discussion Latest Acquisitions (2022)

[Guest]

Got this delivered today.

I had a wee look in the box, quality looks typical Tamiya but it may be a decal nightmare. Anyhoo, it will not be started for a while as I am about to start another model and I am off to the IOM TT for a couple of weeks on Friday.

Andy.

Well it's going to be interesting to say the least . Hope you blog it Andy .

 

[rickoshea52]

View attachment 453887View attachment 453888From IPMS Lancashire swap meet -£40.

 

[adt70hk]

Hi all,

So had a productive morning yesterday.....

A 5-ish minute walk to my barbers. Then a three minute walk down to the local charity bookshop......

And the route home takes me past my local model shop next to the barbers. He does mostly RC stuff but there are a few bits and pieces of use.

End result was this...... The book was only £2....

 

[minitnkr]

A productive stroll.

 

[adt70hk]

A productive stroll.

I thought so!

 

[Dave Ward]

Early delivery from postie ( I was still eating my toast! )

I have a part built Tamiya Bogue escort carrier - these only carried F4F Wildcats & TBM Avengers - I couldn't find any F4F's in my stash - so the box has 6 aircraft of each type ( 4 x B-25 ), and perhaps a mistake, no less than 7 decal sheets with stars. stars & bars, and ID letters more than enough. These aren't the fancy Trumpeter transparent aircraft, just normal grey plastic - but each aircraft consists of 5 parts ( 6 for the Mitchell )
Dave

 

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting. I assume the B25 is for the Doolittle raiders?

 

[boatman]

Early delivery from postie ( I was still eating my toast! )

I have a part built Tamiya Bogue escort carrier - these only carried F4F Wildcats & TBM Avengers - I couldn't find any F4F's in my stash - so the box has 6 aircraft of each type ( 4 x B-25 ), and perhaps a mistake, no less than 7 decal sheets with stars. stars & bars, and ID letters more than enough. These aren't the fancy Trumpeter transparent aircraft, just normal grey plastic - but each aircraft consists of 5 parts ( 6 for the Mitchell )
Dave

COR Dave hope you put the build blog on here be nice to see a carrier in that scale on here
chrisb

 

[Dave Ward]

Interesting. I assume the B25 is for the Doolittle raiders?

Correct - but I don't have the Hornet in my stash :sad:
Dave

 

[boatman]

Correct - but I don't have the Hornet in my stash :sad:
Dave

WELL cant you get one Dave
chrisb

 

[Geoffers]

Hi all,

So had a productive morning yesterday.....

A 5-ish minute walk to my barbers. Then a three minute walk down to the local charity bookshop......

And the route home takes me past my local model shop next to the barbers. He does mostly RC stuff but there are a few bits and pieces of use.

End result was this...... The book was only £2....

That’s a cracking read and a bargain too

Geoff.

 

[peterairfix]

Two sets of instructions for both voyager and enterprise lighting kits

 

[Niho]

A wee drone motor has arrived, 6mm O/D x 17mm long 18,000rpm.... so its in it's new home........ a Fw190D9

 

[tigersteve]

Got this delivered today.

I had a wee look in the box, quality looks typical Tamiya but it may be a decal nightmare. Anyhoo, it will not be started for a while as I am about to start another model and I am off to the IOM TT for a couple of weeks on Friday.

Andy.

I also have this to be built, I chose it as I watched the real thing racing at LeMans 24 hour race in the nineties , 97/98?

Very jealous of your TT trip , I've been twice but long overdue for another one ;-)

 

[adt70hk]

That’s a cracking read and a bargain too

Geoff.

Good to hear Geoff.

Just read his Malta book.... Not read any of his stuff before and really enjoyed it, so for two quid thought it worth a punt

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Hi all,

So had a productive morning yesterday.....

A 5-ish minute walk to my barbers. Then a three minute walk down to the local charity bookshop......

And the route home takes me past my local model shop next to the barbers. He does mostly RC stuff but there are a few bits and pieces of use.

End result was this...... The book was only £2....

Not read any of his books yet,but he's great to listen to on the History documentaries..... One of the very best IMHO
Andy

 

[Tim Marlow]

I thought his Battle of Britain book was excellent. He’s a good live speaker as well.

 

[adt70hk]

Not read any of his books yet,but he's great to listen to on the History documentaries..... One of the very best IMHO :smiling3:
Andy

You should try them. The Malta one was very good.

I thought his Battle of Britain book was excellent. He’s a good live speaker as well.

Not heard him live yet but I recently discovered his podcasts with Al Murray and am really enjoying them.

 

[rtfoe]

Hi all,

So had a productive morning yesterday.....

A 5-ish minute walk to my barbers. Then a three minute walk down to the local charity bookshop......

And the route home takes me past my local model shop next to the barbers. He does mostly RC stuff but there are a few bits and pieces of use.

End result was this...... The book was only £2....

Really productive...a model shop that close...walking distance is too lose for comfort for me...SWMBO can easily walk over and wack me in the head. :tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Richard

 

[boatman]

HI all well ive finally got my turret gear ring came by postie this morn an its big but have to hope the gears teeth will mesh in with my big gears up in model room but just lookin at it its looks fairly near the gear teeth size so fingers crossed actual size chrisb