My stash just grew again 2025

Dizzyfugu · January 09, 2025, 06:19:14 AM

1st purchase 2025 is not a kit, but rather a 1:64 scale figure as a pilot for a 1:60 civil mecha (Patlabor) build which has - quite unusual - a cockpit with good glazing.

DogfighterZen · January 09, 2025, 10:09:42 AM

A couple of bits arrived from The48ers in Cyprus...

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The 3D decals will be for a real world build but the M197 gun will be for a whiff PoAF AH-1S that will probably be in SEA camo, as worn by most of the PoAF's combat helos since the early 80s.

Rick Lowe · January 09, 2025, 08:31:35 PM

Cool score Phill - saves the stuff going to Landfill and you are doing Good Work for the environment!

Yeah, if you keep the stuff long enough there's matching bits come along... though having the storage space is an issue... so is how long between when the bits come along...

Wardukw · January 09, 2025, 11:24:29 PM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on January 09, 2025, 08:31:35 PMCool score Phill - saves the stuff going to Landfill and you are doing Good Work for the environment!

Yeah, if you keep the stuff long enough there's matching bits come along... though having the storage space is an issue... so is how long between when the bits come along...

As normal with Stockers ..IE Colin 😆...there's brass rod of multiple sizes which is always good ..I use it often and a bloody cheap supply is always good 👍
I'm mind is going sixes on the cobras and I've had zero luck finding AM 24th scale truck turbos in resin ..car turbos are just to small for a 16th scale Cobra ..bugger it 😀

Dizzyfugu · January 10, 2025, 12:06:09 AM

First "real" kit in 2025, for The Stash™: an F-RSIN 1:144 Fokker 28-1000. Looks simple but solid, and despite the manufacturer's name it is an IP kit, with OOB Air France decals. But it will certainly receive others. ;-)

Nick · January 10, 2025, 09:37:18 AM

I took part in the clubs Secret Santa kit swap competition last night. The idea is you wrap up a good but cheap kit, give it in and get a different kit back which is to be built within 6 months.

My contribution was an Airfix Spitfire Mk.1a gift set with paints etc. In turn I received an Eduard Spitfire Mk.16 Bubbletop. Both were 1/72.
I think I did quite well

killnoizer · January 10, 2025, 08:04:01 PM

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After more than a year search yesterday something special arrived lucky. Found in USA and send to germany by a friend. This one is hard to find in europe.
I love these old Matchbox kits and this gonna be build complete original, and the decals are for RAF Wildenrath and they look very good like new ! That's interesting because the 40 years old MB decals are normaly complete garbage.

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It is the 1982 edition of the kit, and i always wanted a mk.1 Harrier !

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As a child i could watch them around Munster/ Bergen / Celle in north germany.

So i need better original pix for that.

killnoizer · January 11, 2025, 03:29:41 AM

.. and followed by another treasure, lucky found from a collectors estate discovered this morning with another friend .

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PR19_Kit · January 11, 2025, 03:46:56 AM

Oh yes, that's pretty rare!

The Wooksta! · January 11, 2025, 04:26:14 AM

Quote from: Nick on January 10, 2025, 09:37:18 AMI took part in the clubs Secret Santa kit swap competition last night. The idea is you wrap up a good but cheap kit, give it in and get a different kit back which is to be built within 6 months.

My contribution was an Airfix Spitfire Mk.1a gift set with paints etc. In turn I received an Eduard Spitfire Mk.16 Bubbletop. Both were 1/72.
I think I did quite well

A very good deal indeed. The only thing wrong with that Eduard 16 is that the three spoke hub wheels for the post war option - and given that it has the heart shaped bulges inboard of the gun bays that were a post July 1945 mod when they changed the wheel tracking, it is post war* - are too small. They give the correct bigger hubs, but the tyre is still the wartime size. I'll pass you some correct size three spoke hubs next week. The Sword Griffon Spitfires give four and three spoke hub as standard. The AZ/KP mk IX and 16 low back kits give them too.

TBH, I find the wheels in the Eduard kits to be a let down. There is absolutely no need to mould 72nd Spitfire wheels in four pieces. Some years back, someone kindle gifted me a big bag full of resin copies of the Brassin wheels.

*Eduard did a wartime 16 lowback but only in their 16 combo set or as an overtree. Never been released properly.

Gondor · January 11, 2025, 05:14:51 AM

Received today from eBay

1 x 1/72 Hobby Craft CF-105 "Arrow" This is the second version of the kit with the aileron actuators on the correct side of the wings. I can now use the first issue kit I have for whiff purposes although I still need to keep my eyes open for the third version of the kit which was a new mold.

Gondor

The Wooksta! · January 11, 2025, 05:53:00 AM

Airfix Hunter FGA9 wheels are a good replacement for the buttons that Hobbycraft supply as main wheels. I might have some resin copies kicking about somewhere. Failing that, I can just send actual Airfix ones and cast my own when I need them. IIRC I used an Aeroclub Phantom* nosegear and wheels to replace the awful kit ones.

*I think it was a Phantom one, it was just a bag of white metal undercarriage bits.

Gondor · January 11, 2025, 07:53:35 AM

Quote from: The Wooksta! on January 11, 2025, 05:53:00 AMAirfix Hunter FGA9 wheels are a good replacement for the buttons that Hobbycraft supply as main wheels. I might have some resin copies kicking about somewhere. Failing that, I can just send actual Airfix ones and cast my own when I need them. IIRC I used an Aeroclub Phantom* nosegear and wheels to replace the awful kit ones.

*I think it was a Phantom one, it was just a bag of white metal undercarriage bits.

I think I can cobble something together. There is a build of the CF-105 just started on Britmodeller that I am following for tips etc but I have those bits you mentioned in stock anyway.

Gondor

kitbasher · January 11, 2025, 09:34:44 AM

Zvezda quick-build 1/72 Hurricane IIc for (hopefully) Telford whiffery.

I have a cunning plan.

The Wooksta! · January 11, 2025, 10:16:13 AM

Quote from: Gondor on January 11, 2025, 07:53:35 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on January 11, 2025, 05:53:00 AMAirfix Hunter FGA9 wheels are a good replacement for the buttons that Hobbycraft supply as main wheels. I might have some resin copies kicking about somewhere. Failing that, I can just send actual Airfix ones and cast my own when I need them. IIRC I used an Aeroclub Phantom* nosegear and wheels to replace the awful kit ones.

*I think it was a Phantom one, it was just a bag of white metal undercarriage bits.

I think I can cobble something together. There is a build of the CF-105 just started on Britmodeller that I am following for tips etc but I have those bits you mentioned in stock anyway.

Gondor

Other improvements? Fix the stupid hexagonal section of the spine. It's a vent, and an easy fix by planking over with plastic card then sanding it to the profile and then cutting a chunk out. Production exhausts are another easy fix, involving some surgery, using spare Meteor intakes from the Matchbox kit. I got the idea from Thorvic.

Start a build thread and I'll post some photos of the last one I did, which may help. I need an excuse to fix the u/c.