My stash just grew again 2024

[Weaver]

ICM 1/72nd BQM-34A Firebee target drone - discounted from £18 to £10

1 x Heller Draken, bagged but complete - £6

LMAO - Well in the latest TWO installments of "I'm an idiot" news:

1. The Firebee is 1/48th, not 1/72nd, so no, I'm not hanging it under a 1/72nd Lancaster any time soon. Might sell it, or might keep it: it has potential as a scaleorama'd 1/72nd light fighter, although there's NOWHERE for a conventional undercarriage to go. Unconventional solutions on the other hand...Hmmm

2. The Heller Draken is missing it's outer wing panels and fin. Doesn't matter though: it has lots of useful bits (this is from the multi-variant days of Heller so it builds fighter, recce and trainer versions with alternative parts) and if I want to build something silly based on a Draken, I don't have to feel guilty about "wasting" a nice Heller kit or use a nasty Airfix one.

Both of these are straight up my fault. Yes, the Firebee box was so well sealed up that I didn't open it, but the scale is clearly marked on the top (obviously), and I opened the Draken bag and looked at it and didn't clock the missing parts.

[zenrat]

I've looked at those Firebees and though about doing just that.
How about scabbing on sponsons for the wheels?  Or floats?
Or skis for the Snowy GB.


Today I received one each of these sets from the city LHS.

[Weaver]

I've looked at those Firebees and though about doing just that.
How about scabbing on sponsons for the wheels?  Or floats?
Or skis for the Snowy GB.

Hmm: a big ski under the centreline and wingtip outrigger might work. Also, although the wings look very fragile, Firebees have carried underwing stores and (relatively) huge drop tanks, so it could possibly stand twin floats.

However my thoughts went more along the lines of a ZELL point-defence fighter, with a rocket motor in the tail and droppable RATO bottles, Falcons on the wingtips, and either parachute recovery (the kit has a handy separate panel on the spine), or land-based flexi-deck recovery*.

ICM also do the earlier dumpy-looking version (which I nearly bought as well) which would look right if you backdated it to a WWII project.

*If the flexi-deck project was British, then it's Rainbow Code should be "Red Carpet", obviously...

[Gondor]

*If the flexi-deck project was British, then it's Rainbow Code should be "Red Carpet", obviously...

With the name "Oscar" painted on the side of the nose

[The Chaos]

New at my Stash,
Bought the Dragons on Ebay for under 35 € per kit

[DogfighterZen]

Got a call from my wife saying these were waiting for me...

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Everything is 1/48 this time, Hasegawa F-8J, Hobby Boss ADV Tornado, Quickboost Late ECS vents for Meng's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, PJ productions Eurofighter and F-35 pilot resin figures

[Howard of Effingham]

Minor amendment to yesterday.... the ICM German WW2 Pilot and groundcrew set had a Bf109F2 kit in as well.

Senior moment but a welcome one.

[Rick Lowe]

*If the flexi-deck project was British, then it's Rainbow Code should be "Red Carpet", obviously...

With the name "Oscar" painted on the side of the nose

    

More 3-D printing;
A 1/1 HALO Pistol
A 1/1 Space:1999 Stun Gun
2X SW-themed Minions, Darth and Trooper, which will be re-armed with a "I said Dart Gun, not a ..."

[Weaver]

*If the flexi-deck project was British, then it's Rainbow Code should be "Red Carpet", obviously...

With the name "Oscar" painted on the side of the nose

    

[Weaver]

Minor amendment to yesterday.... the ICM German WW2 Pilot and groundcrew set had a Bf109F2 kit in as well.

Senior moment but a welcome one.

Seems to have been the weekend for Senior Moments. I swear to dog we wern't smoking anything - I'm beginning to suspect somebody spiked the chocolate flapjacks in the cafe...  

[Gondor]

Just received from the BIG yellow H

1 x 1/72 Transport Wings TWC72043 Dart 510 Engines (pack of four engines) to go onto a March 2 Argosy, sometime 

Several bottles of Tamiya paint. I have storage on the way for the paint but it only takes the newer smaller bottles

Gondor

[Charlie_c67]

A&A Models 1/72 Hawk 200 has winged it's way to me from the big H thanks to the heads up from Weaver. Now, has anyone got a source of good Taildog or real Skyflash AAM's 

[Steel Penguin]

a small order from kingkit

a 1:35 Italari weapons set   ( cheap as it had no .50cals,  but i can use the rest,
a Hasagawa 1:48 JaSDF weapon set  A,  thats earmarked for the TSR-2
and a Hasagawa 1:48 Citation 1  which gives me another biz jet to re engine, 

[Zero-Sen]

A list of recently acquired kits from various sources:

1/48 Eduard Mirage IIIC
1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Vb with RAF crew

1/72 Matchbox Aeritalia G.91Y
1/72 Hasegawa F9F-8 COUGAR
1/72 MPM Production HA-200 Saeta
1/72 Special Hobby F.M.A. IA 58A Pucará
1/72 Sword Nothrop N-9MA
1/72 Dujin Caudron-Regnier C-366 (resin)
1/72 Dujin Caudron-Renault C-450 (resin)
1/72 Academy FW190D-9
1/72 Hasegawa Jaguar Gr Mk1
1/72 Emhar McDonnell F3H Demon (x2)
1/72 Hasegawa Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star

[Gondor]

Received today from the BIG yellow H

1 x 1/72 Modelsvit 72023 Mirage III V-01

1 x 1/72 Valom 72164 Avro Anson C.19

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72473 CAC CA-19 Wirraway

1 x 1/72 Model Art 72/068 Fouga MAGISTER & SEA KING HAS1

Gondor