Nice bag, Straycat, I've never built an A6, but always liked it, and that Revell box art is very smart.

Got some supplies in this week -

A couple of Vallejo paint sets from e-bay, a set of (very cheap!) flat brushes from an art/craft chain store called The Works, and some picture wire (1/35 tow cables), polishing compound, and beeswax from yesterday's trip to Durham market.  I'm going to try using the beeswax to replace a missing sealing ring on an airbrush nozzle.

Straycat: Nice selection!

Hutch: Cool! I recently used AV Vallejo paint on a Spitfire and was very pleased with the results. Good luck with the missing seal ring. 

Real G: Thanks a lot!!! I thought I'd bought all the military kits I need for the rest of my life and then the car guys in our club got me into a auto model buying kick. Just what I need is to start buying mechs now!!! 

This just showed up on my front porch:

I've noticed that since I went back to work in April, my buying has picked up a bit, with this gorgeous Phantom, a Lancaster, a Tempest, a Fokker Dr.I, and a couple of old Monogram Snoopy classics suddenly showing up on my porch.  

just picked this up at HL.   had extra $ in my pocket and boxed kits were 40% off total impulse buy!

Gonna look for after market decals as I don't want to do Memphis Bell

John

falconmod

Gonna look for after market decals as I don't want to do Memphis Bell

Waaa  Nobody ever made a Belle before  Actally I found plenty marking for other F's.

I'll probably do Thunderbird, but it's a G from the 303 Bomb Group, which was stationed here in Boise before heading to England.

Phantoms and Phortresses!!!

Um I mean Fortresses..

Still awesome whatever you call them!

Another kit I didn't need LOL.

Tamiya new tool Panzer. 

I've just bagged this from ebay UK, should be here on Monday 5th July..

I saw lots of these in the day at Silverstone where I marshalled most weekends!

Cool Pat.  Never built a nunu-beemax.  You'll have to let us know how looks and goes together.

keavdog I have just finished a NuNu BMW M3,  really good kit, I particularly like the black window trim decals! 

It's the bright yellow one in Auto's a couple of pages back.

nice pick up's guy's. I just got this in. I haven't built a car in two years maybe a break from military stuff.

This one is tiny but these Arma kits have a suprising amount of fine detail considering the size plus some photoetch.

Well the postman brought this today! I saw it on eBay weeks ago and had been watching it. Around the time of my birthday the seller sent me one of those discounted offers with free shipping, so I took the deal. Happy Birthday to me! Lol! 

I built this kit when it was a new release, so I’ll have another go at it now, and theoretically do a better job now that I have a lot more skills, experience, and tools. I love this old experimental camo, and besides, this kit really has one of the best load outs of any 1/48 A-10 kits, Rockeyes & Mavericks.

Nice Stik - worth it for the weapons set alone.  Looking forward to seeing that camo.

Oh cool guys! 

RCGuy: Nice Panzer IV and that Fokker E.V is going to be tiny in 1/72nd scale!!! 

SP: Very cool! Happy Birthday sir!!!!! Always fun to pick up something you built in your youth and apply your improved skills! 

Happy birthday Stick!

I built it's younger brother in 89. I don't remember the build so much as the way I had it displayed,  flying in a steep turn. 

Happy Birthday Stik!

Oh wow, I also bought that kit when it was new!  I bought mine from Pete's Modelcraft in Kahala Mall.  I chickened out on the chicken pox camo and went for Euro-I.

No major kits to speak of, but I have purchased some accessories.

- German tanker figure for a 1/18 tiger I have been reworking.


- 75mm SPARTANS to go with my earlier figure builds, this will be fun (all resin).


- These are the 120mm figures I am modifying for a 1:18 SAS jeep conversion I've just started.


One of the two sets of heads I will use with the figures above.


I still have brass, metal, and resin accessories in the mail for the SAS Jeep too. I haven't spoofed a 1:18 diecast toy to a model for a long time, this will be fun.

Ben

Got me one of them new fancy Fantoms I mean Phantoms as well!

But first, I need to try to finish 5 of the 10 builds I already have started.......

Happy birthday, Stik - nice present!

stikpusher

I built this kit when it was a new release

Yeah, I had it, too, bought from a fire sale in Liverpool (1980-ish?) but it was OK apart from the box smelling of smoke  Unfortunately, I made a mess of it with a rattlecan paint job and it went in the bin.

stikpusher

I’ll have another go at it now, and theoretically do a better job now that I have a lot more skills, experience, and tools

I've no doubt it'll be a cracker, I look forward to seeing it.

Thanks for all the belated birthday wishes guys. I have one more purchase inbound and will get it posted on here once that it arrives.

Real G... Kahala Mall... that is a name I have not heard in decades. When I was a kid, we used to vacation on Oahu pretty much every summer. To keep me busy in the evenings in the hotels, while my folks would go out on the town, I would usually get a model to build during the vacation. One year was the 1/32 Hasegawa Spitfire V from some shop at the Ala Moana mall... I do remember getting something at the Kahala Mall another year, but not what it was...

Hutch, I'll certainly be posting my speckled Hog here when it comes time to build it. I love those experimental 70's schemes. For some reason, these older, simpler kits are more appealing to me right now.

stikpusher

Real G... Kahala Mall... that is a name I have not heard in decades. When I was a kid, we used to vacation on Oahu pretty much every summer. To keep me busy in the evenings in the hotels, while my folks would go out on the town, I would usually get a model to build during the vacation. One year was the 1/32 Hasegawa Spitfire V from some shop at the Ala Moana mall... I do remember getting something at the Kahala Mall another year, but not what it was...

Ala Moana had a Pete's Modelcraft as well, but most of my models came from the Woolworth's next door.  Apparently, their buyer was really good and ordered all the right stuff.  Pete's might have had the bigger, more exotic kits, but for a kid with pocket change, Woolworth's ruled!  The Kahala Mall Woolworth's was not as well stocked, but they were one of the few stores that carried those ESCI 1/48 jets, the ones with the crosshairs on the box art.  I got the Mirage F-1 from them.  The Viggen at $10.50 was too rich for my meager pockets.

I look forward to seeing that old Revell A-10 get built.  I understand the attraction of older kits as well.  I hope to get the Monogram 1/48 F-102 done before someone does a new tooled kit.

Real G

The Kahala Mall Woolworth's was not as well stocked, but they were one of the few stores that carried those ESCI 1/48 jets, the ones with the crosshairs on the box art.  I got the Mirage F-1 from them.  The Viggen at $10.50 was too rich for my meager pockets. I look forward to seeing that old Revell A-10 get built.  I understand the attraction of older kits as well.  I hope to get the Monogram 1/48 F-102 done before someone does a new tooled kit.

With the recent demise of Kitty Hawk, I think that you're pretty safe about building that Monogram Deuce before another new tool kit comes out. They were the only folks starting to cover the non Vietnam Century Series types in 1/48. 
Im with you on those ESCI 1/38 jets. I couldnt really afford those with my paper route or lawn mowing money from the local shop by my old house. Built a lot more 1/72 back then. Or it was AMT, Hawk, Monogram, & Revell for 1/48 jets. And that A-10 is coming...

in the meantime... Happy (belated) Birthday to me Pt.II: My other eBay bargain score arrived this afternoon! Woohoo! All the way from Lithuania in less than two weeks. I’ve been wanting one of these for awhile for my 1/48 Red Air Force

I opened the box and had a peek inside… oh what a lovely looking kit! Even the decals don’t look like the old ICM stuff. They sure have stepped up their game. Now to get a PE rigging set for this little beauty…

chops1sc

Got me one of them new fancy Fantoms I mean Phantoms as well!

 

But first, I need to try to finish 5 of the 10 builds I already have started.......

 

Well Chops, I hear that's s beauty 

I asked Santa for one for Christmas. 

Stik,

We have eerily similar tastes -  I have the 1/32 I-153!  I got the ski version and am planning on doing a Finnish bird.  I wonder what is the secret behind the charm of the "Chaika"?

A Very Happy Birthday to you Stik. Nice presents you got there. It will be fun to see your new run at the A-10.

Chops: Well done on obtaining the new Phantom. Mine came the other day, (Which reminds me that I've got some sharing to catch up on). It's a beauty out of the box for sure. Enjoy!

I went to our local Hobby Town to exchange my display builds out and saw that they had Revell paints! Wow, awesome. I'm not a big Revell paint guy, but it's so cool that if I want some, I won't have to order it. While I was there though I wanted to try the Revell glue, so I bought some as well as a 1/32 Spitfire Mk.IVc. It was a toss up between the Spit and a 1/144 Airbus A321 Neo...the Spit won this time.

Hey Steve - I've used Revell paints a couple times and they are really nice enamels, think Humbrol.  I like the big Spit!

Thanks Joe!

RG, I think the charm of the Chaika is the beefy build, like some of the between the wars USN Yellow Wings types, mixed with that upper gull wing. It looks like it's a bird spoiling for a fight.

Steve, if you give the Revell enamels a try, you won't be disappointed. They are quite good in my experience. Not to mention that they have several German RAL colors not easily found elsewhere.

Thanks Joe and Stick.

All I tried was their acrylics. I found them kinda thick but I'll be happy to give their enamels a try. The acrylics go on fine and don't lift like Vallejo does but in my experience, they take a bit of thinner.

I've been using Mission Models quite a bit lately and really like em'.