My stash just grew again. (2022)

[The Wooksta!]

From Uncle Frank:
Hasegawa MiG 27 Flogger
Hasegawa AMD Mirage F1
Both are donor kits for a potential BAC Type 584 bodge.

Won on eBay
A&V Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 - PR version, I think.
Contrail Scimitar.  For the proposed RAF strike version.

[Steel Penguin]

went into parrabellum
2 pots of Tamiya gun metal

a ryefield 1:35 Sherman firefly
and a Tamiya 1:35 M113 fire support apc...  wanted one since I first say it in the Tamiya catalogue back in the 80s

[Dizzyfugu]

Bought a Mistercraft 1:72 Saab J35 Draken (boxed as "Finnish markings") from ev!lbay. It's the abysmal vintage Revell kit, but has the following benefits:
a) dead cheap, but you get what you pay for... (see below  )
b) comes with optional photo recce/laser range finder (Danish) nose
c) instructions contain infomation about the only Swedish Draken that wore "Fields & Meadows" (Viggen splinter) camouflage, plus decals.

The latter information will probably be used to create a whiffy J 35 G from this kit (or from a Hasegawa model which I have in store somewhere, too), with the respective paint scheme. The Gustav was a dedicated attack variant for the Swedish air force that was never realized. Just have to check how terrible this kit reincarnation actually is; I have the same old Revell kit re-boxed by Accura, and this one has very nice re-scribed panel lines instead of the original raised surface details. It still needs lots of work on cockpit and landing gear, though, but as whiffing fodder it should be fine.

The Mistercraft Draken arrived and it is 1:1 the old Revell kit with raised (yet very fine) panel lines. The Akkura kit is apparently the better option, but it's sold old. Quite disturbing: both kits use the same manilpulated box art on the cover, one with a grey Swedish J35F, the other with a Finnish F-35 as motif. 

[Pellson]

Bought a Mistercraft 1:72 Saab J35 Draken (boxed as "Finnish markings") from ev!lbay. It's the abysmal vintage Revell kit, but has the following benefits:
a) dead cheap, but you get what you pay for... (see below  )
b) comes with optional photo recce/laser range finder (Danish) nose
c) instructions contain infomation about the only Swedish Draken that wore "Fields & Meadows" (Viggen splinter) camouflage, plus decals.

The latter information will probably be used to create a whiffy J 35 G from this kit (or from a Hasegawa model which I have in store somewhere, too), with the respective paint scheme. The Gustav was a dedicated attack variant for the Swedish air force that was never realized. Just have to check how terrible this kit reincarnation actually is; I have the same old Revell kit re-boxed by Accura, and this one has very nice re-scribed panel lines instead of the original raised surface details. It still needs lots of work on cockpit and landing gear, though, but as whiffing fodder it should be fine.

The Mistercraft Draken arrived and it is 1:1 the old Revell kit with raised (yet very fine) panel lines. The Akkura kit is apparently the better option, but it's sold old. Quite disturbing: both kits use the same manilpulated box art on the cover, one with a grey Swedish J35F, the other with a Finnish F-35 as motif. 

Is that the (very) old short-tailed Draken? If so, it is the easiest way to build an early J35A from the first batch in service.
The main differences are the canopy (three-light, the later one is two-light only) and the much shorter afterburner. Also the vertical fin tip is different with the pitot set below the tip.

[chrisonord]

Just arrived today,  2 pairs of 1/72nd scale  Bluewater missiles  from Alistair/ Gannett models. Very nice as per. 2 of these could get hung underneath my delta 3 as a strike version,  in service  during the  70's. Possibly a  pair of small canards  added to the Delta 3, and some up to date, for the 70's  avionics  and a pair of large drop tanks. Sidewinders could also be included,  and an IFR probe.

[Old Wombat]

Bought in private sale today yesterday;

1 x Revell Bedford QL Gun Portee & 6-Pdr.-Gun (No. 03030)


And from Hobby Habit on Daws Road, Melrose Park, SA;

1 x Trumpeter 1/350 WW2 Liberty Ship S.S Jeremiah O'Brien (No. 05301)


And a couple of different sets of (mostly) British WW2 Jerry cans


(Images courtesy of ScaleMates)

[Wardukw]

Hell Guy you can still get the Portee? ..i had that kit decades ago and its not bad but man it does need work..you'll want to change the wheels tho..they are terrible but thats also the age of the kit.
The 6 pounder aint bad either but again very old ..gun shield is to thick but for a wiffy it'll do fine..with new wheels   

[DogfighterZen]

These arrived yesterday... 
The Special Hobby 1/48 F2G came from Passion 132 in Belgium and the AZ pair came from ScaleModels 4 you from Poland via ebay.

[Wardukw]

These arrived yesterday... 
The Special Hobby 1/48 F2G came from Passion 132 in Belgium and the AZ pair came from ScaleModels 4 you from Poland via ebay.

I am officially jealous   

[zenrat]

Bought in private sale today yesterday;

1 x Revell Bedford QL Gun Portee & 6-Pdr.-Gun (No. 03030)


And from Hobby Habit on Daws Road, Melrose Park, SA;

1 x Trumpeter 1/350 WW2 Liberty Ship S.S Jeremiah O'Brien (No. 05301)


And a couple of different sets of (mostly) British WW2 Jerry cans


(Images courtesy of ScaleMates)

I'm pleased to see Hobby Habit is still going.  Mrs z's Aunty lives within walking distance so I like to take a constitutional whenever we visit.

I "built" the Portee as a kid (Airfix release).  Made a real mess of it IIRC.  Probly beyond my skills at the time TBH.  I remember thinking 1/35 was an odd scale as ail my larger toy soldiers were 1/32 Airfix (as was the Stalwart I wish I still had).  I don't remember the wheels.
I have another Airfix boxed example in the stash.  I shall have to examine them.

[Spey_Phantom]

placed another new online order:

-Revell 1/72 EC135 ANWB
-Revell 1/144 Boeing 737-800 "Air berlin"
-3 x Mini Hobby models 1/144 P-51D Mustang.

[Wardukw]

Fred i did remember one thing when you mentioned Airfix...mine was Italeri's verison ..so i do wonder if Revell's is better because in the early days Italeri always had bad plastic wheels ..fact come to think of it they still do 

[Pellson]

The two sets of DACO 1/144 German Starfighter decals I bought on your recommendation arrived last week. Looks absolutely great and will allow some elegant Luftwaffe whiffing of suddenly acquired post unification eastern aircraft. I might need more crosses and above all flags, but one thing at a time.

[Dizzyfugu]

Bought a Mistercraft 1:72 Saab J35 Draken (boxed as "Finnish markings") from ev!lbay. It's the abysmal vintage Revell kit, but has the following benefits:
a) dead cheap, but you get what you pay for... (see below  )
b) comes with optional photo recce/laser range finder (Danish) nose
c) instructions contain infomation about the only Swedish Draken that wore "Fields & Meadows" (Viggen splinter) camouflage, plus decals.

The latter information will probably be used to create a whiffy J 35 G from this kit (or from a Hasegawa model which I have in store somewhere, too), with the respective paint scheme. The Gustav was a dedicated attack variant for the Swedish air force that was never realized. Just have to check how terrible this kit reincarnation actually is; I have the same old Revell kit re-boxed by Accura, and this one has very nice re-scribed panel lines instead of the original raised surface details. It still needs lots of work on cockpit and landing gear, though, but as whiffing fodder it should be fine.

The Mistercraft Draken arrived and it is 1:1 the old Revell kit with raised (yet very fine) panel lines. The Akkura kit is apparently the better option, but it's sold old. Quite disturbing: both kits use the same manilpulated box art on the cover, one with a grey Swedish J35F, the other with a Finnish F-35 as motif. 

Is that the (very) old short-tailed Draken? If so, it is the easiest way to build an early J35A from the first batch in service.
The main differences are the canopy (three-light, the later one is two-light only) and the much shorter afterburner. Also the vertical fin tip is different with the pitot set below the tip.

No, it has the long tail. It's labelled as an F, but it contains the early, framed canopy. Strangely, the original Revell kit is supposed to come with a separate windscreen...?!? The Akkura kit also comes with the framed canopy that rather suggests a D instead of an F or J variant. As mentioned above, you have to do a lot of detail work to create something authentic from this model. OOB it's certainly no F or J, though. 

[Dizzyfugu]

The two sets of DACO 1/144 German Starfighter decals I bought on your recommendation arrived last week. Looks absolutely great and will allow some elegant Luftwaffe whiffing of suddenly acquired post unification eastern aircraft. I might need more crosses and above all flags, but one thing at a time.

TL Modellbau from Germany does a nice sheet with generic modern German markings, including two sizes of flags. They also have a sheet with the typcial white-egded DIN numbers for tactical codes, probably just in the right size for 1:72 and 1:32 aircraft.

https://tl-modellbau.de/Bundeswehr-Luftwaffe-1-72

https://tl-modellbau.de/Bundeswehr-Luftwaffe-tFlugzeugkennungT-1-72