My stash just grew again 2025

[Rick Lowe]

1 x Hobby Boss 1/48 P-40M Kittyhawk (HB 85801) - to replace the one with the f____ed-up canopy

You are aware that Falcon/Squadron do early and late 1/48 P-40 canopies, right? Just asking.

https://www.falconmodels.co.nz/squadron.html

Two tiny clear plastic windscreens from Revell Gmbh to replace the missing items from my 1/32 Surtees and Porsche kits. VERY fast service from them, I'm most impressed. 

Nice to have the service backup you need, at least with something. 

[Old Wombat]

1 x Hobby Boss 1/48 P-40M Kittyhawk (HB 85801) - to replace the one with the f____ed-up canopy

You are aware that Falcon/Squadron do early and late 1/48 P-40 canopies, right? Just asking.

https://www.falconmodels.co.nz/squadron.html

I didn't, but I do now.

However, their 1/48 P-40M canopy is for the less common Mauve kit (which has a three-piece canopy - I have one of these kits), not the more readily available Hobby Boss kit (which has a completely different, single piece, canopy*).

I have a plan! 

It may not work. 





[*: Now, if Falcon did a four-piece conversion (open) canopy for the HB P-40M, then we'd be talkin'!  )

[Weaver]

From Freightdog:

1/72nd Supermarine Type 327 "Shrew" (RAF & Prototype markings)
1/72nd TSR.2 Interceptor conversion

Bought quite a lot of modelling stuff this week: these were by no means the first to be ordered, but they were the first to arrive, so well done Colin for prompt service! 

Got the TSR.2 set primarily for the Radar Red Tops, which are going on an early-service F-106K at some point, however I can think of several uses for the refuelling probe too (advanced Buccaneer?). No specific plans for the SLAR pod, but there are several platforms that might credibly have carried a big SLAR. The Vigilante springs to mind (got two), as does the Vulcan (just restrained myself from buying one).

Always wanted the 327 and since I've got a little money in my pocket at the moment and Colin's discounting them, my finger must have slipped... Makes up for not buying the Vulcan, right? 

[Rick Lowe]

You are aware that Falcon/Squadron do early and late 1/48 P-40 canopies, right? Just asking.

https://www.falconmodels.co.nz/squadron.html

I didn't, but I do now.

However, their 1/48 P-40M canopy is for the less common Mauve kit (which has a three-piece canopy - I have one of these kits), not the more readily available Hobby Boss kit (which has a completely different, single piece, canopy*).

I have a plan! 

It may not work. 


[*: Now, if Falcon did a four-piece conversion (open) canopy for the HB P-40M, then we'd be talkin'!  )

To be fair, it's an older product and the Mauve was the best one around at the time it came out.

If you drop them a line, Tore may have a Plan; or be amenable to a suggestion...

Yeah, as has been said:
"No Model Plan survives First Contact with Reality." Or something like that.

[McColm]

I've bought a playworn 1/24 die-cast Ford Mustang GT, it needs two wheels and a bit of TLC. I will be using it for a reference to help me finish my Revell build and adding some spare parts from the Academy Ford Capri RS3100 leftovers.

[Old Wombat]

You are aware that Falcon/Squadron do early and late 1/48 P-40 canopies, right? Just asking.

https://www.falconmodels.co.nz/squadron.html

I didn't, but I do now.

However, their 1/48 P-40M canopy is for the less common Mauve kit (which has a three-piece canopy - I have one of these kits), not the more readily available Hobby Boss kit (which has a completely different, single piece, canopy*).

I have a plan! 

It may not work. 


[*: Now, if Falcon did a four-piece conversion (open) canopy for the HB P-40M, then we'd be talkin'!  )

To be fair, it's an older product and the Mauve was the best one around at the time it came out.

If you drop them a line, Tore may have a Plan; or be amenable to a suggestion...

Yeah, as has been said:
"No Model Plan survives First Contact with Reality." Or something like that.

From looking at it, there's nothing wrong with the Mauve kit in any significant way, it has what looks like a nicely detailed cockpit (including separate side panels that get fitted during construction) & a decent control display. Maybe the seat's a bit basic but, other than that, it looks to hold up pretty well with newer kits.

I just don't know how well it goes together. I'll find out, one day. 

[Gondor]

Arrived just a few minutes ago

2 x 1/72 Airfix A04068 Westland Wessex HC.2. New box style that Airfix are using to send their goods in. It has a tear-off strip along a flap, which they cover in tape so you can't get at it 
The kit looks great, the kit box is full, and two sets of main rotor blades are supplied. The detail is definitely a step up from the older Italeri kit.

[Weaver]

And speaking of Wessexes (Wessexi?), just arrived from Air Graphics Models (all 1/72nd scale):

1 x Wessex weapon platform set with AS.11s and 2" rocket pods

also:

2 x Royal Navy carrier flight deck crew sets
1 x Sea Harrier Crew Access ladder
1 x set of Jaguar GR.1 tandem stores carriers
1 x Hughes AN/AXQ-14 datalink pod (for controlling GBU-15 TV glide bombs and AGM-142 Popeye TV missiles)
1 x Jaguar IM nose radar conversion
1 x Cerberus IV ECM pod (German)

[McColm]

Won on eBay the 1/72 Revell MH-47E/RAF Chinook .

[George the Cat]

From the IPMS Stoke on Trent show at the Staffordshire County Showground.....

1/48 Takom MQ-8B Firescout. The boxing with two kits
1/48 Airfix Red Arrows Hawk T1
1/48 Trumpeter BAe Hawk T67

A fabric covered wing for a 1/48 Hurricane cast in resin

An assortment of Ammo MiG acrylics at a pound each.

[Rick Lowe]

From looking at it, there's nothing wrong with the Mauve kit in any significant way, it has what looks like a nicely detailed cockpit (including separate side panels that get fitted during construction) & a decent control display. Maybe the seat's a bit basic but, other than that, it looks to hold up pretty well with newer kits.

I just don't know how well it goes together. I'll find out, one day. 

I found this: these:

https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/67896-done-at-last-148-mauve-p-40n-lopes-hope/

https://modelingmadness.com/review/allies/us/jacksonp40.htm

https://www.flypastrush.com/post/pushing-forty-1-48th-amt-p-40n-warhawk

[Weaver]

From Airfix:

1/72nd Wessex HC.2 
1/72nd Beaufort Mk.1a
1/72nd Buccaneer S.2B Gulf War

From Ebay:

1/72nd Italeri AH-1T Sea Cobra
1/72nd Testors XF-92A Dart

The Wessex is as lovely as you'd imagine. Needs you to read the instructions properly and be VERY careful if you want to make life easier by painting things before assembly. I can see an immediate opportunity for someone to do resin/3D one-piece exhausts with thinner lips and no seams.

Between Club membership, Hobby Reward Points, and the Beaufort being FREE for spending over £25, the three Airfix kits stand me at about £15 each, which is pretty good given than their RRPs are £25, £25, and £35 respectively...

I snapped up the AH-1T because I have a long-standing plan that involves a twin-engined Cobra, but I realised just the other day that my AH-1W, which I bought so long ago that putting a four-bladed rotor on it would have been a whiff at the time, is unsuitable for the current plan in unfixable ways.

The XF-92A was just a cheap drive-by while I was looking at other things. It's a VERY old and basic "desktop" model, with a head-on-a-shelf cockpit and ZERO undercarriage, just a substantial stand. It does have a nice little decal sheet from when Testors reissued it in the 1990s though. One of the wingtips is warped, but nothing that hot water can't fix. It also, bizarrely for a prototype that only ever flew unarmed, has four underwing "rockets" that look like stubby, badly-moulded Sparrow 1s. Since Sparrow I was a beam-rider and the XF-92A has no hint of a radome, your guess is as good as mine as to how it was supposed to guide them...

I'm thinking:

1. Cockpitectomy from... something else. (F-84 maybe? I've got plenty...),

2. Canopyectomy from something with a more fightery bubble. The XF-92's is fine at representing the real thing, but it's a very restrictive "greenhouse", not at all suitable for an operational interceptor.

3. Nosectomy from the awful Academy early Mig-21 I've got (the one that's, like, 20% too short). That would give it a radar to guide the missiles with.

4. Nozzlectomy from something early-looking. Maybe the split "sugar-scoops" nozzle from an Airfix Mirage III would work...

[zenrat]

...The XF-92A was just a cheap drive-by while I was looking at other things. It's a VERY old and basic "desktop" model, with a head-on-a-shelf cockpit and ZERO undercarriage, just a substantial stand. It does have a nice little decal sheet from when Testors reissued it in the 1990s though. One ofthe wingtips is warped, but nothing that hot water can't fix. It also, bizarrely for a prototype that only ever flew unarmed, has four underwing "rockets" that look like stubby, badly-moulded Sparrow 1s. Since Sparrow I was a beam-rider and the XF-92A has no hint of a radome, your guess is as good as mine as to how it was supposed to guide them...

I'm thinking:

1. Cockpitectomy from... something else. (F-84 maybe? I've got plenty...),

2. Canopyectomy from something with a more fightery bubble. The XF-92's is fine at representing the real thing, but it's a very restrictive "greenhouse", not at all suitable for an operational interceptor.

3. Nosectomy from the awful Academy early Mig-21 I've got (the one that's like 20% too short). That would give it a radar to guide the missiles with.

4. Nozzlectomy from something early-looking. Maybe the split "sugar-scoops" nozzle from an Airfix Mirage III would work...

That things so cute.  Looks like it'll be a MiG 21 when it grows up.

[Weaver]

...The XF-92A was just a cheap drive-by while I was looking at other things. It's a VERY old and basic "desktop" model, with a head-on-a-shelf cockpit and ZERO undercarriage, just a substantial stand. It does have a nice little decal sheet from when Testors reissued it in the 1990s though. One ofthe wingtips is warped, but nothing that hot water can't fix. It also, bizarrely for a prototype that only ever flew unarmed, has four underwing "rockets" that look like stubby, badly-moulded Sparrow 1s. Since Sparrow I was a beam-rider and the XF-92A has no hint of a radome, your guess is as good as mine as to how it was supposed to guide them...

I'm thinking:

1. Cockpitectomy from... something else. (F-84 maybe? I've got plenty...),

2. Canopyectomy from something with a more fightery bubble. The XF-92's is fine at representing the real thing, but it's a very restrictive "greenhouse", not at all suitable for an operational interceptor.

3. Nosectomy from the awful Academy early Mig-21 I've got (the one that's like 20% too short). That would give it a radar to guide the missiles with.

4. Nozzlectomy from something early-looking. Maybe the split "sugar-scoops" nozzle from an Airfix Mirage III would work...

That things so cute.  Looks like it'll be a MiG 21 when it grows up.

Well it was kinda an F-102 when it grew up...

[PR19_Kit]

How about grafting on a Lightning intake? That'd be a SERIOUS radar.