Latest Acquisitions (2025)

[peterairfix]

A spur of the moment buy

[Nicko]

Crikey, that's a blast from the past! I have a load of Blandford books that my parents bought for me about 50 years ago after the local library got fed up with me constantly checking them out...

Nick

[pjgtech]

Couple of small resin kits turned up today, (From Redog) both 1:35th scale and one of British army WW2 kit, (will be used on a future build I have in mind) and the other is supposedly German general supply/stores, bags, urn/churn, food bags, boxed goods, etc, which, (some of it anyway,) will be going on my current PBI GB Dio....

[pjgtech]

Wow, will have to look that up, my Dad was out in Burma and fought at Kohima. He survived the war, but he rarely talked about it.
He passed a few years ago well into his 90's. I've read a few books on the subject, some proper old school, close quarter, hand to hand stuff went on. Thanx for the info....

[pjgtech]

Some light bedtime reading to do, this just arrived in the post....

Seen it recommended a few times, so thought it would be worth getting as a reference.

[Geoffers]

Some other recent purchases.



I built the Hunter not long after I returned to the hobby and remember it being enjoyable so thought I’d try another one. One short coming of it though is it doesn’t have jet intakes so I’ve got the correction set to have a play with.

The rotary tool should come in handy for drilling out exhaust etc, I have a Dremel type tool but find it a bit cumbersome.

Also some extra magnification, unfortunately becoming more essential these 😳

Cheers,

Geoff.

[Geoffers]

Cheers Pete, glad it’s visible now 👍

Geoff.

[stillp]

I can see it now Geoff. Looks good in the box, hope you build iy soon.
Pete

[Geoffers]

Not sure what went wrong, it’s still showing up this end.

Never mind, 2nd time lucky 🤞🤞

Let me know if it’s visible or not please.

Geoff.

[pjgtech]

no photo here mate?

[Geoffers]

Hello Pete,

I have attached a photo., it’s showing up at my end 🤔

Can anyone else see it or do I have to repost it?

Geoff.

[stillp]

It'll be interesting to see what it is! Did you mean to attach a photo?
Pete

[Geoffers]

This arrived this morning, great service from John as usual 👍

I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while, it’s had a bit of a panning on a certain other forum though for the fuselage being slightly too big but it looks pretty good to me.
It will be interesting to see how it looks when built up 🤔

Geoff.

[PaulTRose]

They also have a channel on youtube

A recent one was very good......walking thro the alleys and roads of Oosterbeck tracing the route Urquart took to get back to his hq after he went walkabout

https://youtu.be/fbVL7sYh-5M?si=qvkBOxxlm_aMBw7m

loads very interesting vids they done

[adt70hk]

Shocking news.....this latest acquisition is not a kit.....

........I'll just sink in for a moment.....not a kit......

So I am a massive fan of the WW2 Podcast 'We Have Ways of Making You Talk'***. If you've not heard of it, this is hosted by two Brits - the military author James Holland and comedian Al Murray, who is also a WW2 nut. They also have a wide range of guests from across the globe, most notably the US military historian John C. McManus when they do episodes focussing on US topics.

Anyway, James and Al have just finished a series on the the British reconquest of Burma after the defeat by the British 14th Army, of Japan's 15th Army at Kohima and Imphal.

In it they briefly touched on the story of a US citizen who, after initially serving with the British Army in North Africa, joined the Indian Army and served as an officer in the 8th Gurkha Rifles. They mentioned that he's written a very good book about his time in the regiment.

It sounded too interesting to pass up and whilst I could only find it in the US, it was only about £12 delivered and arrived in a little over a week.

ACW as usual

Andrew

***You can find the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts....and probably elsewhere too.