Built this one a while back but it met its shadow.  Looking forward to building this one again.

Bish

 

 

modelcrazy

Stick, nice set of AM there.

PPP, nice, I had a real artillery Luger at one time. It keep jamming and it wasn't very accurate, but it was cool. I sold it for a nice price if I recall. I also had a KR98, now that was accurate.

Bish, a Falkland's War GB sounds fun. I have plenty of time to prepare.

 

 

 

 

Ye, loads of time, i still have a couple of kits to get as i already know what i want to do for it.

 

A Falkland's War GB sounds like a great idea you can count me in.

Rambo

 

 

Bish

 

 

modelcrazy

Stick, nice set of AM there.

PPP, nice, I had a real artillery Luger at one time. It keep jamming and it wasn't very accurate, but it was cool. I sold it for a nice price if I recall. I also had a KR98, now that was accurate.

Bish, a Falkland's War GB sounds fun. I have plenty of time to prepare.

 

 

 

 

Ye, loads of time, i still have a couple of kits to get as i already know what i want to do for it.

 

 

 

 

A Falkland's War GB sounds like a great idea you can count me in.

 

Well, keep it in the back of your mind. I like to plan well ahead

Stik, that camo net looks very interesting. How is it?

Keav, that Phantom boxart is easily one of the best ones I've ever seen. The box alone kinda makes you want to buy it 

keavdog

Built this one a while back but it met its shadow.  Looking forward to building this one again.

 

 

Wow, built this kit back, gosh maybe twenty-five years ago??? I still have most of it in a spare parts box of old models. Looking forward to seeing what you do with her. 

I just placed an order on HobbyLink Japan for some Tamiya kits:

The Leopard 2 is for one of my upcoming projects and the Type 10 was somewhat of an impulse purchase. I really like the way the Type 10 looks and the kit was really affordable on HLJ. Plus, it's a modern Tamiya kit, those are always a blast to build.

Keav, nice score with the Hasegawa Phantom. I’m sure more of those will pop up secondhand now that they have been eclipsed by the ZM and Academy kits.

Schatten, that’s a good pair of tanks that you picked up. JGSDF Armor is something you rarely see built. The net I picked up looks like it has great potential. I just need to paint some colors on it first, to make it match the ones that I am familiar with.

Well, this weekend, on LHS, Brookhurst Hobbies, is celebrating 50 years in business. Pretty impressive in this age and industry if you ask me. They are having a sale of buy one item and any item of equal or lesser value is 50% off. So I had to stop on by. Now I literally have enough kits in my stash to last a lifetime, so I picked up what I needed most, some paints and accessories. I grabbed a couple Tamiya colors in the 10ml bottles, and these resin stowage items for my 1/35 armor... you can never have enough of these...

Congratulations Brookhurst!  One of my favorite hobbyshops.  I'm going to check out their site. 

Stick - had I known, I would have looked at the other phantoms.  I just recall enjoying that build AND it's a hasegawa kit with a full set of ordnance!  I have sparrows to spare ;)

Stick, those Value Gear items are nice, I bought a few a year ago and they have quite a few items in them.

That value gear stuff is nice, got a set of their baoxes a while, really need to get some more. Nice deal there Stik.

That Type 10 is a really nice kit. Bought one a few years ago and it just looks great in the box, typical Tamiya engineering. 

SP: I remember ads for Brookhurst Hobby in FSM back when I first started reading it around '86-'87. Great to hear they're still around!  

stikpusher

Keav, nice score with the Hasegawa Phantom. I’m sure more of those will pop up secondhand now that they have been eclipsed by the ZM and Academy kits.

Schatten, that’s a good pair of tanks that you picked up. JGSDF Armor is something you rarely see built. The net I picked up looks like it has great potential. I just need to paint some colors on it first, to make it match the ones that I am familiar with.

Well, this weekend, on LHS, Brookhurst Hobbies, is celebrating 50 years in business. Pretty impressive in this age and industry if you ask me. They are having a sale of buy one item and any item of equal or lesser value is 50% off. So I had to stop on by. Now I literally have enough kits in my stash to last a lifetime, so I picked up what I needed most, some paints and accessories. I grabbed a couple Tamiya colors in the 10ml bottles, and these resin stowage items for my 1/35 armor... you can never have enough of these...

 

 

 

 Dang it I didn't know Brookhurst was having that sale. Argh. Damn. Oh well. Sounds like a hell of a deal Stck. I'm glad you got to stock up!

Guys, if you live within driving distance of the shop, go to their website and sign up for their email newsletter. 

No, I have no vested interest in the shop aside from being a happy customer supporting a brick and mortar shop and wanting it to survive. 

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP! Because once they are gone, that’s all folks!

Lindberg “Jolly Roger”, the old nice “La Flore” French frigate.

Hubley/ Monogram “Ford Model A”.

Went to my LHS for some super glue and this jumped off the shelf and grabbed onto me and wouldn't let go until I paid for it!    I need help!

John

Don't you hate it when they do that.

Wass in the LHS a couple of weeks back and happened to have the Mrs in tow and she saw another boxing of this, with the poppies on it. She seemed to like the look of it and i have a feeling i might be getting that for my birthday this year. So will be looking forwardto seeing how it builds.

Very cool Turcano. I was just doing some research on the Brazilian COIN version. A nifty little ground attack aircraft with a heck of a punch. The USA bought a bunch of them for the Afgan Air Force. Here's a video of live fire training. https://youtu.be/LkgeladdlaI

Cool video.   I'll have to spruce up the ejection seats for sure on this trainer version.

John

Griffin25

Very cool Turcano. I was just doing some research on the Brazilian COIN version. A nifty little ground attack aircraft with a heck of a punch. The USA bought a bunch of them for the Afgan Air Force. Here's a video of live fire training. https://youtu.be/LkgeladdlaI

 

Yes, they are training the Afghans stateside where my son is stationed at Moody AFB. I think the US designation of the Tucano is A-29.

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

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.

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

Esquadrilha da Fumaça

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

 

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