Take a look at iRacing.com - fantastic.  They have laser scans of real tracks - a couple of them I've been on in 1:1 and they are spot on.  Super fun.

Nice stuff guys.  I'll take the Greyhound and the Airbus pleas ;)

Got some fun and different kits this Christmas

Oh wow those are awesome John! I love that T.rex skelly! Thanks for the website! I'll check it out when I finally get the gear dialed in. I'm still working on getting it set up now. 

Steve: For once in my life I was lucky. I ordered my PC back before Halloween of 2020 about a month before computer chips became as rare as hen's teeth and graphic cards shot though the roof. Best of luck getting your rig set up and running. 

Armornut: Whoa! I hope you post that 1/16th Stug when you're done with her. That's something I really want to see! 

WooHoo! It appears as though everyone is making out quite well on their X-mas booty.

Perry: Way to go on scoring the 1/16 stug III. I do hope you take us all along for that build journey.

Steve: You must have been a very good boy. What a righteous haul. The camera mount is a cool item. Curious what you have planned for the re-supply set. I've got one in my stash for sure.

Cliff: You done made very good yourself. Love the food trucks. 

Chris: Couple of beauts on your part. I like the greyhound.

Bish: That AVRE is certainly a unique subject. Sharp looking.

I received no kits but, the wife unit stuffed my stocking with some very nice bench accessories. My mother-in-law gave me the Badger paint mixer and paint jars. I am quite happy with it all. Now to pick out some choice kits with the X-mas $$ from my mother.

Forgot to include the stack of books - the Revell book is a great nostalgic walk through modeling.  I've been reading about the Spanish civil war on the web, fascinated with the crazy politics and the Condor Legion and prequel for Nazi Germany war power - Antony Beevor is one of my favorite history authors.  Lastly The Map Thief.  I've been involved in cartography, mostly digital cartography for a large part of my career so anything maps is a winner to me.

Very nice holiday scores guys! You all got some excellent additions to your respective stashes.

My last acquisition for this year. (Yes honey, I won’t buy another kit this year) The final piece of equipment that I needed to complete my 5th ID Ft Polk collection. At least among the major pieces of ground equipment that we used during my time there.

Until next year ;) 

Joe: Very cool! You can always use more tools. Esp me, I put all mine in a small toolbox but I still can't seem to find what I need when I need it... 

John: Those look cool esp 'The Map Thief' and the history behind companies like Revell makes some really interesting reading. 

Got this beautiful set of Hinomaru and flags so I can fix my Raiden (Gamera - expect and updated 'finished again' pic )

SP: Looks cool! I've wondered how good those kits are. I built some Italeri armour when I first started out in 1/35th but not since.

John: Ohhhhhhhh, now that's a nice looking sheet of hinomaru! 

Thanks Gamera. The 8" SP kit is good enough. Probably could use a little help here or there like new tracks, and other fine details. But overall it's good enough as is. I built the 175mm gun version long ago and was happy with that one.

Hi,

I'vepicked up a couple new kits over the last month.

It will probably be awhile before I can get to any of them, but for the most part I hope to do up the Ark Royal, Mikasa, the Missile Launchers, and the P6E as-is mostly out of the box, but was maybe thinking of doctoring up the Hs-123A-1 as a what-if, and also maybe use the 1/800 Kitty Hawk hull and fittings as a starting point for a 1/700 scale what-if along the lines of some of the more recent new French Aircraft carrier concepts. 

The Containership is something I bought on a whim, and it comes with an electric motor to play with in a pool, but in looking at it, it appears resinably accurate as a stright up 1/600 containership with a set of scale 40ft deck containers.  As such I may try and add some detail and keep it along side some of my other 1/600 scale models.  The only major changes I may make is adding a stern skeg for the centerline propeller, clean up some of the bits and chocks (they are a bit tall), and maybe try and add some railing, etc.

Pat

Great additons there Pat! That container ship is neat, looking forward to seeing what you do with her.

Nice additions everyone. It was a great Christmas and I received some pretty sweet kits.

Secret Santa got BrandonK the JSU-152 for xmas ;) - turned out great here:

https://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/186461.aspx?page=17

The K looks slightly different.

Thought I would post this late Christmas present.  The Revell P-51D-15 late version.

I would like to commend Megahobby for their fast shipping.  Even with their basic rate, it shipped out Monday and arrived Wednesday.  Here I was expecting 8 or 9 days!

Gary

Hi,

This is kind of a weird one, but I've seen this box at my (semi)-local hobby shop for a while now.  After looking it up on the internet I came to find that its apparently a scale model of a notional 300-325HP Gas Turbine that was developed for semi-trucks back in the 70s.  As such, I decided to go ahead and buy it, in part because it was only about $15, and because I thought that it might be interesting to get an idea of what a gas turbine for a land vehicle might look like.  

Pat

Wine and eBay are a bad combination.  I don't know why, but I bought one of these. 

Going to be fun seeing you build that one Chad. Just lay off the wine when you do.

Pat, what does that sea dar/sea wolf kit look like. Got that on my shopping list for this year.

Bish,

Hi.  Sorry for the poorlighting, but here is a picture of the instructions, decals, a little bit of PE, and the parts for both launchers.

For reference the white Board I photographed the parts on is 508mm x 762mm (20" x30") so both launchers look like they will be decent sized models. Additionally they give you parts for 6 Sea Wolf missiles, to go in the Sextuple launcher, but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of the actual luancher with all doors open.  (Maybe I can try and use some of the missiles as a basis for a scratchbuilt Light Weight launcher or a VLS tube )

Anyway, it looks to be a very nice double kit.

Happy New Year

Pat

Thanks Pat. I really want to add this to my RN collection.I have seen images of all 6 rear dors open when the launcher is being loaded, but not all the forward doors. A VLS set up would be interesting, maybe a side cutaway.

Oh wow!!! 

Love that Canadian Leopard and JSU-152K John, the huge Mustang Gary and gas turbine engine Pat.

And WOW Chad, whatta score!

A box arrived on 12/23, just before our office closed for Christmas.

Some model mags, two cars, an F-104 "Maru-Yon", a space pirate fighter, some 1/144 US Navy carrier deck crew, and... a park bench with trash receptacle and skateboard!

And this is my one Christmas model kit from a friend.

The Lancia is a sweet subject! Remember that car as a kid. It was one of my uncle Dennis' favorites. That's a reall eclectic mix you got there! What will you build 1st?

Chris,

Yeah, I love the Lancia's wedge shape too!  I also have the 1977 Monaco rally car in the stash.  I figured I'd do a simpler version first.  Plus it comes with a pretty lady.

I will most likely do the park bench first, just for giggles. 

Oh those are cool Real G! Love the bench, the Nausicaa figure, and the Harpy fighter. 

Is that magazine in the foreground showing a figure of the elf gal from the 'Record of the Lodoss War'? My DM in the first D&D game I played decades ago was obsessed with that anime series. Had't thought about it in years... 

Yep Gamera, the elf on the magazine cover is Deedlit.  Max Factory makes the kit (it's injection molded and 1/20 scale). I bought the mag because it featured character and mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi, who gave us the mechs from Patlabor and Gundam 0080.

Yeah, Deedlit, that's it! Thanks!!!

Looking forward to seeing some of that cool stuff underweigh! 

Marvelous additions folks. I always love seeing new and interesting kits I had no idea were out there. 

Neal: Man, I love your newest haul. I especially like the Lotus Esprit. I have always admired that car.

Some new items have hit my stash:

This just caught my fancy for some reason

I finally got my hands on these 2 sweet reference books. I've been longing for these for quite some nice.

Oh cool Joe! Love the Thunderbird. And those books look interesting, I need to look around online for those!