TOPIC: New Stash Acquisitions

Andrew wrote: I've had a couple of arrivals in the past week.

Firstly, some much needed reference material

Andrew, Who did you use to get the books? & would you recommend them?

as about to put a order in with JADAR for them

Cheers Elliott

Grant wrote:

Gary wrote: Still she's a nice looking bird.

Yeah, the modern Russian jets look awesome, especially in some of the more exotic schemes they get painted in by the former Soviet counties. Much better than the wall to wall grey of most American jets.

Not worried about which colour when it comes to the real thing US jets win everytime. Got that from a colonel in the Iraqi airforce who got out after the first gulf war!

So how would a poorly trained Iraqi pilot in a US Jet fair against a well-trained US pilot in a Russian Jet? A good pilot still counts regardless of the plane
As for the quality of the Russian stuff, it's probably very comparable against the US equivalents. Don't forget the Russians had the first plane capable of a vertical climb, I may not be a fan of jets but I know a bit about some of the tech that goes in to them and the Russians have always been able to do more with less, especially when it comes to computers and software.

Marder38 wrote:

Andrew wrote: I've had a couple of arrivals in the past week.

Firstly, some much needed reference material

Andrew, Who did you use to get the books? & would you recommend them?

as about to put a order in with JADAR for them

Cheers Elliott

Hi Elliot

I got them through ebay. I should've really got them through this site

Model and Hobby Books

He quoted 51 euro delivered for the two of them, works out to around NZ$98. How does price that compare to JADAR?

11.61 euro each before postage, I think I'll go with them as I'll get Decals & kits too

Marder38 wrote: 11.61 euro each before postage, I think I'll go with them as I'll get Decals & kits too

Yeah, I don't blame you there That's good pricing

Picked up something completely different:

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_...me=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT

No box, but since I plan on building it (honestly I do) I'm not too bothered not paying 'collectors' prices. Hopefully it's all legit but at NZ$26 it's not a huge loss if it's not.

Nice, makes me want to dig out some of my old SW kits I've got lurking in the stash. The the ones seemed quite cheap to.

My latest parcel from HK has arrived

Ooooh, that's two nice kits. I've had AFV Club's 251/9 n' the Dragon Ju88G-6 in my stash before but sold 'em both. The differences between the 251/3 n' the 251/9 is just a couple of sprues. It's a great kit indeed. n' the nachtjäger is crisp in it's details n' will build into a great representation of a Luftwaffe workhorse. I even got 400SEK for the bird when I sold it...

Andrew wrote:

Marder38 wrote:

Andrew wrote: I've had a couple of arrivals in the past week.

Firstly, some much needed reference material

Andrew, Who did you use to get the books? & would you recommend them?

as about to put a order in with JADAR for them

Cheers Elliott

Hi Elliot

I got them through ebay. I should've really got them through this site

Model and Hobby Books

He quoted 51 euro delivered for the two of them, works out to around NZ$98. How does price that compare to JADAR?

Ouch, dude you should have told me you were going to be paying that much for them, I could have got you both for 24 euro delivered. I figured you were paying the standard 12 or so euro.

Dean wrote: Ouch, dude you should have told me you were going to be paying that much for them, I could have got you both for 24 euro delivered. I figured you were paying the standard 12 or so euro.

Arrrgh Murphy strikes again

Andrew wrote:

Dean wrote: Ouch, dude you should have told me you were going to be paying that much for them, I could have got you both for 24 euro delivered. I figured you were paying the standard 12 or so euro.

Arrrgh Murphy strikes again

No, it's not Murphy. It's O'Toole!

O'Toole's law - Murphy was an optimist!

McCoy wrote: Ooooh, that's two nice kits. I've had AFV Club's 251/9 n' the Dragon Ju88G-6 in my stash before but sold 'em both. The differences between the 251/3 n' the 251/9 is just a couple of sprues. It's a great kit indeed. n' the nachtjäger is crisp in it's details n' will build into a great representation of a Luftwaffe workhorse. I even got 400SEK for the bird when I sold it...

Yeah, I'm looking forward to building the AFV 251. I have several Dragon 251s in the stash, but this will be my first AFV Club version. The Ju88 should be good fun too. I'll give it a bit of a tweak with some AM barrels, and maybe the Master 1/48 FuG 220 Lichtenstein SN-2 set.

Loads of Voyager PE for various AFV's

1/32 Academy F-18C(down from £108.99- £49.99!!!!!!)

1/48 Hasegawa F-18C (down from £59.99-£39.99!!!)

vallejo paints....

In an effort to complete some 9 armoured kits these arrived today from;
Firestorm, The barrelstore (after over three weeks airmail) and historex sent last week.
More soon! 251 and 250 tracks infantry to ride on the Comet and the STUG 3 crew for both.

this past week has seen some rather delectable goodies turn up...

One Revell (nee Matchbox) Privateer along with a few accessories, and today another box with an Italeri Hellcat and Corsair.

Good times ahead...

Cheers

Mike Aldridge

bikingmike wrote: One Revell (nee Matchbox) Privateer

I hope you intend blogging the kit here? I've always loved the Matchbox Privateer, I remember drooling over it in the 1987 Matchbox catalogue

Andrew wrote:

bikingmike wrote: One Revell (nee Matchbox) Privateer

I hope you intend blogging the kit here? I've always loved the Matchbox Privateer, I remember drooling over it in the 1987 Matchbox catalogue

I hope we'll see it in the groupbuild! I'm quite fond of Matchbox...

Just picked this up. The detail on the kit looks great.

Is it Gabreski's Jug?

McCoy wrote: Is it Gabreski's Jug?

Yeah. It also has a natural metal option that I might end up building.

Ooooh go with the foil it's quite easy to do and that foil glue from mircrosol is really good and easy to get in the shops

Gary wrote: Ooooh go with the foil it's quite easy to do and that foil glue from mircrosol is really good and easy to get in the shops

Hmmm, I've seen some impressive foil finishes but have no idea how you go about doing it. I might have to give it a go.

I bought this in Tauranga model shop yesterday



I'm going to use them on my Morser Dio, along with a bunch of other bits and bobs.

so why weren't you at work then?! I'm telling!

HI there

Sadly, no I won't be blogging this build online - it's for a magazine so there won't be any sneaky peeks until it's done (or nearly done)

Cheers

Mike

I was on my way home from work after a busy day consulting.

Not even for me my prescious? Oh by the way I just happen to have a large library on the B-24 and the PY series (last count was about 25 books and counting).

New to the stash this week is



I'm so glad that I never forked out for the Tamiya HUMVEE and the Legend FRAG5 conversion