My stash just grew again 2026

[The Wooksta!]

The fit is appallingly bad, especially the BMW engine, the wing has no aerofoil section outboard and the u/c is exceedingly fragile - breathe and it collapses.  I did it when it first came out in 1988 and still have the flashbacks.  My advice is ditch it and get the vastly better ICM one.

[Andrew Gorman]

From a couple of estate sales this weekend, an old Revell Bomarc kit- price on the box $1.49, and a wood Dumas 46' Chris Craft Cabin Cruiser kit.  Both for silly money as part of package deals. Now to haunt eBay for the Deluxe fittings kit for the Dumas boat.

[PR19_Kit]

NICE buys, both of them! 

That Dumas Chris Craft boat is a real cracker.

[Old Wombat]

Got a box of model stuff delivered today.

Mostly BitsferBucc's but it also included one of these;



Looks nice in the box.

Typically has no locator pins but, if it lives up to RS's usual standard, should fit together nicely, if I take my time to align things properly.

[zenrat]

The fit is appallingly bad, especially the BMW engine, the wing has no aerofoil section outboard and the u/c is exceedingly fragile - breathe and it collapses.  I did it when it first came out in 1988 and still have the flashbacks.  My advice is ditch it and get the vastly better ICM one.

Thanks Lee.  I grabbed it because it was cheap and I thought it would make good whiff-fodder.  Not because I really wanted one.

[The Wooksta!]

Got a box of model stuff delivered today.

Mostly BitsferBucc's but it also included one of these;



Looks nice in the box.

Typically has no locator pins but, if it lives up to RS's usual standard, should fit together nicely, if I take my time to align things properly.

I had their 72nd kit in my hand at Bolton last year for a ridiculously cheap price (it was under a tenner) but declined on the grounds that I had the very nice Aoshima one (the recent tool, not their 1960s horror...) and I hadn't built that, so thus no interest.  Plus I was buying Mosquitoes and wanted my cash monies for those.

In other news, I was handed the spares from a Special Hobby Mosquito NF.XV by one of the lads at Wor Club.  There's a lot, but what intrigues me the most is the nose sections for RAAF Mosquito PR21s.  There's also spare extended wing tips, which I think are for PR32s and an additional bull nose night fighter nose.  This one has a pressurisation intake which is odd, as other than the NF.XV, B/PR.XVI, PR.32, B/TT.35 and PR34, none were pressurised.  Is it an NF38 nose?  A trip into the loft to dig out their NF.XXX kit to compare and contrast is in order.
Yes, I've slagged this kit but I have three in the loft to do something with, so a PR41 using one of the PR16s could be in order.

[The Chaos]

New at my stash.

[Gondor]

Received from eBay today

1 x 1/72 Italeri 082 Westland HU-5 Wessex

1 x 1/72 Airfix A04068 Westland Wessex HC.2

1 x 1/72 Helicopter seats. I think they are from a Chinook, although, as it's just the seats and the webbing bacs, it's a little difficult to tell.