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[papa 695]

I got my Tornado today. It's massive!View attachment 92253

Now that looks very familiar Rick

 

[stona]

But we all know what brings us more pleasure Although some people love books my wife especially she as a mini library going on I find them really boring each to their own as they say. (Marmite)

Fair point, and I do have a lot of books that I only drag out to answer some arcane question about engine production or something

I do enjoy building my kits, it's just I've never felt the need to collect them. It takes all sorts and happily we have them here! I know a lot of people have stashes that will outlast them (and their immediate descendants )

Cheers

Steve

 

[dave]

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Picked up this in TK Max for £9.99 on a flying visit back to the UK.

You're all a bad influence on me, up until now I have only been buying a model as I completed one, now I have a stash! Although this is the entire of my stash. The question is will this count for the under a tenner build?

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[papa 695]

View attachment 92254Picked up this in TK Max for £9.99 on a flying visit back to the UK.

You're all a bad influence on me, up until now I have only been buying a model as I completed one, now I have a stash! Although this is the entire of my stash. The question is will this count for the under a tenner build?

£9.99 say's yes to me

 

[Alan 45]

View attachment 92254Picked up this in TK Max for £9.99 on a flying visit back to the UK.

You're all a bad influence on me, up until now I have only been buying a model as I completed one, now I have a stash! Although this is the entire of my stash. The question is will this count for the under a tenner build?

It's a good kit for an old one not very detailed but goes together well , to really do a good build you'd spend more in after market than you payed but it don't need it really to make a decent look

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

View attachment 92254Picked up this in TK Max for £9.99 on a flying visit back to the UK.

You're all a bad influence on me, up until now I have only been buying a model as I completed one, now I have a stash! Although this is the entire of my stash. The question is will this count for the under a tenner build?

I was going to get one for my friend but found out he's after a Sea Harrier FA2, anyone know where I can go that's not too costly? I may just wait till Telford and have a look round once were set up

Adrian

 

[Guest]

Not allowed to see it yet as it is a Christmas present, been wanting to make this kit for a couple of years now. The Dragon's 1/350 Scharnhorst with Mk1 Models detail-up set and wooden deck. These are internet publicity photos.

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Derek

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[Guest]

OK, not sure how to put images in and Ive saved the image to photobucket, so here goes nothing

Today I popped into a little bookshop run by a little old man. You know the good old fashioned type of bookshop and I found these little Profile Publications at at 95p each.

They had loads of them but I couldnt afford to buy them all

The red ones are

Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk (open)

F4F-3 Wildcat

F4U-I Corsair

SB2C-1 Hellcat

B-25 A toG Mitchell

Blue Ones

F-4 Phantom

Grumman Avenger

Douglas R4D (US Navys DC-3/C-47`s)

A-6A Intruder and EA-6 prowler

F-8A-E Crusader

If anyone wants me to catalogue and/or buy some on your behalf, quite happy to do so.

 

[Ian M]

My youngest has just returned from a day out with this little gem , I didn't know tamiya released other makers kits

Tamiya will "buy in" if they find a good one, but as they dont expect a large return they wont invest in the tooling up. So the Hurricane is Italeri and the figures MB. The Japanese market is more to the German and US stuff!

The Harrier by the way is a Revell boxing of a Hasegawa kit and builds into a nice Harriet. Just watch out when you join the cock pit sub assembly to the main fuselage.

 

[Alan 45]

Tamiya will "buy in" if they find a good one, but as they dont expect a large return they wont invest in the tooling up. So the Hurricane is Italeri and the figures MB. The Japanese market is more to the German and US stuff!The Harrier by the way is a Revell boxing of a Hasegawa kit and builds into a nice Harriet. Just watch out when you join the cock pit sub assembly to the main fuselage.

Oh I see so tamiya like to have there little fingers in everyone's little pies , I knew about the revell kit , I found out when looking for harriers in the 1/48 scale , didn't roman (vajelid) do this kit ? I found one on here with a construction thread and it was out by about 2mm on the section your referring to I'll keep a look out

Thanks Ian

 

[ojays]

OK, not sure how to put images in and Ive saved the image to photobucket, so here goes nothingToday I popped into a little bookshop run by a little old man. You know the good old fashioned type of bookshop and I found these little Profile Publications at at 95p each.

They had loads of them but I couldnt afford to buy them all

The red ones are

Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk (open)

F4F-3 Wildcat

F4U-I Corsair

SB2C-1 Hellcat

B-25 A toG Mitchell

Blue Ones

F-4 Phantom

Grumman Avenger

Douglas R4D (US Navys DC-3/C-47`s)

A-6A Intruder and EA-6 prowler

F-8A-E Crusader

If anyone wants me to catalogue and/or buy some on your behalf, quite happy to do so.

These were my bible as a youngster, couldn't wait for them to come out.

They started at 1s-6d each, but over the years the price rocketed.

Colour schemes and markings were very helpful, but as time has moved on you realise that some of the information is suspect.

I have them all (red) in Genuine Profile Publications Bound Covers + a lot of doubles, and most of the blue ones.

Always wondered what they would be worth now

Gregg

 

[Alan 45]

I just can't stop buying , just popped into a toy shop to pick up some paint and came out with these and no paint lol

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I thought this was a bargain it comes with all the tools and paint for it kit doesn't look to bad either View attachment 91440

this is the new tool GR3 and I got the figures to do a little dio
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[Guest]

View attachment 92337 this is the new tool GR3 and I got the figures to do a little dio

If that Harrier is a good 'un , I'll be getting one too! Are you going to do a build thread Alan?

 

[Guest]

Postman came with these today

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Not bad for £12 the pair & a great service from themodeller.com as I only ordered them yesterday!

The Dragon figures are lovely, very detailed sculpting & lots of extra bits - even the weapon barrels are drilled out!

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[peterairfix]

Couple of early christmas pressies the dumper is courtesy of tkmaxx.

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[Alan 45]

If that Harrier is a good 'un , I'll be getting one too! Are you going to do a build thread Alan?

Seeing as it's a brail scale I think I will do a build thread mate

 

[john i am]

After having a rather bad week at work which was a bit stressful to say the least I made a return visit to tk-maxx as I was there last week and managed to resist buying these at the time. I was shocked that no one had snapped them up as they had been sitting there for a whole week all vulnerable and everything and thought someone should give them a nice caring loving home.well you can guess the rest that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it plus wifey was at work and my youngest was at the pictures so easily ferreted away into the stash with no one to spill the beans View attachment 91469

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[Alan 45]

Well my youngest is on a roll he's just come back from hydrotherapy and he say this so he got it for me , I did have to give him the money for it though View attachment 91487

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[PaulTRose]

all three for a Ayrton......from a local guy on ebay ive bought from before

this is 1/144, got it for a little planes build off somewhere else that starts soon...will be doing a Tonka too

 

[john i am]

Arrived this morning comes with its own bmf never seen anything like this before the quality of the finish is sublime and a nice idea but what about gaps and joins it says in the instructions touch up with x11 chrome silver but let's be honest will touch ups really blend in I'm not sure View attachment 91507

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