Spending more than twice the usual time at the bench means that my stash has never been so low.
In a week I expect to have finished the FA 18 and will have started the Airfix 1/24 Hellcat and I will have only 4 1/32 aircraft stacked up. I expect to reopen my office in September, maybe late August, so I will be well into the Hellcat before my bench time more than halves, back to the norm.
What then should I be buying to build up the stash?
1/32 naturally....
Well I am minded to get the ZM Ki45 but I won’t start the build until MRP release their IJN/IJA colours and I already have one IJA kit awaiting that in the stash. I will wait a bit on that.
I do fancy the Trumpeter P47 Razorback and can find some good nose art for it. There are not many around though as retailerS seem to have sold out of a lot of 1/32 kits.
A Hasegawa F190D perhaps... I fancy one of those but again there seems to be a supply issue. I also think my stash will be too ‘Axis heavy’...
Then what?
Well there are the 4 engined heavies... but common sense is making me think of space, I am getting short of it..... I may get them in 1/48 though, if HKM continues releasing them in that scale.
I am tempted by the HKM B25 but the B25 is not an aircraft that appeals to me for some reason, but if they release a B26.....
What else?
The ZM or HKM FW190 when either comes but, ooops, yet another Axis....
Maybe ICM will release a 1/32 Lysander, that would be an obvious one for them and I would snatch one up.
Anything new from Tamiya in 1/32 regardless of what it is.
Speaking of Tamiya, the Korean War F51 perhaps but I have built three Tammy P51s, or the’D’ Corsair but that boring sea blue and I have built two of these superb kits...
Maybe ZM or HKM will release something interesting and different..... who knows...
I might be tempted back to modern jets by a decent Bucaneer or if HKM release the promised Spey Phantom. Perhaps the ItalerI GR4 Tornado will tempt me, who knows.
so, I await new releases eagerly as I am running short of subjects that I really want to build....
In a week I expect to have finished the FA 18 and will have started the Airfix 1/24 Hellcat and I will have only 4 1/32 aircraft stacked up. I expect to reopen my office in September, maybe late August, so I will be well into the Hellcat before my bench time more than halves, back to the norm.
What then should I be buying to build up the stash?
1/32 naturally....
Well I am minded to get the ZM Ki45 but I won’t start the build until MRP release their IJN/IJA colours and I already have one IJA kit awaiting that in the stash. I will wait a bit on that.
I do fancy the Trumpeter P47 Razorback and can find some good nose art for it. There are not many around though as retailerS seem to have sold out of a lot of 1/32 kits.
A Hasegawa F190D perhaps... I fancy one of those but again there seems to be a supply issue. I also think my stash will be too ‘Axis heavy’...
Then what?
Well there are the 4 engined heavies... but common sense is making me think of space, I am getting short of it..... I may get them in 1/48 though, if HKM continues releasing them in that scale.
I am tempted by the HKM B25 but the B25 is not an aircraft that appeals to me for some reason, but if they release a B26.....
What else?
The ZM or HKM FW190 when either comes but, ooops, yet another Axis....
Maybe ICM will release a 1/32 Lysander, that would be an obvious one for them and I would snatch one up.
Anything new from Tamiya in 1/32 regardless of what it is.
Speaking of Tamiya, the Korean War F51 perhaps but I have built three Tammy P51s, or the’D’ Corsair but that boring sea blue and I have built two of these superb kits...
Maybe ZM or HKM will release something interesting and different..... who knows...
I might be tempted back to modern jets by a decent Bucaneer or if HKM release the promised Spey Phantom. Perhaps the ItalerI GR4 Tornado will tempt me, who knows.
so, I await new releases eagerly as I am running short of subjects that I really want to build....
