Our Latest Acquisitions 2017-2024

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

I also have a resin motor for it.

bill , saw a guy named plasmo , do a tutorial on the porsche , awhile ago . turned out very nice if your interested .

GMorrison

I want to try some new things. So I picked up these.

 

 

I want to try some new things. So I picked up these.

JJ, that Stealth MiG looks great. I am curious to see how you will dress it up. I have one in my stash myself, so I’ll be looking for ideas.

Bish, that’s a good score that you picked up on the ICM 251/A. I hope to see you building it not too long from now.

SB, Accurate made some very nice Yak kits, along with their Sturmoviks. All are definitely worth picking up.

As for me, I picked this up yesterday during a LHS visit...

Saw this for a good price on eBay and snagged it, arrived in the mail today.  I don't normally build Soviet aircraft, but after reading about Lilya Litvyak I felt a strong desire to build her plane.  It looks like a really nice kit.

Finaly, i have a kit of a vehicle i have wnated for qute some tie. 4 or 5 years ago Dragon announced a 251 Ausf A, but it never came. So when ICM announced the same last year, i was hopeful but not over optimistic. But, unlike Dragon, they did what they said they were going to do.

I saw some CAD iages a couple of months back and was very pleased to see that ICM have not made the same mistake that Zvezda did, ICM have done their research and have the correct interiour. And after a look at the kit, i think it will be easier to convert this kit to an Ausf B than it will be to correct the Zvezda kit.

And what more, they have already announced a second kit, a command version, which again shows they have done their research as they have called it a /6 and not a /3.

After seeing a build of the old SMER kit here on the forum, I poked around and found the new Heller Tablot Lago GP.  Nice looking kit on first glance.  Had to ship from Germany though...

Got the tracks for the brad, SAC gear for the F3F and the PE for the Storch, just waiting on the sprue for the Storch.

Bish

 

Jet Jaguar

Thanks, it looks like Aerobonus makes exactly what I need.

 

 

 

 

No problem. I was not sure if any of those would be sutable, i was not sure which are modern and which from WW2, but glad you found somthing you can use.

 

They make both WWII and modern.  I'll have to measure the weapon bay to see what fits, but I'll go with a pair of laser-guided bombs.  They have some that are the Russian counterpart to the US Paveway series.

roony

                                                                                   

 Employee discounts.  YOU work in a LHS.  Sounds like a dream job.

 

Kind of! I've been around the LHS so much, and I've known the owner for so long, I come in and help out around the holiday's and most weekends that I'm not doing anything else. One of the perks is an employee discounts. 

Bish

Ye, thats one thing i read a lot of complaints about, Airfix only provides the Humbrol code and the referance for the actual paint colour used. Not sure what your prefered paint range is, but there are a couple that do RAF Light Aircraft Grey and it is a close match to Light Ghost Grey.

We never went for NMF in a big way. The only aircraft which is seen without paint in any numbers is the Lightning. Some post war aircraft that may look to be in bare metal were painted in High Speed Silver.

 

Jet Jaguar

Thanks, it looks like Aerobonus makes exactly what I need.

 

No problem. I was not sure if any of those would be sutable, i was not sure which are modern and which from WW2, but glad you found somthing you can use.

Thanks, it looks like Aerobonus makes exactly what I need.

Jet, Aerobonus, which is part of the Aires range, has a selection of 48th Russian bombs.

Just picked up this, Testors speculative MiG-37B in 1:48.  No box, but it looks to be complete.

After the success of their F-19 stealth fighter kit, they made up this Soviet counterpart.  When the actual F-117 was unveiled to the public, it turns out that this kit was actually a lot closer to reality than the F-19 was.

As a kid, I built one of these kits back when it first came out.  It was the kit that finally taught me to use a gloss clearcoat over flat paint to prevent decal silvering, in fact.  I even still have the optional grey stencil decals (the right half of the decal sheet) in my stash, though the model itself is long gone.

This time around, I'm planning on painting it in the black and blue color scheme of the current Su-34, since that has a somewhat similar combat role.  I'd also like to add detail to the cockpit (probably basing it on an Su-25 or MiG-27) and put some modern Russian ordinance in the bays instead of the cheesy stealth bombs it comes with.  Anybody know a source of resin modern Russian bombs?

Ye, thats one thing i read a lot of complaints about, Airfix only provides the Humbrol code and the referance for the actual paint colour used. Not sure what your prefered paint range is, but there are a couple that do RAF Light Aircraft Grey and it is a close match to Light Ghost Grey.

We never went for NMF in a big way. The only aircraft which is seen without paint in any numbers is the Lightning. Some post war aircraft that may look to be in bare metal were painted in High Speed Silver.

Bish

Nice addition John, was looking at that myself the other week. Will make a nice colourful build.

 

John

Nice addition John, was looking at that myself the other week. Will make a nice colourful build.

Wnet to my LHS and had to buy something,  It is a addiction!

Not sure whay I got it other than it's kinda wierd, it's british and althought you can't really tell in the photo the decals are quite fluorescent.   Plus it's a new tool airfix.  It looks really good and I do like the decals.  Should be a fun little build,  now I have to decide if I want to look for AM ejection seats or add scratch build stuf to them.

John

TheWaggishAmerican

Just picked this baby up! Original price: $25. Price on shelf: $7. Price I ended up paying, with club and employee discounts?: $4.25.INCLUDING tax.

And employee discount.  YOU work in a LHS.  Sounds like a dream job.

Joe, modern armour doesn't do it for me all that much either, i do have an attachment for the British stuff though.

The 40th anniversary of the Falklands war is coming up in a few years, so you never know

Bish

My latest addition was a spue of the moment buy. End of last week i came across a company that does AM sets for the AFV Club Sciitar and Scorpion. Amongst them they have a backdate set and a conversion set for vehicles used during the Falklands war. I have been wanting to do an AFV from that war for ages, makes a change from the usual ships and aircraft. Then i found a company in the UK which sells not only those AM sets but also the AFV Club kits and AM tracks as well as sets of their own.

So, i took the chance and picked up a kit, tracks and the AM sets.

I may get a set of synthetic tow cables later from the same place, but these were enough for now. And this is my first AFV Club kit that isn't a 251 halftrack.

 

Just picked this baby up! Original price: $25. Price on shelf: $7. Price I ended up paying, with club and employee discounts?: $4.25.INCLUDING tax.

keavdog

Thanks for your service Bish.  Great grandad died at the 3rd battle of ypres - loyal north Lancashire.   Grandad was coastal artillery in wwii.

 

Really, well, funnily i left the army in your Great Grandfathers succesor Regt, the Duke of Lancasters.

Thanks for your service Bish.  Great grandad died at the 3rd battle of ypres - loyal north Lancashire.   Grandad was coastal artillery in wwii.

blackdog62

lol bish thank you. I can't tell you how many times had read that as a kid growing up. I left the ranch at the age of 21 and I'm now 55 and I never stoped wondering what that ment. that makes sense why the letters where so big. I guess a simple tool being sucked up to a rotor or turbine could cause some damage or even harm.

wow 18 hrs is a long flight hopefully it was not just a cargo plane. after watching a documentary on the Falkland it looked like your armed forces had a bit of a time just getting there.

 

Ye, fortunatly it was a more comfy flight than a Herc.

It was a tough job getting there back in 82. A small group of islands 8,000 miles from home and the nearest freindly land is a tiny island which was still 4000 miles away.

A big problem with FOD for helicopters is that the downwash blows anything lose into the air which can then either strike the chopper or hit some one on the grownd.

yep that dose not sound good at all. especially at altitude.

If any small item takes out a turbine blade, generally the engine suffers abrupt rapid, and noisy disentigration, usually with lots of fire and smoke, and lots of added ventilation in the airframe.