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It's Christmas in... well Christmas! A timely (but wet) package arrived today from Hobby Terra in the Ukraine! There must be a disgruntled postal worker somewhere with a bucket of water, as this is the second overseas package I have received that arrived with a smashed end that looked like it had sat in a 6" deep puddle of water long enough to allow the cardboard to decay into loose bits. The other time it was a package from Hannants in England. The T-80's box was really smashed, and the instructions and painting guide were ruined. However, his evil plans were thwarted this time due to the thorough bubble wrap inside - everything was intact and dry!
Sorry no package photo, as I have already disposed of the soggy carcass.
The Buran kit was released early this year, but had minimal decals and was PRICEY, like $80 pricey, so I held back when I heard that the manufacturer was going to reissue the kit with complete tile decals. When Hobby Terra listed the kit as "in stock", the new decals were included and the asking price was around $24.
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
Mopar Madness, you will really enjoy the Famo, the tracks are easy once you get the sequence down. It is an ABSOLUTE beautiful and FUN kit to build. The Dragon Wagon is in the same calibier almost falls together. Enjoy them bot and be-damned the empty boxes.
we're modelers it's what we do
Great! The box art is stunning!
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
SCORE!
Thanks,
John
Nice score John!
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/
Here's my model related booty.
The Perry, PE and Yamato are from my Secret Santa, the airbrush is from my wife.
Oh yeah
Oh wow, that's some impressive stuff guys!!!
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Some mighty outstanding hauls going on here folks. Rather impressive indeed. Especially you Keavdog, Wow!!
Here's my Christmas additions. The P-40 was a Secret Santa gift. All the rest was from my wife. The rivet tool is 1/72 scale. I am happy.
"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did". George Carlin
Oh that's a cool haul there Joe!
Love those manuals, bet there's a lot of useful information in there.
That Metal Earth Corsair though, gives me a headache to look at it. I hate PE on the best of days and a whole friggin' model made of it....
Good luck!!!
Here is the Tamiya Milestone 100th release of the Storch in 1/48
Another new one, always loved the Staggerwing.
This arrived via sleigh for the Secret Santa GB just starting. Got to get an order out for paint, since I don't have any Japanese colors on hand...
Also have the new Tamiya P38 that arrive before Christmas, but leaving it in the shipping box for now, too much on the plate.
Sorry for the out of focus shots.....new camera that I still have to figure out.
Nice Joe, those Metal Earth kuts are nice. The tabs are a bit tough to bend though.
Book on water...pffft. seriously it should be an interesting reference.
When I started making water there was zero info on the subject, the masters were keeping it close to the vest. Lots of trial and error, and it continues to this day.
GH awesome! Stagerwings are some of the coolest looking airplanes.
The missus left Tamiya's new P-38F/G Lightning under our tree yesterday.
Not many realize that the Staggerwing was faster than most fighters of the day.
goldhammer This arrived via sleigh for the Secret Santa GB just starting. Got to get an order out for paint, since I don't have any Japanese colors on hand... Sorry for the out of focus shots.....new camera that I still have to figure out.
Japanese Group Build IX starting middle of next week (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Not model related but there might be some interest so I'll post this here. Picked up the Criterion Showa Godzilla Blu-Ray Collection as a Christmas present for myself. It's in a booklet form and it's BIG over a foot/30cm in height. They've put in a commentary on each film with a full page cartoon style illustration. The actual Blu-Rays are snugged into the back cover.
Not cheap- I paid a little over a hundred US for mine but it was worth it!
Gamera goldhammer This arrived via sleigh for the Secret Santa GB just starting. Got to get an order out for paint, since I don't have any Japanese colors on hand... Sorry for the out of focus shots.....new camera that I still have to figure out. Japanese Group Build IX starting middle of next week (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Maybe....dug out the Betty from the dark recesses of the closet of doom that never got finished for your GB III or IV. Got to do something with that before I add another failure to the list. At least this one has a chance as I don't want to disappoint my Santa.
This is what I bought with Mrs. Castelnuovo's gift card for Christmas. Somebody built this on this forum and I liked it.
got these 2 over the Christmas break, the star Trek ship was from my twins for Christmas, I think its the first model any of my kids has ever got me! the second I got got because my one son said come to Wal-mart and look at the models before they are all gone so i did. Always wanted a model of the hawk from space 1999!
On the Bench: 1/72 Ki-67, 1/48 T-38
1/144 AC-130, 1/72 AV-8A Harrier
Nice additions there John. I am planning on getting an Eagle at some point, used to love that show.
I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so
On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3
CN: I love that artillery tractor, you can go nuts weathering and dirtying her up!
John: Not a big fan of the new Trek but still cool. Love that Hawk, haven't seen much of 1999 but it and the Eagle are great looking ships.
Gamera CN: I love that artillery tractor, you can go nuts weathering and dirtying her up!
LOL, that was the idea. Some kits just need to be weathered, rusted, dirtied up
Gamera CN: I love that artillery tractor, you can go nuts weathering and dirtying her up! John: Not a big fan of the new Trek but still cool. Love that Hawk, haven't seen much of 1999 but it and the Eagle are great looking ships.
My first new addition of the year. I want to build a helicopter for the British army GB. I came across this one on e-bay a couple of weeks ago, it includes the option for a Bell 212 that are used in Brunei for Jungle Warfare traning.
Gam, Those are the classics!
Bish, those Bell 212's has some very colorful liveries.
The kit just provides the grey/green scheme. But i have seen some recent photo's on the 7 flight FB page which shows the same aircraft still in service with orange engines. So i am going to go with that.
castelnuovo This is what I bought with Mrs. Castelnuovo's gift card for Christmas. Somebody built this on this forum and I liked it.
It was Don
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/3/t/180428.aspx
Kits I received this year for Christmas:
I also recieved some giftcards to the HL and the local internet giant retailer. The bag of 200 eye droppers was only 8 bucks. I haven't used extra thin glue before but the internet says it's good so I'm trying it out. Not pictured is a bottle of brown panel line accent- delivery in a few days.
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