Latest Acquisitions Revisited!

[paddy]

What a crazy world we now live in......
My Matra Simca F1 car arrived from Japan today from Model Factory Hiro.

It cost me £390 ($527 USD) delivered from the factory. Usually these models are sold out pretty quick but for some reason this one was still in stock.

I could have bought it here: Click image



£1038 + £20 delivery + 20% tax total. £1269.00 ($1750 USD)

 

[Heavens Eagle]

@paddy Holy Moly Batman!
My HPH 1/48th B36 kit was about $600 US when it finally shipped from HPH in the Czech Republic several years ago, and a big part of that was the shipping. Later on I saw that Sprue Bros had one for sale at $1400. Of course HPH is now defunct and that limited edition kit of 100 is probably worth it if you really want one.

 

[moon puppy]

Welll!!! You got something to work on now eh?

 

[Heavens Eagle]

This popped in today.

 

[Duke Maddog]

All great scores guys.

Some time back at a game convention, I picked up these:

Then I was contacted by a friend who needed help. So after getting paid for a job, I took up his offer to sell me this:

This is gonna be interesting.

 

[moon puppy]

Good lord Mark, that thing will be huge!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

@Duke Maddog as Bob said that An-225 will be huge. The An-224 you build was big enough. Do you have a B=36 or Gigant built yet?

 

[RichB]

@Duke Maddog , there is build of the Mriya on BRITMODELLER that identifies the "gotchas" along the way.

Cheers,
RichB

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Bob!

Thank you Paul! I do have a B-36 built, but no Gigant.

Thank you Rich! I'll go check that out now.

 

[Sharkmouth]

Well, no photos and not really model related but my SSD on my old PC decided to freeze. Being ten years old (the PC, not the SSD) I couldn't upgrade to Windows 11 and the price of the replacement SSD made me decide to double it and buy a complete new PC. Of course, the monitor is now incompatible (VGA instead of HDMI) so, while I do have an adapter, which I am using now, it is like having a sports car with a dirty windshield.

My new monitor arrives on Tuesday. I need to recover files from my SSD before I mail it to the manufacturer as it is still under warranty. Oh well, wife and son are thoroughly enjoying Europe, they went to Slovakia and got to see this in person. I had taken photos of this place a long time ago.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

I had a video card blow up in '24. Didn't trust the Motherboard to have survived, so I replaced the motherboard, processor, processor cooler, and video card. I found a motherboard that would still work with the 32 gig DDR4 memory I had, so I was able to do a pretty decent upgrade.

 

[moon puppy]

I'm lucky, I still get access to depreciated engineering mobile workstations (zbook) that are only 3 years old.
Safe travels to Mrs and Jr Sharkmouths

 

[paddy]

Slovakia ? She is lucky those tanks are only on plinths

 

[Sharkmouth]

Slovakia ? She is lucky those tanks are only on plinths

Both tanks were reworked in Czechoslovakia (before the break up) and show the post-war modifications. The Begleitwagen (PzKpfw.IV) is a perfect example to study for a Syrian model. It was my intent but then I came across a museum in Long Island, NY, (since moved to Virginia) that had one on display. Can't afford any of them anyway.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Well....
I am being rather tight on buying kits,
BUT
Sprue Brothers had a ResKit sale this week. Some items for a couple of kits I have came up that I wanted and in one case NEEDED for a particular build, so here are the items I got in

First for the ICM Skycrane, I ordered some items that are easily seen on the outside to add that little bit more detail.

Then some items for the Mi-24 Hind kit I have. I have a very particular aircraft I want to build it into and the exhaust shrouds are a very important part of it. After looking over the main rotor head kit, it is amazing how much detail they added to this. Both main rotor heads come with steel wire to reinforce the blades to the heads. The Mi-24 main rotor can be removed. The CH-54 is set up so you can remove the blades. I am not sure if it can be built so the whole head can be removed like on the Mi-24.

There was this option for the CH-54, but I passed on it. Unlike on the rotor heads and engines on the CH-54 a lot of this would not be seen and it is more expensive than some of the 1/16th scale tanks.

A hard pass on the cockpit

Then there was this offering and I have the kit. Not sure of the quality vs Quinta Studios, but we shall see how it goes on etc.

 

[moon puppy]

If that's the basic edition for the cockpit I'd hate to see the advanced.

 

[Sharkmouth]

If that's the basic edition for the cockpit I'd hate to see the advanced.

Nothing to hate. It seems the detailed edition has detailed instrument panels while the basic one uses 3D decals for them: