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

[Landlubber Mike]

47 minutes ago, belugawhaleman said:

Well, this one was supposed to be included yesterday but the postal service.....Well , the less said.....

 

     From Hasegawa, their  Boeing P-12E in 1/32. This thing has been around for decades, being first released in the

70's. According to Scalemates, my model is From 1975  or thereabouts. The parts are still sealed in the bag and the

decals look OK , but..........   Nice box art I think. Anyway I built this around 1980 . the last boxing was in the 2000's but

those sell for a lot more. Anyway I'll have fun with this one.  I like aircraft of this era😀 

 

Oh, I just added this.....Got my set of "Golden Maple" 10/0  paint brushes.... 

I picked up some of the Hasegawa 1/32 yellow wing kits myself.  Not sure if you know, but Lone Star Models makes cockpit sets for them.  Vector also makes engine sets.

[HubertB]

1 hour ago, Landlubber Mike said:

I picked up some of the Hasegawa 1/32 yellow wing kits myself.  Not sure if you know, but Lone Star Models makes cockpit sets for them.  Vector also makes engine sets.

There are better alternatives than Vector, now. And, even though it’s not needed for most yellow winged aircrafts, don’t go buying their R-1820, or Shvestov M-62. Because they could not understand the oil sump shape, they managed to distribute the 9 cylinders unevenly. On a radial 9 cylinders, the angle between each is 360/9 = 40 degrees, not 37 or 43 🤬 !

One interesting link for 1/32 engines.

https://fpwmodelshop.pl/en_US/c/132-scale/51

As for Lone Stars, is he still in business ?

Hubert

[BlrwestSiR]

Just got my first 1/32 vac.kit. My LHS finally listed the Echelon BAC Lightning they've had in storage for the last few years. This is one kit I've wanted for a while. 

I'll try to pick it up next week. 

 

 

[HubertB]

Fantastic pick, Carl. The only accurate Lightning in 1/32 …

Hubert

[belugawhaleman]

43 minutes ago, HubertB said:

There are better alternatives than Vector, now. And, even though it’s not needed for most yellow winged aircrafts, don’t go buying their R-1820, or Shvestov M-62. Because they could not understand the oil sump shape, they managed to distribute the 9 cylinders unevenly. On a radial 9 cylinders, the angle between each is 360/9 = 40 degrees, not 37 or 43 🤬 !

One interesting link for 1/32 engines.

https://fpwmodelshop.pl/en_US/c/132-scale/51

As for Lone Stars, is he still in business ?

Hubert

I think Lone Star is out of Business....... I read something about the owner " liquidating assets".

[BlrwestSiR]

9 minutes ago, HubertB said:

Fantastic pick, Carl. The only accurate Lightning in 1/32 …

Hubert

Thanks Hubert. I've had the Trumpeter kit in the stash for quite some time and most of the AM for it. I'm glad I procrastinated long enough that I can use much of that AM on this kit instead. 

[GusMac]

Looking forward to seeing a WIP of the Lightning Carl. Having conquered my 'fear' of resin kits thanks to Ernie, a vac would be the next step but watching Tom's builds of things like his Stirling and Sunderland I'm not convinced my scratch building skills are there yet.

[BlrwestSiR]

51 minutes ago, GusMac said:

Looking forward to seeing a WIP of the Lightning Carl. Having conquered my 'fear' of resin kits thanks to Ernie, a vac would be the next step but watching Tom's builds of things like his Stirling and Sunderland I'm not convinced my scratch building skills are there yet.

Gus, I'm in the same boat. I've yet to build a vac kit. I only own one other vac kit and that's a 172 Canuck. 

 

[Landlubber Mike]

16 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:

I think Lone Star is out of Business....... I read something about the owner " liquidating assets".

He's on Facebook - he re-opens his website when he is available to take orders, then closes it when he has a backlog so he can get orders out.

[BlrwestSiR]

Seeing the great service that @belugawhaleman gets from Plaza Japan, I decided to give them a try. More importantly they actually had the Tamiya 1/48 F-14A in stock and at a very reasonable price. 

So one more kitty to add to the stash. 

[ScottsGT]

Just can’t help yourself, can you Carl?   I think we need to form an intervention group for some of us here.  
 

I could be a member of F-16’s anonymous. And F-4 anonymous, and P-40 anonymous, and ………

[belugawhaleman]

That's a nice kitty! I placed an order with Plaza last week and that kit was in the basket but it would have

made my shipping too high so I went with fewer items. I think that's got to be about the nicest Tom cat out there

from what I hear. Can't wait to see your build!

[belugawhaleman]

1 minute ago, ScottsGT said:

Just can’t help yourself, can you Carl?   I think we need to form an intervention group for some of us here.  
 

I could be a member of F-16’s anonymous. And F-4 anonymous, and P-40 anonymous, and ………

I can see in my case a intervention is warranted.......... Perhaps even medication🤔

[Martinnfb]

My group would be probably very small, but how could I not buy it?
pre-war stock from HongKong

 

[BlrwestSiR]

1 hour ago, ScottsGT said:

Just can’t help yourself, can you Carl?   I think we need to form an intervention group for some of us here.  
 

I could be a member of F-16’s anonymous. And F-4 anonymous, and P-40 anonymous, and ………

Nope, it's a Tomcat. My favourite kerosene burner.  1/32 is just too big to have a bunch of them so the downsizing made sense when Tamiya came out with their kits. Just took me some time to get around to actually getting them. 

Probably the biggest intervention would be for Spitfires. There has be to be well over a dozen in the stash plus the 11 built already. 

[Martinnfb]

This tiny aeroplane just falls together by itself 

 

[BlrwestSiR]

I made it to the LHS today and picked up the Lightning kit. 

When I got home, I opened it up and decided to compare it to the Trumpeter one. 

The Trumpeter fuselage is quite a bit shorter.

The belly tank is a different shape too. 

The instructions include a set of 1/32 plans. 

I'm going to get the Aerocraft resin canopy as the kit one is a bit yellow. 

The LHS owner thinks he still has a couple more of them. He went to check but they were Hunter kits instead but he said there's more boxes to unpack. 

[DocRob]

12 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:

The belly tank is a different shape too. 

The Trumpesteers measured around the cutting line obviously .
 

Cheers Rob

[KevinM]

I am with Carl today got my F-14 also from Plaza with a few others all 1/48 and Tamyia stateside it's $284 with shipping from Plaza it was $214 the Beaufighter hurt is only $38 stateside 

[belugawhaleman]

2 hours ago, KevinM said:

I am with Carl today got my F-14 also from Plaza with a few others all 1/48 and Tamyia stateside it's $284 with shipping from Plaza it was $214 the Beaufighter hurt is only $38 stateside 

Nice haul kevin! 

[belugawhaleman]

More stufff.......

 

     From Hasegawa, their Mitsubishi J2M3 RAIDEN (Jack) type 21 (08882) in 1/32 scale. I built the Tamiya 1/48 kit back in the 80's and

I have always liked the looks of this aircraft. Finally got this one from Plaza.

 

     From AOSHIMA , Their  HONDA DREAM 50  '97 in 1/12 (06295).. I bought this thing as a companion piece for my "BIKER GIRL" figure I bought

recently. I figured that this was an attractive yet "Girly" bike suitable for the figure.I may paint it to match the figure. 

 

      Next, some aftermarket stuff:

From Quickboost , their QB 48 036  B-339 Buffalo Engine 1/48 Scale. A replacement for the Tamiya Brewster Buffalo.

Nice detail on this. It requires adding the push rods.

 

From Gaspatch Models , a pair of resin Browning cal .30 fixed machine guns. These will replace the the kit guns for my

Hasegawa 1/32 P-12E kit I picked up recently. These are amazing! 

 

From Airscale, a set of WW II USAAF instrument Dial Decals in 1/32. 

 

last, another 1/12 scale resin " Egg Girl" figure from Hasegawa. This time; No.06 "Amy McDonnell" (army girl)

 

 

     

[denders]

Some of my birthday (last month) present arrived today.

Funny thing, I just sent an email this morning about when it was going to be shipped.

 

[Landlubber Mike]

3 hours ago, denders said:

Some of my birthday (last month) present arrived today.

Funny thing, I just sent an email this morning about when it was going to be shipped.

 

I'll be curious what you think about the mini drill press.  I use my Sherline mill as a drill press, but sometimes it would be nice to have a quicker change option.

[belugawhaleman]

Picked this up from EBAY . It was delivered today.....

 

From HASEGAWA,  one of their classic kits. Their 1/32 BF2C-1 5th Bomb Squadron (O8235).

This boxing was released in 2014 according to Scalemates. All the parts are sealed  in their bag and the

box was still factory sealed. I'm very pleased. The decals look perfect. This kit appears to be molded in the

same gray plastic Hasegawa uses today...not that ancient brittle stuff used in the P-12E that I purchased earlier.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hasegawa-08235-bf2c-1-5th-bomb-squadron--259124

     Found this Picture of the Aircraft in a museum in Thailand...... Nice!

 

[HubertB]

On 4/15/2025 at 8:59 PM, DocRob said:

The Trumpesteers measured around the cutting line obviously .
 

Cheers Rob

Well, at least they got the name right on the box… The issue is that they used a drawing (by a well-known aviation artist who has produced a lot of aeroplane drawings) that is completely wrong …

Hubert