My stash just grew again 2026

[Gondor]

Just received around half past eight in the evening, from eModels

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72452 D.H. Mosquito PR Mk.XVI, might turn it into a bomber version.

[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 ?

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

Thanks mate 

[kitbasher]

Popped in to the local Hobbycraft for some bits and bobs for Grandson 1's birthday and stuff to do with Grandson 2 on the days we look after him after school.

Oh, and an Airfix Mossie PR.XVI courtesy of their 25% off deal.

[Weaver]

Three-kit auction from ebay, for a very reasonably price. Boxes somewhat crushed and they all feel a little damp, which may not bode well for the decals, but they look okay (touch wood).

Revell 1/72nd F-101B Voodoo. This is the one I actually wanted because I want the long exhaust cans and nobody makes aftermarket ones.

Revell 1/72nd Dornier Do 24T. Love Dornier flying boats. Already got one of these, but another won't go amiss.

Revell 1/72nd Mistel 5: He 162 A-2 & Arado E377a. The Arado is the straight-wing "flying bomb" with two Me 262-like jet engine pods.

[Weaver]

Weaver found at least one Aeroclub Venom complete kit

Two, actually: an FB.1 and an FB.4. Given that they and something else were £5 for three (or something like that) I was chuffed more that a bit...    

[Gondor]

Received from the BIG yellow H today

3 x 1/72 CMK 7523 Mosquito Mainwheels and Tailwheel w/Leg

From eBay

1 x 1/72 Airfix A55203 Douglas A=4B Skyhawk

[Thorvic]

From ebay an old favourite the Airfix 1/35 Bedford QL Gun Portee

[The Wooksta!]

Revell 1/72nd Dornier Do 24T. Love Dornier flying boats. Already got one of these, but another won't go amiss.

I think that's the original Italeri one.  They slightly retooled it, with additional cockpit parts, etch and new decals.  I managed to nab one a few years back at Bolton and was over the moon, as it had the Spanish SAR markings.  I did start the original with the intention of doing a Spanish fire bomber.

[Weaver]

Revell 1/72nd Dornier Do 24T. Love Dornier flying boats. Already got one of these, but another won't go amiss.

I think that's the original Italeri one.  They slightly retooled it, with additional cockpit parts, etch and new decals.  I managed to nab one a few years back at Bolton and was over the moon, as it had the Spanish SAR markings.  I did start the original with the intention of doing a Spanish fire bomber.

Yep, my other one is an Italeri boxing. Sadly all the colour schemes in both kits are the dull German cammo, four sets of markings in the Revell, two in the Italeri.

[The Wooksta!]

I can't remember what the other options in mine were, although Swedish was definitely one.  The Dutch ones in the Far East, the survivors of which ended up with the RAAF, have significant differences to the Italeri kit.  There were some conversion kits, but I don't know if they're still available.

The good Italeri one has a French option, which is somewhat more colourful:
https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/9/6/0/140960-35-instructions.pdf
https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2211

I'd offer the French markings from mine, but I'm not sure where they've been banished to - I think that I'd need Time Team to dig them out of where I suspect they are in the loft.

There in an Xtradecal sheet with some interesting options.  The Spanish one is in darker German colours but has some big spladges of colour and there's a French one in white.  I'll get me coat.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404930565489

TBH, the Luftwaffe RLM 72/73 are some quite rich blue green colours.  Dark yes, but a wonderful combination.

[zenrat]

Red Roo Models list the Blackbird conversion set for the RAAF Do-24 as "5 in stock".
AU$33 plus postage from here to there.
https://www.redroomodels.com/product/dornier-do24k-conversion-kit-1-72/
Given its by Blackbird it might be available from them in the UK.  But does that include the transfers?

[zenrat]

The rest of my minor evil-bay frenzy has been delivered.

Sword Avenger.  Which without even opening the bags looks superior to the Academy example.
20260219_173840 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

And the Airfix Skyraider I got confused over and bought by accident when I was trying to bid on a Dauntless.  When I opened it I discovered in addition to the kit it contained a resin engine by Engines & Things.
20260219_173654 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
I'm sure i'll find something to do with it.  I've previously whiffed the Heller repop into a single float seaplane.

[The Wooksta!]

The Academy Avenger is mid/late 1980s (I built it in early 1989) and is a copy of ye olde Frog kit.  I had a part started one, which I was intending to finish as one of the Highball versions, but decided to simply get shot and gave it to one of the lads at the Club.  He finished it as a water bomber.

I'd use that resin engine on a better kit.  Putting it on the Airfix one would be akin to putting lipstick on a pig.

[Weaver]

I can't remember what the other options in mine were, although Swedish was definitely one.  The Dutch ones in the Far East, the survivors of which ended up with the RAAF, have significant differences to the Italeri kit.  There were some conversion kits, but I don't know if they're still available.

The good Italeri one has a French option, which is somewhat more colourful:
https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/9/6/0/140960-35-instructions.pdf
https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2211

I'd offer the French markings from mine, but I'm not sure where they've been banished to - I think that I'd need Time Team to dig them out of where I suspect they are in the loft.

There in an Xtradecal sheet with some interesting options.  The Spanish one is in darker German colours but has some big spladges of colour and there's a French one in white.  I'll get me coat.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404930565489

TBH, the Luftwaffe RLM 72/73 are some quite rich blue green colours.  Dark yes, but a wonderful combination.

No need for that, if I get around to building one at some point it will DEFINTELY be a what-if, so "authentic" colour schemes won't be applicable anyway.

I agree that the Lufwaffe colours aren't terrible, I just think it's a shame that every scheme in both boxes is basically the same, just with different numbers.

[Weaver]

Red Roo Models list the Blackbird conversion set for the RAAF Do-24 as "5 in stock".
AU$33 plus postage from here to there.
https://www.redroomodels.com/product/dornier-do24k-conversion-kit-1-72/
Given its by Blackbird it might be available from them in the UK.  But does that include the transfers?

That's interesting: the Do-24 always had the option for BMW Bramo or Wright Cyclone engines because the launch customer was The Netherlands, not Germany. That factor enabled the French (who had a production line) and the Spanish to continue using them for quite some time after the war. The Spanish ones lasted until 1967.

Blackbird in the UK do indeed have those sets and they're not overly expensive (£14).

Lots of what-if possibilities. maybe Australia likes them so much they buy more off the French line and use them into the late 1950s/early 1960s. Maybe after being replaced for SAR, they go on to be used in the Antarctic as amphibians, converted with retractable skis that sit flush with the nose and sponsons when retracted. Maybe other Mediterranean states take a liking to them and buy them from the French: Greece strikes me as a possible.