HubertB Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 7 hours ago, Martinnfb said: Hubert. Do I hear you saying , that you have 1/32 B-534 in your stash ? I used to have one, but sold it to a modeller in New-Zealand, who is more likely to build it than me, especially as the most lively livery I could find was for a « Gendarmerie » plane. Still like it, though, and sometimes have a tinge of regrets of selling the kit... I could have built it to celebrate my 250th birthday Hubert 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 I'm gonna blame Hubert... I pre ordered a Whirlwind from Kit Linx. $125 shipped...harv 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 1 hour ago, harv said: I'm gonna blame Hubert... I pre ordered a Whirlwind from Kit Linx. $125 shipped...harv Not only are you weak, Harv, but on top of it, you try to shift the blame of your weakness on an innocent soul ... tsss.... tssss .... tssss .... Hubert, unashamedly assuming his pernicious corruption influence 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Well I have to blame someone to the wife.........harv 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 29 minutes ago, harv said: Well I have to blame someone to the wife.........harv Ah ! If it is to find an excuse for Bev, I am happy to shoulder the blame ... especially as there a few thousand kilometers between her and me Hubert 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Good on you Hubert for taking one for the team and helping to preserve matrimonial bliss. Me? I just get a head shake from Sue when large boxes show up. Although lately a number of the boxes have been for her so maybe that's why I've been skating by unscathed... 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Actually, Bev is just another head shaker. But I also pointed out the stack I'm trying to sell.....harv 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 5/7/2021 at 11:43 AM, harv said: Ok. For years I've asked for someone somewhere to trade Fisher PT Ryan with me. I had the radial engin one but wanted the inline engine one, and it finally happened. Recieved it in the mail yesterday. Big surprise to me ,it comes with a set of beautiful floats. Not sure I'll use them though.....harv Growing up in the 70's we had a neighbor who had his own airstrip on his property. And I remember seeing a Ryan PT-20 taking off and landing and circling above my neighborhood and I just had to find out what it was. When I did it became my dream Aircraft. I always wanted to build the Fisher model, but my lack of experience with resin, its price, and my fear of tackling a natural metal finish kept me from doing so. Well, I Hope you treat us to a build thread! This same neighbor also had a Republic Sea-Bee , an ugly amphibious airplane 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 A surprise came in the mail today. After waiting for just about a month and without any tracking updates from the Spanish mail. My order from FC Model Trend came today. Its a pair of 3D printed headlamp guards for Trumpeter's 1/35 kit of the Soviet PT-76. These replace the kits PE parts. Well, I think they look pretty good. They are nicely printed and are suitably delicate looking when compared to the kit parts. I'm glad I don't have to mess around with the kits PE parts now. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 That looks amazing ! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 That moment when you open evilbay just for a quick glance before the F1 starts and you find a model kit you've been after for years going for a price well under the 'normal' asking prices. Well it's just happened. I had clicked the buy-it-now icon before i even knew what i was doing. Slightly chuffed here. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 Last of the AM for the Tamiya Mosquito build plus a set of barrels for the P38 build……probably all that is left to get for the Mosquito is the cockpit placard……hmmmm maybe…… 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_S Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Still waiting on the Avionix cockpit, Aires avionics and gear well bays, Zactoman intake, masks and AM decals. This one should keep me busy for a while. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 It's a nice kit Bill and goes together well. The shape issues are well documented and I also used the Zacto intake but it looks like a SLUF to me. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artful69 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 On 5/9/2021 at 8:18 PM, AlanG said: That moment when you open evilbay just for a quick glance before the F1 starts and you find a model kit you've been after for years going for a price well under the 'normal' asking prices. Well it's just happened. I had clicked the buy-it-now icon before i even knew what i was doing. Slightly chuffed here. Nice work ... Always good to find a score!! I had a similar experience not too long ago with the Classics Series Me-262 4 volume book set. e-Bay prices were over $1000 and I nabbed a set for less than $200 including shipping with a bunch of other references thrown in. Rog 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artful69 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 So ... the "Citadel Projekt" continues ... I received a package from the UK today ... A Takom Panther Ausf.D. This one can be built into the early version - great for building Kursk era Panthers. Besides a couple still available in China ... there was only one other in the UK and one in the USA. There was at least a couple of months of dithering around between the new-tooled Tamiya kit, the Dragon kit (of which I have a Premium edition version in stock), The Zvezda kit, the Meng kit and a couple of outliers that were just re-branded re-pops of the kits mentioned here OR not worth mentioning at all ... I picked this one for the overall bang-for-buck and because of the simplicity of the build ... (yeah, yeah I know it has a full interior - which I'm not all that interested in) ... What I AM talking about is great external detail - with a clever style of link and length track assembly ... I'm having to go on Takom Panther Ausf.A reviews in my choice for the kit ... as there are little in the way of highly descriptive reviews around for this one to gauge accuracy - yet it looks to be ok based on the key indicators differentiating a 'D' from an early 'A' at least ... The reviews on the Ausf.A are pretty decent anywhere you look online ... and, of course, Jim provides a couple of his usually in-depth reviews complete with an abundance of Hi-Def photos here: and here: There are more items on the way ... and some that haven't even yet been ordered - due to unavailability here (Like the new Border Tiger.I kit) ... It's not clear to me yet about how exactly to create the build thread for this auspiciously large project ... But I get nagged a lot - so I'm going to have to get cracking soon on something ... I think my first build thread will have a production line for the Pz.III's - there's no point in doing a separate one for all the 'M' unit's ... but I might separate the 'N's and the StuG.III Ausf.G's out on their own. What do you guys think? Rog 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackster Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 On 5/9/2021 at 4:52 PM, Bomber_County said: hmmmm maybe You know you wanna!! Cheers Kev 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 My postwoman was busy today. After a long wait, I received some goodies. 1/32: Nails for my Albatros, seatbelts for my Uhu an d Bristol M.1C, which are especially important, as the PE ones from the Special Hobby kit are wrong, all from HGW 1/48: A Tamiya KI-64, which will be a relaxed in between build, were I want to test the HGW wet transfer camo on NMF. !/72 I never knew, that I would be interested into the big Breguet Atlantic 1, until I saw that scheme. I was immediately sold and had to order one. The plastic looks good for a Revell kit, but the paintjob will be hard to realize. Wide areas of the near black eagle are to be airbrushed, with the help of 1:1 stencils in the manual, which will be used to cut my own masks and then the decals are to be added. The decals are beautifully printed, but it will be difficult to match the color. Cheers Rob 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 8 hours ago, Artful69 said: but I might separate the 'N's and the StuG.III Ausf.G's out on their own. What do you guys think? Let the building begin………..…… 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 6 hours ago, Jackster said: You know you wanna!! Why spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar……… 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 (edited) I got a discount coupon to HLJ a little while back and used it to get some kits I probably wouldn't have otherwise. I went on a Space Battleship Yamato splurge and got a couple to add to the stash. Starting with a couple of their MechaColle box scale kits. The Dreadnaught has parts in it for you to connect their 1/1000 kit of the ship to the matching Andromeda and re-create a scene from the series. Speaking of the Andromeda, I got the most recent release of the kit which allows you to build any of the versions seen in the show. Then, I got the Final Battle version of Yamato herself. Up-armoured turrets and additional AA guns are the main differences. One more SciFi kit, and it's one of a classic subject. Well, classic if you grew up in the '80s. Nice to finally get a IM ED-209. Following Jeroen's Do-335 build, I grabbed one of the HK kits. Lastly, another 1/32 kit. I need to find more references on the tiger striped version included in the kit. Edited May 13, 2021 by BlrwestSiR Fix typo 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 33 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said: Nice to finally get a IM ED-209. Whoa, nice haul, I had a vinyl ED-209 back in the days in 1/9 scale, but lost it somehow (maybe a party incident ). I've seen the Moderoid kit and was VERY tempted for sentimental reasons. The stop motion scene with ED-209 on the stairs in Robocop 1 is one of my favorite bot scenes in the movies. I'm still undecided, because 90€ is lot of dough for some plastic, but yeah the old times... Cheers Rob 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 32 minutes ago, DocRob said: Whoa, nice haul, I had a vinyl ED-209 back in the days in 1/9 scale, but lost it somehow (maybe a party incident ). I've seen the Moderoid kit and was VERY tempted for sentimental reasons. The stop motion scene with ED-209 on the stairs in Robocop 1 is one of my favorite bot scenes in the movies. I'm still undecided, because 90€ is lot of dough for some plastic, but yeah the old times... Cheers Rob I had the same vinyl Horizon Models kit. Mine wouldn't stay standing. The body always collapsed on itself due to the vinyl not being strong enough to support itself. There was one made by Argonauts that was partially resin but they were expensive when they came out and I can't imagine the price now if you could find one. I took a quick look in the box, it's seems to have decent detail to it. I'll definitely do a WIP when I get around to building it. Carl 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 2 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: I'll definitely do a WIP when I get around to building it. You have twenty seconds to start a WIP, Carl,.... Cheers Rob 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artful69 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 5 hours ago, Bomber_County said: Let the building begin………..…… The priority is securing a job after 2 months unemployed ... but yes it will begin ASAP 5 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: I got a discount couple to HLJ a little while back and used it to get some kits I probably wouldn't have otherwise. I went on a Space Battleship Yamato splurge and got a couple to add to the stash. Starting with a couple of their MechaColle box scale kits. The Dreadnaught has parts in it for you to connect their 1/1000 kit of the ship to the matching Andromeda and re-create a scene from the series. Speaking of the Andromeda, I got the most recent release of the kit which allows you to build any of the versions seen in the show. Then, I got the Final Battle version of Yamato herself. Up-armoured turrets and additional AA guns are the main differences. One more SciFi kit, and it's one of a classis subject. Well, classic if you grew up in the '80s. Nice to finally get a IM ED-209. Following Jeroen's Do-335 build,Ni grabbed one of the HK kits. Lastly, another 1/32 kit. I need to find more references on the tiger striped version included in the kit. You can never get enough Space Battleship Yamato gear!! Rog 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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