My stash just grew again 2025

[NARSES2]

The T-2 was a real aircraft LINK so you may need to do a little research to whiff it.

Ah - I knew it was a real aircraft but wasn't aware of its service record. I need to check the options in the box. Never mind, I find the AZ 109's nice,relaxing builds, especially if you've had a tricky one on the desk just prior to one.

Thanks    Mind you folding wing-tips ? 

[Gondor]

The T-2 was a real aircraft LINK so you may need to do a little research to whiff it.

Ah - I knew it was a real aircraft but wasn't aware of its service record. I need to check the options in the box. Never mind, I find the AZ 109's nice,relaxing builds, especially if you've had a tricky one on the desk just prior to one.

Thanks    Mind you folding wing-tips ? 

Better to find out about it here than from a JMN at a show. It's also more "information gap filling" than anything else anyway. I look forward to the results of your endeavors with the kit anyway.

[Weaver]

From Air-Craft Models (the guys who took over Whirlybird). All 1/72nd scale:

3 x fire extinguishers
NiteSun searchlight
Ejector seat handles (PE)
T-28/T-6 under-wing gun pods (two large, two small)
T-28 wing pylons (x 6)
Alouette III mesh FOD guards
Alouette III "Elephant Ears" FOD guards
Alouette III Ski Set (also includes a rescue basket)
Alouette III Float set

[The Chaos]

New at my stash.

[Weaver]

From SMTF Models, (the only local hobby shop left apart from Hobbycraft):

Emhar 1/72nd McDonnell F3H-2N/2M Demon

Got this because on reflection, the Sparrow Is in the XF-92A kit are too ghastly to use, even if claimed to be something totally ficticious. The options for Sparrow Is were therefore to buy a resin aftermarket set for £9+P&P, or buy the Demon, nick the Sparrows, and still be left with a perfectly buildable kit (it comes with the alternative rocket pods). Yes, I could have given it Falcons, but that'd be boring.


From Halfords, 4 spray cans of cammo paint: Black, Khaki, Green and Brown

[Thorvic]

Had a mixed bag of deliveries this week,

1/72 Airfix Wessex HC2 (mostly to see what its like as my preference is the Royal Navy versions - Not sure if Airfix will do one after seeing the kit, but they will probably do other RAF boxings - transport and SAR)
1/72 Airfix Hampden (Just see what its like as never had one !)
1/700 Jim Shirely resin Sumner FRAM destroyer - (to be 1982 Argentinian )
1/700 Pitroad JMSDF DDH-184 Kaga STOVL carrier (this is the modified ship with the rebuilt squareed off fwd flight deck as an F-35B carrier)

[Weaver]

1/72 Airfix Hampden (Just see what its like as never had one !)

You must have got the last one or thereabouts, since it's gone out of stock now.

[Steel Penguin]

Had a mixed bag of deliveries this week,

1/72 Airfix Wessex HC2 (mostly to see what its like as my preference is the Royal Navy versions - Not sure if Airfix will do one after seeing the kit, but they will probably do other RAF boxings - transport and SAR)
1/72 Airfix Hampden (Just see what its like as never had one !)
1/700 Jim Shirely resin Sumner FRAM destroyer - (to be 1982 Argentinian )
1/72 Pitroad JMSDF DDH-184 Kaga STOVL carrier (this is the modified ship with the rebuilt squareed off fwd flight deck as an F-35B carrier)

Thorvic,  looks like a great addition.  But ( sorry) are you certain on that Kaga?  She seems a wee bit big at 1:72 ?      ( sorry)

[Nick]

Had a mixed bag of deliveries this week,

1/72 Airfix Wessex HC2 (mostly to see what its like as my preference is the Royal Navy versions - Not sure if Airfix will do one after seeing the kit, but they will probably do other RAF boxings - transport and SAR)
1/72 Airfix Hampden (Just see what its like as never had one !)
1/700 Jim Shirely resin Sumner FRAM destroyer - (to be 1982 Argentinian )
1/72 Pitroad JMSDF DDH-184 Kaga STOVL carrier (this is the modified ship with the rebuilt squareed off fwd flight deck as an F-35B carrier)

Thorvic,  looks like a great addition.  But ( sorry) are you certain on that Kaga?  She seems a wee bit big at 1:72 ?      ( sorry)

That's only 11ft long. It'll fit nicely in his living room 

[Steel Penguin]

Had a mixed bag of deliveries this week,

1/72 Airfix Wessex HC2 (mostly to see what its like as my preference is the Royal Navy versions - Not sure if Airfix will do one after seeing the kit, but they will probably do other RAF boxings - transport and SAR)
1/72 Airfix Hampden (Just see what its like as never had one !)
1/700 Jim Shirely resin Sumner FRAM destroyer - (to be 1982 Argentinian )
1/72 Pitroad JMSDF DDH-184 Kaga STOVL carrier (this is the modified ship with the rebuilt squareed off fwd flight deck as an F-35B carrier)

Thorvic,  looks like a great addition.  But ( sorry) are you certain on that Kaga?  She seems a wee bit big at 1:72 ?      ( sorry)

That's only 11ft long. It'll fit nicely in his living room 

true true, and we know what were using for a table at the shows when its complete 

[Nick]

Had a mixed bag of deliveries this week,

1/72 Airfix Wessex HC2 (mostly to see what its like as my preference is the Royal Navy versions - Not sure if Airfix will do one after seeing the kit, but they will probably do other RAF boxings - transport and SAR)
1/72 Airfix Hampden (Just see what its like as never had one !)
1/700 Jim Shirely resin Sumner FRAM destroyer - (to be 1982 Argentinian )
1/72 Pitroad JMSDF DDH-184 Kaga STOVL carrier (this is the modified ship with the rebuilt squareed off fwd flight deck as an F-35B carrier)

Thorvic,  looks like a great addition.  But ( sorry) are you certain on that Kaga?  She seems a wee bit big at 1:72 ?      ( sorry)

That's only 11ft long. It'll fit nicely in his living room 

true true, and we know what were using for a table at the shows when its complete 

He'll have to sail it there down the canals!   

[Weaver]

From Ebay:

Italeri 1/72nd B-26K Counter-Invader
Airmodel 1/72nd Helio U-10B Courier
Italeri 1/72nd F-15E Strike Eagle

So here's what happened, officer...

I was reading the listing on the Air-Craft Models site for their B-26K correction set, and I wondered idly how easy it was to get hold of the Italeri kit these days. So naturally, I had a look on Ebay. There were two: one for £28 with missing decals , and one which, on closer examination, also included the rare-as-rocking-horse-doodles Airmodel U-10B. It needed the "closer examination" because the seller had listed it so badly, with only the B-26K in the first picture and a title so long that the single-line search listing cut off the bit about the Helio, which was why it was still at £22 with just two bidders with 11 hours to go. So, with a bit of last-minute bid-sniping, I got it. I suppose I'l just have to buy the Air-Graphics set now... <theatrical and totally unconvincing sigh>

The Airmodel Helio Courier is, to put it bluntly, awful, but it's super-rare and the only kit ever of this type, so I think that one's going into "collector's corner" for a few years until a rainy day hits.

The F-15E is an old and pretty poor model with, oddly, a GEPOD gun-pod on the centreline (mainly an F-16 weapon, I thought?), however it has the redeeming feature that the solid "hump" behind the canopy is moulded as a separate piece, which means I can easily nick it to two-seaterize my Modelsvit Mirage 4000. Maybe I can do something with the FAST-packs and the single-seat F-15 I've got? There was a proposal for an "RF-15" IIRC, with cameras in the nose and IRLS+SLAR in the FAST-packs.

[scooter]

Maybe I can do something with the FAST-packs and the single-seat F-15 I've got? There was a proposal for an "RF-15" IIRC, with cameras in the nose and IRLS+SLAR in the FAST-packs.

Yes.  The F-15Cs (and Ds) that 57FIS had up in Iceland were equipped with fast packs...and IIRC, the Italeri F-15C boxing with the "IS" base code on box art also has them.

[PR19_Kit]

The Airmodel Helio Courier is, to put it bluntly, awful, but it's super-rare and the only kit ever of this type, so I think that one's going into "collector's corner" for a few years until a rainy day hits.

Hmmm, I didn't  know it was that rare. I have one in The Loft somewhere, I'll have to dig it out. 

[Weaver]

1/72 Airfix Wessex HC2 (mostly to see what its like as my preference is the Royal Navy versions - Not sure if Airfix will do one after seeing the kit, but they will probably do other RAF boxings - transport and SAR)

Wouldn't be that hard for them to do a Navy HU.5 though, would it? Small extra sprue with wheel floation bags and a bit of aerialology?