Our Latest Acquisitions 2017-2024

My wife has bought me these two for Christmas, both are in 1/24th scale............

And this I may do in Valentino Rossi Colours (MOTOGP) as I have a spare race rider figure, leaving off all of the shooters of course.........

Pat, I just completed the BatPod, it's such a great little kit. You'll need to remove the ribs off the wheels before mateing them wit the tires.

Here are some of my early Xmas gifts to myself from Ebay. Sadly, the one kit that my 8 yr. old grandson wanted for Xmas was "sniped". He has had a very bad year and this is just the last thing he needed. OK, those are lies, I don't have a grandson. But if I see a certain model on the forum in the next year, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!

Just picked up the new Trumpeter Fiddler. Box next to is the Airfix Mustang

This is a huge kit

Tj I'm not familiar with the Fiddler.  But boy the Russians sure put out some beautiful airplanes.  That one is a beauty, be sure to post a build thread.

Found this at my local Goodwill,  practically brand new, plastic was still in the bag and had the embroidered patch in it and the decals were looking good.  for $3.50 !!!

John

Came across this little cuti at my LHS,   went in for Fine scale mag and this jumped off the shelf at me.   the wings/fuselage are molded in clear plastic.   I've had to add some bird shot and epoxy in the nose to prevent tail sitting.

Should be a nice easy build,  hence the name on the box.  add some seat belts and some HO scale luggage in the back window and wala!  Done.

John

I'm wondering why the wings were clear. 

I have no idea,  the fuselage is clear as well,  the elevator and the rest of the the parts are molded in gray.

John

Hmm, maybe its a way of using their extra clear beads 

Looks like the toughest part will be the painting.

modelcrazy

Hmm, maybe its a way of using their extra clear beads 

Looks like the toughest part will be the painting.

 

Finally, my first Meng kit is in the stash. And there is not a set of tracks or black crosses in site.

That looks like a neat subject Bish! 

Its a great looking kit as well. Hobby Boss are set to bring out some more British army evhciles, the jackal and Coyote, so i am looking forward to them to.

I wish I were into ground subjects more. There seems to be a ton of cool stuff out there. The subject is just so wide that ships and planes take up all me brain space 

There is a lot of nice new stuff coming out. Of course a lot of it is the usual suspect, Panther, Tiger etc, and even with my love of German armour, even i can only take so much of those. But it is nice to see these British subjects, its one of the areas we have been sort of, mainly relying on resin kits from Accurate Armour.

I know what you mean, it is easy to over load on subjects.

Our clubis doing a GB for 1/48, single engine, single seat fighters.  Got 3 to do for it.  The Wildcat will be in either Thatch's or McClouskey's markings, the Hellcat -3 will be done as O'Hares bird on his last flight.  The -5 will be done as one of the birds with OOB decals.

The Mustang is for Bish's Airfix GB, and will be my first foray into Alclad.

Nice set of projects.  I'm right in the middle of the tamiya wildcat build.  Nice kit, gear is a bit fiddly. 

Those look great GH, especially the Tam F-4

I finally receved this today from China.

and Oh goodie it's the Royal Navy, wooo hooo! I don't know weather to do the USS Wasp or RN

I undersatand there's somewhat of a spat between the RAF and RN over which model the military is going to get for their next 40 F-35's, The A (air force version) or B (STOL version for their carriers). We don't care which one's you get, just get some.

Don't know what possesed me to get the PE for the Wildcat.....Hate the PE on the 1/32 version.  Have to figure out decals for the O'Hare bird yet, more research to do on how it was marked beyond the "00" as CAG of VF-6.

The Squadron kit came with resin seat (2 of them), the second will go in the -3, and a set of resin wheels and tires.  Both are nicely done.

The F-35 kit looks like a good one.

Steve, good to see an RN boxing on the 35. I am hoping that will be on Airfix new kit list last year. As far as i know, there is currently no plans to get the 35A, last i heard a couple of years ago the MoD had ruled it out for now. I think we made a mistake getting the B anyway, but what do i know.

The artical I was reading was a week ago. It's one of those that pop up in Google as click bait so i don't remember where it led me. The main argument were for last 49 if I remember correctly and they were for the A and I thought the B but it might have been the C (Carrier launched like the US Navy version) competing to complete the original orders of 100 something. I had thought at the time that the "A"s would do no good on a carrier and the thought the "C" wouldn't work for you'r ski slopes and STOL landings, but like you, what do I know? You would know far more that me since you live there and hear all the news. The only thing we hear really is when something bad happens, or there's a Royal marrage.

I know we won't get the C now we have adopted the ski jump on the carriers. But i think the RAF would still like the A. I am sure its still an option thats been left on the table. I know last Dec the deputy chief of the defence staff for military capability told MP's it could not be ruled out when asked if we would buy the A. One concern though is that if the A is bought as part of our current total planned purchase, it would not leave enough aircraft to equip the new carriers. So unless we increase the numbers we plan to buy, it will leave us with a carrier with no aircraft.

There is very little about defence on the new at the moment, everything revoles around one thing.

Maybe when the USAF get their A's at lakenheath, maybe people will see those and decide we want some.

You were talking about Airfix making one, is that hear say or is that something that they are planning?

I am leaning strongly on making this one RN.

modelcrazy

You were talking about Airfix making one, is that hear say or is that something that they are planning?

I am leaning strongly on making this one RN.

 

Its my wishful thinking and guess work. Other companies have them so no reason why Airfix could not, but now they have entered service with the RAF, it would be perfect time for them to do it. They normally announced the coming years releases in jan, so we will see then.

I was looking at the concepts for the 6th generation fighters, which they are working on now, and the look like something out of a Sci Fi movie. I guess we (humans) have advanced so far now that flight is an excercise in elementary physics...Pfft, of course we can fly, that's easy! stoping, or turning 180deg in 10 ft, that's the hard part

modelcrazy

I was looking at the concepts for the 6th generation fighters, which they are working on now, and the look like something out of a Sci Fi movie. I guess we (humans) have advanced so far now that flight is an excercise in elementary physics...Pfft, of course we can fly, that's easy! stoping, or turning 180deg in 10 ft, that's the hard part

 

As i understand, the Eurofighter Typhon is areodynamically unstable, it  should not be able to fly. Its only the computers that keep it in the air and its what allow it to be so manoeuvrable. If thats what they were coming up with 25 years ago, one can only imagine what they are doing do. We think the gadgets we have access to are amazing, but civilians are a good 20 to 30 years behind the military.

I have seen a few wildlife programmes latley were they are going on about having access to new Thermal Imaging kit that allows them to see animals in the kit and how wounderful it is and i was think how i was useing that years ago.

I have gotten a few items in the past couple of weeks...

This Peddinghaus Bundeswehr tank crew figure set

a Verlindein IDF 1973 October War tank crew set

with my Malibu fires overtime I ordered this one from one of my favorite sellers on eBay... and it was on sale, so I got a very good price

and then at this years AMPS holiday gift exchange I picked up this beauty...

a nice way to close out the year for acquisitions 

That Wolf does look a nice kit doesn't it, i got the MILAN version a few months back.