Thanks Steve. Yeah, the Ha-Go is about the size of a bar of soap. I have two FineMolds kits but this one was at a really good price so I decided to pull the trigger on it. 

The Valentine I believe is a new mold. No battery and motor mounting holes in the bottom in any case. It's worth the thirty dollar investment in raffle tickets right there- the rest was gravy! 

The Maru is going to be kit-bashed a little for a diorama I hope to build sometime... whenever I get around to it.

Super happy with the Piaggio P.108, probably the only successful (though not by much) four-engine bomber fielded by the Axis. Only two Nakajima G-8s were build and the He-177 Grief was a deathtrap whose engines would randomly burst into flame during flight. I've seen it online for seventy plus US but the guy was thinning out his collection and sold his to me for twenty-five!!!  

Nice score Gam! The Ha Go is going to be a wee little thing. Is that Valentine a new mold or am I thinking about the Churchill? The Merk looks pretty good too.

And of course I can't end the post without giving a nod the the Maru.

Krap, I haven't been checking this recenty- nice additions guys and congrads on the new vehicle Tojo!

Anyway two weeks ago at our show I bought the following:

And the following I picked up in the raffle. Not bad for thirty bucks worth of tickets.

Not pictured is a 1/16th 1977 Pontiac Firebird I and a 1/72nd Revell Ju-87 I gave to my nephew who is recovering from breaking his nose after hitting himself in the face with a baseball bat. (don't ask me to explain I have no idea how he did it)

  I would venture to say LT your wifes work truck is NOT an Arizona native, to much " natural weathering" for that climate. BTW remember a few posts back we discussed your "problem" looks like I was right.....you need help LOL.

  Nice rig Tojo, thinking about gettung one of those for my new daily driver. Fords are my dream but Nissan is IMO great quality/ value.

   Cool haul on the tugs, my stash needs a few of those.

Tojo72

Picked up this little addition for the wife last week.2018 Nissan Rogue SV, the all wheel drive will give her better footing here in the mountains.

Hey, ... what give's ? 

My wife's new truck came "Factory weatherd".     L O L  !

PFJN

while searching eBay the other day I stumbled across a listed for a random lot of ship model parts (the seller actually listed it as a "model kit junkyard"). 

I just "LOVE" box's of randome stuff. Nice score !

Picked up this little addition for the wife last week.2018 Nissan Rogue SV, the all wheel drive will give her better footing here in the mountains.

Pick this up from e-bay a few days back on an impulse. Thought it was time i added a lanny to the collection and have the MILAN attached was a nice extra.

LT, now that's something I need to find.

PFJN, nice score. You can convert one of the Mauretania kits into the Lusitaina with just a few modifications if I understand correctly.

Hi,

Although I know I need to cut back on hobby purchases right now, while searching eBay the other day I stumbled across a listed for a random lot of ship model parts (the seller actually listed it as a "model kit junkyard").  Since I recognized a couple kits in the photos and the price wasn't too much I went ahead and bid on it, and ended up winning it.

The package arrived today, and in it I found a Heller "ROC Amadour" fishing boat (still in its bag), a Lindberg Coast Guard Tug (also still in its bag), a Lindberg Coast Guard patrol boat (which may or may not be complete, since it was out of its bag), a Lindberg Amercan Presidents Line passenger ship (also out of its bag which may or may not be complete) and at least 6 Airfix Mauretania kits (which also may or may not be fully complete).

I'm very happy that the Tug and Fishing boat look to be complete, and even if the Patrol Boat and APL passenger ship are not fully complete both those hulls can make good starting points for scratchbuilding/kitbashing stuff like a power yacht/cabin cruiser (for the patrol boat) or a wide variety of cargo ships (for the APL ship) if I want to try something different with them.

And with all the parts in the box for the Mauretania kits I suspect that I will have enough parts for at least a couple complete builds, though I'm not fully sure what I will do with all 6 of the ulls yet 

littletimmy

Wonder when my wife will need to go shopping again ? 

Oopps ! Guess I shouldn't have said anything.

My wife decided , NOW, is the time to get her a work truck. Soooo, $600 later we got this.

The engine and transmission are just fine, run's great.... just look's like roadkill.

I will be replacing the exaust system this weekend ... because there isn't one ! L O L 

Also  need to replace the drivers side floor ( Swiss Cheese ) and the bed ( also Swiss Cheese.)

I'm sure a little "Turtle Wax " will bring that paint back .... right ... ? ? ?

So I had to go shopping with my wife today, just happened we were close to Hobby Lobby.

I had already picked them clean, so I really was not expecting to get much. 

Lo - and - behold, More clerance stuff ! Where did all this stuff come from? It wasn't here last time.

So I got this,

They had two more, but I only broght so much cash with me.

I also got two Testors pack's of Acrylic paint ( 12 bottles total )

There were three more packs, but I wasn't greedy.

I also got two more water effects tint's, and two sanding stick's.

Wonder when my wife will need to go shopping again ? 

   Lucky, yes and you can count under stress COOL!

     While I haven't bought anything thus year, I did aquire a Hummel, I'm gonna try to get ahold of a Meng or HobbyBoss C-HETT and a couple Takom ACE 9 Combat Engineering tractors. We shall see.

L O L 

The total retail for everything I bought would have been $128.83

The retail price of the kit all by itself was $29.99

armornut

For that price it had better came with Clint Eastwood and a bad mood.

No ..... I Dont Feel Lucky..... ( I "KNOW" theres at least One Bullit left in that "HAND CANNON" !)

     LittleTimmy, I keep seeing the price tag of your Torino, they really wanted a 139.00 for the kit? For that price it had better came with Clint Eastwood and a bad mood. You did get a good deal on it.

tempestjohnny

Sold my bench

You scared me there for a sec Johnny, then I continued reading. Nice score.

I built the T-2 a few years back. Nice little kit.

Ok so I'm moving. Cant build anything. Sold my bench. But I had money from selling my bench 

    So that is what the Airbus offring of the tanker they wanted to sell to the U.S. pretty cool. Gotta say glad we went with the 767 version. Only from a patriotic standpoint, no harmful intent intended.

Almost all the parts have been collected now for a RAAF KC-30A. Just waiting for Ronin Decals to release their new decal set and I'll be good to go. The resin pieces for the conversion are by Defence Models Australia.

Ding

    PM names and I'll relay the pleasantries, putting out a hit will cost ya though LOL.

armornut

and a show in Clackamas,OR. in September

I know a few people in Clackamas. Tell them I said to stop playing with toy's and get a real job. L O L 

   LMAO LT, I'm Armornut and I'm a plastaholic. I'm here for ya man.

    I have been on a styrene diet for the last year or so, not much in the way of anthing really new, but with the wife working again and a show in Clackamas,OR. in September I may be going on a bender.

armornut

You claiming to "clean them out" next year sounds like the beginning of a problem

 What ??? I don't have a "problem" .

( STAGE 1 : Denial...)

armornut

   P.S. glad to see that five spot you wone off of me went to a good cause.

I took that $5 and bet her again on some other goofy notion of mine ...    and WON AGAIN !

( Got it up to $40, so I put it to good use ! ) 

     Ya know LT when I was much younger, and more dumber I tried drinking Bud Dry......only problem with my plan is THEY KEPT MAKING MORE!! You claiming to "clean them out" next year sounds like the beginning of a problem LOL. Nice hual my friend.

       P.S. glad to see that five spot you wone off of me went to a good cause.

I "actually " got permission from SWMBO to go to Hobby Lobby today.

I cleaned them out of what little paint was left.

Got some casting supply's too.

And other than the Revell Porch 914 kit, This was the ONLY clearence kit left.

Retail price would have been $128.83.

My cost ... $35.40

Gotta make sure and be there next year about the same time .....

I'm gonna "Clean Them Out !!!

Wanted to practice working with Resin before I got started on my huge SwissP-51 project for competition, so when I was at the hobby shop picking up some Alclad's I grabbed this baby for only $5. Kit is predicably bad, but the subject is interesting enough, and the resin by true details is beautiful.

Well the postman brought me these two goodies that I picked up from an English eBay seller. I love the fact that Airwaves does sets for older kits.

for the Fiat G.50 in my stash and the sidelined P-40 that I need to finish...

JOE RIX

Thanks for looking at my new stuff and I'mlooking forward to each of yours.

Your new display case is " BEAUTIFUL" !!!

And the Tommy Grove funny car .... I'm Jealous as all Heck !!!