Just helping out one of my local LHS.  Plus it's my favorite sports car, wish I had a real one.

John

Lew, Chad, those are some great scores! I’m really loving that B-52. I remember seeing that BUFF at Edwards years ago...

Well, I finally have some acquisitions besides supplies worth posting. The other day this finally arrived. Purchased in early July from a vendor in Korea and free shipping, but man was that slow... but then again so is my building pace...

Now my basic 1/35 M60 tank family is complete....

Then this from a seller on eBay who I think buys kits then parts them out, the tracks are from a JGSDF Type 89 SPAAG, basicly their equivelant of a Gepard. But that system is built on a Type 74 hull, so they will work on my Type 74 tank kit. I don’t trust the gluable rubber band tracks and Model Kasten replacements are VERY pricey. 

and lastly I picked up this decal set for my F6F-5 kit. I don’t care for the kit markings. The selling point was marking for a Hellcat flying off USS Enterprise during early 1945. But I need to research what I would need to do for a -5N conversion now.

Lol, I've been watching turtle movies all week....

Chad: That looks cool! I remember those kits back in K-Mart when I was somewhat younger. Never thought they've be valuable... Never bought them since I never had the room for them. Hope you'll build them and post them here.

Wow, Chad. What a score. I would have been all over that.

BK

Mopar Madness

Picked this oldie up yesterday. Decals still look new. 

 

Where did you find that?  That's a cool kit.  Regarding the Spit that you and Steve said I'd like, I hope that's true because there's a shark mouthed Aussie bird and a colorful US bird that had been turned into a squadron hack after they converted to Mustangs that I want to build.

I remember seeing these and the Big, Bad, and Beautiful series collecting dust on Walmart shelves. Knowing what I know now, I wish I would have picked them up and held on to them. Some of these Monogram B-52's are selling for well over $100 on the secondary markets. 

Mopar Madness

Picked this oldie up yesterday. Decals still look new. 

 

Picked this oldie up yesterday. Decals still look new. 

Looks like your weekend is set Gamera. 

Buddy - you'll love that Spit!  

Love the Burke and Spit Buddy.

Gam, you crack me up.

Gamera

And that cool Dominican P-51/F-51 Lew- I love shark mouths!!!

 

Gamera,

I like shark mouthed aircraft too.  There are three on this sheet Bolivia,Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.  Aztec Decals is coming out with a couple of sets for Central a South American Mustangs and there are several shark mouthed aircraft on them.  I hope they're not the same as the Armycast sheet.  Cool movies.

Not modeling related but a little fun- I picked up as a birthday present for myself the Arrow Complete Gamera Collection due my obsession with titanic terrapins: 

All the original silly but fun kiddie movies from the '60s and '70s. They're all cleaned-up and enhanced for Blu-Ray. Plus commentaries. 

The excellent '90s films- the best Kaiju movies I've ever seen. Yes, they're better than Godzilla. 

And 'Gamera The Brave' the most recent film. 

Plus a series of Gamera comic books- hardbound. 

And a booklet of background/extras on all the films. 

Oh, oh all that cool stuff!!! 

Love that MiG-23 Joe!!! I remember buying the ancient ESCI kit back in the '80s as I wanted a 'modern' Soviet fighter. 

And that cool Dominican P-51/F-51 Lew- I love shark mouths!!!

And that murder hornet Real G- don't think I'd want one. If I saw that on the shelf every night it'd give me nightmares...  

Real G

 

 

keavdog

Digging the murder hornet!

 

 

 

Give us a kiss!  

 

Went to the LHS today because I forgot to get some Tamiya tape when I made my paint run yesterday.  Got the tape and picked this up because it looked interesting.  It's a Type 0 Model 52 Blackbird Autonomous Fighter from Star Blazers 2202.  I thought it was one kit, but when I got it home and opened it up, there are two fairly detailed kits in the box.  I'd guess that the scale is probably 1/144.

These came via the brown elves from Sprue Brothers.  The USS MUSTIN is for Steve's US Ships GB.

The Spit is for Bish's Supermarine GB.

Real G

 

 

keavdog

Digging the murder hornet!

 

 

 

Give us a kiss!  

 

I think I'll pass on the kiss and grab the Raid!  The Exoframe kit looks interesting.  I've seen them on HLJ, but haven't been tempted yet.  You're a good friend ordering kits for other people.  I had a friend that would place a monthly order with HLJ and I would pay him when the kit arrived.  There were a couple of times I had forgotten that I'd ordered something because it took so long to come in. I got something in the mail today, P-51 decals yay!  Decals are by a company called Armycast out of the Czech Republic.  The decals give you markings for 13 different countries: Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Israel, New Zealand, El Salvador, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and USA.  The set includes a vinyl mask for a shark mouthed Dominican aircraft, and a paper mask for a very colorful Guatemalan aircraft.  Also included in the set were a couple of resin antennas for the aircraft that had them.  The decals are printed on blue paper, which makes the white decals easier to see.  The instruction booklet is well done with side, top, and bottom views in color, as well as color call outs in FS and Guide Sangyo/Mr. Color paints.  The instructions give details for 18 aircraft from 13 different countries.  Looking at the decals, it looks like they give you enough decals to do every one in the instructions.  Here's a couple of pics.  Now if only my F-101B decals would get here from Australia.

keavdog

Digging the murder hornet!

Give us a kiss!  

Digging the murder hornet!

A box showed up late this afternoon:

The Exoframe is for a friend (yeah I traffic model kits like a drug dealer), while the Wurzburg radar is mine.  Now I need to go look for a figure set to man it.  And the giant "murder hornet" aka suzume bachi (sparrow bee) in Japanese is my latest pet.

BZZZZZZT!  

After catching up on this thread, it's always hard not to buy something!

That Bucc looks a nice kit, i am saving mine for the next Airfix Gb and hoping it wil be as good as the Phantom. I am really looking forward to the next boxing with the wraparound RAF scheme.

The results of the Hobby Lobby 40% off sale 

I noticed those Border Models kits. I believe they are a new company but not sure if they are linked to anyone else. be interesting to see what thats like.

I think we all thought Dragon was the best we would get, but new companies are surpassing them and Dragon are just bringing out re-issues of old kits and are getting very over priced.

I got the new Border Models kit of the Pzkfw IV G.  All new molds.  A somewhat new way of doing things.  I have not built it yet, but others seem happy with it.  It certainly has bigger instructions  and color guides with it.  It has length and link track with it.  The good old Mark 4 is like the Mustang, Me-109, and Spitfire. Every model company has to do their interpretation of it.  The Monogram Pzkpw IV 4 in 1969 or so got me really into tank models.  I was somewhat surprised to see a new kit of it.  I thought that DML had done such a good job with theirs that the market would be over.  Of course the the DML kits are getting hard to find.

Some latest additions via auction wins

Buccaneer came with some AM bits:

Outstanding effort everyone. 

Congrats on your new Sotar Steve. I do not miss out on the Badger Birthday specials. That's how I got my Sotar a couple of years ago. I still love my old 105 as my go to airbrush.

Impressive order BK. Well done.

Oh those are cool figures Greysnake and I love that Chally. I still haven't tried any of Rye Field Models kits but I've heard a lot of good stuff about them. 

Be interesting to see how that Chally builds up, especially as they are now brining one out without the extra armour. Almost wishing i had not got the Trump kit now.