Blimey, Steve, you're going to need a bigger house

And congratulations on the award, too - very well done!

Bish

Though there will be an Iraq war GB in 2023, if you want to do a desert scheme.

yes, yes, yes.

modelcrazy

And oh shoot, it's built by Vickers! I'll keep it for a future Bish GB.

 

Well, you still have 2 and a half months of the Vickers GB

Just kidding. We could do with an armour GB soon. Though there will be an Iraq war GB in 2023, if you want to do a desert scheme. If you do, i have some Star Decals which have AS90 markings for Op Telic. They are on the sheet i used for my M109, and as i already have the AS90,i won't use them.

And oh shoot, it's built by Vickers! I'll keep it for a future Bish GB.

Thanks guys, I'm with you Gam, I'd rather have the award. I have plenty of medals.

Bish, I saw the AS90 in the raffle pile and thought of you 

Wel done on the awards steve, well deserved. Nice haul there, like the armour selection, enjoy the AS90.

Oh those are all awesome Steve- congrads!!!

And congrads on getting People's Choice for the Akagi! I think I'd rather had that than a normal award anyway. Awww, glue spots- I get them on everything I build...

I went to our local contest this weekend and won 8 out of 12 raffles, bought 2 kits, and gave one of the tickets to a kid at contest. So I came home with 9 kits!

The Akagi didn't win a medal but it did win People's Choice! I was told that some glue spots were spotted under some of the 300 crew. Oh well, when you put that many on you're bound to get a spot of glue here and there. The AT-ST won third as well as my Swordfish.

Here are the new family members.

These are the raffles, practically free at a little over a dollar a piece.

These are the ones I bought.

Thanks for the tip stikpusher, I will do that. As for its size, I have been moving towards 1/32 or large aircraft. My exceptions are a 1/48 C-130 and B-1 bomber but they are very large in that scale anyway. Having purchgased the kit for only $29.00, I have funds for the landing gear and perhaps other details as well. 

Pat, that is a neat looking box van body. What are the plans for it?

DRUMS01

For me I got something old, but something new for me. I have always wanted to get one of these,.... finally and for a great price.

DRUMS01 a.k.a. Ben 

 

Thats a nice score Drums! I bought and built one when it was a new release back in the late 80's. It builds up beautifully, but I recommend replacing the landing gear struts with some metal ones. The kit strut parts are hollow and a bit on the flimsy side. 

Some great stuff in there fellas.

Joe R: You will love the Cent. I have the Mk 5 in Aussie Vietnam set up

Pat: That skycar is awsome. I'm guessing that it's not very big in 1/72 so you may have to get some good glasses!

Tojo72: The JS2 and figures will make a great diorama. I've never built the Tamiya P38, but if it's like their other offerings it will be a beaut.

Steve: There are some great figures in there. If I can be of any assistance when you start working on them, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Drums: Great pickup, but Gamera is right, that is going to build into one big beast!

modelcrazy

 

 

Bish

Nice haul steve. hows your first view of the wildcat.

 

 

 

 

Looking through the kit Bish it looks as great as their Mk.1 Hurri. Nice PE set too and markings for 3 US and 1 British

 

Thanks, that will be on my new year shopping list. I have the new Airfix Valiant coming to me soon, i think that will be plenty to round off the year.

This is also on it's way in shipping from the USA..

17.10.21. Hot off the press! It arrived yesterday, much bigger/longer tha I expected! Superb Quality!

That there is one righteous load-o-glory kits Steve. And what a cornucopia of subjects to boot. I'm with Bish on the curiosity about the Arma Wildcat. That's a new one on me. After your reply I checked out some reviews and decided I too had to try one out. Promptly ordered the FM-2 on ebay along with their Yak-1b which I found they made. 

You guys are killing me here lately with all these sweet kits I can't resist. Did I also mention that I do not possess a backbone.

Beauty of a Tornado Drums. That ought to be a big epic build.

Bish

Nice haul steve. hows your first view of the wildcat.

 

Looking through the kit Bish it looks as great as their Mk.1 Hurri. Nice PE set too and markings for 3 US and 1 British

Oh wow Ben, the Tornado is a big plane in 1/48th- in 1/32nd she's gonna be ginomous! 

I cannot believe the number of quality kits people are picking up. I also like those not very common kits that are of rare or different designs. I have found myself looking back several pages of this string just to look at the neat stuff that people are getting, much of it I did not know even existed.

For me I got something old, but something new for me. I have always wanted to get one of these,.... finally and for a great price.

DRUMS01 a.k.a. Ben 

Wow Steve, that IS quite a haul!  I think I'll have to copy you and get that AVRN crew set for my friend's M41 that resides at my house.

The Zero pilot is kind of misleading, as the figure's face is not of a dashing young man like on the box art, but rather looks a lot like my old high school mechanical drafting teacher Mr Kokubun!

I ordered one of those Arma Wildcats for a friend, and it is the cat's meow!

Gamera

Whoa! Whatta haul Steve!!! I love those figures!!!

And I've never built any ICM armour so I don't know how the Tiger II will go. One thing I do like about them is the Royal Tiger is such a big friggin' tank you don't have too many tiny fiddly bits.

 

I've only built one of their 251's so far and loved it. Second only to the AFV Club kits IMHO.

Nice haul steve. hows your first view of the wildcat.

Wow what a haul Steve!  I did the Galland figure some time ago and the kit is nice and it comes with two heads so you can screw one up :).  I have another one in the stash as the first didn't survive a few moves.

Whoa! Whatta haul Steve!!! I love those figures!!!

And I've never built any ICM armour so I don't know how the Tiger II will go. One thing I do like about them is the Royal Tiger is such a big friggin' tank you don't have too many tiny fiddly bits.

I have an ICM Tiger on the pile.  If memory serves when I looked at it, Trumpeter has nothing on them as far as parts count.

Overall, nice pick-ups

I just received my HLJ box yesterday so now I can put up all my latest, including some I received a month ago

First off, from HLJ. I've been wanting to try figures for a while and have watched several tuts on YouTube, enough to see that I won't be as good as them and will likely fail, ut for around $7 ea I figured, what the he**

Next was something I never tried before...Track links.

Now you may be saying, why did he buy track links, the dummy! Well that's coming up.

Our very own GAF was kind enough to send his raffle winnings from a show.

Can't do without an F-4 right?

Also, one of my favorite jets. I'll have to find some intresting sutable decals for this one.  Maybe a Texas flag

This is what the tracks are for. After watching Uncle Night Shift, he has really gotten me intrested in armor.

Next up is a kit that I needed to replace from Sprue Brothers. I had the Revell one but the tracks didn't fit and it was a disaster.

And finally. I enjoyed the Arma Hobbies Hurricane so much that I bought their new F4F-4.

and I have a M-41 in the stash and needed some crew for it so I bought and ARVN tank crew for it. It just came in a bag so heres what the add looked like. hey are for the M-113 but what the heck. I can make them fit. And I'm sure I'll make as big a mess out of them as I will the big figures

Pat: That is a slick little kit. Certainly not one you see every day.

Tojo: Excellent haul. Glad to see you finally added the P-38. No doubt, Scalehobbyist wins the shipping wars hands down.

Pat: I had to look that up- yeap it was a literal flying car! What a cool model. I'd wish it were bigger though- maybe a car scale like 1/25th.

Tojo: Great deal there! Those are all awesome kits!  

Oh Man!  That's like Christmas in October.  Enjoy!!!

TJS 

Got a delivery from Scalehobbyist,been a while.You can see the makings of a project here,plus I finally had to get the P-38 in my stash.

Oh and they shipped it all for $8.95  take that Spruebrothers.

Never seen that one before Pat.  Curious little egg plane

On it's way in the shipping..