It was our clubs annual model show yesterday and i made another addition to my modern British armour collection. I got it from one of the guys in the same club, he knew i was after one so he asked my at the start of the day so he could put it to one side. At £25, i wasn't going to turn it down.

I plan on doing this is the same scheme as the box, which is a vehicle from the BATUS training area in Canada.

Here is my lates mini stash, just arrived today from Hobbylink

modelcrazy

Went to Squadron today and yep, there are some holes in their shelves.

But the Prince of Wales was actually in! They said they got it in last night.

 

Oooooouuuuuu.....

Im not sure that business model is going to work out for them. I understand the cost of inventory and stuff but...

I had a summer job there for a couple seasons during college and the shelves never looked like that. They were always stacked to the brim. 

Griffin25

Holy cow that looks fun! Is that place open to the public or do you have special privileges?

 

No, it's only open for one day a year. The day before the EagleQuest contest which Squadron hosts. You have to have a ticket for the show to get in and get the 40% off. Once in, you can wonder around anywhere...Except where it says "employees only" of corurse. They give you a shopping cart LOL and some of those guys had them filled. I hand carried my stuff to "keep the purchases down". Right, like that worked.

Holy cow that looks fun! Is that place open to the public or do you have special privileges?

Went to Squadron today and yep, there are some holes in their shelves.

But the Prince of Wales was actually in! They said they got it in last night.

My department has begun transitioning to the Smith & Wesson M&P, another safetyless design. Last month we had two deputies who were shot by their own pistols when something got inside the holster and they moved within a 24 hour timespan. There have been multiple other ADs involving that pistol type. I intend to keep my Beretta as my duty weapon until I retire in two years.  

LOL, funny guys!!!

I have to wonder about the opposable thumbs though, somehow he pulled the outer Amazon box open like a human would. It wasn't chewed through, I have no idea how he did that.

Now that's funny!

Dogs...

He really wanted to build the kit, but it's kind of a *** not having opposable thumbs.

Gamera

He even looks a little like a kaiju...

Yep, he's getting in the first strike.

Well my latest is:

Unfortunatly my sister's dog came over, knocked the box off the picnic table on the porch, somehow ripped the end out of the Amazon box it was packaged in, and then ripped the box open after dragging it out into the yard.

Lucky me though, he just ripped into the bag and broke three parts off the sprues but everything was there and nothing broken. I'm still thinking of putting a knot on his noggin next time I see him.

He even looks a little like a kaiju...

Wow, nice stuff guys!

WaggishAmerican: WHOA!!! Love that B-52!!! I wouldn't even anywhere to put it even if I got it built!

SP: What a haul!!! You hit the jackpot there!!!

Keavdog: You might want to look at some internet reviews of the Academy and AFV Club M36s. Normally I'd go with AFV Club but the reviews I'd seen claim it was based on a vehicle sold overseas where they rebuilt it with an oddball collection of parts to turn it into a weird Frankenstein monster version of the M36. They claim the Academy kit is much more accurate for a US WWII/Korea version.

Squadron sells a product called Chameleon. One good feature is that it works multiple times.

I love that Nomad kit. It was a must-have for me when I was younger.

falconmod

Stopped by my Goodwill and got this.  I don't normally do cars but I love the nomad.   But how do I remove this awful black paint?

John

 

falconmod

Stopped by my Goodwill and got this.  I don't normally do cars but I love the nomad.   But how do I remove this awful black paint?

John

 

Stopped by my Goodwill and got this.  I don't normally do cars but I love the nomad.   But how do I remove this awful black paint?

John

Bish, I will be very nice to the Centurion. It is one of those kits that I always dreamed about getting, but never could. Mainly due to cost. It’s a real beauty. Especially for its age. The 251 tracks have a good review over on Perth.

Keav, for a 1/35 M-36 TD, both AFV Club and Academy make good kits. I think the Academy kit comes with more options such as later barrel types and overhead armor as well. But AFV does have more fine detail in their kits usually.

Nice haul Stik.  BTW - who makes a good M-36, thinking of dipping my toe back in the armor world 

Be nice to see that Centurion Stik, and curious about those 251 tracks. I am looking for alternatives to Fruils.

You’re a good man Wag! That is a great purchase!

Ok, this weekend was sort of a Christmas is June for me, modelwise. Normally, two model clubs to which I am a member have their meetings on separate weekends: AMPS meets on the second Saturday of every month, and IPMS meets on the third Friday of the month. But due to a contest down in San Diego which several of our members attended, AMPS was postponed for a week. So it was meetings on Friday and Saturday this weekend. Friday nite at IPMS was one of two fundraising auctions that our chapter has every year. And Saturday was the 10 year anniversary of our AMPS chapter. 

At IPMS, there was not much for auction that I was interested in. It was all either kits I already have, or subjects that are not in my subject areas. BUT... I did win a gift certificate to a local hobby shop, and I picked up another kit from one of the usual suspects who was thinning out his stash.

At AMPS we had a few quiz games, of which I came out on top in two and won these two babies...

I also won a gift certificate to a different hobby shop in the raffle, so between the two gift certificates I picked up these figure sets

and lastly, I picked up some track link sets. The 251 tracks from our own Duke Maddog who had won them in the “mystery box” at the IPMS auction, and the T-54 tracks with some spare cash that I had left during one of the shop visits encouraged by the gift certificate invitations...

A very good weekend I think...

I've been staring at this thing for over five years, and it was on sale and I got paid today, so I went and and bought it. Finally. The thing is a beast, by the way.

The Brazillian demonstration squadron flies the Embraer Super Tucano.  Good looking airplane and oddly reminicent of of the T6 Texan II

Esquadrilha da Fumaça

Griffin25

Oh wow, very cool Stick. That's gotta be crazy for the Afgan pilots. Culture shock big time. 

 

Yeah... a true world apart from how they grew up.

Oh wow, very cool Stick. That's gotta be crazy for the Afgan pilots. Culture shock big time.