Gamera

Joe: Cool stocker Gremlin! I want to take something like a Gremlin or Pacer and build it into a Road Warrior after the bomb sorta vehicle someday- someday I'll get to it... 

I would love to see you pull that off Gams. Epic that would be.

Gamera, very nice acquisitions! The stowage looks very useful! And the new Tamiya P-38? Well what can you be worried about there?

Joe, that Modified Gremlin makes a horrid looking car look almost decent... Lol!

Thanks guys, I am looking around for some replacement decals but otherwise want to build the P-38 straight outta the box. And Tamiya provides the nose weight and canopy masks- so really you don't have to buy anything else other than cement and paint! 

Joe: Cool stocker Gremlin! I want to take something like a Gremlin or Pacer and build it into a Road Warrior after the bomb sorta vehicle someday- someday I'll get to it...  

Gamera: Wonderful addition of the P-38. Good to see you got one. Glad you got your Squadron order in a timely manner.

BrandonK: I'm liking that Porsche 904. Sharp looking car. Gentleman had a restored one at our local car show a couple of years ago. It was gorgeous.

Real G: Now that is one interesting subject. Cool.

Just one new addition lately. Thought it would be a cool build.

Well, I found out the local Korean resturant was open at 50% capacity so I drove over last weekend to have my first sit-down resturant meal in three months. Nearby is the local hobby shop so I stopped over and picked up this. I could have gotten it twenty bucks cheaper online but it's worth it to support the local store. 

And ordered these from Squadron a few weeks ago- just never got around to posting them. I have a box full of Tamiya and Academy storage somewhere- but it went missing years ago. So these are replacements. They look a bit oversize to me, but they're nicely molded. 

I was a little leery to order them since Squadron said 'available to order' rather than 'in-stock' under them. But they arrived in less than a week, a little longer than Sprue Brothers would have taken but no big deal. 

Real G: Ohhhhhhhh, that's cool!!! So the pilot was supposed to bail out and ditch the plane- awww whatever it is??? It has the same issue with the USAF Pogo- I can't imagine trying to back the blasted thing down to a landing strip without crashing. 

SP: Very cool there too! I really need to pick up one of those- it would really help my photography... 

Stik,

I think the Heinkel Lerche and Focke Wulf Triebflugel would have also had the same problem with speed.  But VTOL aircraft have higher power to weight ratios so they would be able to accelerate faster than conventional prop driven and early jet fighters.

All this is entirely academic of course, as it’s Luft ‘46.

Now where did I put that UFO model...

Real G

Stik,

The Wespe was supposed to take down bombers like the Me-163, so dogfighting would not be a priority.  The small size of the airframe would indicate limited fuel supply, so like the Komet, it would have had to hurry back to base after an intercept.  No time to tangle with the Mustangs, Thunderbolts, and Spitfires.  Bingo fuel means bail out for a VTOL aircraft!

I do think the 2x 20mm cannon armament would have been too light to reliably destroy bombers though.

Anyway, it’s a zany design so I love it!  Darn, I forgot to look for the ones I started...

 

Oh yes. I grasped the concept immediately. A point defense interceptor. But unlike the Natter and Komet, it would not have had the initial rocket speed alone to get thru the escorts before getting to the bombers, so it would have needed the ability to fight their way thru to them in a realistic scenario. Otherwise it would have been just as vulnerable as the Me-110 or Me-410 against escorting late model Mustangs and Thunderbolts. Not to mention the Shooting Stars, Meteors, and Vampires that were just then coming into service.

It sure makes for interesting “what if?” discussions. The Western Allies were not that far behind in fielding jets. 

RG, nice addition. That caught my eye on scalemates yesterday, deffinetly one to add to the stash. Lok forward to seeing how it builds.

Certainly in the Triebflugel category of weirdness.

Stik,

The Wespe was supposed to take down bombers like the Me-163, so dogfighting would not be a priority.  The small size of the airframe would indicate limited fuel supply, so like the Komet, it would have had to hurry back to base after an intercept.  No time to tangle with the Mustangs, Thunderbolts, and Spitfires.  Bingo fuel means bail out for a VTOL aircraft!

I do think the 2x 20mm cannon armament would have been too light to reliably destroy bombers though.

Anyway, it’s a zany design so I love it!  Darn, I forgot to look for the ones I started...

RG, I can’t imagine that thing being able to dogfight, looking at that wing area, and being turboprop it would not have any major speed advantage over the escorting fighters. A bit safer than the Natter or Komet due to the engine, but otherwise...

This is probably the first modeling related gift from my family that I’ve received in I don’t know how many years... a LED Photo Tent. Dimensions are 50cm x 50cm x 50cm, so it will fit the majority of my builds for photos. An early Fathers Day/Birthday present from my youngest 

And now for something completely different!  This is another late war "Napkinwaffe" design that was proposed but never built.  The Germans were desperate to stem the crippling tide of Allied bombers, and one idea was to disperse such aircraft away from vulnerable airfields.  They were to be located around high value targets and lie in wait for the bomber streams.  Rising vertically from their concealed locations, they were to attack the bombers, then slip back down presumably avoiding the swarms of jabos that would have undoubtedly crowded the skies.  The Wespe featured a host of unusual features: prone pilot, tail sitter configuration, annular wing, and turboprop engine.

My only question is:  Where are the fuel tanks?

Oh wait, I have another one:  How does one safely bail out of a flying meat blender?

I started scratchbuilding one many years ago and finished the airframe.  But a scaling error on my part resulted in a HO scale model!  I only found this out when I tried to stuff a 1/72 pilot into the cockpit and discovered he would never fit in the tiny space.  I'll see if I can find the original model and its half built correctly scaled counterpart.

Just picked these two up off Evilbay. Got them good and cheap. They look pretty cool.

BK

plasticjunkie

Hey G, remember Joe Isuzu? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMq_7alQpU

 

Ah yes, good old Joe, the pathological liar-salesman for Isuzu.  So 80s!

Hey G, remember Joe Isuzu? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMq_7alQpU

For some reason, the COVID pandemic has slowed my kit purchases.  Maybe seeing everyone hunkered down building stuff has inspired me to also get going and build something instead of browsing the Internet.

-BUT-

I did see this advertised on Micromark's website.

I became interested in this car when I saw a real one in the early 2000's.  I had no idea what is was, but the styling fascinated me.  It looked kind of futuristic back then, but now it looks quite ordinary next to others in the crowded crossover market.

It turns out that the Isuzu Vehicross was based on a concept vehicle and entered limited production just for a couple of years.  At around $40K MSRP, is was seriously overpriced in late 1990 dollars.  It looked like a compact SUV, but was actually pretty big and heavy.  There were some quirks like the spare tire fairing obstructing the rear view, and difficult access to the two rear seats wedged between the wheel wells.  The Japanese issue of the car offered a color rear view camera, which was not common back in the day, but would have been a useful addition to US customers.  Anyway, it was a weird looking car so of course I was interested in having a model kit of it!

That chassis looks really difficult to mask and paint.  Looking over the kit parts breakdown, it seems Tamiya got lazy.  But I suppose back in the day when this kit came out, this was pretty standard fare.

Really cool stuff you guys are posting. This is my latest order from SBros:

I've never seen that before Pat. That looks really cool!

To convert to a sand rail, greatly discounted, so for me the only way to buy.........

armornut,

I hope so as well. I don't see me having to venture to the local hobby shops anytime soon.

   Aahhhaaaa, now your original post makes more sense lol. Good hunting on your next mission.

I'm a big fan of Caracal decals.   Really nice stuff.  I used them for my T-28 Mentor recently.  

No new kits, but I did get some new decals from Caracal in.  Bought another set of the P-51 decals because I need the squadron markings from the D on the sheet for a P-51H flown by the 111th FIS out of Ellington Field after they returned from Korea.  The FJ-4 decals were bought because I liked the Engine Gray, Chrome Yellow, and International Orange scheme and as replacement decals for the Emhar kit.  Turns out the Emhar kit is a -4, which is notably different from the -3.

The F-105G decals were bought because they have markings for an EF-105F model flown by a friend of mine's dad in Vietnam.  The T-45 decals were bought because of the Redhawk markings from VT-21, NAS Kingsville. I will have to source a third kit because of the sharkmouth markings from VT-9, NAS Meridian.

Waiting for my package from Scale Motorsports to arrive.

GreySnake

Ended up taking a day trip to Phoenix, AZ a couple weeks ago and visited Andy’s Hobby Headquarters.  I wouldn’t normally buy so much at retail but I wanted to make the four hour round trip worth it.

 

 

Had to take our cat in for her yearly checkup, and stopped by the LHS in Salem.  Picked up a Tamiya 1/350 Fletcher and a lot of MM paint in acrylic, enamel, and metalizer.  They were nice enough to give me 10% off on the entire lot, but still dropped $200.

One more shop to hit in Beaverton when we go up for a VA appt on the 18th.  They stock several lines including humbrol that I want to get for several big Airfix kits I have.

armornut,

That's what it started out as.  The mission was to procure some Humbrol paints for my Airfix 1/72 Provost and Phantom locally, rather than order them.  At my first stop, efforts to procure said materials were in vain as they no longer carried Humbrol.  I did however procure some Chrome Yellow for an upcoming Kentucky ANG P-51, along with the models.  I then proceeded to my second stop and was defeated yet again by the fact that they had stopped carrying Humbrol as well.  I did however, procure some Vallejo Dark Sea Blue for the Corsairs for The Forgotten War GB.  I called the third stop on my list and they confirmed that they no longer carried Humbrol either.  While happy with my purchases, I was somewhat dejected as I had failed to accomplish my primary mission. 

   Lewbud I read your post and saw the picture......are you sure it was " a paint run"?

GreySnake

Ended up taking a day trip to Phoenix, AZ a couple weeks ago and visited Andy’s Hobby Headquarters.  I wouldn’t normally buy so much at retail but I wanted to make the four hour round trip worth it.

 

 

Nice acquisitions. I’m sure that Andy appreciated your business. It’s good to hear that he is open again.

I just picked up  the Meng models 1/35 Jagdpanther G2 with piltzen crane.  Looks good to me.  I have Dragons, Tamiya and Academy, Tacom and others. I just have a thing for Jagdpanthers.  I  guess it's related to the older box art on Avalon Hills board game, Panzer Blitz.  ( I wore out 2 of games a long tme ago).