My stash just grew again 2026

[zenrat]

I just picked up the new Schimmwagon from Tamiya at my club meeting. We are having a club GB using it as a base. One guy has installed a sub scale blown hemi. I'm thinking of the shiny black limo from the Addams Family movies. I think it was actually green but I'm going with black like the Munsters hot rod. I ordered a supposedly chrome paint pen for all the small shiny parts.

Is that the one with the fat tyres?

The wheels and tires come in six pieces. There's the wheel and sidewalls as one piece and five pieces of tread to be glued onto that. The assembled part looks really good but there can be a slight gap by the time you glue on the last piece of tread. I say make that piece touching the ground and you're good to go. I don't know if these tires are bigger than others. It did say something about it uses the wider tire the vehicle was supposed to have.

 

[zenrat]

I needed more paint.  I ordered from the city LHS and while doing so this made me smile so it came with the paint.

20260715_134638 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[kerick]

I needed more paint.  I ordered from the city LHS and while doing so this made me smile so it came with the paint.

20260715_134638 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Ok, that's just weird. Somebody had a lot of trouble translating!

[Old Wombat]

I want to know what a "Patocar" does!   

[Gondor]

I want to know what a "Patocar" does!   

Probably nought to sixty in about ten seconds

[Gondor]

Received from eBay today

1 x 1/72 AZ Models Nakajima J9N1-K Kikka "Trainer". A quick look at the instructions says not to add to gun bulges to the nose, as they are for a what-if version, but the colour schemes on the box are for 1946 and 1949 

From the BIG yellow H

1 x 1/72 RAFDec RF7213 Hawker Hunter. Because I needed to get above the minimal order value.

1 x 1/72 Mark1 decals DMK7215 Baltic states air forces insignia - present

[Joe CalPo]

I want to know what a "Patocar" does!   

And who Ken and Mary were. Or Ken Mary was?

[Weaver]

Received from eBay today

1 x 1/72 AZ Models Nakajima J9N1-K Kikka "Trainer". A quick look at the instructions says not to add to gun bulges to the nose, as they are for a what-if version, but the colour schemes on the box are for 1946 and 1949 

Looks like there's also a J9N1-S "Night Fighter" boxing, so presumably that's the what-if version the gun bulges are for.

[Weaver]

I want to know what a "Patocar" does!   

And who Ken and Mary were. Or Ken Mary was?

Maybe Ken and Mary were the same person and what they were called depended what day you asked...

[Rheged]

I want to know what a "Patocar" does!   

It might be a badly translated Patrol Car...............on the other hand, it might not.