My stash just grew again 2026

[Nick]

Would have been nice if the seller was honest about it, though. 

Yeah but it was only £1.50. In 2003. At the Comet Models shop clearance stand at Telford.
Guess I should have opened it sometime in the last 20 years 

[Gondor]

Would have been nice if the seller was honest about it, though. 

Yeah but it was only £1.50. In 2003. At the Comet Models shop clearance stand at Telford.
Guess I should have opened it sometime in the last 20 years 

I'm not complaining, although it would have been nice if it had been complete.

[McColm]

Just bought on eBay the 1/72 Rareplanes Douglas DC-4/C-54. It doesn't have any decals and comes with the fuselage window strips.
Which means that I can build my version of the Avro Tauton and use the windows to create a transport version of the B-29  based roughly on the Tu-75 cargo version.

[Gondor]

Received a box from the BIG yellow H this evening.

1 x 1/72 eduard 70206 Spitfire Mk.Vb mid ProfiPACK edition

1 x 1/72 Modelsvit 72076 Mirage 2000N

1 x 1/72 quick boost QB 72 732 Westland Wessex HC.2 Debris Mesh. 3D printed so the curvature is there, should be better than the kit one, and it didn't cost much.

To fill out the box a bit, and to push it over the free postage mark, an item recommended to me by Stuart.

Tamiya weathering master Item 87088 Burnt Blue, Burnt Red & Oil Stain. Thankfully, the instructions are in English on the obverse of the instruction sheet.

[Weaver]

Received a box from the BIG yellow H this evening.

1 x 1/72 quick boost QB 72 732 Westland Wessex HC.2 Debris Mesh. 3D printed so the curvature is there, should be better than the kit one, and it didn't cost much.

There's a couple more aftermarket bits that Quickboost (and others) do that are worth having for the Wessex:

Transmission cover with actual slots in it: the kit one just has ribs.

Thin-walled exhaust pipes: the ones in the kit are bit chunky and have very thick lips.


That weathering kit looks interesting: I might give that a go.

[Gondor]

Received a box from the BIG yellow H this evening.

1 x 1/72 quick boost QB 72 732 Westland Wessex HC.2 Debris Mesh. 3D printed so the curvature is there, should be better than the kit one, and it didn't cost much.

There's a couple more aftermarket bits that Quickboost (and others) do that are worth having for the Wessex:

Transmission cover with actual slots in it: the kit one just has ribs.

Thin-walled exhaust pipes: the ones in the kit are bit chunky and have very thick lips.


That weathering kit looks interesting: I might give that a go.

I have a whole load of bits for the Wessex, such as a complete engine compartment, that I bought from a guy on Britmodeler. It may get to the point that I might not be sure how much of the original kit will be left 

[Gondor]

Arrived direct from eduard today

1 x 1/72 eduard 73776 Stirling Mk.III internal detail set. For my Short Stirling

[Weaver]

From UK Scale Modellers via Ebay:

Masking set for the Airfix SR.N4 hovercraft

[Thorvic]

From Starling Models 1/700 HMS Apollo 1972 (Gun Leander with Sea Cat) plus a set of 1/144 20 mm Oerlikon guns for Weaver.

[Charlie_c67]

Bit of a nostalgia trip with this one. What I hope you can see is a Britannia, Comet and 707 in 1/who knows scale that came with boxes of Shreddies. Now these aren't exactly the same as the multi-coloured ones I had as a kid, and have a girt great hole down the middle, but they're similar enough to bring back memories of my dad sticking Concorde and the table cloth to the Dining room table with superglue 

[NARSES2]

Bit of a nostalgia trip with this one. What I hope you can see is a Britannia, Comet and 707 in 1/who knows scale that came with boxes of Shreddies. Now these aren't exactly the same as the multi-coloured ones I had as a kid, and have a girt great hole down the middle, but they're similar enough to bring back memories of my dad sticking Concorde and the table cloth to the Dining room table with superglue 

  

[Pellson]

I nicked this off Evilbay while incarcerated at the hospital. The plan is to make it a Danish maritime surveillance machine, whiffed only in paint scheme as I prefer a more warlike scheme over the striped original. Expensive kits, these BPK's, but I got this for about a third of the list price so I'm good for once.

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[McColm]

I may have picked up a bargain on eBay 1/72 vacformed HS/BAe Nimrod MR.2. With 1/72 printed Warpaint page,no decals and no instructions. The seller has it down as Welsh Models but I think it's more like Forma Plane.

[KiwiZac]

A week after a friend in the USA reached out to check my address, I've had a package arrive:
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

The Spitfire conversion kit is a lovely addition that has me wondering which subject to do, but the other two are extra special: both are New Zealand-produced versions! The P1 has it right there on the box, but for the Sealand it's only a footnote on the instructions (and no copyright date, which meant making the Scalemates listing was tricky). For some time I've wanted to collect NZ-moulded kits from the 1950s-70s but the price put me off. These were a wonderful gift that I'm excited to get started on...although the decals leave something to be desired after all this time!
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

[Rick Lowe]

Good score, Zac - and nice to see you back!

Kits coming Home is always nice.

In my news: I think I mentioned a little while ago that I'd gotten a .pdf of templates to laser cut a British Power Boat Company MGB?
Well, I've just gotten the cutting done.
Now I have a Spine and Bulkheads to clad in something, likely thin card or thick paper, and I will have a 1/72 MGB or two... or else one of those and something with a similar hull.

=Very happy chap.