My stash just grew again 2026

[Gondor]

A pair of Pit Road Kawasaki P-1s. Pity they seen to be pretty much unavailable the UK so, I had to order from Japan .Both will be added to my Trump Effect collection. I in RAF markings and, the other Canadian.

I do like the look of those, I might end up ordering one or two myself.

[Charlie_c67]

Dapol OO gauge Class 29 in the rather natty two tone green with small yellow panel scheme. Been looking for one at a sensible price for absolutely ages and struck gold the other day. At last!

[Rick Lowe]

Interesting. I've got  a couple of Italeri IL-28 kits. I'm leaning towards  fitting the wings/engines.tailfin/tailplanes to an old Airfix B-26

IIRC, Dizzy once threw a Ju-188 nose on an Il-28, with a B-25 twin tail and some prop engines. Still looks good. 

[Thorvic]

Picked up a boxed Airfix 1/76 M3 Half Track from the late 70s as cheaper than the carded or baged kits but still has the tilt for the half track which is missing from later issues

[Pellson]

I remember that evolutionary B18 design. The landing gear will be tricky, because the Il-28 wells will be quite far back for a tailsitter! Or will the B18 receive a nose wheel? 

Sry, @Dizzyfugu, I missed this question.

I think I'll go for a tricycle landing gear. The nose will have its glazing and the bombardier position replaced with a radar unit anyway, so there's ample opportunity for a more thorough redesign. Also, a tricycle gear will render a more horisontal stance, in turn negating the issue of having jet blast ripping up the grass air fields of the late 1940's and early 1950's.

From a technical point of view, it would probably also make sense to ditch the twin fin empennage, but that's quite an integral part of the SAAB 18 design, so maybe not. I might blame that choice on the need to keep the overall height down due to limited ceiling clearance in existing hangars, or something. As Kit usually puts it: you can always motivate a quirky design with a good backstory.. 

This thought process is mojo enhancing. Fiddling around a bit with the bits and pieces you have and slowly working out a  time, however, the actual build will have to come later. Today is midsummer eve, a holiday at least as sacred as Christmas, here in the arctics, and tomorrow and Sunday, I will be sodding off to the cottage for some annoyingly well deserved R&R. It's been a few rather shitty weeks, tbh, and I really need to just lower the pulse.
Next week, I've gotten the opportunity to pop over the Gotland for the Almedalen political week. Another quite strictly Scandinavian feature where most leading politicians, heads of government agencies, stock market CEO's etc surprisingly freely mingle with anyone who cares to join in. There are seminars, interviews, lobbyists (of course) and in general a quite nice vibe, and the chances of getting a good idea of what's cooking for the coming parliamentary elections are great. And that in turn is part of what I'm paid for, so it's actually joining fun and feature.

I'll be back on Friday in a week from now, probably quite exhausted, but maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to have a go during the following weekend. If I can muster the energy. We'll see.

In the meantime, I'll just leave this here.

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An early Swedish jet attack aircraft (if not a bomber) being towed from its dispersal towards the war emergency base, a few km's away.

....aaand that's enough of thread dilution for one day!

[McColm]

Both 1/72 Grumman E-2 Hawkeye, Avro York Vacformed conversion set.

[Dizzyfugu]

From a technical point of view, it would probably also make sense to ditch the twin fin empennage, but that's quite an integral part of the SAAB 18 design, so maybe not.

Or switch to a T- or cruciform tail? Had that issue with my J19 thing scratch-build last year, too, and I ended up with raised stabilizers. Jet efflux is not easily dealt with, esp. when the surfaces are directly in the way? But I agree: losing the twin tail, too, "kills" even more of the B18 heritage. Looking forward.

[Weaver]

From a technical point of view, it would probably also make sense to ditch the twin fin empennage, but that's quite an integral part of the SAAB 18 design, so maybe not.

Or switch to a T- or cruciform tail? Had that issue with my J19 thing scratch-build last year, too, and I ended up with raised stabilizers. Jet efflux is not easily dealt with, esp. when the surfaces are directly in the way? But I agree: losing the twin tail, too, "kills" even more of the B18 heritage. Looking forward.

Or alternatively: V-tail.

The V-tails need to be bigger than the original ones, so they'd probably have to come from another kit. On the upside, you then have an H-tail free to fit to something else.