So I had to go shopping with my wife today, just happened we were close to Hobby Lobby.

I had already picked them clean, so I really was not expecting to get much. 

Lo - and - behold, More clerance stuff ! Where did all this stuff come from? It wasn't here last time.

So I got this,

They had two more, but I only broght so much cash with me.

I also got two Testors pack's of Acrylic paint ( 12 bottles total )

There were three more packs, but I wasn't greedy.

I also got two more water effects tint's, and two sanding stick's.

Wonder when my wife will need to go shopping again ? 

littletimmy

Wonder when my wife will need to go shopping again ? 

Oopps ! Guess I shouldn't have said anything.

My wife decided , NOW, is the time to get her a work truck. Soooo, $600 later we got this.

The engine and transmission are just fine, run's great.... just look's like roadkill.

I will be replacing the exaust system this weekend ... because there isn't one ! L O L 

Also  need to replace the drivers side floor ( Swiss Cheese ) and the bed ( also Swiss Cheese.)

I'm sure a little "Turtle Wax " will bring that paint back .... right ... ? ? ?

Hi,

Although I know I need to cut back on hobby purchases right now, while searching eBay the other day I stumbled across a listed for a random lot of ship model parts (the seller actually listed it as a "model kit junkyard").  Since I recognized a couple kits in the photos and the price wasn't too much I went ahead and bid on it, and ended up winning it.

The package arrived today, and in it I found a Heller "ROC Amadour" fishing boat (still in its bag), a Lindberg Coast Guard Tug (also still in its bag), a Lindberg Coast Guard patrol boat (which may or may not be complete, since it was out of its bag), a Lindberg Amercan Presidents Line passenger ship (also out of its bag which may or may not be complete) and at least 6 Airfix Mauretania kits (which also may or may not be fully complete).

I'm very happy that the Tug and Fishing boat look to be complete, and even if the Patrol Boat and APL passenger ship are not fully complete both those hulls can make good starting points for scratchbuilding/kitbashing stuff like a power yacht/cabin cruiser (for the patrol boat) or a wide variety of cargo ships (for the APL ship) if I want to try something different with them.

And with all the parts in the box for the Mauretania kits I suspect that I will have enough parts for at least a couple complete builds, though I'm not fully sure what I will do with all 6 of the ulls yet 

LT, now that's something I need to find.

PFJN, nice score. You can convert one of the Mauretania kits into the Lusitaina with just a few modifications if I understand correctly.

Pick this up from e-bay a few days back on an impulse. Thought it was time i added a lanny to the collection and have the MILAN attached was a nice extra.

Picked up this little addition for the wife last week.2018 Nissan Rogue SV, the all wheel drive will give her better footing here in the mountains.

PFJN

while searching eBay the other day I stumbled across a listed for a random lot of ship model parts (the seller actually listed it as a "model kit junkyard"). 

I just "LOVE" box's of randome stuff. Nice score !

Tojo72

Picked up this little addition for the wife last week.2018 Nissan Rogue SV, the all wheel drive will give her better footing here in the mountains.

Hey, ... what give's ? 

My wife's new truck came "Factory weatherd".     L O L  !

  I would venture to say LT your wifes work truck is NOT an Arizona native, to much " natural weathering" for that climate. BTW remember a few posts back we discussed your "problem" looks like I was right.....you need help LOL.

  Nice rig Tojo, thinking about gettung one of those for my new daily driver. Fords are my dream but Nissan is IMO great quality/ value.

   Cool haul on the tugs, my stash needs a few of those.

Krap, I haven't been checking this recenty- nice additions guys and congrads on the new vehicle Tojo!

Anyway two weeks ago at our show I bought the following:

And the following I picked up in the raffle. Not bad for thirty bucks worth of tickets.

Not pictured is a 1/16th 1977 Pontiac Firebird I and a 1/72nd Revell Ju-87 I gave to my nephew who is recovering from breaking his nose after hitting himself in the face with a baseball bat. (don't ask me to explain I have no idea how he did it)

Nice score Gam! The Ha Go is going to be a wee little thing. Is that Valentine a new mold or am I thinking about the Churchill? The Merk looks pretty good too.

And of course I can't end the post without giving a nod the the Maru.

Thanks Steve. Yeah, the Ha-Go is about the size of a bar of soap. I have two FineMolds kits but this one was at a really good price so I decided to pull the trigger on it. 

The Valentine I believe is a new mold. No battery and motor mounting holes in the bottom in any case. It's worth the thirty dollar investment in raffle tickets right there- the rest was gravy! 

The Maru is going to be kit-bashed a little for a diorama I hope to build sometime... whenever I get around to it.

Super happy with the Piaggio P.108, probably the only successful (though not by much) four-engine bomber fielded by the Axis. Only two Nakajima G-8s were build and the He-177 Grief was a deathtrap whose engines would randomly burst into flame during flight. I've seen it online for seventy plus US but the guy was thinning out his collection and sold his to me for twenty-five!!!  

Couple of birthday scores - initial inspection on both kits shows zero flash and well molded.

Nice score on the Comet. I need to get one or two of those myself.

John: Cool Vette! I visited the Corvette museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky back in the spring and they didn't have a single model kit for sale in the gift shop. Sigh, no big deal but I'd like to have bought one there just to say I bought it at the Corvette musuem.

So I just sold about 170 Dragon armor kits and Cyber Hobby collectibles on eBay and used the proceeds to fix our pool filter and purchased a new freezer to replace our ailing Kenmore.  BUT, I also treated myself to these two items!

Nice buy Chad. I still haven't pulled the trigger on that kit yet. Like the AM set as well.

Hobbymodels.com has the kits on clearance for $89 USD.  Honestly, that’s the cheapest I’ve ever seen them so I thought it was a good time to pick one up!

That is good. Best i can find it is for £83 including shipping from China, thats on e-bay.

I just recieved my new kits of the Tamiya M3 Stuart, the new version, and the Takom Bergapanther type A.  Both very nice.  Also reloaded my supplies and fun stuff. 

Great buy Chad. That looks like a nice detail set as well.

Steve, I’m definitely classifying this one in the “long term project” category!

Made the mistake of stopping by my Goodwill store and ended up going home with this for $6.99.   Don't do boats too often but couldn't pass this up.

John

I guess it's sorta modeling-picked up a bunch of 32mm Trek gaming miniatures:

(Sorry, for some reason Image Shack is acting strange on me trying to crop the photos)

falconmod

Made the mistake of stopping by my Goodwill store and ended up going home with this for $6.99.   Don't do boats too often but couldn't pass this up.

OOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!! I'm SOOOOOO jealous right now !

That kit has some scale issue's ...but who care's ! You found one !!!

Gamera

I guess it's sorta modeling-picked up a bunch of 32mm Trek gaming miniatures:

How many of those will be "Red Shirt's " ?

They ARE gaming miniatures.... somebody alway's die's .

Now that is funny Timmy 

Gam, those are some outstanding figures. The characters look exactly like the living versions.

Thanks guys, I was really impressed with the quality of the molding. It can't be easy to capture the likeness of an actor or actress in a inch/3cm tall figure. They did make Kirk a little slimmer than The Shat though....

Timmy: The last set there are generic TNG/DS9 figures- you can paint as many as you want as red-shirts.

Though I think by that time Starfleet's Greatest Captain was trying to teach them the concept of cover terrain...

I was loking forward to a couple of the new Airfix releases this year. One was the Phantom, trhe other was the Victor K.2. I was doubly pleased when i saw that the Victor included markings from Op Black Buck. The kit was released last weekend and i picked one up from the LHS on Fri.

Gamera

Thanks guys, I was really impressed with the quality of the molding. It can't be easy to capture the likeness of an actor or actress in a inch/3cm tall figure. They did make Kirk a little slimmer than The Shat though....

Timmy: The last set there are generic TNG/DS9 figures- you can paint as many as you want as red-shirts.

Though I think by that time Starfleet's Greatest Captain was trying to teach them the concept of cover terrain...

 

Excellent, i love it.