SMA What's New In Your Stash?!?

[Pantherman]

This one is for you PM.

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You have done it again, I have got to build that. PM

 

[Rimmer]

Had a little tour around my local hobby shops last week and came home with these.

Should be some fun builds.

 

[Pantherman]

It was on offer, I had no choice......... Pantherman

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I have built this kit, 20 parts and 4 are not used !!! Loads of flash and clear one piece which just doesn't fit.

I suppose I was expecting too much for £10. I will probably buy the Tamiya 1966 version. Pantherman

 

[BarleyBop]

Gotta love little cars... around '66, my friend's dad had a beetle, I thought it quite exotic.
My dad scoffed, and said just wait till he tries a -40°F start!

 

[Pantherman]

Gotta love little cars... around '66, my friend's dad had a beetle, I thought it quite exotic.
My dad scoffed, and said just wait till he tries a -40°F start!

Yeah, it didn't have heaters, just heat exchanges from the exhaust. I often had to spray the inside of the windshield with de-icer to see where I was going. It usually just started to warm up as I arrived at work 30mins later.......Pantherman

 

[Edbert]

Yeah, it didn't have heaters, just heat exchanges from the exhaust. I often had to spray the inside of the windshield with de-icer to see where I was going. It usually just started to warm up as I arrived at work 30mins later.......Pantherman

Interesting story, I had the exact opposite experience with the only German car I ever owned.

It was a 2011 335is, great car in almost all ways, but the air conditioner felt like it had been designed by a Norwegian, or maybe an Eskimo. In 105+ degree heat it only incrementally reduced the amount you had to sweat, and finally started feeling cool by the time you arrived. Say what you will about American cars, but the AC in my Raptor will freeze you out regardless of exterior temps.

Oh, and congrats to Lando Morris for his 1st ever Monaco win.

 

[Pantherman]

Interesting story, I had the exact opposite experience with the only German car I ever owned.

It was a 2011 335is, great car in almost all ways, but the air conditioner felt like it had been designed by a Norwegian, or maybe an Eskimo. In 105+ degree heat it only incrementally reduced the amount you had to sweat, and finally started feeling cool by the time you arrived. Say what you will about American cars, but the AC in my Raptor will freeze you out regardless of exterior temps.

Oh, and congrats to Lando Morris for his 1st ever Monaco win.

Spoiler alert. Im on lap 8. Pantherman

 

[Edbert]

SORRY!











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Top several cars usually finish in the order they qualified and this year was no different. It was thought (hoped) that the new 2-stop rule would change things up, and it did provide interest, like the leader pitting right before the last lap, but in the end it did not change up the order much.

Hadjar really shined too!

 

[BarleyBop]

German car

I don't know about the cost of ownership in Europe, but in Canada, you better hope it never goes into the shop.
I nearly fainted when I found out what a friend had to pay to get a rear passenger window mechanism fixed on his Audi wagon: his son had been slipping coins into the door through the gap with the glass!

 

[Jakko]

I'm very very tempted to add this to the stash. Pantherman

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I'm … not sure that's a great idea I built this last year, and it's not exactly a great kit. Somebody who builds mainly F1 cars commented, when I posted it on Scalemates, that:—

this probably isn't the kit you want to start your F1 collection with, it's really bad.

The Fujimi one is apparently a good deal better.

 

[Jakko]

Also, as I was at a club meeting today, where there were also a good number of traders, I bought some stuff:



Books about things that interest me (of course ), the M19A1 I have been thinking of buying for a number of years — it's just so much cooler-looking than the M42 Duster — and was to be had for €35 instead of about twice that if you can find it at all these days, a set of 3D-printed straps for tools on American tanks and Sherman tracks, that I can always use

 

[BarleyBop]

some stuff:

Nice haul! of course, eying those books!

 

[Rimmer]

A nice haul that Jakko, and a nice selection of books. The M19A1 looks interesting, that's a new one on me. What Chassis was it based on?

 

[Jakko]

It's an M24 Chaffee hull, with the engines moved to the middle and a turret with twin 40 mm Bofors guns added at the rear. The M19 was developed late in the Second World War but too late to see action. The slightly upgraded M19A1 saw combat in Korea, but when the M42 Duster was developed on the M41 light tank chassis, most M19A1s were scrapped and their turrets used to build M42s.

 

[wjbrandel]

Just picked these up yesterday









The native american big chief is for my daughter. I'm going to put it together and she wants to paint it.

 

[PatW]

Just picked these up yesterday
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The native american big chief is for my daughter. I'm going to put it together and she wants to paint it.
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Very nice Atlantis Gas Truck, we don't get in the UK!

 

[Jakko]

I built that gas truck something around 40 years ago. Always thought it was a very odd-looking thing, but for all I know, very familiar to North Americans above a certain age I certainly didn't realise at the time that it was an American vehicle. IIRC, my kit was Revell, though.

/me checks

Ah, yes: I had this one, I remember clearly that it had Shell markings.



Originally released in 1956 …

 

[Edbert]

but for all I know, very familiar to North Americans above a certain age I certainly didn't realise at the time that it was an American vehicle.

The specific style of the tractor predates me a bit, but we still have fuel trucks everywhere there are gas stations. Most transport companies are independent/contractors these days, cuts cost and reduces exposure of corporate interests, so they are not color-coded and decked out like that anymore. The drivers are certainly not uniformed and wearing their hats, but the openings of the tanks in the ground with the valves on the trucks, that all looks much the same.

 

[Jakko]

Well, yes — fuel trucks are common here too, for the same reason Though they usually have the fuel brand on them even if the trucks are frequently (usually?) operated by a separate, independent company.

What I meant is that I found the styling of the truck in that kit so weird But at the time, I didn't realise it was already 30+ years old.

 

[Dan the Modeler]

Well I opened the door today to find another large box on the doorstep. It looks as if I will be adding another 1/350 Very Fire kit to the stash...

Just so happens to be the USS Missouri Deluxe Edition. I'm really asking for heartache and pain with all this photo etch, 3D resin, wood decking, and fine details throughout. I can only hope I live long enough.