Roger_Wilco said:
Seriously now
I finally picked up a pair of Minicraft Avengers, I have tried and failed so many times with these planes on Ebay and now they are scarce, then I walked into the local rip off model shop and there were two on the shelf at $15 AU ($11.50US) each not cheap but what the heck hard to find. Also there are two Jacks as well, I'll have to wait until next week and hope they are still there. I,ve been concentrating more on WW1 planes trying to pick up bargains where possible, hard to do with our ordinary exchange rates. I've now got 6 planes completed from Jasta 15 care of Doms Decals and Schafers Fokker DVII. Also have 6 Snipes (just arrived) and 4 Neiuports (need 2 more) and so far 2 Camels (still looking for 4 more) these last lot are waiting for the next releases from Doms Decals (soon I hope) to convert to Allied squadrons. After that I'll chase after 5 of Rahn Dr1's. I'll post some pics of the DVII's as soon as I get my camera fixed.
Holy Toledo! You've got squadrons upon squadrons of WWI fighters!
I just snagged a third TBF Avenger off EBay this past week from someone here stateside, which is kinda unusual, all the good stuff is in, or comes from somewhere in Asia!.
They were available at MegaHobby all last summer, and I kinda forgot about only having two of them, and got lazy about ordering a third. I figured they'd be there when I wanted to buy, but suprise...suprise, guess again! When I tried to order, they were all out, and I couldn't find them anywhere. So I feel pretty lucky in being able to grab one off EBay.
Rodger_Wilco, question for you: I did the first two Avengers I was able to get in the early war markings, mainly because I had no other 1/144 scale decales on hand, and just decided to use what was in the box. Now I have been able to build up a small stash of extra decales from the left over spares from kits with multiple choices. Now that I'm going back and adding a third Avenger, I am not sure that I want to make a third "match" to the other two in early war markings. I was thinking about doing this one up in mid war markings, with the two tone shades of upper surface blue (intermediate & navy), and the white underside. That and the blue circle & white star insignia without the red center dot.
What do you think? Stick with making three of a kind, or mix em' up a bit?
At first, I thought I wanted to keep all of the bombers looking the same, but a very nice person in Thialand was able to get me 3 Vals & 3 Kates, I think they were F-Toys. Anyways, I would have been thrilled to get 3 each of these in any paint schemes, but this person was kind enough to go to the trouble of getting one of each of the three paint schemes they made them in. I don't speak Thia, and his english was good enough for us to be able to communicate, but I couldn't express to him that he needn't go to the trouble of searching for each of the three paint schemes. Any three would have been fine, even if they were all the same. In fact, having them all the same was what I thought I wanted, but I just couldn't get it across to him. Anyway, he sends the three different paint schemes, and I thought to myself, that's actually pretty cool!
So now I'm kinda up in the air as to if I should try to make the bombers all the same, or make them different. I guess in the long run it doesn't really matter. What do you think R_W ?