matchbox 188 Lee, and I am old enough to remember it being released. I have been modelling since the 1980's you know

Gondor

[Howard of Effingham]

Airfix Dominie T.1 (Vintage Series boxing) for realworld build courtesy of having a vastly superior decal sheet compared to the one in the stash, which will be whiffed as either a 51 Sqn Dominie R.1 or a 360 T.2 alternative to the Canberra T.17.

excellent idea. i have a Matchbox HS-125 done as a 98 Sqn snooper and a Sword U-125 [BAe125-800] SAR being done as an RAF Navigator
trainer but in the later black scheme.

[McColm]

1/24 Jaguar XJS kit , I have tried to find the XJ-S kit but they sell out so fast.  This will be my version of the Lynx Eventer.

[The Wooksta!]

Ebay says I've managed to get a Revell Hunter for well under a tenner.  Admittedly, it's an original boxing of the FGA9 and I would have preferred an F6, but I got outbid on that.

[Howard of Effingham]

Yesterday from a certain Warehouse in Suffolk....

1/35 Hobbyboss Leopard MBT 2 A5DK Denmark
1/35 Aber  T72M1 MBT metal gun barrel

and 1/72 Vingtor Norwegian RF-84 decals

all to be wiffed or to assist in wiffing.