Two Snap-kits the first from an online shop..

And the other from an ebay deal..

Superb! Especially no painting, well if you don't want to. I have a problem that almost all suppliers want shipping costs more than the price of the spray tin.

hogfanfs

During my time away, I sold about 300 kits, mostly armor and a lot of aircraft. I told myself I'd slow down on buying kits just because I got the stash down to a "more manageable" size. Well, the slow down didn't last long! 

Here are the new additions: 

 

 

BK

During my time away, I sold about 300 kits, mostly armor and a lot of aircraft. I told myself I'd slow down on buying kits just because I got the stash down to a "more manageable" size. Well, the slow down didn't last long! 

Here are the new additions: 

I would really like to do some figures, there are some super cool ones out there. I just lack the skillset to make the look good at this point and hate the idea of "wasting" a kit jsut practicing.

BK

Gamera

Bought a couple large figures but haven't photographed them. I did pick up this figure of an elf from the anime 'Record of the Lodoss War' I'm painting as a Christmas present for a friend. Sorry, already started painting her- I need to move to have her done for Christmas...

The base- sorry about the clutter in the background...

 

Gamera,

I just got the Plamax 1/20 kit of Deedlit, who I think is the same character as your figure.

I normally don't do fantasy figures, but I liked this one.

Real G

This came in this morning:

Giant Robo is from a modern (and animated) take on the old live-actionTV show of the same name.  You might know it as "Johnnny Sokko and His Flying Robot".  This version of GR was designed by one of my favorite mecha designers, Makoto Kobayashi, master of freakish Gundams that look more like fungus or vegetables!    Full disclosure - I never watched the OVA series, but I have always liked the hulking design.

The injection plastic, snap-fit kit is by the Good Smile Company, makers of ecclectic kits like the Aliens Powerloader and the Madox-01.  Scale is not stated, but as if to emphasise the name of the mecha, Giant Robo stands a whopping 9.5" tall.  To put this into perspective, a typical 1/144 Gundam is around 5", while the larger 1/100 Gundams average 7".  Only the 1/60 Perfect Grade Gundams at 12" beat out GR in height, but certainly not girth!

Trivia time:  Makoto Kobayashi designed the face to resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger!  

 

 

Gamera, I look forward to seeing your figure painted up!  I got in a figure of Deedlit from the same anime and definitely want to crib some pointers on girlie figure painting, something that I have not really dabbled in.  GR also comes with a 1/20 Ginrei in her classical gun firng pose.

 

 

Gentlemen,

Some very nice scores! I like the idea of a Lightining GB...

Real G,

That is awesome! When I was kid, I loved that show. 

This came in this morning:

Giant Robo is from a modern (and animated) take on the old live-actionTV show of the same name.  You might know it as "Johnnny Sokko and His Flying Robot".  This version of GR was designed by one of my favorite mecha designers, Makoto Kobayashi, master of freakish Gundams that look more like fungus or vegetables!    Full disclosure - I never watched the OVA series, but I have always liked the hulking design.

The injection plastic, snap-fit kit is by the Good Smile Company, makers of ecclectic kits like the Aliens Powerloader and the Madox-01.  Scale is not stated, but as if to emphasise the name of the mecha, Giant Robo stands a whopping 9.5" tall.  To put this into perspective, a typical 1/144 Gundam is around 5", while the larger 1/100 Gundams average 7".  Only the 1/60 Perfect Grade Gundams at 12" beat out GR in height, but certainly not girth!

Trivia time:  Makoto Kobayashi designed the face to resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger!  

Gamera, I look forward to seeing your figure painted up!  I got in a figure of Deedlit from the same anime and definitely want to crib some pointers on girlie figure painting, something that I have not really dabbled in.  GR also comes with a 1/20 Ginrei in her classical gun firng pose.

John & Gamera, nice scores!

I really like the M3 Lee. Not a great tank, but it did the job when needed. And it sure has a unique imposing look.

John, I hear ya about Lawdog's Henschel. After seeing his, it makes me want to finish my long sidelined ESCI kit of that bird.

Nice.  We should do a lightning GB with all the new Tamiya kit purchases.

Bought a couple large figures but haven't photographed them. I did pick up this figure of an elf from the anime 'Record of the Lodoss War' I'm painting as a Christmas present for a friend. Sorry, already started painting her- I need to move to have her done for Christmas...

The base- sorry about the clutter in the background...

Bought this as a present for my birthday two months ago and never got around to posting it. Have about a dozen M4s but this is my first M3...

Am currently building the older model of the P-38 from Tamiya and loving it. So when I saw this at the local hobby shop picked it up as an early Christmas present for myself and to give the hobby shop a little help.

Great haul SP and looks awesome John! 

Nice haul Stik!

Lawdog made me do this

Nice score John!

C-130 sitting on the strip

64 troopers on a one way trip... 

So I’ve got a few new additions for my stash…. and bench toolbox

Last week, I found this on eBay for a really good price ($12). Yeah I know that there is a new tool kit out (which is way out of my price range) and this one has a beast of a reputation buildwise… but after reading reviews of the new F-82 kit, and knowing that I can handle old beast kits I jumped on it. Plus it came with some resin & PE to help out and sweeten the deal.

I’m gonna be converting it to a Korean War F-82G, so now I need to order a radar pod and set of decals, which when totaled together still will cost less than 1/2 of what the new kit costs… 

Then at Modelzona this past Saturday I found this old gem, again for a fraction of what the online guys are usually asking. I built one long ago and know how decent of a kit that it is. I already have several options in AM decals for this one in my collection, so I’m not worried there.

For my 1/35 motor pools I picked up these two at Modelzona…

And lastly I picked up some build supplies

Oh wow cool stuff guys! Esp Mrchantmarine, Cary, and John- love that oddball stuff! 

I've been tempted by some of those ICM vehicles.  Pics if you can please.

Last of what I had on order came in from Hannants and the Czech republic.  I'll be converting this to a Marine KC-130J Harvest Hawk from VMGR-352 the Raiders out of Miramar (as part of my aircraft of miramar theme).  The resin from Brengun looks great and I was happy to see that the kit from the 'used' section of Hannants was all sealed in factory bags in the box and comes with a beautiful 47 walkaround booklet from Italeri.  On the shelf it goes  

This little gem arrived Friday.

Im about a third of the way through it already and am pleasantly

surprised at the detail and easy of assembly. It's a very delicate little

thing and requires a gentle touch, but otherwise is a fun little kit.

I hope my paint job can do it justice.

Picked this up yesterday at LHS while checking out primers. 

Nice haul Castel - I have an AM avenger in the stash myself.  Big fan of that plane.

Picked this up cheap on ebay.  The seller listed it as incomplete but provided all the sprue shots and it looked to me like someone had started the cockpit and main gear bay.  I went through the kit and it's all there, though some improperly assembled.  Popped it in the freezer and cracked the parts today - good to go!

Wife gave ma a gift card for LHS. Tha Avenger is a bit of a trip down the memory lane as I built in when I was in my early teens, the 1/72 scale. I spent 3 weeks in UK to study English and found a dream shop full of kits and this one was one of quite a few I bough.

Real G

GreySnake, be sure not to use the poly caps included with the Takom kit! A lot of the Chinese kit makers use vinyl instead of polyethylene, which may react with the styrene parts to produce a melted mess.

 

Thank you for letting me know about the poly caps. That is going to save me a lot of time once I start on the kit. I took a look at the poly caps and they feel a little sticky.

Nice Crusader,I love those Hasgawa kits from the early 2000's

John, Brandon, and GS, those are some fine scores you guys have picked up!

I’ve had a few items come in over the past week or two as well....

First up, a set of Falcon vacuform canopies for post WWII USAF jets. I needed the one for an F-80 that I bought off of eBay that was missing it’s canopy. Most of the others will come in handy as well.

Then I picked up these two decal sets secondhand from Squadron, of all places… they’ll work great for some chopper kits I have where I don’t care for the kit decals, or the kit decals suck (Academy… cough cough)

keavdog

Nice haul GreySnake.

Found this for a reasonabli-ish price out of Japan.  Very happy to add this one to the stash

 

Greysnake, that's awesome. Those all look like great kits.

BK

Nice haul GreySnake.

Found this for a reasonabli-ish price out of Japan.  Very happy to add this one to the stash

GreySnake, be sure not to use the poly caps included with the Takom kit! A lot of the Chinese kit makers use vinyl instead of polyethylene, which may react with the styrene parts to produce a melted mess.

I had to tear apart my Mk I Female's gun sponsons, because the gun mounts stopped being movable and felt "gummy".  When I looked inside, the pivots had melted!  In addition to having to remake the pivot points, Takom sized their poly caps in an unusual size, so my big baggie of poly caps were unusable.  I resorted to mashing melted polyethylene runners into a hole drilled into a resin scrap block, then drilling an appropriately sized hole in the middle.  

Live and learn.  Avoid my mistake!

A month ago I finally found my grail kit. A Takom 1/35 Mk.I Male. It took me almost two years of searching till found one on ebay. 

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It is my birthday in a few days and my wife bought three kits for me. 

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That's awesome BK!!!

Yeah, I keep saying I'm going to build all this stash I've collected when I retire. Guess we'll see. Real G & Phoenix, you're totally correct there- I remember back as a kid when I had lots of time and no money I'd repaint old kits because I didn't have the money to buy new ones. Now I buy kits I don't have any time to build because I have some spare change but no free time.