My stash just grew again 2026

[DogfighterZen]

Thanks for that info. I have just gone to that site, ordered the pylons and pre-ordered the EPAWSS sensors and a decal set I wanted too.

 

[Old Wombat]

Another over-spend! 


1 x QuickBoost 1/48 Vought F-8E/F-8J Crusader Ejection Seat with safety belts for Hasegawa kits (QB48501)
1 x QuickBoost 1/48 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 Wipers for Airfix kit (QB49219) - still need another set
1 x QuickBoost 1/48 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 Control Lever for Airfix kit (QB49218) - still need another set
1 x QuickBoost 1/48 Grumman S-2E/S-2F/S-2G Tracker Engines for Kinetic Model kits (QB48512)
1 x Metallic Details 1/48 Wright R-1820 Cyclone Late Radial Engine (MED-MDR4853) - for anything but Grumman Trackers!
1 x FC Model Trend 1/35 Ferret Weighted Wheels (FC-37244) - still need another set
1 x Trumpeter 1/48 Westland Whirlwind Fighter (TR 02890) - that makes 2 in the stash (in 1/48, there's the 1/72 kit, too)
1 x Academy 1/35 USMC UH-1Y Venom Medium Utility Helicopter (AC 12138) - one can never have enough UH-1s!
1 x Brengun 1/72 Czech Letov S4A Late Biplane Fighter (BRE-BRS72023) - for my Czech kit collection, which will hopefully become builds, one day ... Like everything else.
1 x Sova-M 1/72 Spain/ Chili Air Force SHU-16B Albatross Flying Boat (SVM-72036) - may find its way into the Antipodes GB, if I finish my 1st build in time

[DogfighterZen]

1 x Academy 1/35 USMC UH-1Y Venom Medium Utility Helicopter (AC 12138) - one can never have enough UH-1s!

Great looking helo and i agree, one can never have enough of those and the AH-1Z also but for me it had to be in 1/48 or 1/72 so i went with the Kittyhawk and Dream Model kits. I just wish that someone comes out with correct crew figures in both scales for both helos sometime soon cause i want to build one of them.

[Old Wombat]

1 x Academy 1/35 USMC UH-1Y Venom Medium Utility Helicopter (AC 12138) - one can never have enough UH-1s!

Great looking helo and i agree, one can never have enough of those and the AH-1Z also but for me it had to be in 1/48 or 1/72 so i went with the Kittyhawk and Dream Model kits. I just wish that someone comes out with correct crew figures in both scales for both helos sometime soon cause i want to build one of them.

I have a few 1/48 helicopters - for my "Virtual RAN Fleet Air Arm Museum" - including a UH-1C, a Bristol Sycamore & a Westland Sea King ... I'm still trying to figure out the best Westland Wessex to convert into a RAN HAS 31A/B (probably a HAS.1 or HAS.3), the problem being finding either in any scale, let alone 1/48. Of course, an in-production 1/48 Westland Scout and Bell 206/OH-58 Kiowa would be nice, too.

[Gondor]

1 x Academy 1/35 USMC UH-1Y Venom Medium Utility Helicopter (AC 12138) - one can never have enough UH-1s!

Great looking helo and i agree, one can never have enough of those and the AH-1Z also but for me it had to be in 1/48 or 1/72 so i went with the Kittyhawk and Dream Model kits. I just wish that someone comes out with correct crew figures in both scales for both helos sometime soon cause i want to build one of them.

I have a few 1/48 helicopters - for my "Virtual RAN Fleet Air Arm Museum" - including a UH-1C, a Bristol Sycamore & a Westland Sea King ... I'm still trying to figure out the best Westland Wessex to convert into a RAN HAS 31A/B (probably a HAS.1 or HAS.3), the problem being finding either in any scale, let alone 1/48. Of course, an in-production 1/48 Westland Scout and Bell 206/OH-58 Kiowa would be nice, too.

Would THIS help?

[DogfighterZen]

1 x Academy 1/35 USMC UH-1Y Venom Medium Utility Helicopter (AC 12138) - one can never have enough UH-1s!

Great looking helo and i agree, one can never have enough of those and the AH-1Z also but for me it had to be in 1/48 or 1/72 so i went with the Kittyhawk and Dream Model kits. I just wish that someone comes out with correct crew figures in both scales for both helos sometime soon cause i want to build one of them.

I have a few 1/48 helicopters - for my "Virtual RAN Fleet Air Arm Museum" - including a UH-1C, a Bristol Sycamore & a Westland Sea King ... I'm still trying to figure out the best Westland Wessex to convert into a RAN HAS 31A/B (probably a HAS.1 or HAS.3), the problem being finding either in any scale, let alone 1/48. Of course, an in-production 1/48 Westland Scout and Bell 206/OH-58 Kiowa would be nice, too.

I also wonder why there's such lack of modern kits of those and more. I'd love to have a good 1/32 MD-500D and a Jet Ranger, both with their taller skids, to build Col. Cochrane's Little Bird and Frank Murphy's Astro Division Jet Ranger.
AMP should do more variants of their 1/48 Gazelle and even downsize it to 72nd scale... A modern injection molded 1/72 SA-330 Puma kit would also be very welcome, especially of later variants.
The Jet Ranger/Kiowa A/B/C in 1/48 and 1/72 would also be nice to have. Fujimi kits are old toolings and OOP, and the Italeri OH-58 kits are all more recent but currently also OOP, IIRC.
Maybe ICM will come out with more variants of their AH/MH-6 kit... some MD-500 variants would also be nice to have in 1/48 and 1/72 too.

[Rick Lowe]

There was the 1/72 Italeri OH-6 Little Bird, but I've not seen one in a while...

I got some Craft Acrylics in generic Greens from an Emporium that is, sadly, closing down.
Good generic colours, and at 2-3 times the size of a Vallejo bottle, for 1/3 the price, very good value.
I just have to try them out, but there have been a few articles on using them for models, which apparently works ok.
I just have to do a bit of mixing, should I want a specific shade.

[Old Wombat]

1 x Academy 1/35 USMC UH-1Y Venom Medium Utility Helicopter (AC 12138) - one can never have enough UH-1s!

Great looking helo and i agree, one can never have enough of those and the AH-1Z also but for me it had to be in 1/48 or 1/72 so i went with the Kittyhawk and Dream Model kits. I just wish that someone comes out with correct crew figures in both scales for both helos sometime soon cause i want to build one of them.

I have a few 1/48 helicopters - for my "Virtual RAN Fleet Air Arm Museum" - including a UH-1C, a Bristol Sycamore & a Westland Sea King ... I'm still trying to figure out the best Westland Wessex to convert into a RAN HAS 31A/B (probably a HAS.1 or HAS.3), the problem being finding either in any scale, let alone 1/48. Of course, an in-production 1/48 Westland Scout and Bell 206/OH-58 Kiowa would be nice, too.

Would THIS help?

I keep getting a "502 Bad Gateway" alert ... But looking at the URL it's for ScaleMates &, yep, I've looked there. Unfortunately none of the (especially) HAS.3 kits are in production at the moment.

I'd have to buy a HAS.1 kit, too, as the HAS 31s are a half-way house between the two.

Thanks for trying, though!   

[Rick Lowe]

I remember there were once some 1/72 soldered Brass high-skids for the Jet Ranger, at OZMODELS... long ago now, and they never returned.

If my soldering skills weren't non-existent, I'd do that for the Jet Rangers and Gazelle-derivative models I plan... sadly, super glue will have to do.

[Gondor]

So far today, I have collected from a parcel collection point. Time 17:11.

1 x 1/72 KP Avia B.21. This was going to be my One Week Group Build, not many parts in it and the radiator has a darn BIG sink mark right in the middle of it.

1 x 1/72 Revell 03754 Junkers Ju290A-5/7. For a project I have in mind, which requires some bits on their way from Germany.

18:15

1 x 1/72 Xtradecal X72059 TSR2 Part 1 hand delivered by a nice young chap who lives locally and is selling off part of his stash.

19:30

From Hannants

1 x 1/72 Airfix AX08022 Junkers Ju52/3mg4e

1 x 1/72 AZ model AZ 7885 Junkers EF128E-1

1 x 1/72 Moose Republic Decals 72001 A 32A & S32C Lansen

[chrisonord]

No kits, but  four maestro models F-4 IFR probes arrived today after being on back order for a while.

[kerick]

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.