Latest Acquisitions (2019)

[BattleshipBob]

Well done Spartan, Looks a great kit. Not built that one as 1/72 is a tad too small for me. Enjoy!

Waiting for Dragon to release a new 1/35 Stug B but they appear to be slowly vanishing. Not many new releases

[Guest]

Picked these up today.



Very pleased to have these in my stash.

They’ll soon be joined by a very expensive Xtrakit scimitar I just had to have...

[Jim F]

These arrived this morning many thanks to John and the staff at Scale Model Shop.

[stillp]

Wife wanted to go to Nuneaton today, so I checked out some of the shops; these from The Works:

Then the PDSA shop:

Unfortunately the Skyraider box contains two sets of the underwing stores, but no Skyraider!

Oh well, it was in a good cause.

[Tim Marlow]

Never mind Peter, back in the day it means someone probably got two Skyraiders....

[stillp]

Yes Tim, there are a couple of empty sprues in there, and two stands. I guess someone built two kits without the stores and put the leftovers back in the box.
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

I was kind of hoping that some little kid got twice the plane for his pocket money....never mind.....

[peterairfix]

What a downer mind you I have got into the habit of asking to look in the box before I buy as I have been caught out so many times like that.

[stillp]

The Hunter box looked a bit suspect, so I asked them to cut the sellotape and open it for me, but the other boxes looked OK, so I didn't bother. The Esci Harrier was still sealed in cellophane. Incidentally the Heller Vampire has "Vampire Mistrale" embossed on the sprues. Does that mean anything to anyone?
Pete

[Gary MacKenzie]

The Hunter box looked a bit suspect, so I asked them to cut the sellotape and open it for me, but the other boxes looked OK, so I didn't bother. The Esci Harrier was still sealed in cellophane. Incidentally the Heller Vampire has "Vampire Mistrale" embossed on the sprues. Does that mean anything to anyone?
Pete

• Sud-Est SE 535 Mistral, the French version of the de Havilland Vampire jet fighter

[stillp]

Thanks Gary!
Pete

[Guest]

Postie dropped this off today, my second model. Hopefully it goes as smoothly as the first!

According to the blurb on the back of the box it's a replica of the version my brother used to work out of until a few years ago. Not many people get to say they were chauffeured around at work by Royalty :smiling2:





One piece had fallen off the sprue in the box but everything else looks intact.

[Guest]

Two pots of yellow? You’d better hope that’ll be enough given the number of coats you’d have to put on with a brush to get it to look anything like decent

[Guest]

Two pots of yellow? You’d better hope that’ll be enough given the number of coats you’d have to put on with a brush to get it to look anything like decent :smiling3:

Ha ha, I've seen the trouble Dave had in the group build so no way I'm using the supplied paint!

[Allen Dewire]

Got this on Friday and it was another evilbay steal at €19,09 delivered to the door!!!!!!

Very well cast and only 2 barrels are a bit warped. Easy to fix or replace with tubing or sprue…….

I also won another bargain, but got sent the wrong kit from the seller. The prob should be fixed this week...……….