A few more have come in over the last several weeks:

Even though I already had the initial Eduard F4F-3, I had wanted to build an FM-2, so I went ahead and got this one.

A few more eBay scores:

Original boxing Monogram Mosquito:

Original boxing Monogram Hurricane:

One that I've long wanted to build, a space shuttle.  When I found this for less than $30 total, I snapped it up.

I also acquired another Monogram P-47D (bubble top), but won't be taking a box photo since it came in a "Young Modeler's Club" box with no artwork.  I only got that one because one of the other boxings of this kit that I have is missing a gear door.  As it turns out, this YMC boxing is missing a different gear door, but between all of boxings I have of this one, I should have every thing I need to perhaps mold the 2 missing parts myself (which will be a first for me).

Just this week, I welcomed my first grandchild into this world!  Our oldest and his wife delivered a healthy baby boy on Tuesday this week.  So I think my acquring all these old original boxings of Monogram kits has been done with my grandson in mind.  Just gotta give him a few years.

Also picked up a set of FOD covers for a 1/32 F-15E Eagle that I will be building once I get the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 TOS off my workbench.

Real G

 

 

Gamera

Oh wow nice stuff guys!!! 

 

And your friend got to meet Tamiya-san Real G!!!!!! 

I am green with envy!!! 

 

Well, more green than usual...... 

 

 

 

 

Yeah we were all green.  Super green with envy.

It was just by chance too.  My friend said when he saw Mr Tamiya, they smiled and bowed, and then Mr T came over and started a conversation.  They must have hit it off well, because he was invited to have lunch with Mr T and his staff.  Afterwards he was given a private tour of the facilities by the designers and engineers!

Urayamashii (envious).

 

OMG!!! A private tour!!!!! 

ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!  

Gamera

Oh wow nice stuff guys!!! 

 

And your friend got to meet Tamiya-san Real G!!!!!! 

I am green with envy!!! 

 

Well, more green than usual...... 

 

Yeah we were all green.  Super green with envy.

It was just by chance too.  My friend said when he saw Mr Tamiya, they smiled and bowed, and then Mr T came over and started a conversation.  They must have hit it off well, because he was invited to have lunch with Mr T and his staff.  Afterwards he was given a private tour of the facilities by the designers and engineers!

Urayamashii (envious).

Oh wow nice stuff guys!!! 

And your friend got to meet Tamiya-san Real G!!!!!! 

I am green with envy!!! 

Well, more green than usual...... 

On it's way, Hasegawa Lancia Delta Integralle WRC 1992

Drums,

That sounds like an interesting kit.  They really went all out with the details.

Pat

Ben,

WOW, full gang-banging acessories... you won't see that in a new tol release!  When other modelers see those "extras", they are going to want to have... a piece of the action:

"Right Spocko?"

"Riiiight."

WOW Real G, that would sound like an ultimate modeling vacation, with lunch to boot. 

I bought this kit early in my modeling tenure (around 1966) and botched it all up, but I really liked the kit. Here we are today with a re-release so I just had to have it again. Perhaps I can do just a little better on the build this time. Check out the "goodies" that come with it!

stikpusher

Very cool Mecha stuff Neal! I look forward to when you show them off after building them!

Then for my aircraft I had been wanting one of the old Revell 1/32 FW-190D's for along time, and again found a good deal for one

Hey Stik, it will be interesting to see you dive into that Dora - I was still in elementary school the last time I saw a fresh one on the shelf!

A friend who lives in Japan visited this weekend bearing gifts (omiyage), and in traditional Japanese fashion, my cup runneth over.

A "buggy" looking mobile suit from "Victory Gundam:

A Desert Type Zaku, my favorite Zaku variant:

A Barzam from "Advance of Zeta", much nicer than the original from "Zeta Gundam", which looked like someone pulled a wedgie on it:

A nice, tiny 1/200 model of the 1:1 Gundam that stands in Yokohama:

And finally, a shogun dude that is given to visitors who tour the Tamiya Shizuoka factory:

My overly generous friend also had lunch with Mr Tamiya, the lucky bugger!

keavdog

Are you doing a Kingfisher??  Cool - I have all the stuff to do one.

AND - speaking of T-33s, which kit are those decals for?  There's the old hawk and derivatives and the newer GWH.  Need one for my trainer collection so I'm told 

 

I have the Hi Tech Kingfisher version in my stash to do one day. I am thinking of just adding other details from my spares and scratched from Evergreen styrene to dress it up more, plus a resin engine that I've picked up. The decal set has the marking for USS Arizona Kingfishers from just before the attack. Thas my plan... just dont know when yet...

I have the Hobbycraft Korean War T-33 in my stash for this decal set. The kit decals are weak. And yes, you do need a T-33 in your trainer collection... 

Are you doing a Kingfisher??  Cool - I have all the stuff to do one.

AND - speaking of T-33s, which kit are those decals for?  There's the old hawk and derivatives and the newer GWH.  Need one for my trainer collection so I'm told 

Very cool Mecha stuff Neal! I look forward to when you show them off after building them!

So I have been doing lots of small purchases since my last update post on here, and now I have enough that's worth looking at...

For my 1/35 armor I picked up all these accessories/AM items... brass 20mm barrels for a quad Flak 38, brass engine deck screens for my current Panther project, a transmission for my Marder III to fill the open space in there, some ModelKasten T-34 tracks, and some Value Gear stowage... because you never can have enough of that stuff!

G, whoa those look cool! Hopefully Ben will get into the Ma.K. stuff instead of me since I've already got waaaaaaayyyyy too much stuff in my stash without getting into another genre.... 

Gamera,

Thanks for posting the lobster sushi photo.  Now I know , and knowing is half the battle.    Crabby mechs do look  cool and appear closer to our near future than bipedal super robots.

Ben,

Watch your footing there - the anime robot kit rabbit hole is steep and slippery!  If you fall in, you may never get out!  The Maschinen Krieger (MaK) kits offer a bridge between armor and sci-fi, and they take well to heavy armor weathering techniques.

This is Wave's 1/20 Gladiator "early type", complete with show shoes, a SAFS powered suit, AND a crewman with a santa outfit:

This is Love-Love Garden's hybrid (resin + injection plastic) Kangaroo:

And here is a Jerry that I built ages ago:

Never tried it, but I sure liked all shell fish prior to my allergic reaction to it. Now the doctors have me swearing it off less I take a rapid trip to the hospital (sad story). 

One of these days I will have to try building one of many Bandai or mechannica robots as they sure look imaginative and futuristic (at least 10-20 years from now) 

Apologies to Tojo if I'm derailing his thread with food but the lobster sushi is in the middle. 

I probably won't be ordering it again. Too expensive and I don't really like crunchy sushi. At least it wasn't alive when I ate it. You have a stronger stomach than I G, eating a critter still alive would have put off my appetite. 

The HAL-X10 is really cool! Somehow I like multi-legged mechs much better than the standard humanoid models. They just seem like they'd be way more stable to me. 

Gamera,

You might be right about lobster sushi, as I had a mind-fart.  The poor lobster that was forced to watch as we ate his tail was actually served up as sashimi - just slices of raw lobster served on its now empty tail shell.  It was kind of gruesome if you think about it, like some horror movie where the victim is forced to watch as the cannibal captor dines on bits of the victim's flesh.

So what was YOUR lobster sushi like?  I have never seen lobster offered on sushi rice, but confess to knowing little about the actual range of sushi.  I do know about sea urchin, allegedly a delicacy in Japan.  It looks like orange colored snot collected from a tidepool, and smells and tastes like it!  I can't help but wonder if it is just some prank the sushi experts have played on us all these years!

On the subject of crusteaceans, the Crab-Man High Leg has a distant army relative, the HAL X-10:

I was surprised that the Crab-Man was much smaller than the hulking X-10.

Ahh, I see what you mean G. I don't think I want to eat anything still alive and watching me. I just assumed the lobster sushi was some weird American concoction that the Japanese would be horrified by. 

Those are some awesome looking mechs. I love the logging machine. You don't see enough civilian heavy equipment like that. 

Last week I got more robots from Japan.

A Full Armor Gundam, a recent rendition from the old MSV (Mobile Suit Variation) series:

A Barzam, redesigned for the Advance of Zeta series (manga only, no anime as of yet):

A pair of MaK Kusters in standard military scale:

And finally, a wacky looking logging machine from Patlabor:

Gamera

And thanks G! I had lobster sushi * and my mom brought me a homemade chocolate pie. Oh yeah!!!!  

* I'm guessing in Japan lobster sushi would probably like the California roll be considered an abomination. Still it tastes good to me. 

Well... If the lobster was watching you eat his tail as he slowly died, that would be authentic "ikizukuri sushi", an experience I do not wish to repeat.  Being raw, it tasted like bait.  Poor lobster, his antennas slowly lowered as he expired.  At least the venison "sashi-meat" I tried was already dead, so we didn't have to watch poor Bambi die.  That tasted like...raw meat.  I'll stick with the dark red tuna (maguro).

BTW, I like California roll too, so no shame!  I also love chocolate pie!  Mmmmmmm....

Nope, never enough Tigers! Very true Tojo! 

Very cool add Chops! I love the modern stuff like that but I've got so much WWII and Korean War stuff the last thing I need is to get into modern AFVs too! But I hope when you get her built you'll post her in the armour forum so we can see how she came out. 

And thanks G! I had lobster sushi * and my mom brought me a homemade chocolate pie. Oh yeah!!!! 

* I'm guessing in Japan lobster sushi would probably like the California roll be considered an abomination. Still it tastes good to me. 

Never can have too many Tigers

Picked this guy up while on a business trip to New England. Got it from Hobby Emporium in Mass. Great hobby shop! 

Happy belated birthday Keavdog, and happy brithday Gamera!

Ah krap John, sorry I missed your post- beleted Happy Birthday! Nice haul! 

My birthday was today so I picked out something for myself. Not a big fan of German armour but the Tiger I is classic and I haven't built one since the early '90s so I figured I ready to build another after about thirty years. Plus I have a great little set of Russian figures examining a knocked out Tiger...

Those Tamiya F-16s are supposed to be terrific to build OOB. I wish I had them all, especially the 1/32 scales!

That Academy A-10 is new tool and it makes a very good & detailed build. There are a couple of build videos on YouTube that show it unfortunately has a few unwelcome tricks though during assembly. It looks like Tamiya's ancient Warthog still remains the easiest & least troublesome build out of all the A-10 kits available today. 

Happy Birthday!  Wow!  Those are some great gifts from your wife. 

  Love that aggressor viper John, very nice wife....and haul

Birthday haul from my lovely wife

Oh those look nice Ben, congrads to you and Jarrod!