Well this is what the postie brought me from Japan


And from the US of A, but not model related just cause I'm a Tomcat nut.

Luciano

Thanks for posting the pics Jaypee . all in all they aren't all that bad . I have worse in my decal stash .

Hi again

I got a number of modelling/aircraft goodies over the last week. I went down to see my family and my brother had bought me a framed watercolour of a Gloster Gladiator and a stunning book (which I'm sure wouldn't interest Chuck at all! ) for my birthday:



I treated myself to Jagdwaffe Volume Three, Section 1: "Strike in the Balkans April-May 1941" and the 1/48 scale Hasegawa Zero Prototype and today a great package has arrived from Modelimex containing ARK's (ex-ICM) MiG-3 and the impressive Pavla TSR.2 resin sets.

All the best

Rowan

1/72 tamiya corsair
Plus
Eduard zoom for the f4u-1 birdcage and f4u-1d variants. Nice bonus.
All for £9 inc postage off evilbay.
Will be my build for the Airedale Navy campaign as I won't have time for the trumpeter wyvern.
That's my modelling budget blown for the month. Better get building.

Hi JP

cool, I just noticed you have a real name ... considering the price I'd say this is a small scale project, isn't it?

@Hermann: maybe you should have started with a Tamiya kit. I am sure you are able to build the Eduard, but it would have been more fun to start with an easier kit

@Luciano: .. are those decals? .. 144 I guess ... somehow the jetguys have a soft spot for the patches. Cannot understand that myself ... but modellers are kind of weird (me too)

@Rowan: seems you strengthen your point of haveing a lot of unfinished things .. the 2nd projects book in a row, Zero prototype and TSR 2 parts?!

Happy modelling to all!!

all the best

Steffen

Well not the postman, but the result, on Sunday of a different (and hopefully not often repeated) swap meet.

The executors of deceased Melbourne modeller Peter Wallace (who i personally didn't know) directed his collection of over 3000 unbuilt model kits and reference book collection to be sold at a huge swap meet. I think usually in these circumstances such collections usually are sold all together to dealers and then we buy them on ebay and in stores at dealer second hand prices. On this occasion though it was sold to other modellers directly.

I almost didn't go as it was the East side of Melbourne and i live in Geelong (50 km south/west of Melbourne). When i did go i arrived quite late, but am quite happy with what i bought. Everything in the pic cost me A$80- that's about 40 Euros to Europeans. Everything was as new, still sealed in bags. I just hope most of the items were sold to model builders (like me) and not EBAY dealers.

A great job was done by the people running the meet.



Andrew

That is some haul Andrew.
I never thought that a lot of these unbuilt kits on ebay are from stashes of those
passed over to the other side.

Yep Steffen it is 1/72 only the mc.72 and the d.520 have I got in 1/48.
Hopefully it will be easier to build than the one you have on the go for the night fighter build

And my real name is the same as my nickname. which is rather boring but if I was to use phonetic alphabet I'd be Juilet Papa and
that sounds a bit queer. alpha_tango is much cooler.

Looking forward to see what is on offer at the scottish nationals later this month.
I think I'll be buying tools and paints rather than kits though.
Anyone here going to Perth on the 26th?

Now that's what I call a haul! All that for about 40€?!
And I thought I got a good deal when I found a Tamiya 1:48 Dewoitine for 10 euros at a swap meet ...

Hi Andrew

wow, what a bargain!!! ... OTOH you are about to build your own stack to be sold after you went westward (already have my own)




Well, i already told it often but here it is again: AT are my initials from the German Air Force (base ops) SA would have been a bit much for the superiors and AS was already taken .. so it is alpha tango. I do notr consider it cool it is just my "call sign" .. we had a MW ... thats what I call a cool name for a soldier or an alcoholic

cheers

Steffen

Steffen, You are ever so right!!! Eduard's FW-190 is definitely not a kit for beginners. At times I feel that im a little over my head but it's coming through. I posted some pix of the work in progress and as always I encourage all creative criticism that I can recieve, for it will always point me in the right direction!

This from our Friends at CaseMate, the Memoirs of Hanna Reitsch -- written by Hanna Reitsch "the Famous German WW II Test Pilot." - CaseMate Publishers A full Review will follow as soon as I can put it down.

Hi Chuck

Surely a very nice book, but I cannot agree on this statement:




She was just one of them and not even the only female pilot (e.g. Melitta von Stauffenberg or Beate Uhse). As for famous test pilots I think of Hans Sander, Fritz Wendel, Heinrich Beauvais, Erich Warsitz, Heini Dittmar, Richard Perlia and e.g. Kurt Tank flew most of his developements himself .. and these are the well known personalities (and I probably have left out the one or other at the moment)

all the best

Steffen

Steffen,
Fair enough to disagree, I unintentionally typed the word "Most" I sometimes have trouble thinking and typing at the same time.

Okay now don't laugh at me here guy's . The postman dropped off a late b-day gift .

Now it doesn't have wings or anything , but it goes really fast ! And it is a nice kit , never built one of these so I'm looking forward to it .

( I heard that Steffen ! )

Tamiya's kit of the Yamaha YZR-M1 50th Anniversary U.S. Inter-coolong edition .1/12 scale

Hi terri

Well, I do not laugh .. have a motorcycle kit myself (one) because I need something to display with her:



yeah, I know I am a ...

cheers

Steffen

I remember posing for that take ! It was a really hot day , water cooler was on the fritz's and man I really need to cool off ! Wearing nothing but leather ...........................

Might start this one after my chopper I'm working on is finished

My haul from the annual Model Expo held in Helsinki this weekend:


The Dragon 'easy eight' sherman and CA Brewster were quite an impulse buys, prompted by seductive trade show offers. (Sherman 20€, Brewster 18€. (How could you turn those down... )
Then there's the useful stuff, that's not only bloating my stash further: Lifecolor acrylics (for WW2 French aircraft), an assortment of styrene tube & rod, and two needle files.

Hi all,

Eetu, this Buffalo boxing is very tempting. I never got the occasion to buy it but I will...

This is what I gathered at a model expo yesterday:



The prices were ok so I got weak...

Jean-Luc

A guy from glasgow was having a clear out. got rodens junkers d.1
and eduard dr-1 with FlyBoys the movie tie in decals.

I'll likely not be using them other than the crosses.
both kits in 1/72 boy they are small.
Nice detail on both kits amd assembly looks easy in the eduard one.
I hope the junkers has great fit as the corrugated fuselage looks great. Fingers crossed.

By the way if anyone has the dr-1 kit what is sprue C for?
It looks like wing spars but no mention of it in the instructions.

You guess is good as my JP , I have the same kit of the fokker , but there is no spuce C in my . post a pic of it .

It's the bit at the bottom with the three wing spars. I've since discovered
they are for the strip down dr-1 PE set. other than these bits and the prop
you throw everything else away. I don't have any watchmaking tools but
this guys does.

Don't know if I'd go to that length but bits of it it would be good for a dio.
The PE isn't as bad as it may seem you use the kit parts to help shape it
and the ribs are all on one piece that is pretty clever from Eduard.

Thanks Jaypee , answers my question as well . I haven't seen the strip down kit yet . Man that is small . Something I wouldn't do , just to small . I have a hard enough time just building something in 72 scale .

Nice haul guys!!

even some in TOTS .

Though I have to cut back my budget more and more I still manage to get the one or other goodie. These two arrived from lucky Model:



I avoid opening the boxes and just point to Brett Green's review

now I only need some decals (I just got some sprues of the Academy kit)

BTW posted yesterday on HS: "F-22 Shot down by friendly fire.... "


all the best

Steffen

What no propie things Steffen ?

Hi terri

Well, my interest might not be as narrow as you seem to think .. but to balance the lot: today arrived some goodies for my Tempest from Hannants:



Originally I only needed the canopies, but to fill the order I added a bit more stuff sadly I cannot add much of the PE as the fuselage is already closed as is the wing ... just some parts for the u/c bays plus bits'n'pieces

cheers

Steffen