My stash just grew again 2025

[Wardukw]

Received yesterday

1 x 1/35 Quick Tracks T-35046 Cheiftain snap together tracks. 3D printed individual links, all two hundred and fifteen of them.

That's a odd ball number for a set of tracks ,,never seen a Chieftain with 107.5 tracks before   
Yes i know there's spare links Al    ..think it's like 96 per side so you can break a few if ya want 

Scored myself a 35th Tamiya Marder 1A2 yesterday ,, after watching a vid on the tube of you from Wes O Donnell on the likely hood  of Ukraine getting their hands on 30 Marder 1A3;s from Chile i had an idea for a Marder 1 A4 2ith a serious firepower upgrade along with a serious electronics upgrade too .
I liked this idea so much i had to hunt down a Marder 1 kit and the Tamiya one was the easiest to find ..the Revell one didn't even come up in the search     

I have two - the idea is to bash them together & create a bigger version for a sci-fi idea I have.

I have two cheapo ones in 48th by Zhengdefu: the only company who can make a kit of a troop carrier and forget to give it a tail ramp. I don't mean an opening one, I mean any one: there's no sign of a ramo of the one-piece back plate...

Fortunately I didn't care since it was for a cut'n'shut sci-fi job anyway.

Maybe they only got pics of the side's ,top and front ??   
I got mine yesterday and the hull is ready built and been cut into ,,hacked and slashed with its new armament fitted ,,weird thing is it looks extremely normal 

[Thorvic]

After building the new Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft carrier, i found that the Merlin helicopters were actually 1/600 scale and look mor super sea stallion size, i was also not impressed with their F-35B.

Therefore after checking my other kits i robbed the F-35 from the latest Pitroad JMSDF Kaga with the rebuilt flight deck and F-35s, these include wing pylons and are a nicer build than the Trumpeter version. I then discovered that Pitroad actually did these as a seperate aircraft set with a dozen F35B and a dozen F35A.

So off to the web and ordered 3 sets of aircraft sets from HobbySearch along with 2 sets of the Finemold 1/700 nano dread CWIS sets for the Phalanx 1B as again the trumpeter QnLz only comes with 2 Phalanx 1A's. These arrived yesterday.

Ended up ordering some 3D bits off ebay to replace the Merlin HM2 and add some Merlin HC5 together with the correct deck vehilces for the QnLZ as again Trumpeter have done a generic vehicle set that are not used by the UK. These are all in transit fro either China or US so hope they arrive before Christmas.

[scautomoton]

After building the new Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft carrier.....

Pictures or it didn't happen!

[Weaver]

After building the new Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft carrier, i found that the Merlin helicopters were actually 1/600 scale and look mor super sea stallion size, i was also not impressed with their F-35B.

Therefore after checking my other kits i robbed the F-35 from the latest Pitroad JMSDF Kaga with the rebuilt flight deck and F-35s, these include wing pylons and are a nicer build than the Trumpeter version. I then discovered that Pitroad actually did these as a seperate aircraft set with a dozen F35B and a dozen F35A.

So off to the web and ordered 3 sets of aircraft sets from HobbySearch along with 2 sets of the Finemold 1/700 nano dread CWIS sets for the Phalanx 1B as again the trumpeter QnLz only comes with 2 Phalanx 1A's. These arrived yesterday.

Ended up ordering some 3D bits off ebay to replace the Merlin HM2 and add some Merlin HC5 together with the correct deck vehilces for the QnLZ as again Trumpeter have done a generic vehicle set that are not used by the UK. These are all in transit fro either China or US so hope they arrive before Christmas.

So in short, Trumpeter are still Trumpetering...

Wasn't it their Type 21 that was more 1/600th than 1/700th?

[zenrat]

After building the new Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft carrier, i found that the Merlin helicopters were actually 1/600 scale and look mor super sea stallion size, i was also not impressed with their F-35B.

Therefore after checking my other kits i robbed the F-35 from the latest Pitroad JMSDF Kaga with the rebuilt flight deck and F-35s, these include wing pylons and are a nicer build than the Trumpeter version. I then discovered that Pitroad actually did these as a seperate aircraft set with a dozen F35B and a dozen F35A.

So off to the web and ordered 3 sets of aircraft sets from HobbySearch along with 2 sets of the Finemold 1/700 nano dread CWIS sets for the Phalanx 1B as again the trumpeter QnLz only comes with 2 Phalanx 1A's. These arrived yesterday.

Ended up ordering some 3D bits off ebay to replace the Merlin HM2 and add some Merlin HC5 together with the correct deck vehilces for the QnLZ as again Trumpeter have done a generic vehicle set that are not used by the UK. These are all in transit fro either China or US so hope they arrive before Christmas.

So in short, Trumpeter are still Trumpetering...

Wasn't it their Type 21 that was more 1/600th than 1/700th?

Their 1/25 Cars have some "interesting" features.  Nothing that can't be fixed with a spot of whiffing though.

[Thorvic]

So in short, Trumpeter are still Trumpetering...

Wasn't it their Type 21 that was more 1/600th than 1/700th?

The Type 21 was Dragon (Cyberhobby), as was basically a copy of the Airfix kit but with the dragon (ex-pitroad) weapons set.

Hoping somebody does a new accurate Type 21 in 1/700 scale - Pitroad did a resin version again with the same weapons sprue but sadly OOP. (Wouild be nice to see Starling do it, but they have a busy schedule creating destroyers for next 18 mths)

[Charlie_c67]

Sort of an added to stash/rediscovery. Whilst rearranging some parts of the stash I found I had two of Hobbycrafts CL-115 Tutors. Simplistic, yes, but I'm not aware of anything more modern of this model in the gentleman's scale.

[Gondor]

Received today from eBay

1 x 1/35 K Scale Models Olifant conversion set.

[Spey_Phantom]

On order:

-Eduard 1/144 Spitfire Mk.IXe
-Trumpeter 1/144 Messerschmitt Me262A
-Zvezda 1/100 Blade Ranger
-Zvezda 1/100 Skipper Riley
-Special Hobby 1/72 MD520 NOTAR

arrived today, minus Blade ranger, getting a refund for that one...

[PR19_Kit]

Some teeny-weeny RAF lo-viz roundels for my TinySHAR.

[Weaver]

So in short, Trumpeter are still Trumpetering...

Wasn't it their Type 21 that was more 1/600th than 1/700th?

The Type 21 was Dragon (Cyberhobby), as was basically a copy of the Airfix kit but with the dragon (ex-pitroad) weapons set.

Hoping somebody does a new accurate Type 21 in 1/700 scale - Pitroad did a resin version again with the same weapons sprue but sadly OOP. (Wouild be nice to see Starling do it, but they have a busy schedule creating destroyers for next 18 mths)

Yes it was - thanks. I've just been having a look at the CAD images of the Dragon Type 21, and wow, it's a mess. It isn't a straight copy of the Airfix Type 21 but it's hull does seem to be 1/600th rather than 1/700th. The Airfix one was a pretty accurate reproduction of a concept model built and exhibited by Vosper Thorneycroft, and it's only inaccurate because the detailed design of the ship changed significantly before any were launched. The Dragon one fixes some of those problems (the radar platform, the GT air intakes) but copies others (boat deck layout, STWS position) and introduces new errors all it's own: the bridge is too low, and the open-topped director platform behind it is shown as a flat-topped deckhouse!    I think that's why I thought it was Trumpeter: it has that special "we tried ever so hard to make novel mistakes that nobody else even thought of" quality that Trumpy do so well...    

The Dragon Exocet boxes look significantly over-scale, even for 1/600th, which is ironic because the ones in the "updated" Airifx kit are significantly under-scale and could have been used to fix the Dragon kit if it was actually 1/700th! They both get the installation wrong in other was though: neither has the raised platforms the boxes are mounted on, nor the blast-deflectors on the front face of the bridge. Wierdly, the Dragon one, unlike Airfix, does seem to include Corvus chaff launchers for the pre-Exocet version (but with no platforms, shields, or ready-use lockers, mind you), but there's no provision to reposition them to the boat deck when the Exocets are fitted, as was done of the real ships.

You could probably get something better than either by combining the back half of the Dragon superstructure with the Airfix forward superstructure and the Dragon foremast. Still a lot of scratchbuilding to fix everything else though.

[Gondor]

So in short, Trumpeter are still Trumpetering...

Wasn't it their Type 21 that was more 1/600th than 1/700th?

The Type 21 was Dragon (Cyberhobby), as was basically a copy of the Airfix kit but with the dragon (ex-pitroad) weapons set.

Hoping somebody does a new accurate Type 21 in 1/700 scale - Pitroad did a resin version again with the same weapons sprue but sadly OOP. (Wouild be nice to see Starling do it, but they have a busy schedule creating destroyers for next 18 mths)

Yes it was - thanks. I've just been having a look at the CAD images of the Dragon Type 21, and wow, it's a mess. It isn't a straight copy of the Airfix Type 21 but it's hull does seem to be 1/600th rather than 1/700th. The Airfix one was a pretty accurate reproduction of a concept model built and exhibited by Vosper Thorneycroft, and it's only inaccurate because the detailed design of the ship changed significantly before any were launched. The Dragon one fixes some of those problems (the radar platform, the GT air intakes) but copies others (boat deck layout, STWS position) and introduces new errors all it's own: the bridge is too low, and the open-topped director platform behind it is shown as a flat-topped deckhouse!    I think that's why I thought it was Trumpeter: it has that special "we tried ever so hard to make novel mistakes that nobody else even thought of" quality that Trumpy do so well...    

The Dragon Exocet boxes look significantly over-scale, even for 1/600th, which is ironic because the ones in the "updated" Airifx kit are significantly under-scale and could have been used to fix the Dragon kit if it was actually 1/700th! They both get the installation wrong in other was though: neither has the raised platforms the boxes are mounted on, nor the blast-deflectors on the front face of the bridge. Wierdly, the Dragon one, unlike Airfix, does seem to include Corvus chaff launchers for the pre-Exocet version (but with no platforms, shields, or ready-use lockers, mind you), but there's no provision to reposition them to the boat deck when the Exocets are fitted, as was done of the real ships.

You could probably get something better than either by combining the back half of the Dragon superstructure with the Airfix forward superstructure and the Dragon foremast. Still a lot of scratchbuilding to fix everything else though.

Sounds as if it would be just as easy to scratch-build what is needed to correct the Airfix kit.

[Thorvic]

The Airfix 1/600 Amazon was based on the manufacturers model rather than the actually ship, which is why some of the features dont look right, its also why they have stupidly large pennant numbers (which Airfix kept using, even when they had the correct size on their Leander kits !!!)

[Weaver]

Sounds as if it would be just as easy to scratch-build what is needed to correct the Airfix kit.

Yeah, pretty much.

The other thing that occured to me ages ago was to use the 1/600th kit hulls (either brand) to make a what-if "Super Vosper" by scaleorama-ing it to 1/700th. The numbers are about right:

Niteroi (biggest real-world VT frigate): 424ft length x 44.2ft beam

Type 21: 384ft length x 41.7ft beam

Type 21 scaleorama'd from 1/600th to 1/700th: 448ft length x 48.65ft beam

For context, the latter has almost exactly the same beam as a Type 22, but is 18ft shorter than a Batch 1.

[Gondor]

Received from eBay just after 9pm.

1 x 1/35 AFV Club AF35124 IDF Shot Kal 1973. This is the early up-engined Centurion as used by Israel, which will be the basis for my Mk 1a Oliphant. It has real rubber tyres, though, and the rubber band tracks. I shall have to look at changing them both.