My stash just grew again 2026

[The Wooksta!]

I thought it a horrible build, the fuselage anyway.  But my view might be coloured by the sheer number of stupid errors that I kept finding, the worst being the bloated fuselage.  Once you see that, you just can't help but find other errors.

[Spey_Phantom]

arriving tomorrow:

-Academy 1/144 Douglas C-47 Skytrain
-Academy 1/144 Boeing E-7A Peace Eye
-Academy 1/144 Northrop B-2A Spirit
-Academy 1/144 B-26B Marauder
-Roden 1/144 Bristol 175 Britannia

[Andrew Gorman]

I stopped by the local aircraft museum gift shop-
https://www.hiller.org/museum/aircraft-on-display/
And picked up a set of Aeroclub vacuform floats and just to see what it was like, a Merlin Models JN4 Jenny.  Yikes! The Merlin is really crude, but it's an artifact from the dawn of short run kits. One review on the web said it "borders on the buildable", but it was cheap and educational. The floats are all pretty nice and in a wide variety of sizes. I was tempted by a vacuform Pterodactyl but the parts seemed perilously thin.  Museums get donations of old kits sometimes- it never hurts to look!

[McColm]

Bought from eBay:
Combat Models 1/72  Boeing RC-135W Rivet Jiont /Air Seeker conversion set
I think that I have bought this before but it was secondhand with some parts missing and so were the decals.

Another 1/72 Hasegawa Boeing B-47E model kit, this time it will have the Grumman Hawkeye rotodome fitted with the cockpit canopy from the Airfix Vickers Valiant.

1/72 Hasegawa North American RA-5C Vigilante which will be the bases for the BAC Retaliator FRA.1 build.

1/72 Italeri Tornado F.3 with RAF and bonus decals (donor kit for the Retaliator).

1/72 LACI CV586 Allison turboprops conversion set.

1/72 Mach2 Martin SeaMaster, at last I have the parts to build my version of the Beriev A-40 Mermaid.

Dapol/Kitmaster 1/76 C009 Deltic 001 , just need a Lima Class 55 locomotive.

American Secret Projects books 1 and 2 secondhand.

[The Wooksta!]

I stopped by the local aircraft museum gift shop-
https://www.hiller.org/museum/aircraft-on-display/
And picked up a set of Aeroclub vacuform floats and just to see what it was like, a Merlin Models JN4 Jenny.  Yikes! The Merlin is really crude, but it's an artifact from the dawn of short run kits. One review on the web said it "borders on the buildable", but it was cheap and educational. The floats are all pretty nice and in a wide variety of sizes. I was tempted by a vacuform Pterodactyl but the parts seemed perilously thin.  Museums get donations of old kits sometimes- it never hurts to look!

It's Merlin - you really expected something buildable?  His stuff was crude and frankly sh*t right up to the time of his death.  During his life his products were slagged mercilessly, rightly so, but many of those critical started kissing his ring piece as soon as he snuffed it, praising his output to high heaven. Most of the limited run injection and/or resin people got better over time - Pegasus, Aeroclub, MPM/Special Hobby, Magna to name several - but Merlin didn't, his learning curve was more akin to a very gentle slope.

[PR19_Kit]

And picked up a set of Aeroclub vacuform floats and just to see what it was like,

You WHAT? I thought they were all extinct! 

They're very good and well adaptable for various scales even. I've still got the remnants of a set in The Loft.

[kitbasher]

From Hannants, CMK Beaufighter main wheels and Eduard Brassin Beufighter Mk.X exhausts, plus a Falcon RAF Fighter vac-form canopies set.

[The Wooksta!]

You WHAT? I thought they were all extinct! 

They're very good and well adaptable for various scales even. I've still got the remnants of a set in The Loft.

One of the traders at Bolton had two full plastic boxes of various Aeroclub conversions and extras.  Weaver found at least one Aeroclub Venom complete kit, I spotted a pair but declined on the grounds that I already have several.  So
 there's lots of Aeroclub stuff about, just not where you'd expect it.

And the Firebrand arrived from kingkit, but the gun barrels and one of the u/c legs was missing.  Easy to replace.

[Gondor]

Received today from eBay

1 x 1/72 Model Alliance Decals MA-72141 BAC/EE Canberra International 'Bomber Canopy Version' Pt III

From Colin Freightdog

2 x 1/72 FDR72122 EE/BAC Canberra improved tip tanks (for S&M kit)

[Gondor]

Received today

1 x 1/72 ResKit RSU72-52 Canberra Wheels Bay for Airfix Kit, the B.6(I) version.

From eBay

1 x 1/72 Italeri 1335 Short Stirling B Mk.1

[Gondor]

A few things arrived today

From a Special Hobby offer and direct from them

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72534 Mirage IIIC 'Southern Hemisphere Fighter' along with resin exhaust, seat, and wheels.

From the BIG Yellow H

1 x 1/72 Transport Wings TWC72027 AQM-37 Jayhawk Supersonic Target Drone

1 x 1/72 eduard 73611 MB ejection seat handles

1 x 1/72 Xtradecal X72177 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VIII

[zenrat]

From Freightdog.
Gloster F.8 Meteor Reaper by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

And the first part of a minor evil-bay binge.
20260217_203615 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
This is for my future "Professor Challenger's light armoured column" diorama.  There's the 'ceratops, a couple of small raptors, a diorama base and a human figure in safari suit and pith helmet.

[NARSES2]

A few things arrived today

From a Special Hobby offer and direct from them

What was the postage and delivery like direct from them Alistair ?

[NARSES2]

20260217_203615 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Nothing like the ones up Crystal Palace Park (which have recently been renovated). Now there's some What If's for you 

[Gondor]

A few things arrived today

From a Special Hobby offer and direct from them

What was the postage and delivery like direct from them Alistair ?

Not too bad, the total was just over 47 euros, kit, three resin detail parts and the P & P