Hi guys how you going i've just got a few more
little bits of piece to show you just a couple of odd bits and pieces a couple of oldies and
a couple of other things so a couple of quick a quick one first this is from Quickboost we
don't normally carry too much of this stuff but i've had a couple of requests of people
who have the liberators the 32nd scale Hobby Boss liberators the props are too short
they are quite short by quite a significant bit when you see the two side by side it's definitely
different these are from Quickboost it gives you a full set of props hubs and everything else and
they're the correct length so if you're looking to have a better detailed prop at least you can
pick up a set of these we have a couple around we'll get them in as requested we don't actually
carry them on a long-term basis so but if you've got the liberator and you want to do a better
set of props pick up these from a company called Miniwings we don't deal a lot with them but on
this occasion we have picked up one of their kits they do everything in clear when it's lots
of glass and this is a Sikorsky s51 RAAF it comes with RAAF markings it's only 1/144th
but gee it's a pretty little kit it's as i said it's all in clear so it makes masking out
the windows and everything else quite simple but look it's a nice little kit well as i said
144th RAAF markings so that's pretty cool now this is from these two are from Academy but
they are actually the old accurate miniatures plastic right so the kits themselves were always
very very nice i always enjoyed building them i've done this one probably three or four times in
its other different versions this is the Canon p51 in North Africa so it has the May Sue which is out
of the original kit from accurate miniatures it has the twin cannons on either wing this is before
they went to fully machine guns and everything else as i said the kit is very nice this is
obviously been picked up by Academy and released nice decal sheet big choice of markings
so there's quite a few there to British and American so if you're looking
for the early Mustangs in 48 scale then have give this one a go the other one that they've
released actually they've done a few but these are the two main ones the most recent ones this
is the v156b1 Chesapeake now in the accurate miniatures days which is where this comes from
it was actually released as the vindicator and they did two or three different versions of it
they did a yellow wing and all the rest of it this is it is a nice kit to do look and if you're
looking for that very early pre-war type aircraft this is nice this is the British mark version
though because the Brit took over the French selection of markings and as you can see
you get a choice of French and America and British markings in there nice big decal sheet the
usual sort of story with them it's a nice kit it always went went well went together well and to
give you an idea here's one i prepared years ago and that's that's the actual original armour
accurate miniatures kit in 48 scale that's the vindicator version now you can't you can't do that
marking out of this kit but there are markings around if you want to do the American version
so it's not a big deal if you want to do it it's a nice kit as i said easy easy build nice
Bombay just a pretty little airplane and as i said it goes well with that family of SBDs
and following right through so that's those that's the two Academy kits that have come in
just move her out of the way before i break it now a couple of oldies from Hasegawa and
they've been around for quite a while this is this is the Hasegawa Renzan go guided
bomb and Shinkai mainland defence this is one of those Japanese 1946 type kits the actual
all three pieces now you get the bomber the bomb and you also get the fighter now the fighters the
rocket-powered one so you get the parts for that this is the bomber was released in the 70s you
can see its heritage in the kit it's got raised panel lines there's not a lot of detail things
like that the bomb is fairly recent because they put it on one of the other kits and the the
aircraft is about late 1980s early 90s where they did the prop driven version and now they've
done the jet version for this kit and then they've released the kit inside there's quite a bit to
to look at there's the that's the little fighter the jet fighter which never really became well
never became operational there's the bomber so you get it's Japan's sort of answer to the B-29s
and things like that or not quite an answer but this is what they were working on to develop to
finish off and then inside there is the little just underneath there it's a little bomb as i
said this is 1970s technology you might need some modelling skills to put it together rather
than just slam it all together it's an interesting kit looks great when you see it built up i've
built one before in the orange scheme when it was released as the orange one there's your various
canopies which are crystal clear as usual what you'd expect from house Hassel house interestingly
the marketing options that you have are Japanese and a German one now it's based on
aircraft that supposedly a group called kg200 might have operated because it was the Japanese
did a deal and blah blah blah there's a whole story to it so that's pretty cool you also get the
Shinden with its separate instruction sheet and again they give you the Japanese versions which is
pretty cool but they also give you a German one as well so if you want to walk into this into a model
club or display and plonk them on the table i'm sure people are going to ask you questions decal
sheet usual Hasegawa decal sheet very very nice nice detail as i said it's an old kit so
you're going to have to take a little bit of work and a bit of time but if you're looking
for a good Japanese bomber with a bit of other stuff in there to put with it or have some fun
and just mess around a little bit great little kit to do the other is one of my all-time
favourite classics this is Hasegawa's b47 e until somebody comes out with a new one
this is the only game in town in 72nd scale it's a nice kit not much detail in the cockpit but
don't forget this is done for the 70s and 80s so you're going to need a little bit of extra
effort there are resin sets out there if you want to update it upgrade it whatever you want
to do it's a nice big kit that's the fuselage so again as i said this is in the
times of the b52s and things like that all the bits and pieces as i said it's it's
raised detail so if you're in describing you can re-scribe it and do all the rest of it but
if you just want to build a b47 and 72nd scale this is probably the one to do the beauty
of this one is it gives you two or three choices of marking so there's plenty there
including the markings for the 1000 Stratojet built so they obviously build over a thousand
of them so that's a nice decal sheet usual story from Hasegawa nice little set everything
else pretty straightforward instruction sheet it's as i said there's not a lot to play around
with it does give you a Bombay and stuff like that i have said that there are detail sets out there
we can't get them but if you have a look on the net i'm sure if you want to upgrade engines or do
a little bit more to the cockpit and things like that you're more than welcome to other than that
have a great day talk to you soon see you then
