SMA What's New In Your Stash?!?

[Edbert]

Still struggling to finish

I've been messing around with

Don't let that stop you, only two kits in progress!?!?

 

[Bob T]

Don't let that stop you, only two kits in progress!?!?

LOL....I have at least six in various states of assembly...

 

[TimM63]

Today's arrival.

 

[BarleyBop]

Where's the Spit Mk-V with Buzz Beurling in the cockpit?

I think he just flew in:

 

[Edbert]

Dang BB.

We'll make an aircraft guy out of you in no time!

 

[BarleyBop]

an aircraft guy out of you in no time

Haha, at the speed I build, it will take some time!

 

[Edbert]

I attended the monthly meeting of my local IPMS club today, it is becoming normal for someone to be giving away boxes full of kits. Always happier when it is not because of someone passing. Happier still when things like this are what is being given away, the two newest members of my stash.

 

[Glenn S]

I attended the monthly IPMS club meeting today, it is becoming normal for someone to be giving away boxes full of kits. Always happier when it is not because of someone passing. Happier still when things like this are what is being given away, the two newest members of my stash.

View attachment 181855

Well done!
What make is the bottom kit? Does it look like it is a quality kit?

 

[Edbert]

What make is the bottom kit? Does it look like it is a quality kit?

Zoukei Mura, they are top quality albeit complicated. I'd say they are right behind Kotare on quality of engineering and fit.

Check out the instructions here.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/zoukei-mura-sws02-focke-wulf-ta-152h-1--114902

 

[Glenn S]

Zoukei Mura, they are top quality albeit complicated. I'd say they are right behind Kotare on quality of engineering and fit.

Check out the instructions here.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/zoukei-mura-sws02-focke-wulf-ta-152h-1--114902

Wow! Those are very detailed instructions.
I wonder if the plans for the actual plane were that detailed.
All kidding aside, if the kit is half as good as the instructions it will be an amazing build.
One interesting thing I learned from the instructions is that the pilot had a large cylinder of Nitrous Oxide strapped behind him, and he had two large fuel tanks under the cockpit floor. I wonder if the pilots worried about the combustibles being located so close to their office?
I eagerly await a detailed build report on this kit!

 

[Barney]

New? I have forty-eleven thousand kits, how can i even know if a new one has snuck in?

 

[Edbert]

I wonder if the pilots worried about the combustibles being located so close to their office?

I'm sure it was a concern, but all aircraft were loaded with fuel and other nasty stuff, hard to worry about the fuel tanks themselves when 20mm explosive shells are whizzing past your head.

 

[GCB]

Arrived today.
This is the backup plan when getting tired of the Bismarck.

 

[Edbert]

From what I've seen HKM make really nice kits!

 

[BarleyBop]

With the number of aircraft now in the stash, and the trial and error of painting with an airbrush, I thought I might build a dedicated mule with a cheap kit from my LHS.
Tucked away on back shelf, this fellow poked out his prop!

Along with some interior markers, and a Wasser schlepper decal just begging to come along in case I muck up the kit in the stash..

 

[GCB]

From what I've seen HKM make really nice kits!

Yes, have seen the same and wanted to try.. Have you made progress on your Halftrack?

 

[Edbert]

Yes, have seen the same and wanted to try.. Have you made progress on your Halftrack?

Some yes. It is one of many in-progress kits though. I'm trying to clear the backlog by focusing more on the ones that are close

I'd post them, here, but will put them in the "what are you working on now" thread instead.

 

[Jantk14]

Wasn't planning on adding anything to my stash but saw this and had to have it. It came today.

 

[Edbert]

She's purty!

Another 1/35 scale aircraft. Always struck me as odd, but seeing it more and more, and I have one on the way too.

 

[BarleyBop]

as odd

For armour builders in 1:35, nice opportunity to combine forces (as in dio) without going to 1:48!

 

[Jakko]

Another 1/35 scale aircraft. Always struck me as odd

For helicopters, it's been a common scale for about thirty years. I suspect the reasoning went that these appeal to armour modellers, and that was proven right.

Fixed-wing aircraft in 1:35 are mainly a Border Models thing, and I don't get their reasoning. Fixed-wing aircraft don't generally appeal to armour modellers except for the odd diorama, but Border makes far too many of them for that to be their main audience. But large-scale aircraft modellers don't usually seem to want 1:35 kits because they don't fit with the 1:32 scale models they already have.

 

[BarleyBop]

But large-scale aircraft modellers

... Speaking from my own limited experience, you may recall that my very first aircraft purchase was a 1/35 Fieseler Storch, famously used by Rommel to survey the desert battlefield.

 

[Jantk14]

Academy has a few helicopters in 1/35. This one, an Army Apache and an Army SOAR Blackhawk. And I want them all.

 

[blacbul67]

Kit No.8 of 2026. Great price £44.99, couldn't resist

 

[Jakko]

Now all you need to do is build them at least as fast as you buy them.

When you find out how to do that, please share the secret with me as I would really like to know

 

[Edbert]

For helicopters, it's been a common scale for about thirty years.

I built an Apache back during Desert Storm, must have been 1991. I thought it was 1/32, but maybe it was 1/35.

The difference is small, but enough to matter in a Diorama.

 

[blacbul67]

Now all you need to do is build them at least as fast as you buy them.

When you find out how to do that, please share the secret with me as I would really like to know

I know I'm literally the slowest in the world, which is a bummer to say the least. Believe me I'm not boasting. I see posting here as attending an AA meeting, trying to control my habit!

 

[Edbert]

I know I'm literally the slowest in the world

I would not be so sure.

Slow, the term, indicates that you build at all, right?

 

[blacbul67]

I would not be so sure.

Slow, the term, indicates that you build at all, right?

Yeah, I do. I have Eduard 1/48 Bf109G and an Eduard 1/32 Bf109E on the go at the minute and fighting the urge to start each and every new kit I buy as I buy them. I love the idea of starting a new kit. Its like the optimism you get at the beginning of a new Season. Maybe this is the year that Forest win the FA Cup. Maybe this is the kit I build without messing it up at some point. Fat Chance! lol

 

[Jakko]

I built an Apache back during Desert Storm, must have been 1991. I thought it was 1/32, but maybe it was 1/35.

Probably 1:32, as the only kit you could get back then was this Revell one:

IIRC, it was Academy and Dragon who (kind of) popularised 1:35 scale helicopters in the 1990s, though Heller had released some 10–15 years earlier already, too.

The difference is small, but enough to matter in a Diorama.

Certainly if you're going to be putting similar vehicles together, or figures. The difference is a lot less obvious if you put a vehicle and an aircraft in the same diorama, though.