My Stash Just Grew Again 2023

[Old Wombat]

Found one of my holy grail kits today on ebay, from an Italian seller. It had buy it now option but no postage option for Portugal so, i contacted the seller and he offered tracked postage so i bought a Valom 1/72 Blackburn Firebrand TF Mk.II. 

[Rick Lowe]

A google search for G.506 trucks came up with this.



I've ordered a set of big fat resin wheels and tyres.

 

Awesome - and that would be an interesting painting challenge, right there! 

[NARSES2]

Found one of my holy grail kits today on ebay, from an Italian seller. It had buy it now option but no postage option for Portugal so, i contacted the seller and he offered tracked postage so i bought a Valom 1/72 Blackburn Firebrand TF Mk.II. 

It's not the easiest of builds, but with a little care it goes together    Still got another one sitting in the stash along with one of their Mk Vs

[DogfighterZen]

Found one of my holy grail kits today on ebay, from an Italian seller. It had buy it now option but no postage option for Portugal so, i contacted the seller and he offered tracked postage so i bought a Valom 1/72 Blackburn Firebrand TF Mk.II. 

It's not the easiest of builds, but with a little care it goes together    Still got another one sitting in the stash along with one of their Mk Vs

Thanks for the heads-up, Chris! 
Using the ghostbusters' song... I'm afraid of no kit!      
In fact, i have a plan that may very well go ahead with that kit... the canopy was changed on the Mk.III to the teardrop type... what if it had been done sooner on the TF Mk. II? Maybe with that change, the bigger tail surfaces were also installed on the Mk. II...
I know that those were enlarged to counter the Centaurus engine's torque but i like the look of them like that so, i can't wait to get the kit to decide what i wanna do.

[zenrat]

Another delivery today.

20230428_151549 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
20230428_151611 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Steel Penguin]

half of the result of me falling off the wagon earlier this week have arrived

Xtradecal X48022   Raf fighter codes  MSG 24" and 30"  i need a set of  letters for the Peanut painted Lear Jet with the A-10  engines  G- DARE  on each side.
the Bronco 1:35 Marching PLA figure set, will be chopped and modded for use with other things,
Barton Miniatures  1:35 present day British RAC officer,  and Tank Crewman,  for use with my modern british stuff
and for when i do the Grav cars in the same scale   Preiser 1:24 Eve set, as ive only ever seen part sets at massive prices at shows i will have to dress then with putty etc when used, but ive done such conversions with 28mm figs how much harder can it be ?     

[killnoizer]

I found some old kits in one of my garage storages outside ... bought them long time ago If anyone is interested in parts of the 747 please call me , i will just use the wings and engines ( and the big plastic pieces as Material ) .

You cannot view this attachment.You cannot view this attachment. 

[Gondor]

My Loot from the first day of the Scottish Nationals



Opps... that should be Lute 

1 x 1/72 Airfix A04061 Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV to be converted to a Mk.V

1 x 1/72 Sword SW72118 Lightning T.4/5 to be a T.4 as I already have a T.5

And that was all the kits

Gondor

[kitbasher]

From Sussex Model Centre having seen one built at the South Downs Model Show next door, a just-released Airfix F-35B.  The made up example looked fantastic, looking forward to building mine.

[Rick Lowe]

From a friend who buys estate collections, the 1/35 Italeri Dodge Ambulance.
Something I've been thinking looked cool for a lot of years now, and it was there at a sensible price, so "Why not?" sez I. 

[The Wooksta!]

Snagged a Mistercraft Bf 100G12 yesterday in town whilst looking for something else.

Dear god, it's terrible, being based on the vile Intech 109 tooling, a poor copy of the Hasegawa kit.  Very crude moulding, nothing fits and the plastic quality is horrible.

I really should have known, having struggled with an Intech one some 25 years back, but the box, decals and instructions are very nice, more so than the plastic.

For some reason it comes with the tall tail.  May end up as a Spanish one based on a G-2 airframe.

[killnoizer]

Got a cheap noname A10 in 1:48 from fleamarket , maybe it comes together well with a 48'  Me 262 from my storage some day ...  And a lot of parts and decals .
And a Defender for a friend who got the real one in white,  and a Caterpillar for some tracks to build .

You cannot view this attachment.

[NARSES2]

From the South Downs Model Show and the Sussex Model Centre next door, and boy was the later a revelation !

You cannot view this attachment.

You cannot view this attachment. 

The P.11F will quite possibly be Finnish ? Whilst the Typhoon was originally to have been a real world version, but coming home on the train I was musing on building it as a 112 Sqd machine in Italy during 1945 ?

[Gondor]

My haul from day two of the Scottish Nationals was

1 x 1/72 Italeri 1229 UH-1 F Huey, probably French, maybe Navy 

1 x 1/35 AFV Club AF35122 Centurion Mk 5/2 `6 105mm Gun (NATO)

Gondor

[The Wooksta!]

Snagged a pair of Matchbox Heinkel He 70s of the Bay of E for coppers over 3 notes plus post.  Revell boxing so should have good decals.

Planning on real world Spain for these.