Latest Grabs for 2022

[JCON]

Love that Dauntless!!!

[mustang1989]

GREAT re-find on that Dauntless and Hellcat Mark. How detailed is that Dauntless kit in 72nd scale?

[mustang1989]

Ask anyone who knows me and they'll tell you that I'm a sucker for detail. I also don't make a habit out of buying kits these days unless something just reaches out and grabs me. That's what happened a few weeks ago when I was looking for something totally unrelated to the kit that I'm about to show you. Just couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it AND it was in a smaller scale so it wouldn't take up as much room.

[mustang1989]

And what a kit it is. LOTS of details and all in a scale that wont take up half of my room or display area. I'd never even heard of Suyata models before when someone on another forum posted something they were building from Suyata. It was just too cool to pass up.

[JCON]

Looking forward to seeing this one hit your workbench!!!

[mustang1989]

Apr 22, 2022 8:36:07 GMT -6 JCON said:

Looking forward to seeing this one hit your workbench!!!

Got one of three ways to go Joe. I really want to do this one soon BUT....there's an He-111 and a 1970 Ford Maverick hanging in the balance as well. The He-111 I've been wanting to build now for the last 25 years and the Ford Maverick will be a tribute build to my mother who just recently passed(she really liked keeping up with my builds and the Maverick was supposed to be started early last year). Which ever way it goes I'm gonna have to decide pretty quick as my current project is coming to an end in the next week or so. lol 

[Dukemaddog]

Thank you Joe! It is an attractive looking kit!

Apr 22, 2022 2:52:03 GMT -6 mustang1989 said:

GREAT re-find on that Dauntless and Hellcat Mark. How detailed is that Dauntless kit in 72nd scale?

It is quite detailed for this scale. There's almost a full interior and two choices of specific parts so that you can model either the SBD-2 or SBD-3.

The surface details are extremely finely molded, sharp and crisp. The only disappointment for me (and it's a small one) is the twin mounted machine guns for the rear gunner appear to be too small and have no detail to speak of. I'm not too worried; according to the instructions, there's no option to model them deployed with the canopy open. That would hide any less than stellar details nicely. This kit does include masks for the canopy and wheels and the decals look very well printed.

Mustang Joe, that mini dio looks amazing! And complicated. Still I think I would enjoy building one in 1/72 scale if someone ever scales it down.

[Beekster]

These arrived in the mail today:




These are thin, bendable plastic stencils from AirSickstencils.com, an outfit in SoCal that caters to a rather avant-garde artist clientele, judging by the two marketing stickers at the bottom of the images. I got stencils for ovals & circles which will have a multitude of uses. They're impervious to normal solvents used in modeling and this was $28 for both including free shipping. For an example of how I'll be making use of them for the first time, see my F350 crew work truck thread.

[JCON]

Those are cool!!!

[Beekster]

These arrived yesterday from Scotland via Royal Mail airmail service:


The load tensioners say M1070 but work for anything from about 1990 onwards and go into the stash. A couple of the amber beacons will soon find their way to the headache rack for the F350 crew truck.

[JCON]

Nice scores!!!

[JED]

Great grabs all round

[Dukemaddog]

Well this is gonna be a long one. Not because I bought a lot but thanks to the extreme generosity of someone on another Forums who surprised me with them.


Here's the one I bought. I got it with an Amazon Gift card given to me for my birthday:





I already did get that started.


A few days before that T-62 came in, I got a message letting me know to BOLO, because a box was heading my way filled with small scale treats that he knew he was never going to build. He wasn't kidding. Here they are, armor first, than aircraft, then ships. Thank you John! Here's what he sent:





That is one I'd wanted for awhile, but never figured I'd ever get because I had too many others I wanted more badly for my limited funds to stretch to this. It's been started.


Next is this one still sealed:





This one I hope to make an air ambulance:





Now a few Airfix kits, starting with this one:











And now for the ships:


This one, as you can see, came with no instructions. No worries, I can download them from Scalemates:





I wrote that on the box top so I wasn't frantically trying to find them once I decide to build this.


Now for all these Tamiya ships:














And finally another one I'd wanted for a long time:





And that one is started as well. All those details and more can be seen on my next tour of my plant.



Enjoy!

[JCON]

Wow big score there Mark!!!

[Dukemaddog]

Yes indeed Joe! Quite the stunning surprise!

[Tim]

Got the ford, vw, and gremlin for by bday from my son. The super boss was an ollies find,cheap.The wagon and impala were bought for a year of birth group build. I'm going with the impala. I do want to share these group builds with you guys when I get some time. The 38, I've loved that aircraft ever since I saw the tbirds fly them up the road at wright pat. 76 or 77 I think. It just looks fast!

[JCON]

Those will be fun to build for sure Tim!!!

[BUCKY]

Excellent bunch of "Latest Grabs", folks! Keep up the great work!

[JCON]

Got my building board, some balsa wood and some trees and bushes for dioramas...

[Dukemaddog]

Excellent score guys! That is a cool idea, building something from the year you were born. I like it!

A couple weeks back, I had gotten paid for a job. A couple days after, I got a text from a friend telling me of an estate sale just down the raod from my house. The sale had tons of model kits, a few finished models and even more wargame supplies as well as boxes and boxes of well organized baseball cards. I never even knew another model builder was so close to my house! Well, I felt I could spare a Ben Franklin to see what he had. This is what I got.


First off, I grabbed as many tools and accessories that I could find. It was interesting what he had on his workbench:





The top right is a box of parafilm roll. Next to it on the left is a metal tim with all those metal tins inside. Each has a clear plastic lid. The glared out container in front of the parafilm is a hobby drop cloth from Testor's. Remember those? The bottle labeled "Super" is actually some airbrush lubricant. That will be a great help! There's the two tweezers in between the cloth and the lubricant, these have that claw end for holding parts better. Finally the rest is strip or tube styrene. I'm still not sure what the silver roll is; maybe soldering flux, or some kind of wire. For some reason I didn't want to leave that behind.


The next thing was these two German WWI aircraft in bags. I couldn't tell what company they were from, but they are still sealed:





Then I found this Hasegawa weapons set number 3. I'm sure I have another box or two of these, but hey, can't have enough of these bad boys can you?





This one was a model I'd been looking for for quite some time. I'm glad I finally got it and will be starting it soon:





This is one I never knew was released! Since my favorite Marvel movies are the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Rocket is one of my top favorite members of said group, I just had to get this:





Then at my IPMS meeting, I got a raffle ticket for entering models in our monthly contest and placed it in the tub for these decals. I won!





They consist of three sheets of railroad decals in HO scale, including Amtrac; and one sheet of WWII German armor insignia along with company, battalion and divisional markings. Then a friend came up to me and sold me this Airfix Dogfight Doubles set, complete with the brush, paints and other accessories mentioned on the box. I told him I was out of cash, but he said, "Pay me when you can, I just want to see these built and I know you will do it".





During the meeting, we honored a member who had passed named Reed West. He was a prolific aircraft modeler, but also did cars adn a couple other things too. His preferred aircraft subject were WWII biplanes in 1/72 scale. He used to make hundreds of jigs for aligning the wings for these and gave a few hundred away. There were still about a hundred more still in his stash that his friend Bob Penikas was giving away. Since I now had that Dogfight Double set, I requested one from Bob and got this, complete with one of his in progress projects that he didn't finish:





That is a vacu-formed aircraft of a Martin-something Scout. I doubt I'll ever finish it as I haven't any other parts for this, so I don't know what I'll do with the plane. I will definitely hold onto it though.



Finally, here is my last "official" purchase from a store (either online or street), this was pre-ordered through Kitlinx when I had some left over money from a job. Five months later, it finally came in. I had forgotten I'd ordered it, it had been so long:





This is the second of the three Dragon Stryker variants that I've been wanting to get. Now to try and track down the last variant when my check from this last job comes in. He's already five days late paying me....




That's it for me. Don't know if or when I'll have more acquisitions so I'm going to enjoy all this!