Latest Grabs for 2022

[JCON]

Fun...

[mustang1989]

Oct 8, 2022 10:31:27 GMT -6 doogie said:

At 40% off, couldn't pass it up.

I recently picked this one up as well. The one I bought had a blem in it. I've been wanting to build a rig for a while now.


We were in Sugarland, Tx over the weekend and had a great time. I managed to stop by G&G Model Shop and picked up a couple of items.



I've got the AMT 69 Torino but wasn't really impressed with it so I picked up a more viable kit of it. I also picked up some of the MUCH-coveted AK Super Chrome. I'm REALLY excited to try this stuff out. It's frickin' expensive at just short of $40 for this little bottle so I hope I get my money's worth.

[JED]

Good looking stuff there

[Beekster]

Because I can't help myself, I've acquired some Cold War Kitty materials:





My fetish for combat engineer and recovery tanks continues unabated. The Takom Leopards are generally pretty good, and this 2A2 version was used by many operators including Canada and Chile. Unfortunately, the kit has only German markings. Whatever; it will be a long time before I do anything with this kit. Leopardclub.ca has more references available and a host of resin goodies like corrected wheels, corrected exhaust grills, antenna mounts for different radio fitments, tow shackles, and much more. As I also have a Takom Canadian Leopard C2 MEXAS in the stash, I will eventually order parts to upgrade both kits. The kit includes the spare engine frame for the back deck; unfortunately I haven't yet located a resin engine pack anywhere. Carrying around a spare was pretty common on exercises, as was changing out a power pack. Took a good tank crew and one of these recovery tanks about half an hour.

[JCON]

Fun stuff to play with Beeks!!!

[JED]

Nice looking stuff

[Dukemaddog]

Awesome scores guys! Way to go!


Last month at our IPMS meeting, one of my fellow club members gave me his raffle ticket that everyone gets who enters a model in the club competition. I actually won something with it:





Sweet!

[JCON]

Nice wingy!!!

[Beekster]

Needed some new PE buckles & straps for pioneer tools and other stowage, so this Royal Models set (about $21) arrived recently.

I've been on a bit of a spree lately, so more packages are in the mail from the USA, Holland, and China.

[Beekster]

Santa Sprue Brothers delivered an early Christmas present yesterday. Here's what was in the box:


At a glance, Tamiya's M18 kit looks far superior to the earlier AFV Club and Academy offerings. The only serious drawback is common to all Tamiya TD kits; no driver's compartment. The AFV Club kit has a basic set of parts, and I have one in the stash, so eventually it will be pillaged.

To go with this kit are these:





The Echelon decal set is expensive at $22, but it has markings for several vehicles from the wars which followed the breakup of Yugoslavia. The Croatian example in the lower left corner (with all the colored leaves) is attractive. The gun is an appropriate M1A2 with muzzle brake. Another set of markings is for a real oddity, a Bosnian T-55 fitted with an M18 turret. If you're interested, Steve Zaloga built one of these for his Osprey book on modeling the T-55. Naturally he details out the AFV Club turret and scratch-builds an interior for the Tamiya T-55 hull.

Finally, there was this magnificent beauty in the box:



Words fail me. This has to be flat-out the best Sherman kit ever made. The box is twice as deep as any other kit, to hold all the plastic. There are nineteen sprues plus upper hull and turret shell pieces, a PE brass fret, and the usual decal sheet, poly caps for wheels, and a recoil spring for the main gun barrel. The instruction book is 48 pages long, with colored call-outs for highlighting certain details. Nice! Everything is here: Driver's compartment, fighting compartment with one under-floor ammo rack which can be shown open, full turret interior, and full engine compartment. It's a very late production HVSS kit, so suitable for the final weeks of WW2 but also Korea. Only a few details like the first aid box on the hull side would need to be added, and anyone who builds Sherman has those bits available from other kits. This kit lists for about $100, and Sprue Brothers usually has it for a bit over $80. My Black Friday price was just under $70, and I probably ought to have bought two now that I've seen it. Rye Field does do a Korean War boxing, but that wasn't the one this vendor had for sale.

The diorama possibilities are endless with this. An engine change in progress with an M32 doing the lifting? Easy. A gun replacement with M32? Easy. A production line scene with a completed turret being fitted to the hull? Possible, with sufficient height and an overhead crane built from scratch.

[JCON]

Cool scores!!!

[BUCKY]

"And The Beek Goes On!" (Bad take-off on Sonny and Cher.) My apologies! Great stuff, Beekster!!

Everybody seems to grabbing great stuff, lately!

[mustang1989]

I really like all those recovery vehicles. I'm an ex 88A1 operator/ field recovery tech and have some pretty fond and fun memories of those times.

Rye Field models are tha BOMB IMO. These things are detailed out from the items that are in the box. Any AM stuff is just bonus for these. Can't wait to see you start that Sherman.

[Beekster]

Back in college, Mustang, I did a year of Army ROTC. While I ultimately chose not to get a commission, I did have one memorable experience with an M88. A good friend of mine was a couple of years ahead of me at OSU, and he had gotten his commission (Field Artillery-King of Battle!) and was posted to the Oregon Army National Guard's field artillery outfit while he finished school. As a cadet, I was invited along as a totally useless fifth wheel with no command authority when the outfit went to Yakima for a weekend shoot. Fun time; got to call down a 105 battery on the much-perforated old appliance and vehicles on the range. I also got tapped to run some errand with my buddy and a sergeant, in the then-ubiquitous M151 Mutt. We were tooling down one of the dirt roads on the range when we rounded a bend to find ourselves face to face with an M88 coming the other direction. From the perspective of a squishy human in a tiny open utility truck, that thing was the biggest and most threatening road hazard that I could imagine.

[JCON]

Santa came early from Cyber Monday... I'm impressed with that Porsche from Revell of Germany... lots of extras and choices to make it a US vehicle or European with both right and left drives included and different light options for either... the Lotus is for nostalgic reasons... built it as a kid... wanted it again in my 60's, ha, ha!!!lol!!!

[JED]

Nice stuff guys

[Beekster]

This just arrived from The Netherlands. Box is a bit thrashed, but parts inside are fine:




Looks like a fine set of plastic figures. The leather battle jerkin was fairly common kit, especially for officers. The camouflage Pixie suit is exceptionally rare for WW2 and only appeared in the last few weeks of the war. It became more common in the post-war years. Though listed as WW2, these fellows wouldn't look amiss up through the Korean War.

And this arrived from the PRC:





This lovely engine powered all the M4A3 variants (Dry stowage 75mm, wet stowage 75 and 76mm, E2 Jumbo, E8, M32B3, M36B1), the M10A1, the M35 prime mover, and the M36. A slightly different version with a low-rise intake manifold powered the M26 Pershing. This particular example will eventually find its way into an M36B1.

[JCON]

Cool finds there Beeks!!!

[DuckyShot]

Couple things in the mail today. The Sherman parts are for my current project, Tasca's Sherman MK. V (in progress pics soon)

The figures are for a dio idea I have for the future, eventually I will get the Canadian Carrier decals from printscale and I think the first one I build will be the captured North Nova Scotia Highlanders carrier with German officers inspecting knocked out Sherbrooke Fusiliers Firefly Vc "Chaser." While I was looking for the barrel on ultracast's site, I decided to see what they had for figures and these look like they will work well.

[JCON]

That's awesome!!! Nice scores!!!