Our Latest Acquisitions 2017-2024

lear-  sorry to say, no sir, but was a nice thought.  Was looking for awhile myself for one to go with the 1/72 BUFF

Gamera

Bakster: Love that Icarus! Did it come with any astronauts for scale? 

Gamera... I am sorry to say that it does not come with figures. Watch for a WIP on this in a few months. In the meantime... if you have more questions on it...feel fre to ask. 

My latest addition was a spue of the moment buy. End of last week i came across a company that does AM sets for the AFV Club Sciitar and Scorpion. Amongst them they have a backdate set and a conversion set for vehicles used during the Falklands war. I have been wanting to do an AFV from that war for ages, makes a change from the usual ships and aircraft. Then i found a company in the UK which sells not only those AM sets but also the AFV Club kits and AM tracks as well as sets of their own.

So, i took the chance and picked up a kit, tracks and the AM sets.

I may get a set of synthetic tow cables later from the same place, but these were enough for now. And this is my first AFV Club kit that isn't a 251 halftrack.

Looks great Bish. The Scimitar is a cool looking AFV.

GH, I always wanted a Storch, that is going to be a great build. That B-36 is HUGE and that is such a great movie.

Joe, I like that 205 and I have the AM F3F-2 in the stash. looking forward into breaking into it.

MC - there area couple on the bay in 1/32, 1/48 and 1/72, just depends on wants and budget.

modelcrazy

Looks great Bish. The Scimitar is a cool looking AFV.

GH, I always wanted a Storch, that is going to be a great build. That B-36 is HUGE and that is such a great movie.

Joe, I like that 205 and I have the AM F3F-2 in the stash. looking forward into breaking into it.

 

 

Ye it is, but not very roomy inside. Unfortunatly i never learnt to drive one, but then it might have been a squeeze for me to get in.

very nice bish. I myself have been looking at modern armor to take a break from my ww2 aircraft. I have taken an interest in USA Bradley's and German marders for a start. no kits as of yet.

blackdog62

very nice bish. I myself have been looking at modern armor to take a break from my ww2 aircraft. I have taken an interest in USA Bradley's and German marders for a start. no kits as of yet.

 

I've been getting a bit of a modern British collection last couple of years as somthing different to all my German kits. I am especially looking at British armour that i worked with or close to. The collection is growing quite a bit. Still want to get a British MLRS.

sounds like you was in the military. that would really give some good insite to detailing. I never was in the sevice but I grew up on a ranch that was land locked in a air cav. base so I'm quite fond helicopters. it was called fort ord in central California USA. but it's closed down now.

blackdog62

sounds like you was in the military. that would really give some good insite to detailing. I never was in the sevice but I grew up on a ranch that was land locked in a air cav. base so I'm quite fond helicopters. it was called fort ord in central California USA. but it's closed down now.

 

Ye, i was in the army for 22 years, Infantry. Spent 12 of those in an armoured Inf battalion, so spent a lot of time around armour, even learnt how to drive a couple of types. But i am rather fond of helicopters as well, i do like flying in them and spent my last 5 years in a helicopter support unit, mainly working with underslung loads, so standing under a hoovering helo is a lot of fun. Haveing gone to the Falklands 3 times with that unit, combined with remembering watching the events of the war on the news, is why i am keen on building subjects from 82.

Blimey, a ranch in the middle of the base. That base must have been huge. I did spend a few weeks at El Centro, i know the base there is pretty big.

Tojo72

Looks like a nice project,actually I’ve been trying to sell mine,one of those kits I bought but never looked at since then.Looking forward to yours.

 

I am guessing your having trouble selling it off. I take it there is not much call for British armour there, don't see of it. Even at model shows here we don't see much of it.

wow that's cool how did you get to the Falklands ?

I watched it on the news also even added a fal. to my arsenal my most cherished one.

yep we had to drive with in a few hundred feet of the runway. chopper to no end.

watching a cobra going into an attack dive is somthing to really see.

I was just watching utube the other day thinking what a feeling that must be. watching those guys working on slinging loads under a hovering chopper.

maybe you can tell me what this means.

across the top of 1 of the hanger doors it in great big letters. THINK FOD. I know it's a different army but maybe a chopper thing?

A long bloody flight, 18 hours including a 2 hour stop on Ascension Island.

Ye, standing under a big chopper like a Chinook can be very interesting. But i was once under a Sea Stallion in Afghan, downwash was so powerful could not even stand up when right underneath it. They used to get escorted out by Cobra's, nice looking chopper. They had a good selecion of types at Bastion, British Chinooks, Apache and Sea King, American Sea Stalions, Cobras and Black Hawks plus Russian Hips used by the UN and even a huge Halo on a couple of occasions.

blackdog62

maybe you can tell me what this means.

across the top of 1 of the hanger doors it in great big letters. THINK FOD. I know it's a different army but maybe a chopper thing?

 

FOD, Foreign Object Debris. Anything left laying around that can damage an aircraft. Aircraft mechanics have it drummed into them about leaving tools and such, everything has to be checked out and checked back.

When i was at RAF Odiham, every week we had to do a complete FOD sweep of the airfield to make sure there was no ruddish or anythign that could get blown up by an helo.

I am sure both British and Americans use the same term.

Pretty much....we just called it Foreign Object Damage. Amazing that a small bolt,nut, screw or whatever can get sucked off the ground into an engine.  Small hard bits play havoc with turbine blades turning at even idle.

A few videos out there of large FOD, ie. man, geting sucked into an intake, especially on carriers.  That wrecks everyone's day from the theatre commander all the way down tho the engine room "black gang".

I worked in an avionics squadron, our flightline tool kits had foam inserts cut out to fit every tool in them.  You accounted for each spot in the foam, and then double checked again.  Then in preflight, the crew chief crawled into the intakes (Phantoms) with a flashlight to check again before engine start.

lol bish thank you. I can't tell you how many times had read that as a kid growing up. I left the ranch at the age of 21 and I'm now 55 and I never stoped wondering what that ment. that makes sense why the letters where so big. I guess a simple tool being sucked up to a rotor or turbine could cause some damage or even harm.

wow 18 hrs is a long flight hopefully it was not just a cargo plane. after watching a documentary on the Falkland it looked like your armed forces had a bit of a time just getting there.

If any small item takes out a turbine blade, generally the engine suffers abrupt rapid, and noisy disentigration, usually with lots of fire and smoke, and lots of added ventilation in the airframe.

yep that dose not sound good at all. especially at altitude.

blackdog62

lol bish thank you. I can't tell you how many times had read that as a kid growing up. I left the ranch at the age of 21 and I'm now 55 and I never stoped wondering what that ment. that makes sense why the letters where so big. I guess a simple tool being sucked up to a rotor or turbine could cause some damage or even harm.

wow 18 hrs is a long flight hopefully it was not just a cargo plane. after watching a documentary on the Falkland it looked like your armed forces had a bit of a time just getting there.

 

Ye, fortunatly it was a more comfy flight than a Herc.

It was a tough job getting there back in 82. A small group of islands 8,000 miles from home and the nearest freindly land is a tiny island which was still 4000 miles away.

A big problem with FOD for helicopters is that the downwash blows anything lose into the air which can then either strike the chopper or hit some one on the grownd.

Thanks for your service Bish.  Great grandad died at the 3rd battle of ypres - loyal north Lancashire.   Grandad was coastal artillery in wwii.

keavdog

Thanks for your service Bish.  Great grandad died at the 3rd battle of ypres - loyal north Lancashire.   Grandad was coastal artillery in wwii.

 

Really, well, funnily i left the army in your Great Grandfathers succesor Regt, the Duke of Lancasters.

Just picked this baby up! Original price: $25. Price on shelf: $7. Price I ended up paying, with club and employee discounts?: $4.25.INCLUDING tax.

Bish

My latest addition was a spue of the moment buy. End of last week i came across a company that does AM sets for the AFV Club Sciitar and Scorpion. Amongst them they have a backdate set and a conversion set for vehicles used during the Falklands war. I have been wanting to do an AFV from that war for ages, makes a change from the usual ships and aircraft. Then i found a company in the UK which sells not only those AM sets but also the AFV Club kits and AM tracks as well as sets of their own.

So, i took the chance and picked up a kit, tracks and the AM sets.

I may get a set of synthetic tow cables later from the same place, but these were enough for now. And this is my first AFV Club kit that isn't a 251 halftrack.

 

Joe, modern armour doesn't do it for me all that much either, i do have an attachment for the British stuff though.

The 40th anniversary of the Falklands war is coming up in a few years, so you never know

And employee discount.  YOU work in a LHS.  Sounds like a dream job.

TheWaggishAmerican

Just picked this baby up! Original price: $25. Price on shelf: $7. Price I ended up paying, with club and employee discounts?: $4.25.INCLUDING tax.

Wnet to my LHS and had to buy something,  It is a addiction!

Not sure whay I got it other than it's kinda wierd, it's british and althought you can't really tell in the photo the decals are quite fluorescent.   Plus it's a new tool airfix.  It looks really good and I do like the decals.  Should be a fun little build,  now I have to decide if I want to look for AM ejection seats or add scratch build stuf to them.

John