My Stash Just Grew Again 2023

[The Wooksta!]

Forgot the main reason for this post... Arrived today... 

Ooh! Nice!! 

It is indeed! The kit looks great in the box, too. Resin and PE bits, nice decals. and it's not an expensive kit for what you get. Obviously, assembly will show if it's as good as it looks but, i don't care cause the Firebrand comes into my top 5 fighters list with a radial engine. I actually put the Firebrand in the same league as the Goodyear F2G Corsair when it comes to looks and both are similar and i find it hard to choose one of the two... 

My pair were the mk 4 and the earlier scheme TF5. TBH, I'd like that boxing, if only for the decals but Valom rarely get them right.

Lee, i won't be using most of the decals, if you want them, they're yours. 



The only ones i'd like to keep are just the stencils. those would be number 3,4,5,6,,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16. I'll probably end up building this as a Portuguese Naval Aviation bird, flying off a WWII surplus carrier bought after the war's end. I normally use the kit's decals sheet for stencils and change the country's markings only so that's why i'd like to keep the numbers i've mentioned.
Let me know if you want them like that and i'll send them your way.

If Lee doesn't take them I will 

Gondor

That sheet does look to be better than Valom's usual standard - the ones in the Brigands and Valetta just looked wrong

I'm a greedy, self centred individual but trying to be better. I'd happily halve the sheet with Gondor, if that's okay?

TBH,  other than the ancient Airmodel vacform, I think  I have at least one of each Firebrand V kit released.  I was looking at a Rareplanes one the other day and considering building it at some point this year.

[Gondor]

Forgot the main reason for this post... Arrived today... 

Ooh! Nice!! 

It is indeed! The kit looks great in the box, too. Resin and PE bits, nice decals. and it's not an expensive kit for what you get. Obviously, assembly will show if it's as good as it looks but, i don't care cause the Firebrand comes into my top 5 fighters list with a radial engine. I actually put the Firebrand in the same league as the Goodyear F2G Corsair when it comes to looks and both are similar and i find it hard to choose one of the two... 

My pair were the mk 4 and the earlier scheme TF5. TBH, I'd like that boxing, if only for the decals but Valom rarely get them right.

Lee, i won't be using most of the decals, if you want them, they're yours. 



The only ones i'd like to keep are just the stencils. those would be number 3,4,5,6,,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16. I'll probably end up building this as a Portuguese Naval Aviation bird, flying off a WWII surplus carrier bought after the war's end. I normally use the kit's decals sheet for stencils and change the country's markings only so that's why i'd like to keep the numbers i've mentioned.
Let me know if you want them like that and i'll send them your way.

If Lee doesn't take them I will 

Gondor

That sheet does look to be better than Valom's usual standard - the ones in the Brigands and Valetta just looked wrong

I'm a greedy, self centred individual but trying to be better. I'd happily halve the sheet with Gondor, if that's okay?

TBH,  other than the ancient Airmodel vacform, I think  I have at least one of each Firebrand V kit released.  I was looking at a Rareplanes one the other day and considering building it at some point this year.

Ta Lee, not worried about the roundels as I have sheets of post war ones I can use.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

The RNVR Southern Air Wing had the very last one as a mascot at RAF Benson when I lived there in 1957.

I hope you took it for a walk every day ? 

I used to go down to the end of the crash road, climb up my 'Spotting Tree' and look at it most days. 

When they closed down the RNVR Air Wings in '57 they folded the Firebrand's wings and towed it up the hill to their Mess with a Land-Rover! Try as I may, I've yet to find out what happened to it after that, but it has to have been scrapped at some time as there's none left anywhere AFAIK.

[The Wooksta!]

Forgot the main reason for this post... Arrived today... 

Ooh! Nice!! 

It is indeed! The kit looks great in the box, too. Resin and PE bits, nice decals. and it's not an expensive kit for what you get. Obviously, assembly will show if it's as good as it looks but, i don't care cause the Firebrand comes into my top 5 fighters list with a radial engine. I actually put the Firebrand in the same league as the Goodyear F2G Corsair when it comes to looks and both are similar and i find it hard to choose one of the two... 

My pair were the mk 4 and the earlier scheme TF5. TBH, I'd like that boxing, if only for the decals but Valom rarely get them right.

Lee, i won't be using most of the decals, if you want them, they're yours. 



The only ones i'd like to keep are just the stencils. those would be number 3,4,5,6,,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16. I'll probably end up building this as a Portuguese Naval Aviation bird, flying off a WWII surplus carrier bought after the war's end. I normally use the kit's decals sheet for stencils and change the country's markings only so that's why i'd like to keep the numbers i've mentioned.
Let me know if you want them like that and i'll send them your way.

If Lee doesn't take them I will 

Gondor

That sheet does look to be better than Valom's usual standard - the ones in the Brigands and Valetta just looked wrong

I'm a greedy, self centred individual but trying to be better. I'd happily halve the sheet with Gondor, if that's okay?

TBH,  other than the ancient Airmodel vacform, I think  I have at least one of each Firebrand V kit released.  I was looking at a Rareplanes one the other day and considering building it at some point this year.

Ta Lee, not worried about the roundels as I have sheets of post war ones I can use.

Gondor

I was thinking you get one serial option, I get the other kind of split.

Wonder how much of a recursive loop can be built up by repeat quotes?

An order for an unspecified number of kits has gone in with a seller known to many of this parish.  Additionally, there's an order in with Uncle Frank for a KPM Aviation S-99 in Czech Air police markings.

There's a few others of the AZ/KPM Bf 109 family I'd like to get my mitts on, mainly for some late/post war hijinks. Don't want to get too sucked down that rabbithle again.

[NARSES2]

An order for an unspecified number of kits has gone in with a seller known to many of this parish.  Additionally, there's an order in with Uncle Frank for a KPM Aviation S-99 in Czech Air police markings.

There's a few others of the AZ/KPM Bf 109 family I'd like to get my mitts on, mainly for some late/post war hijinks. Don't want to get too sucked down that rabbithle again.

They're nice kits Lee. A little fiddly in places, especially the cockpit, but on the whole pleasant builds.

[zenrat]

While i'll obviously see if it hooks up to any of my 1/144 Gundams i'm pretty sure i'll be whiffing it.

But isn't it a Whiff already ? Asks Chris who has no idea what Gundams are ? 

Yes, but that doesn't mean I have to build it OOB does it? 

Gundams, Chris, are very large armoured humanoid figures (AKA Mobile Suits) which are piloted by teenagers with either floppy hair or long legs, short skirts and huge eyes depending on sex.
Commonly (and incorrectly as they are piloted) referred to as Giant Robots.

[PR19_Kit]

Why teenagers? 

[Nick]

Why teenagers? 

Because teenagers buy comic books, and they buy more comic books that feature teenagers.

[Dizzyfugu]

Gundam is a HUGE thing in Japan, it's one (probably THE, it's the archetype for a whole genre) so-called "real-robot" anime TV series, since the Eighties. Personally, the mecha designs are not my thing because the good guy resemble IMHO too much robotized samurai knights - but the overall look and feel of the series and its universe has a realistic touch. Several other real robot series followed suit, e.g- Macross, (fang of the Sun) Dougram, Patlabor, Dorvack or Votoms. But Gundam is the benchmark, and its model merchandize stil highly popular.

[killnoizer]

Received this nice BV 155 today, build that the first time around 1979 .

It is a real big plane , compared with a Standard Me 109 . And what wings it got !! 

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[NARSES2]

Gundams, Chris, are very large armoured humanoid figures (AKA Mobile Suits) which are piloted by teenagers with either floppy hair or long legs, short skirts and huge eyes depending on sex.
Commonly (and incorrectly as they are piloted) referred to as Giant Robots.

Thank you 

[NARSES2]

Received this nice BV 155 today, build that the first time around 1979 .

It is a real big plane , compared with a Standard Me 109 . And what wings it got !! 

 

It's a nice build as well

[PR19_Kit]

Got to be better than the Pegasus Bv-155 for sure!

[Gondor]

Received today from eBay,

1 x 1/72 Contral Model AIrcraft, Fairey Gordon. I have an idea to do this as Gordon of Khartoum as the aircraft did fly from there which will be slightly misleading because people will think of Charles George Gordon

Gondor

[Spey_Phantom]

arrived today (one was a gift from the missus):

-Special Hobby 1/72 Douglas DB-7C/A-20A/A-20B HAvoc/Boston
-Takom 1/72 Sänger-bredt Silbervogel