My stash just grew again 2025

[McColm]

Just ordered two Airfix   Fairey Rotodynes for the Twin Dyne Project Mk2.

[zenrat]

From Metro Hobbies;

Two 1/35 Airfix Alvis Stalwarts.
A quick inspection reveals a need for two sets of resin loaded wheels.

[Weaver]

From Ebay, after looking for AGES:

AMT Beatles Yellow Submarine kit                 

This came from AMERICA and was still cheaper, even including the P&P, than buying the single UK one that's been on for ages for a ridiculous price, with the seller refusing all offers. Thanks to Jon for telling me that these are plentiful in the US (I'd just assumed they were rare everywhere) which got me to widen my search. 


From Air-Craft Models (ex Whirlybird), both 1/72nd scale:

Aerospatiale Puma big sponsons
Aerospatiale Puma update set for late RAF service

[zenrat]

From Ebay, after looking for AGES:

AMT Beatles Yellow Submarine kit                 

This came from AMERICA and was still cheaper, even including the P&P, than buying the single UK one that's been on for ages for a ridiculous price, with the seller refusing all offers. Thanks to Jon for telling me that these are plentiful in the US (I'd just assumed they were rare everywhere) which got me to widen my search. 


From Air-Craft Models (ex Whirlybird), both 1/72nd scale:

Aerospatiale Puma big sponsons
Aerospatiale Puma update set for late RAF service

Any chance of a look inside the Yellow Submarine box please H?

[Weaver]

Any chance of a look inside the Yellow Submarine box please H?

Here you go.

The hull is 230mm long. No scale is stated and it's probably irrelevant given the nature of the film.

The kit is toy-like: there are wheels on the underside, and a rubber-band driven single propellor wound by a hand crank sticking out of the front. I hesitate to talk about "accuracy" with something like this, but the sub in the movie definitely had two propellors.

Two hinged hatches open in the sides, but all that's behind them is a bass-relief panel, showing The Captain on one side and Jeremy Boob on the other. The windows are just decals (waterslide).

There's an odd oval structure inside the conning tower, complete with a bottom plate and top plate. I suspect it might be a buoyancy chamber so that the thing floats in water. It isn't neccessary to complete the model for display only though: it looks like you can just fit the periscopes into the top plate and it'd be fine.

There are also two self-tapping screws, not show in the picture, which hold the two halves together. One of these is inside the doors, the other goes right though the stern.

I have no clue what the single and twin "flower" shapes on the sprues are: they're not mentioned in the instructions and don't appear in any of the box art.

[Gondor]

Just been handed by a Royal Mail delivery person

1 x 1/72 Airfix 04015-3 Short Skyvan. This is to replace the previous one I failed to build correctly as an Israeli aircraft.

Gondor

[zenrat]

Any chance of a look inside the Yellow Submarine box please H?

Here you go.

The hull is 230mm long. No scale is stated and it's probably irrelevant given the nature of the film.

The kit is toy-like: there are wheels on the underside, and a rubber-band driven single propellor wound by a hand crank sticking out of the front. I hesitate to talk about "accuracy" with something like this, but the sub in the movie definitely had two propellors.

Two hinged hatches open in the sides, but all that's behind them is a bass-relief panel, showing The Captain on one side and Jeremy Boob on the other. The windows are just decals (waterslide).

There's an odd oval structure inside the conning tower, complete with a bottom plate and top plate. I suspect it might be a buoyancy chamber so that the thing floats in water. It isn't neccessary to complete the model for display only though: it looks like you can just fit the periscopes into the top plate and it'd be fine.

There are also two self-tapping screws, not show in the picture, which hold the two halves together. One of these is inside the doors, the other goes right though the stern.

I have no clue what the single and twin "flower" shapes on the sprues are: they're not mentioned in the instructions and don't appear in any of the box art.

Thanks H.
It's sort of there.  It'd give you somewhere to start from is you wanted to build something "accurate".

[Rheged]

A reminder for you.............the video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA.  2minutes 45 seconds of nostalgia.

[Weaver]

Thanks H.
It's sort of there.  It'd give you somewhere to start from is you wanted to build something "accurate".

Exactly. The basic shape is "accurate" and the doors are no more random than any of the other surreal things it does in the movie. I haven't looked, but you could probably get a pair of three-bladed model boat props that would be easy enough to fit. Everything else is just filler and detail.

[chrisonord]

Just received a kit I bought off ebay that seemed cheap enough. A 1973 release Revell Heinkel He 219 Owl. All complete and still sealed in its bag. I don't think I will do anything extravagant with it, just captured markings.

[Pellson]

I really shouldn't have, especially after the shopping spree at the Gothenburg show, but..

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I'm not quite done with Airfix's early Lightning, and I have been contemplating what the Irish Air Corps would have flown, if they had been forced to actually employ an interceptor of their own in the face of Soviet bomber incursions during the Cold War. While something French maybe would have been quite logic given the small brother syndrome towards the UK, the availability of nearby support for a British design could have tipped the scales in Lightning favour. If so, however, I suspect they would have gone as cheap as possible, and then a first generation Lightning with the 200-series RR Avon makes sense. However, as the Firestreak IR missile soon became obsolete, the Red Top upgrade of the F.3/6 also makes sense, necessitating the larger fin. So this will likely be an F.2C or something like that..
Interestingly, theis issue comes with a much improved canopy whereas the awful stabilisers are kept from the original casting. Strange, but easily fixed.

The Hasegawa F.6 came from the same seller and dead cheap. I don't quite know what to do with it just yet, but it might get married to a Sukhoi fuselage to produce a single engine Lightning. It's been done before, but not by me

[zenrat]

Good score.  The box art on the Hasegawa kit is great.
I did this to mine.
Delta Lightning - 2 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
I've also got one of the old Airfix examples in the stash.

[Weaver]

I really shouldn't have, especially after the shopping spree at the Gothenburg show, but..

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I'm not quite done with Airfix's early Lightning, and I have been contemplating what the Irish Air Corps would have flown, if they had been forced to actually employ an interceptor of their own in the face of Soviet bomber incursions during the Cold War. While something French maybe would have been quite logic given the small brother syndrome towards the UK, the availability of nearby support for a British design could have tipped the scales in Lightning favour. If so, however, I suspect they would have gone as cheap as possible, and then a first generation Lightning with the 200-series RR Avon makes sense. However, as the Firestreak IR missile soon became obsolete, the Red Top upgrade of the F.3/6 also makes sense, necessitating the larger fin. So this will likely be an F.2C or something like that..
Interestingly, theis issue comes with a much improved canopy whereas the awful stabilisers are kept from the original casting. Strange, but easily fixed.

The Hasegawa F.6 came from the same seller and dead cheap. I don't quite know what to do with it just yet, but it might get married to a Sukhoi fuselage to produce a single engine Lightning. It's been done before, but not by me

No, it was done by me, 1.5 times (i.e. one finished, one on the shelf of shame) 

Completed build: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=34972.msg555660#msg555660
Never finished build: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=42162.msg726002#msg726002

Let me know if you want me to upload un-Botophucked images.

From memory (Gods, this was 17 years ago!  ) you need a VEB Plasticart Su-7 because it's rather oversize which makes it fit perfectly. I used a Revellofrog Lightning. The Lightning wings & tailplanes go straight on. The Su's fin needs cutting off and the Lightning fin more-or less goes straight in it's place with a bit of filler/plasticard. The Lightning's spine needs transplanting too (to make the canopy work) and cutting that off the Lightning fuselage needs care & patience. I used a spares-box nozzle on the finished one. You also need to cut the Su's nose off at just the right point to make the much bigger Lightning intake fit (this may be different if you're using an Su-11 donor). The rest is just detail.

Re the IAC, France is not much further away than the UK for support: what occurs to me is them getting second-hand Super Mysteres as the AdlA goes over to the Mirage. The other thing that occurs to me is that they might take an "all neutrals together" approach and buy Swedish: Tunnan, Lansen, Draken. For a cheapo Lightning, they may well go for AIM-9Bs as an upgrade instead of the expensive Red Tops, and those MIGHT not need the fin extension.

[The Chaos]

New at my stash.

[Old Wombat]

New at my stash.

Just be aware that the Firestorm decals can be a bit difficult to get off the backing sometimes, & can be a bit fragile, but do tend to sit down pretty well with a bit of Micro Set & Micro Sol.