Soo.... What did you just get???

[CANicoll]

8 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

What happens in Abadan, stays in Abadan, unless you join the TWINS GB !!!  

What in the world is he doing??  Going into stealth mode?

[ScottsGT]

8 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

Should do medium twin GB. LOL

Wait!  The J/K hasn’t been released yet!  Of course I do have those two B-25 kits in the stash.  

[Martinnfb]

31 minutes ago, CANicoll said:

What in the world is he doing??  Going into stealth mode?

قرمز

[CANicoll]

Hold the presses!!  I was emptying out the box and THIS appeared in the bottom of the box, under all the wrapping paper.  Bonus!!

(But wow, I was going to toss the box but decided to keep it to pack away holiday decorations.  Whew!!)

Even comes with insignia masks and a clear sheet (which will someone please tell me what that is for?)

I'm already thinking of Baby Blitz II....

Christmas just keeps getting better and better!!

[Martinnfb]

Any scale , any type  as long as it has two engines, Do335, MiMil-08/17, Apache, grey things like F-15 everyone has one, or even Su-33/35. Auxiliary engines don't count .

 

 

[Peterpools]

The new GB for 2024. Rules seem pretty simple. Has a time frame been set?

 

[Martinnfb]

Let's open a new topic to discuss it.

[Peterpools]

My bad, I thought is was a done deal. There was a thread a number a months ago about this year's GB but it just faded away.

 

 

[Martinnfb]

 

[ScottsGT]

5 hours ago, CANicoll said:

Hold the presses!!  I was emptying out the box and THIS appeared in the bottom of the box, under all the wrapping paper.  Bonus!!

(But wow, I was going to toss the box but decided to keep it to pack away holiday decorations.  Whew!!)

Even comes with insignia masks and a clear sheet (which will someone please tell me what that is for?)

I'm already thinking of Baby Blitz II....

Christmas just keeps getting better and better!!

Trim the clear film, place over stencils to hold them in correct position when removing from backing paper and apply to model.  Carefully peel off transfer film leaving stencil in place. 

[ScottsGT]

Well if the kids next door are picking winners, this time I’m building the F-18 Maverick flew in Top Gun II. 😁

JK, hopefully a J/K 

[ScottsGT]

Just got a nice delivery.  
3 bottles of leveling thinner from the USA Gundam store and an order from Ali at Aerocraft Models.  2- Stearman brass wing strut sets, an A-20 front nose gear and a  gratuitous Revell Phantom brass gear set. 
 

 

Wait until you see tomorrow’s delivery.  😁

[BlrwestSiR]

17 minutes ago, ScottsGT said:

Well if the kids next door are picking winners, this time I’m building the F-18 Maverick flew in Top Gun II. 😁

In that case, I'm entering Jennifer Connelly!!!

[ScottsGT]

You wish you were!  

[CANicoll]

1 hour ago, ScottsGT said:

Just got a nice delivery.  
3 bottles of leveling thinner from the USA Gundam store and an order from Ali at Aerocraft Models.  2- Stearman brass wing strut sets, an A-20 front nose gear and a  gratuitous Revell Phantom brass gear set. 
 

 

Wait until you see tomorrow’s delivery.  😁

Scott,  Where is the A-20 nose gear from?

[ScottsGT]

39 minutes ago, CANicoll said:

Scott,  Where is the A-20 nose gear from?

Aerocraft Models in England.  Ali is active on LSP.  He puts out some really nice stuff. 

[CANicoll]

12 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

Aerocraft Models in England.  Ali is active on LSP.  He puts out some really nice stuff. 

Cool, I've bought some of his canopies (Revell P-51D) as his clear resin is amazing.  He's a good guy, too.  Met him at Telford.

[belugawhaleman]

On 1/19/2024 at 2:48 PM, HubertB said:

A 1/48 kit occupies roughly 30% of the volume of the 1/32 equivalent …

Hubert

I have this weird... Well, idea. I recently purchased a Panzer 38 in 1/16 scale.

I already built one in 1/35.......Tamiya has one in in 1/48. If I

can find ones in smaller scales......well, a sort of Panzer '38 Russian doll

sort of thing......Is this weird?..... I don't know, just asking....these pills make

me sleepy....Beatrice, is that you? Water please with my pills, my dear...now there's

a good girl!

 

 

 

[HubertB]

3 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:

I have this weird... Well, idea. I recently purchased a Panzer 38 in 1/16 scale.

I already built one in 1/35.......Tamiya has one in in 1/48. If I

can find ones in smaller scales......well, a sort of Panzer '38 Russian doll

sort of thing......Is this weird?..... I don't know, just asking....these pills make

me sleepy....Beatrice, is that you? Water please with my pills, my dear...now there's

a good girl!

 

 

 

You could do a forced perspective dio , with compressed depth of (Russian, of course) field ….

Now, about those pills …  

Hubert

[HubertB]

A book … And what a book ! This is the last « in Action » book, on the TBD Devastator, by Dana Bell.

wow !

 

Needless to say it supersedes, and by far, the previous « in Action » book on the same subject. I have a significant library on the TBD, plus a huge compilation of pictures I gathered on the net, but this one still manages to add pictures I had never seen hitherto, nor even, to my despair, found …

 

Add to that the infinitely knowledgeable comments by Dana Bell, and you have an absolute « must have » book, at least if you have even a passing interest on the TBD.

Hubert

[ScottsGT]

Hubert, I picked that book up as well.  Dana did an amazing job on it.  I got my copy directly from him. 

[Vandy1 VX-4]

going to convert it into a GR 1 and do Darhan Annie 1991 Desert storm

now I gotta figure out what kind of bomb’s to use or the anti-runway munition!!!!

[ScottsGT]

This one showed up in the mail yesterday.  Picked it up off LSP classifieds.   I have the old Revell Stuka but always wanted the “tank buster” with the underwing cannons.  

Today I got my Hobby Zone building jig from Super Hobby in Poland.  With the biplanes in the stash this should make things easier. 

[belugawhaleman]

Just arrived....Got it from Burbank's house of Hobbies.

From Tamiya it's their Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero Fighter Model 21 (Zeke)

In 1/32 (60317).  I've been wanting this kit for some time. It looks nice...

I has lots of detail and many features (gimicks?) Like working flight controls, functional landing gear that fold and are sprung, photo-etch, and

etc. I've been looking at the instructions that I downloaded from Scalemates for some time...it looks like a straightforward build.

Going back to my roots here....I built a collection of Japanese aircraft in the

80s. They were mostly 1/48 offerings from Tamiya, Otaki, Hasegawa, and Nichimo.

[ScottsGT]

Postman dropped this off today.  It popped up on LSP last week and I jumped on it. Yea, I think I paid about $10-$15 too much, but Rhino is long gone. So pay the price!