Whoopeeee!

Congratulations on a purchase well done.  Great pick up!

Toshi

Jim  

Awesome buy!  You should have a ball.  Good find.  Please share your results.

John

10 bucks a pop aint bad at all!

The Avenger kit is great...done 2...2 stashed.

Dauntless is also very good (PE flaps help)...done 1...2 stashed.

P-51, also quite good...done 4 B/C's, 2 A's and the A-36.

190...I dunno!

Another great one from AccuMini is the Vindicator.

The AM Avenger is consider by some to be the best injection-molded kit in quarter scale...I didn't know they did a 190???

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I'll say! Just the two Avengers alone are probably worth what you paid for the whole shebang.... 

And there's lots of aftermarket decals out there for these aircraft.

WOW !! I have most of those in my stash and I know I paid far more than $71 for them. Great find, and decals are an easy fix. 

BK

Wow!!! Whadda deal!! The Eduard 190's are actually the AM molds. I was wanting an Accurate Miniatures 190 for the longest time until I realized I had one in Royal Class form.

I just bought a couple things from that guy.  There have been several sellers in Kentucky getting no decals AM kits at auction!  You can sometimes find the decals on eBay separately.  Sprue Brothers has some Mustang, Avenger, and Stormovik decal sheets for $0.99! 

Let me know if the P-51A has the correct nose on it, with the wide intake.  I tried asking him a couple times and he would never address the question.  The P-51As he's selling have the camera parts so I'm worried they're actually the sprues from the defective F-6B kit. 

GreenStyrene48

I just bought a couple things from that guy.  There have been several sellers in Kentucky getting no decals AM kits at auction!  You can sometimes find the decals on eBay separately.  Sprue Brothers has some Mustang, Avenger, and Stormovik decal sheets for $0.99! 

Let me know if the P-51A has the correct nose on it, with the wide intake.  I tried asking him a couple times and he would never address the question.  The P-51As he's selling have the camera parts so I'm worried they're actually the sprues from the defective F-6B kit. 

 

No problem!  There shouldn't be any issue with the F-6A.  Sprue Brothers has decals for the P-51 kit # 3400 if you need any.  There are lots of other aftermarket decal options, but the decal for the instrument panel is nice!  When I build those kits I dip the panel in Future floor wax like I do with canopies, then apply the decal face down to the back.  I add a little white glue to the decal water so it sticks better.  Then I mask the dials with little globs of white glue and airbrush the panel.  The white glue pops right off with a toothpick and you can drybrush the raised detail if desired.  I've done the Dauntless panel the same way. 

You sure did. AM kits (many still out there via Academy and - I think - Italeri) are all very classy builds - ahead of their time. I've got the SBD, TBM and P51A (as well as the last Grumman biplane USN fighter - F3A?) and they are all top notch. Also have their 1/48 B-25 which will be a major project some day real soon. (Outside of a ATM Havoc, it will be my last 1/48 scale bomber. Space is a big deal for me, so 1/72 will help out. Some really sweet multi-engined planes in that scale in the last few years. BTW: if any have cockpit masks, use them - the one's I've seen look simple but are nicely cut.)

Eric

Another thing. You've got two SBDs and TBMs? You could do one of either of those in the very neat off-white/gull gray USN camo that was used for both of those aircraft flying off CVEs (and the Bogue - actually a converted liberty ship I think) employed on "hunter-killer" missions in 44 against U-boats in the Atlantic. Very successful tactic by that time of the war. One of my favorite color schemes.

Eric

Oh yeah. You definitely scored. The closest I've ever come to that was when I won my 60 dollar bid on a Promodeler JU-88A which came with three different resin cockpit sets, a photo etched cockpit set, 2 photo etched sets for the Hobbycraft JU-88s, Three sets of decals, two sets of canopy masks, two sets of photoetched details for the Hobbycraft AR234, several sets of resin cast guns, radio boxes for the JU-88, and what looked like some cast metal parts for a DO-17. There might have been more but there was so much in that box that it was like Christmas in July.

Yes, that's an excellent haul, for the price you got.  Now, get building!