My stash just grew again 2021

[chrisonord]

Arrived this afternoon, something  non whiff  and will be built as such, sort of.
Maintrack Handley Page HP 115. Yep it has vacform bits on it but it looks buildable. Ish. Wish me luck
Chris

[NARSES2]

Best of luck with it 

[chrisonord]

Best of luck with it 

cheers Chris, I have already started it, and so far I haven't wanted to put it in the bin
Chris

[PR19_Kit]

The HP115 is a lovely vacform, as are all of the X Planes series, but they were mastered by the man who invented Rareplanes. 

[nighthunter]

Dropped the hammer on an Italeri 1/72 MB-326K Impala on Amazon, should see it next week. Also looking art dropping the hammer on the following on my FB auction groups:

Hobby Boss 1/72 Brewster Buffalo

[chrisonord]

The HP115 is a lovely vacform, as are all of the X Planes series, but they were mastered by the man who invented Rareplanes. 

Cheers  Kit, the guy who used to make them did so from his hobby shop in Hastings am I correct? Unfortunately he passed on and whirlybird models have taken  the moulds etc. This kit has  problem with a fuselage half, it looks like it has been melted, but I  should be able to  repair  it with some putty. 
Chris

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, Maintrack were in Hastings, and they did all sorts of useful stuff for the 'less normal' modellers, and some stuff in resin too. I have a few bits and pieces they did for Whirlwind and Wessex helicopters, and very nice they are too.

Gordon Stephens, aka 'Mr Rareolanes', mastered the X-Plane moulds for Maintrack, but he didn't run the shop AFAIK.

I saw his very first vacform model, a B-17A, at a London IPMS meeting back in the 60s, and everyone there was gob-smacked, as he brought some un-built mouldings of the model as well, and that was before anyone had really heard of vacforms! 

[chrisonord]

The fuselage on this thing  doesn't  line up. One side is bigger than the other and made worse by the melted  part. I glued tabs along one side  and left them 24 hours, but they can't  pull the fuselage out without  being  pulled off.  Looking like  my disliking of vacform kits is upheld  as this one is  going in the scrap  box
Chris

[TheChronicOne]

I lost all my enthusiasm for building for quite a few months last year but am getting it back now. Pretty much going full swing with 4-5 projects. Another thing I'm doing is trying to shake things up a bit and doing something other than an aircraft. I started a Klingon ship... and now I've bought a few kits in my favorite Trek scale of 1/2500.







The Space Station came with this poster:

[Dizzyfugu]

Not a whiffing model as such, but I was lucky to shoot a 1:72 scale Conflix pre-painted building ruin at ev!lbay for just EUR 1,- (p.p.) that will find its way as a prop in model photography. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Another ev!lbay purchase on short notice: a vintage anime kit, again, a Gunze-Sangyo 1:24 PAM-74 "Tinkle Bell" Powered Armor from the Eighties' Dorvack TV series, found in the USA. Still looking for PA-36s, though. I have to fill some gaps in The Stash™. 

[zenrat]

Metro Hobbies sent me a $50 voucher for being a loyal customer.
I spent is on brushes and masking tape and then added this to escort them through the badlands between here and Box Hill.
Matilda told such dreadfull lies... by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Initial whiffing thoughts are of a Jagdtilda tank destroyer.

[Freightdog862]

The fuselage on this thing  doesn't  line up. One side is bigger than the other and made worse by the melted  part. I glued tabs along one side  and left them 24 hours, but they can't  pull the fuselage out without  being  pulled off.  Looking like  my disliking of vacform kits is upheld  as this one is  going in the scrap  box
Chris

That is a shame, Anigrand do a resin one, but the shape underneath is a bit off, and the resin canopies yellow over time.

Colin   

[PR19_Kit]

I'll take a look at mine next time I'm home, that doesn't sound good at all.

MOST unlike Maintrack in my experience.

[The Wooksta!]

Maintrack's stuff tended to be very hit and miss. The early Project X ones were rough then Gordon Stevens got involved.  Think it depended on who was doing the mastering. A lot of his resin conversions were very primitive, even for the time. And that resin was sometimes nigh on impossible to work with.