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Post by JCON on Aug 10, 2021 21:57:54 GMT -6
It looks like a very cool little kit!!!
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Post by JED on Aug 13, 2021 12:29:37 GMT -6
Very nice Joe,I was thinking the tractor would be the only Porsche I could afford but then probably not😳😳
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Post by Dukemaddog on Aug 28, 2021 16:33:33 GMT -6
I've been trying the last couple days to record and photograph all my grabs form the Las Vegas Nationals and now I'm finally done. Here they are in some particular order... Let's start with my raffle prizes... Metallic paints:  Some tools donated by Rhino's Hobby Tools:  USS Olympia:  Focke Wulf Fw-200 Transport. Different from the bomber version:  Revell SS United States. I've wanted this for decades:  Tamiya Vosper Torpedo Boat:  Lastly, some of these were raffle prizes, (three) the rest were purchases:  I also won five other raffle prizes, but one prize I let a little girl pick for herself and four others (including three mega prizes) I let my friend Steve Witherspoon pick for himself. One of the mega prizes he got was a 1/350 scale Fletcher Class destroyer that he'd been trying to find for the past five or six years. I'm glad he got it! Now these are my purchases. Scale Colors washes and thinner from my friend Jeff Herne who sells these and acrylic paints:  Tamiya glue, Tamiya putty, Testor's Model Master paints, and Testor's spray on decal film. I had the rock in the background already:  I purchased a "Mediocre Modeler" T-Shirt from Andy's Hobby Headquarters and got this cutting mat for free:  I got these HQ-72 bases and accessories from Steve Munsen at his Value Gear booth, along with about ten of the packages of Value Gear stowage seen above:  Since I have at least eight 1/72 scale UH-1 helicopters missing tail rotors, I bought these replacements:  If they'd had more, I would have gotten them since I have at least four more to replace tail rotors on... I purchased both of these because I was to graft the Russian carrier's parts to the Graf Zeppelin to create a "what-if" Russian carrier:  These are some brand new 3-D printed resin WWI-era vehicles done by a new guy named Jose Vargas. He does them in 1/72 scale (which I have here) as well as in 1/48 scale and 1/35th scale:  Bought this because the original Duck I started is missing so many pieces. This one might also be missing pieces too since I found some that fell out of the end-opening box:  I just hope this one has all the missing pieces from the original kit I started! Got this from Rare Plane Detective:  It's a heavy chunk of plaster! I have the early, so now I have the Late:  Just had top have another Trimotor:  I love the "Southern Cross" on this! Found this at one of the booths. Been trying to buy this for a couple years! Finally I have one:  Now I can cancel the one that's been "sitting" in my Hobbylink Japan Private Warehouse for two years! Never had a Marine AV-8B in my collection. Now I can rectify that:  Saw this and realized that I didn't have a Soviet one in my collection:  Back in the distant past I had built the USS Forrestal and the USS Saratoga in the 1950's fit when Revell first released them. I'd always wanted to complete the class by getting the USS Independence and the USS Ranger. Now I can: USS Independence:  USS Ranger:  Oh to enjoy the childhood memories again! These latest armor will also be added to the collection eventually: UM Su-100. I'll be adding this to my Egyptian Army:  I know I just built these, but I want to make this Chieftain an Iranian one:  These two were at the top of my list to get as well:   Next was this Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto. I already have the Roma, so I had to get this. The Italians really built them pretty:  Finally, another purchase from Rare Plane Detective. I already have the Tu-142 Bear, but I've always wanted the Tu-95 Bear. Now I have one:  To be honest, I also picked up a hardcover book about C-130 Hercules and a couple airbrushes, but they seem to have been lost in transit or something. I think I had left them in the model room when it was closed so I hope someone is holding them for me. One of the airbrushes was for a friend. Oh well. Anyway, that is my Haul from Las Vegas. Thanks all for looking in. |
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Post by JED on Aug 29, 2021 17:31:25 GMT -6
WOW great bunch of stuff there,should keep you busy for a while Duke
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Aug 30, 2021 9:16:22 GMT -6
WOW great bunch of stuff there,should keep you busy for a while Duke |
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Post by JCON on Aug 30, 2021 9:54:31 GMT -6
Looks like you won the lottery!!! Lol!!!
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Post by mike on Sept 2, 2021 13:36:06 GMT -6
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Sept 2, 2021 17:35:11 GMT -6
Some cool scores, Mike!  |
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Post by JCON on Sept 2, 2021 18:20:26 GMT -6
Some great scores there Mike!!! Nice!!!
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Post by BUCKY on Sept 3, 2021 23:36:41 GMT -6
Some nice grabs, Mike! The 4 door Ford is really cool. Keep in mind that Charger 500 kit is not the best MPC ever made.
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Post by mike on Sept 4, 2021 20:55:49 GMT -6
Thank you all very much!!!
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Post by JED on Sept 6, 2021 8:52:19 GMT -6
Nice grabs Mike
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Post by JED on Sept 9, 2021 12:56:38 GMT -6
Soldato, 64th Artillery Regiment "Catanzaro" Infantry Division, Libya 1940-41, just arrived from Tommyswar, 1/32 which is the norm but WWII this time. This is a limited run and once sold out will not be cast again. As usual the casting is very crisp with great detail. I'm not sure when this will get started as the queue gets ever longer.  |
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Post by JCON on Sept 10, 2021 18:02:45 GMT -6
Another cool figure!!!
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Post by Beekster on Sept 24, 2021 9:46:09 GMT -6
This actually arrived three weeks ago, just a day before we left on our big Glacier NP road trip:   Goes with the whole logging thing, you know. It is very similar to the ZAxis 135 excavator kit I'm working on; the chassis articulates and so does the lift & grapple assembly and it is molded in the same three colors of plastic plus a clear sprue. Like the excavator, it has instrument & safety placard decals everywhere including on the transparent panes for the cab. I haven't started applying those to the excavator yet, so the jury is still out on how well that will work. On interesting feature is the operator figure: Hasegawa decided that she should be female! An inclusive choice, for sure. As with the excavator, I'm not sure that I will use the operator figure at all. |
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Post by Beekster on Sept 24, 2021 9:50:27 GMT -6
Oh, and Mike: I concur with the others that you've acquired a bunch of interesting stuff. The Monkeemobile is particularly cool, and I had that Corgi version when I was a kid. Unfortunately I was rather careless with where I parked it, and Dad squished it moving the family car...
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Post by Dukemaddog on Sept 24, 2021 13:16:38 GMT -6
Awesome score on that wheel loader! I hope someday someone drops that down to my scale!
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Post by Beekster on Sept 24, 2021 15:02:41 GMT -6
Awesome score on that wheel loader! I hope someday someone drops that down to my scale! Well, Duke, if you ever decide to "scale up", Hasegawa also makes a typical bucket-loader version and recently released another with a V-shaped snowplow blade. |
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Post by JCON on Sept 24, 2021 16:00:44 GMT -6
Hi everyone! I went to a model car swap meet a couple of weeks ago. Here is what I bought! 
That 63' Vette builds up really nice!  |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Sept 25, 2021 9:30:37 GMT -6
Awesome score on that wheel loader! I hope someday someone drops that down to my scale! Well, Duke, if you ever decide to "scale up", Hasegawa also makes a typical bucket-loader version and recently released another with a V-shaped snowplow blade.
Thanks but I have no room for the small scale stuff I currently build. No way to scale up at this point, besides, I like the consistency of a continuous scale.
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