My stash just grew again 2021

[Pellson]

Anyway - I just yanked one of these off EBay.
Probably, it'll get a lo-vis USN Tomcat scheme if I ever get to build it. I rarely build American these days, so it could be debated why I shelled out for it..   

...and today, it arrived. In an impressively sturdy original cardboard box. That might explain why the kit is so well kept.

Now, I just need to make some room on the desk to be able to build.. 

[NARSES2]

1 x 1/72 Clear Prop! OV-1A/JOV-1A Mohawk. 71 steps in the instructions 

Gondor

Yup, they seem to be heading down the same path as Airfix have trodden recently, lots of small steps rather than some of the confusing illustrations some producers still use. I'm all for it personally.

[The Wooksta!]

Two parcels arrived this morning that feed into my P.6 scratch bodge programme.

A KP Su-7 from a guy on Britmodeller.  There was a small scale version of an Su-7 in the box too - 144th?  May try and do a P.6 in that scale also.

A pair of Leoman Su-9s. The fuselages are for P.6s but the wings could be applicable to another project in the P.6 studies.

That project looks a bit like a canard Canberra, with a fighter nose. My recipe so far would be a Canberra B.(I)8 fuselage, Su-7 fuselages for the engines, Su-9 wings as the outer wings and a great deal of plastic card.

[Thorvic]

Two parcels arrived this morning that feed into my P.6 scratch bodge programme.



A pair of Leoman Su-9s. The fuselages are for P.6s but the wings could be applicable to another project in the P.6 studies.

That project looks a bit like a canard Canberra, with a fighter nose. My recipe so far would be a Canberra B.(I)8 fuselage, Su-7 fuselages for the engines, Su-9 wings as the outer wings and a great deal of plastic card.

Glad they got there safe n sound, now can you remember how they go together as I'm dammed if i can LOL

[The Wooksta!]

Not sure, but I'm sure I can bodge it and make it look half decent!

[Nick]

A little parcel arrived from WhirlyBirds today which I had half forgotten about with all the Christmas stuff.

1/72 Miles Student 
1/72 BOAC Concorde markings
1/72 Maltese Armed Forces aircraft markings

The last set may well end up on an F-16 piloted by Lt Spade 

[Old Wombat]

1/72 Maltese Armed Forces aircraft markings

The last set may well end up on an F-16 piloted by Lt Spade 

[zenrat]

Birthday present from my favourite (this week) sister.

VW Type 2 Micro Bus 23 Window by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[DogfighterZen]

Birthday present from my favourite (this week) sister.

VW Type 2 Micro Bus 23 Window by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

That's a beauty of a van but is it possible to fit all those windows after painting or is a heavy masking session needed?

I got a few more self-bought presents and this time i got a mix of the old and the new...

[zenrat]

...That's a beauty of a van but is it possible to fit all those windows after painting or is a heavy masking session needed? ...

No problem.  The one piece body can be painted and the the windows fitted afterwards.

[Rick Lowe]

...That's a beauty of a van but is it possible to fit all those windows after painting or is a heavy masking session needed? ...

No problem.  The one piece body can be painted and the the windows fitted afterwards.

That's a relief!

[Gondor]

Received today from eBay

1 x 1/72 S&M Models Canberra B.6

From the Big Yellow H

1 x 1/72 Eduard Limited Edition Desert Babes. This is a reboxing of the Revell kit with Resin, brass and Masks as well as a fancy decal sheet, all for £19.08.

1 x 1/72 Model Alliance MA-72142 BAC/EE Canberra International "Bomber Canopy" version set IV

Gondor

[Rheged]

Popped into Hereford Model Centre...........just to wish them the compliments of the season.........and somehow or other a Zvedza 1/100  Lavotchkin La-5 came out with me.    It's possibly going to be transmuted into a Gloster Guillemot  of the Fleet Air Arm (British Pacific Fleet ) 1945 or so.  But of course it might become something else entirely different.

[TheChronicOne]

Picked up some FSM mags. I was interested in the one of the C-5 Galaxy because I'm going to build up a 1/72 of it myself....  but then I got to looking around and found a whole stack of mags for the same price so I got them instead. After tax and shipping, they were $2 a piece... well, a little less... something like $1.95.

I'm not familiar with FSM..... the seller said this was an entire year of the publication... I thought it a bit weird because there are 8 mags & that doesn't fit either a monthly or bi-monthly schedule. Anyway... absent are May, June, August, and October. It would seem to be odd to skip months arbitrarily so for now I'm assuming those 4 actually existed, but I don't really know. 

So... this is a really neat lot, in my opinion, because more than a couple of these struck my fancy. We have not one, but TWO Trek mags and I love that, then the B-58 which I love, we have Israel and a Viper, both I love, then we have one mag about doing canopies..... vital information... then of course the C-5 edition. The other two don't immediately strike my fancy but I imagine they are well worth the read anyway!





In other news I have a 1/144 A-10 on the way from Australia.

[Wardukw]

Ive been an off again on again reader of FSM for sometime now and for some reason there always old ones..like your pile there ..ive still got the C5 and the Star trek issues ..not that condition but there here somewhere.
Anyways their not bad to read..seeing the old way fokes used to build but some of the cars in those mags are brilliant even by todays standards..some pretty wicked ships and of course military vehicles..i still use a tip from those mags to shop my model knife  rolling off my desk