Nice Bish.

I always thought the Stirling was a strange looking AC with that canopy sticking up like it does and it's tall stance when sitting on it's feet.

The old Airfix one was the first bomber I built.

Just got the kit for airfield 34 out of 37 in my Norfolk airfields project and this makes al 3 of the RAF's 4 engined heavies. Nice looking kit but i will have to put together my own decals for the airecraft codes.

John: Cool score. I really am starting to like the lines of these Lightening II's. I didn't at first but they're starting to grow on me.

Clemens: Very good line up of armor kits and goodies!

Goldhammer: Wow man! Hit on a little bit of everything with that score!!

I did just trim my stash down about 50% but some kits fall into the "Holy Grail" category and this is one of em for me. I have always wanted one of these in the 1:1 scale world and hopefully I'll get my chance to own one some day but until then this one right here is going to have to do. lol

Got this a few days ago:

falconmod

 

 

Bish

Nice to see one of those John. I am holding off until we get a B with RAF markings, they made their first public apperance on Wed. Look forward to seeing you builod this one.

 

 

 

 

Thinking of getting the Isra decal set to make the Israeli version.

 

 

Seen those. The only British ones so far are of the single aircraft flown in the US. Hopefully now its in service we will at least get some AM decals of them.

Bish

Nice to see one of those John. I am holding off until we get a B with RAF markings, they made their first public apperance on Wed. Look forward to seeing you builod this one.

 

Nice to see one of those John. I am holding off until we get a B with RAF markings, they made their first public apperance on Wed. Look forward to seeing you builod this one.

had to wait longer than some of you for this to go on sale at my Hobby Lobby.  grabbed the only one on the shelf!  75% off what a deal.  $9

John

Nice haul GH. I like the GB 95 footer Cape Gull patrol boat.

Those are ALL nice models. I agree about the GB.

Our club got a members stash to sell off for the club treasury, and did rather well with it.  Lots of kits leftover and the board decided to have a give-away to the members, with the provision that they be build rather than sold, traded, or stashed.  Got these 4 a couple of weeks ago.  Anything left after 2 meetings will go to a meet in Sept.

Box has been through it, but parts are still bagged and un-opened.

This one is a partial start, wings and stabs glued.

1977 Hawk XP  version of the 172, floats and landing gear.  Still sealed in the box, 1/48

Last but not least is the best of the best (IMO), a Williams Bros. GEE BEE "Z", 1/32.  Box opened, but all parts still bagged.

Thanks guys!

Bish, to be honest, I probably could build an entire division by now with all the German WW2 armor in my stash...

Cliff, I prefer the look of WW2 armor, but some modern stuff is a nice change. The Wiesel is a pretty old kit, but apart from the awful vinyl tracks it looks decent. It could be better, but it could also be a lot worse. The Voyager PE and some new tracks should improve it a lot.

Stik: It's hard to believe, but that AGDUS set was actually almost as much as the Tamiya Leo 2...

Nice stuff guys but wow Clemens!!! Love the modern stuff, I've been getting more interested in it after doing almost all Second World War subjects for the longest time. 

Really interested in the Wiesel, I've seen the kit around but don't think I've ever seen it built. 

Blimey SS, you building up your own Panzer Division. Nice haul, nice looking Tiger II.

Steve, it was a good score actually, there were no other bidders and i got it for £12. Not far off, i have the 5 British versions that Airfix have done, Gr.1, 3 and 9 and both Seaharriers, i think that will be enough

Bish, nice score on the Harrier. You should be close to having all the versions,yes?

SS, those look like fun. I've been wanting to try a Takom kit.

Spartan, that is quite a haul! And some pricey ones there too! 

I got a bunch of boxes delivered yesterday with lots of nice things inside:

The King Tiger is by far my favorite tank ever built and I really like the look of the prototype with those big Tiger I exhaust stacks. That alone was reason enough for me to get this one:

Next up is a Wiesel. I still can't get over how tiny this thing is:

I also got me some upgrades for my Leopard 2 (and a random bag of MG 34 barrel tips):

This AGDUS setup isn't entirely correct for a Bundeswehr Leopard 2A6, but it's the only game in town, which means it'll have to do.

My HLJ order also arrived:

And finally, this was a complete impulse purchase, but I got a good deal on it and it looks like a decent kit:

tempestjohnny

 

Bish

Just added a 5th 72nd Airfix harrier to the stash, this one being the Sea harrier FA.2.

 

 

 

 

Sweet

 

Loks nice, going to have build one of these soon.

Bish

Just added a 5th 72nd Airfix harrier to the stash, this one being the Sea harrier FA.2.

 

Sweet

Just added a 5th 72nd Airfix harrier to the stash, this one being the Sea harrier FA.2.

modelcrazy

I went back to HL today and scored these

My Hobby Lobby had three of the F4U-1 on sale.... and I almost grabbed them too.

But my buget was limited this time. If there still there when I get back, I'm grabbing them !

Nice score Littletimmy.

I went back to HL today and scored these. There were a couple of dragsters on sale but didn't get them this time.

Forgive the terrible lighting in my room.

The last kits I've picked up ...

Trumpeter's 1/32 F6F-3 Hellcat, got on a good sale from one of the online shops, likely Squadron

Tamiya's 1/48 Dewoitine D.520 via eBay, had always wanted a French warbirds in my display cabinet but had never gotten around to acquiring this one

Tamiya's new 1/48 Bf109 G-6, got at my local LHS

Wing nut Wing's 1/32 Sopwith Camel direct from WNW

Monogram's ancient blue box 2 pylon racers, a Bearcat and a Mustang with a cardboard red-and-white racing pylon, found on eBay, had always wanted that one as a kid but don't recall ever getting it

Monogram's similarly ancient Connie in an early 1970s box, also via eBay

Bronco's P-40C in Flying Tigers scheme, 1/48, from Lucky Models, I am a sucker for P-40s

I had tried building a 21st Century Toys 1/32 Mc.202 Folgore earlier this year, but the kit was utter dog poop, so I scrapped it (using it now as a painting test platform). But I still wanted to do a Folgore, so I acquired one via eBay. It is the 1/48 Hasegawa kit, which I built many years ago (that build was lost in a shelving disaster). As it so happened, there was a link - people who bought this item also bought ... and lo and behold there was another 1/48 Italian fighter, Tamiya's Mc.200 Saetta (reboxing of an Italeri mold I believe). It was a decent price, I'd never built one, so now it is in my stash.

I have also picked up Montex Masks for my Do 335, Ki-84, and He 115 already completed this year, as well as for my upcoming builds of a Bv 141, Do 215, B5N2, and D3A1.

So a week ago, I was in hobby lobby. No kit's on sale but I did get some scenery supply's that were on sale. I went back today to "Clean them out" of scenery supply's  and this was all that was left...

But wait ! It get's better ! Lo-and-behold there were DOZEN'S of kit's on sale !

So then this happened...

I now have triple's of everything, except the Ecto-1 

I "WILL" be going back to see what's left next week. It's a 100 mile round trip so I cant get there as often as I would like.

( Like I need three of anything..... I havent built the first one of anything ! )

falconmod

I handn't intended on buying anything when I went into Hobby Lobby yesterday but the deals were so good I couldn't pass them up.   got $112.00 worth of stuff for $30!  the 2 air brush nozzles alone were $13 each.

John

 

About 75% off the original price.

John

The Hawaiian Pilot is an easy build. It's a Maritime Association C3 hull. Revell has sold it for a long time as the Hawaiian Pilot, the USS Burleigh, the Doctor Lykes, and again the Hawaiian Pilot. It's about as classic a freighter model as you'll find.

It is however one of the (in) famous Revell flat bottoms. They came with a hideous trestle like stand, and don't have a full hull, a full rudder or prop. Usually the best tactic is to model her waterline. As freighters have a lot of change in freeboard according to load on board, one can plausibly leave her alone and set her on a base with a lot of boot topping exposed. Or it's also easy to cut the hull down a little to make her look loaded up with pineapples.

Highly recommended.

Oops, I guess I should have cropped that pic .

Overall both the upper two kits look to be fairly easy builds.  Both were originally marketed with an electric motor so that you could sail them in a pool or pond (if I am understanding correctly).  As such the have one piece hulls that are fairly sturdy.  And eventhough some detail may be simplyfied a little they both can still be built up to be fairly good looking builds, from what I have seen on the internet.

The company that made them (IMEX and/or ARII) also made a Roll On/Roll Off Vessel model called the Nedlloyd Rouen and another general cargo ship called the Nedlloyd Bahrain that also look nice too.  I have a copy of the Rouen, but am still looking for the Bahrain.

One thing though, is that right now all these IMEX/ARII merchant ship models appear to be out of production, so that while you can find some examples at a fairly reasonable price ($25-30) you also find some people asking a kind of high price ($50-60) and other asking ridiculously high prices (over $100).  So I would suggest shopping around if you are interested in one 

Pat

PS.  I paid about $24 (including shipping) for the Tampa model and $34 (including shiiping) for the Trinidad model off eBay

They look correct when you click on them.  Freighters are cool.  Any one of those 3 a particularly 'easy' build?  Might want to try one.

BTW - nice socks

Hi,

Eventhough I kind of put a hold on actually working on models for few months now (because a couple other things have been consuming my time right now), I haven't actually been able to stop buying stuff though.

As such, I recently picked up these kits;

Oops, don't know why they came out sideways.

And the mailman brought more.