Archangel Shooter

 

stikpusher

I did not know such toys were still available... how much did that run for?

 

 

I got mine from Cheaper than Dirt for around $565 after a 10% coupon and taxes. Heard GSG will be coming out with a Stock kit for those who wants to make it into an SBR. A stock would make it easier to aim.

 

 

I suggest checking the ATF regs before adding a stock which could make it into an NFA item and if so file the proper paperwork for the stamp.

I have shot my buddy's MP40 that he bought many years ago and is worth a fortune now. It is a very pleasent weapon to shoot even in full auto, very accurate with little recoil unlike the Thompson that has muzzle climb. These NFA weapons are better than gold cause they keep climbing up in value.

Mossberg just came out with a pistol grip 12 Ga. with a 14 inch barrel which believe it or not is not an SBR per NFA regs because the entire weapon is over 26 inches long. 

Bish

 

falconmod

Couldn't resist this one.  Going to do a the special Oregon national guard scheme in 1/72 scale.

 

 

 

 

Now that will be worth seeing.

 

Toshi recently completed the same scheme on a current  Revell 1/48 Eagle release. It's a rebox of the old C Eagle but with new decals.  Looks very cool.

Ya no iron bombs and tanks on the outer wing pylons.

John

The scheme looks cool... just don't fall for that loadout...

falconmod

Couldn't resist this one.  Going to do a the special Oregon national guard scheme in 1/72 scale.

 

Now that will be worth seeing.

Couldn't resist this one.  Going to do a the special Oregon national guard scheme in 1/72 scale.

Well, I usually wait to buy my kits on sale. But, this time I didn't wait for any sale, I pulled the trigger because I didn't want tp pay the OOP price later on. Anyway, here are my latest:

For those of you who follow MotoGP motorcycle racing, this is Valentino Rossi's '05 Championship bike in the color's he ran at Leguna Seca that year. 

And this is the 06 Honda RC211V that I will build as Nicky Haydens Championship bike.

F-8fanatic

 

 

JOE RIX

Been a while since I've dropped in to check out what folks have been accumulating lately. I must say that you folks have picked up some rather impressive stuff.

 

Bish: I'm rather intrigued by the Fine Mold kits. Have you built one before? I'm interested in how the Me 410 is.

 

In the past while I've picked up a couple of additions. One in particular excited the daylights out of me. I acquired a 1/72 Hasegawa A-1H Skyraider with the toilet bomb! Heck, I didn't even know this kit existed until I saw it on a FB sell & trade group. Snagged it up immediately for $20.00.

 

 

Also picked this up:

 

 

By the way, this my test post for using Postimage.org for a photo hosting site. Tried it at Stik's recommendation.

 

 

 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=a-1+skyraider+toilet&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS702US702&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqhr7H6u7VAhVIZCYKHYinAMwQsAQIPg&biw=1366&bih=662

 

 

Always loved that story about the VA-25 toilet bomb.  Those pics are surprisingly clear, considering the vintage.  Thought you might be able to use some shots of how weathered that plane was at that time.

 

On a side note, my dad was a plane captain in VF-13, an F-8 Crusader squadron in the late 60s.  They did not drop a toilet, but they DID drop 13 rolls of toilet paper out of the speedbrake well onto a Russian trawler that kept shadowing their carrier in the Med....

 

I was looking at the Trump one but opted for the AM. Bit of a beast, going to be a big sucker once its done.

Yes, same thing, different company.  I believe.

tankboy51

I just got the Dragon 1/35 SU-76i, the recaptured version of the Pz 3, neat cupola added. And the Trumpeter Grille 30-30.5cm Morser Bear. Very unlikely, but I have EVERY thing else. (Almost). So what the hey.  It's only money.

 

Is that the Trumpeter kit of the Amusing Hobby one i got this week.

I just got the Dragon 1/35 SU-76i, the recaptured version of the Pz 3, neat cupola added. And the Trumpeter Grille 30-30.5cm Morser Bear. Very unlikely, but I have EVERY thing else. (Almost). So what the hey.  It's only money.

Last week I went to a hobby shop near my sister's house to stock up on RLM colors and saw this on the shelf with a note that the conversion kit was included.  After a quick Google search I determined that the price he was asking was about $40 less than it would cost to buy it separately.  Add to that a few years ago I accidentally bought a sheet of decals for a Bf 109F instead of for the E version, I decided I should get it just so those decals wouldn't go to waste.

JOE RIX

Been a while since I've dropped in to check out what folks have been accumulating lately. I must say that you folks have picked up some rather impressive stuff.

 

Bish: I'm rather intrigued by the Fine Mold kits. Have you built one before? I'm interested in how the Me 410 is.

 

In the past while I've picked up a couple of additions. One in particular excited the daylights out of me. I acquired a 1/72 Hasegawa A-1H Skyraider with the toilet bomb! Heck, I didn't even know this kit existed until I saw it on a FB sell & trade group. Snagged it up immediately for $20.00.

 

 

Also picked this up:

 

 

By the way, this my test post for using Postimage.org for a photo hosting site. Tried it at Stik's recommendation.

 

 

Always loved that story about the VA-25 toilet bomb.  Those pics are surprisingly clear, considering the vintage.  Thought you might be able to use some shots of how weathered that plane was at that time.

On a side note, my dad was a plane captain in VF-13, an F-8 Crusader squadron in the late 60s.  They did not drop a toilet, but they DID drop 13 rolls of toilet paper out of the speedbrake well onto a Russian trawler that kept shadowing their carrier in the Med....

dp

wow....it has the lug near the muzzle too....a lot of people don't know why the original had that on it.  The piece attached to the side of the barrel, if I recall right, was so that you could twist the gun, put the muzzle through slit openings on their armored vehicles, and then turn the gun upright, and that lug would keep the barrel from recoiling back into the interior of the vehicle.  Always nice to keep your bullets flying away from you, and not bouncing around in there with you, I suppose.  I did not even know that GSG did one of these....

Very nice... I was wondering about the stock

stikpusher

I did not know such toys were still available... how much did that run for?

I got mine from Cheaper than Dirt for around $565 after a 10% coupon and taxes. Heard GSG will be coming out with a Stock kit for those who wants to make it into an SBR. A stock would make it easier to aim.

Archangel Shooter

Oh I know this isn't a model but being a WW-II buff, this acquisition is the coolest thing I bought so far for 2017, the GSG 9mm semi-auto copy of the MP40. I took her out to the range last week to check it out, very very accurate and lots of fun! Almost as much fun has building models.

DSC_0216 by Scott Peck, on Flickr

 

I did not know such toys were still available... how much did that run for?

Oh I know this isn't a model but being a WW-II buff, this acquisition is the coolest thing I bought so far for 2017, the GSG 9mm semi-auto copy of the MP40. I took her out to the range last week to check it out, very very accurate and lots of fun! Almost as much fun has building models.

DSC_0216 by Scott Peck, on Flickr

Bish

 

 

JOE RIX

Airfix GB? Do tell. Guess I'll have to keep my finger on the pulse of that one.

Funny. When I was in the the hobby shop I was initially waffling between the PC G.55 and the Airfix 1/72 C-47 Sky Train. I really do want that kit.

 

 

 

 

I am planning on it for 2019, the 80th anniversary of the company. So watch this space.

 

Bish

 

 

JOE RIX

Airfix GB? Do tell. Guess I'll have to keep my finger on the pulse of that one.

Funny. When I was in the the hobby shop I was initially waffling between the PC G.55 and the Airfix 1/72 C-47 Sky Train. I really do want that kit.

 

 

 

 

I am planning on it for 2019, the 80th anniversary of the company. So watch this space.

 

Bish

 

 

stikpusher

Joe and Bish, those are some excellent additions to the stash! Nice variety of subjects. 

Bish, the East African campaign is indeed forgotten or ignored by modelers. Pretty much like the campaign in Iraq and Syria as well. Forgotten sideshows compared to most of Europe, the Pacific, or CBI/SEAC. 

 

 

 

 

Here they often refer to the Burma campaign as the forgotten war. But at least they remember to call it that.

 

Although that campaign is immortalized in popular lore by "Bridge on the River Kwai". As well as many other lesser films, and books. As long as someone somewhere is whistling Colonel Bogeys March, the campaign lives on in memory in a way.

You could count me in Bish. I'm always up for one of your GBs.

JOE RIX

Airfix GB? Do tell. Guess I'll have to keep my finger on the pulse of that one.

Funny. When I was in the the hobby shop I was initially waffling between the PC G.55 and the Airfix 1/72 C-47 Sky Train. I really do want that kit.

 

I am planning on it for 2019, the 80th anniversary of the company. So watch this space.

Wow, that's some cool stuff guys! 

And big congrads on the 1/32nd Fiat G.55 Joe, looks awesome!  

Airfix GB? Do tell. Guess I'll have to keep my finger on the pulse of that one.

Funny. When I was in the the hobby shop I was initially waffling between the PC G.55 and the Airfix 1/72 C-47 Sky Train. I really do want that kit.

Joe: That Fiat kit looks fantastic man!!!!!!!!!! 1/32nd scale though?? Arent you going the wrong way? lol. Looks like a great haul buddy all around.

I can't imagine a 1/32nd scale Ta-152. Sheesh!!!

stikpusher

Joe and Bish, those are some excellent additions to the stash! Nice variety of subjects. 

Bish, the East African campaign is indeed forgotten or ignored by modelers. Pretty much like the campaign in Iraq and Syria as well. Forgotten sideshows compared to most of Europe, the Pacific, or CBI/SEAC. 

 

Here they often refer to the Burma campaign as the forgotten war. But at least they remember to call it that.

Joe,you and me both. But, i plan on building one next year and if the Airfix GB comes off, i'll be doing several.

Nice little haul there, good timing on the Indy.

Joe and Bish, those are some excellent additions to the stash! Nice variety of subjects. 

Bish, the East African campaign is indeed forgotten or ignored by modelers. Pretty much like the campaign in Iraq and Syria as well. Forgotten sideshows compared to most of Europe, the Pacific, or CBI/SEAC.