Latest Acquisitions (2023)

[The Smythe Meister]

Hi chaps,
Got fed up with my Wingy things teetering on my improvised stand,so finally bit the bullet and got one of these,which has just arrived....

This is large enough for 1/32 planes,so,as I do 1/48, it should suit my needs for my larger types :thumb2:

[adt70hk]

Hi chaps,
Got fed up with my Wingy things teetering on my improvised stand,so finally bit the bullet and got one of these,which has just arrived....
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This is large enough for 1/32 planes,so,as I do 1/48, it should suit my needs for my larger types :thumb2:

I got a wooden one a while ago....ok for 1/72 single and twins and 1/48 single engined planes. Might need a bigger one for 1/48 twin engined and 1/72 four engined ones.... Can you PM me the link mate?

[Andy T]

Hi chaps,
Got fed up with my Wingy things teetering on my improvised stand,so finally bit the bullet and got one of these,which has just arrived....
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This is large enough for 1/32 planes,so,as I do 1/48, it should suit my needs for my larger types :thumb2:

Ooh, looks fancier than my cardboard box & pipe lagging :smiling5:

[rickoshea52]

Aviation Megastore strikes again.

[Tim Marlow]

Ooh, looks fancier than my cardboard box & pipe lagging :smiling5:

Pipe lagging…..there’s posh…..I usually use the box the kit comes in, or the nearest really useful box that it will fit……

[The Smythe Meister]

I got a wooden one a while ago....ok for 1/72 single and twins and 1/48 single engined planes. Might need a bigger one for 1/48 twin engined and 1/72 four engined ones.... Can you PM me the link mate?

I'll try mate, I'm not sure how you do that.....https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385815109...mis&media=COPY

[The Smythe Meister]

I got a wooden one a while ago....ok for 1/72 single and twins and 1/48 single engined planes. Might need a bigger one for 1/48 twin engined and 1/72 four engined ones.... Can you PM me the link mate?

Did it work?

[Lee W]

Did it work?

Yep, sure does

[adt70hk]

Did it work?

Indeed!

[The Smythe Meister]

Indeed!

:thumb2:

[Dave Ward]

I liked the look of my Dapol Stephensons' Rocket, so I splashed out and bought another in the range.............

The Pug, just a tad bigger than the Rocket - an ebay auction - I ended up paying 50p less for this, than the Rocket! This one originally dating from 1961 by Kitmaster > Airfix > Dapol
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

I liked the look of my Dapol Stephensons' Rocket, so I splashed out and bought another in the range.............
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The Pug, just a tad bigger than the Rocket - an ebay auction - I ended up paying 50p less for this, than the Rocket! This one originally dating from 1961 by Kitmaster > Airfix > Dapol
Dave
Dave

I gave a couple of those to Ron Spanner during lockdown I think. Lovely little kit except the buffers are wrong. Basically it shouldn’t have any. Pugs had big blocks of wood called dumb buffers…….

[Dave Ward]

asically it shouldn’t have any. Pugs had big blocks of wood called dumb buffers…….

Ahh - when I look at photos of the real thing - theu have the wooden blocks - photos of models & they have buffers! - I assume that was because they were used for fly shunting, and never usually coupled up
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

Part of the reason was being built for working on quays, quarries and tramways Dave. Those sort of areas have very tight curves in the track and Dumb buffers don’t overlap and lock up when shunting on tight corners. That’s also why they had a really short wheelbase. It allow them to go around tight corners with less flange binding. These were designed and built in the Victorian age, ex Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, then absorbed by the LMS when the big four were formed, then absorbed by BR when the LMS was in turn folded into that. A lot of freight wagons in the Victorian age were also built with dumb buffers for the same reasons.
Models all seem to have buffers though, even the newer versions, and I think this model kit is to blame LOL…..I don’t think I’ve ever seen a photograph of a real one with buffers.

[peterairfix]

As you know I like a titanic so when I saw this I a charity shop at £75 I snapped it up.
It's the old build the titanic series from 2001 just missing its life boat's