My stash just grew again 2026

[scautomoton]

Received yesterday a Revell Tornado GR.1 which is going to be used to make a conversion kit for an F.2/3

[PR19_Kit]

C Scale did one of those conversions a zillion years ago. I used one to make an F3 into my (STILL unfinished...........) F6  eight years ago.

There's not very much needed really, the new nose radar and two fuselage extensions, pics of them on my build thread here.

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=45643.msg819800#msg819800

[scautomoton]

Also the leading edge of the wings on the fuselage. Many don't notice that little change.

[PR19_Kit]

Ah well, as I started with an F3 to kick off, I didn't have that to deal with.   

[Gondor]

I have an F.2(T) in a half state, although I started with two Hasegawa kits and was grafting the engine from a GR.1 onto the F.3. Easiest way to get an F.2. The F.2(T) was literally an F.2 with the back seat set up in a simmilar maner to the front seat, although the instrument panel was the main difference due to the overall shape difference between the front and back ones.

[Beermonster58]

Revell NB-52/X-15 combo.

The extras are a set of pre cut masks, a brand new (and very nice) decal sheet and, two p/e sets.
One of the p/e sets which two Weber ejection seats and other cockpit details. The second set provides over 160,mainly stupidly small and fiddly parts for the engine intakes and exhausts.

I loathe p/e parts with a passion and, after freaking out just looking at them, both sets were fed to the bin monster immediately 😂.

Its a huge model though and , you still get lots for your pennies. As value is very subjective, I leave that for others to discuss. The original Monogram B-52 might be old but, its still a pretty decent effort.

Oh yes, also got a pair of Italeri (ex Supermodel) CANT Z. 1007 kits. Both single and twin tailed versions are covered with no less than six attractive colour scheme options

[Weaver]

I have an F.2(T) in a half state, although I started with two Hasegawa kits and was grafting the engine from a GR.1 onto the F.3. Easiest way to get an F.2. The F.2(T) was literally an F.2 with the back seat set up in a simmilar maner to the front seat, although the instrument panel was the main difference due to the overall shape difference between the front and back ones.

IIRC only 18 of those were built, and one of them ended up buried in Blackpool beach due to a loose nut rattling around inside the airframe that jammed one of the tailplane mechanisms on full deflection. When I worked at Woodford we all got a lecture about it, in person, from the BAe test pilot who'd been flying it, to impress upon us the importance of FOD control.

Two funny things with that:

1. In my session (he did several talks because the whole factory couldn't fit in the lecture room), the front three rows were full of women out of the offices who, you would have thought, had little to do with FOD. However word had got around that the pilot was "dishy" so they'd all got there early and nabbed the best seats...

2. He had a test engineer with very little flying experience in the back. After they'd done the all the test points they still had plenty of fuel left, so the pilot decided to go and do some touch-and-gos at Blackpool Airport (which is very quiet) for the sake of his logbook. The problem hit just as they climbed out after one of these, the aircraft beginning an uncommanded maximum rate roll as the stuck tailplane quickly overrode any authority the ailerons+spoliers might have. The test engineer thought the pilot was just mucking around however, so the conversation preserved on the flight recorder (which he played for us) went something like this:

PILOT: <pant, pant, pant>

ENG: "Weeeeeeee! Woohooooo!"

PILOT: <pant, pant, pant> poo-poo! <pant, pant>shitshitshitshitshit!

ENG: "Wooo... what?"

PILOT: "Get out, get out, get out!"

ENG: "What?"

Ejection hooter: Beepbeepbeepbeep <Bang, Bang>

 

Thankfully (for him and the ladies) he'd had the presence of mind to pull the black-and-yellows when the aircraft was inverted, so that they were right-side up again when the seats fired: if he'd pulled when they were facing upwards the seats would have hammered both of them into the floor.

The out of control F.2T sailed over Blackpool in a graceful arc and buried itself in the beach. He had a photo from the crash site of a VERY deep hole in the sand, surrounded by aluminium confetti, with a pair of distinctly second-hand-looking RB.199s sitting at the bottom of it. He also had a picture of the guilty nut, and I recognised it as a type I held in my stores...

[chrisonord]

I have an F.2(T) in a half state, although I started with two Hasegawa kits and was grafting the engine from a GR.1 onto the F.3. Easiest way to get an F.2. The F.2(T) was literally an F.2 with the back seat set up in a simmilar maner to the front seat, although the instrument panel was the main difference due to the overall shape difference between the front and back ones.

IIRC only 18 of those were built, and one of them ended up buried in Blackpool beach due to a loose nut rattling around inside the airframe that jammed one of the tailplane mechanisms on full deflection. When I worked at Woodford we all got a lecture about it, in person, from the BAe test pilot who'd been flying it, to impress upon us the importance of FOD control.

Two funny things with that:

1. In my session (he did several talks because the whole factory couldn't fit in the lecture room), the front three rows were full of women out of the offices who, you would have thought, had little to do with FOD. However word had got around that the pilot was "dishy" so they'd all got there early and nabbed the best seats...

2. He had a test engineer with very little flying experience in the back. After they'd done the all the test points they still had plenty of fuel left, so the pilot decided to go and do some touch-and-gos at Blackpool Airport (which is very quiet) for the sake of his logbook. The problem hit just as they climbed out after one of these, the aircraft beginning an uncommanded maximum rate roll as the stuck tailplane quickly overrode any authority the ailerons+spoliers might have. The test engineer thought the pilot was just mucking around however, so the conversation preserved on the flight recorder (which he played for us) went something like this:

PILOT: <pant, pant, pant>

ENG: "Weeeeeeee! Woohooooo!"

PILOT: <pant, pant, pant> poo-poo! <pant, pant>shitshitshitshitshit!

ENG: "Wooo... what?"

PILOT: "Get out, get out, get out!"

ENG: "What?"

Ejection hooter: Beepbeepbeepbeep <Bang, Bang>

 

Thankfully (for him and the ladies) he'd had the presence of mind to pull the black-and-yellows when the aircraft was inverted, so that they were right-side up again when the seats fired: if he'd pulled when they were facing upwards the seats would have hammered both of them into the floor.

The out of control F.2T sailed over Blackpool in a graceful arc and buried itself in the beach. He had a photo from the crash site of a VERY deep hole in the sand, surrounded by aluminium confetti, with a pair of distinctly second-hand-looking RB.199s sitting at the bottom of it. He also had a picture of the guilty nut, and I recognised it as a type I held in my stores...

I had a piece of that aircraft as I dug it up with the tracked machine I was using on the first phase of the sea defences at Star Gate, South shore Blackpool.

[zenrat]

...He also had a picture of the guilty nut, and I recognised it as a type I held in my stores...

Should you be telling us that H...

 

[Gondor]

There is a BIG difference between holding something in your stores and being the person who is supposed to fix it in place.

[Weaver]

...He also had a picture of the guilty nut, and I recognised it as a type I held in my stores...

Should you be telling us that H...

 

I was at Woodford, not Warton...

[Gondor]

Received today from Machina Models

1 x 1/72 Machina Models 003 Fairey Aviation Company ER.103C

Received this evening from the BIG yellow H

1 x 1/72 Berna Decals BER72100 Dassault Mirage F.1C & F.1B Iran Air Force

1 x 1/72 Xtradecal X72200 EE/BAC Lightning T.4/T.5 Pt1

1 x 1/72 Xtradecal X72201 EE/BAC Lightning T.4/T.5 Pt2

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72544 DH.98 Mosquito NF Mk.XV 'High-Altitude Night Fighter'

[Charlie_c67]

Received today from the big H, masking sets for the Airfix Lancaster I/III and II, the Revell Halifax and the Italaeri Stirling.

[Nick]

Went along to the Guideline Spring show testerday and came home with a pot of Vallejo True Metallic Metal Ultramarine Blue. I want to try this on a Batplane to simulate the 60s comics.

If you see these on sale look closely at the shelf unit before you grab a bottle - Same colours on each row but a different type of paint.
BASE for brush painting
SHADE for contrast
LIGHT is like the Base but in a lighter shade
AIRBRUSH - same as BASE but ready mixed for spraying

https://taleofpainters.com/2025/12/review-vallejo-true-metallic-metal-the-next-gen-of-metallic-paints/

[Dizzyfugu]

"Accidently" won a Trumpeter 1:72 Gannet at ev!lbay for only EUR 11,-. No plan, was cheap, noone else wanted it.