[PappyB]

Nice!

Now why didn't Corgi release that '24 in its noseart series -- bet it would have helped sales


I just got that B-17 for $50 on ebay... I liked the art, and with the coming price hikes, it seemed like a deal.

[ChairmanMilo]

'twas my first B-24. The pure awesomeness of "Booby Trap" led directly to the procurement of "Jerk's Natural" and "Sleepy Time Gal".

I think that stocks of "The Zoot Suiters" may have been liquidated recently by Corgi wholesalers... seems to be popping up everywhere.

I guess they need room for all the new releases!

[Captain Eddie]

ChairmanMilo, I have the same B-24.....Sweet nosear.....er, I mean model......er....aircraft!

[STARMAN 352ND]

Looks pretty good along with that B-17...
JP

[hworth18]

That Booby Trap B-24 is a great looking bird! I don't think I ever noticed it before today and it looks like one I will have to get.

[ChairmanMilo]

Brought some more senior members of the collection out to get dusty...



^ the three Corgi Tuskegee Airmen planes - a 302nd FS P-47D in the centre with 100th FS P-51D "Bunnie" on the right (flown by Roscoe Brown) and 310th FS "Creamer's Dream" (flown by Charles White) on the left. I think it makes for an interesting display. Those are the only two P-51Ds by Corgi that I can stand to look at for longer than a few minutes. I managed to polish them up a bit, but the oft-mentioned discoloration has started on "Creamer's Cream" under the engine. I have "Bunnie" by Matchbox but I didn't want to have to tear my closet apart (more) just to get to it.



^ the much-vaunted "RAF in Malta 1940-42" set after a bit of dusting & re-arranging. Why did he re-arrange it, pray tell?



^ he re-arranged it because he wanted to swap the three Swordfish for two RCAF heavies! I haven't had the RCAF Wellington & Lancaster out for some time. I kind of have a love-hate relationship with my first Lancaster because when I originally received it one of the inboard engines was loose. Some hot glue fixed that. However... when I got it out of its box this time, one of the inboard propellers fell off and the pin retreated into the engine compartment! Sigh, hot glue time. I wasn't planning on re-selling it anyways.

[STARMAN 352ND]

Looks very nice ChairmanMilo....
JP

[ChairmanMilo]

Here are some photos of recent additions to my collection.



^ all three shelves have been recently been re-arranged. I found that the Luftwaffe shelf was a bit too cluttered so I put quite a few of the Dragon Bf 109Gs, Fw 190As and Fw 190Ds away and brought out almost all of my Corgi Bf 109Es. I also swapped the first Hobby Master Bf 110G (HA1802) with the most recent "shark-mouth" release (HA1805). With my RAF shelf I put away some of the Gemini releases (the Mustang & the three Spitfires with the green green camo) and re-arranged them so I could put out the Warbirds Bader Spitfire I (looks interesting next to the original AA Bader Spitfire) as well as more Hurricanes.



^ desert Hurricanes - AA32009 (the Legends version w/no air filter), AA32003 and AA30701. They look good together.



^ Hobby Master HA1805 - the fourth Bf 110G release with the shark-mouth and new canopy.



^ Hobby Master HA1803 - the third Bf 110G release with the replacement canopy installed.



^ the newest 1:48 in my collection and my first Franklin Mint - Erich Hartmann's Bf 109G (B11B601). I know the horizontal stabilizer is a wee bit too high. I'm happy with it, though. I don't know if I'll get any more Franklin Mint 109s in the near future - I don't have room for any more gigantic boxes at the moment.



^ my first Century Wings - an F-8E Crusader of the VMFA(AW)-333 "Fightin' Shamrocks"), sitting beside my second Hobby Master A-4E, John McCain's last ride over Vietnam when he was flying for VFA-163 "The Saints" off of the U.S.S. Oriskany. I'm growing fond of both.



^ my first Hobby Master M24 Chaffee (HG3601), "ALLY OOP III". Looks pretty nifty.

[ChairmanMilo]

More recent additions... all from Merritec.



^ the first Corgi Ju 88, a Ju 88A-10 (AA36701). That makes 3 Ju 88s so far for me with one more pre-ordered.





^ my MiG 21 collection. Front row: Hobby Master HA0105 (Iraqi AF MiG-21MF), HA0128 (PLAAF Chengdu J-7D), HA0104 (Luftwaffe MiG-21MF) and HA0127 (Egyptian AF MiG-21MF). Back row: Corgi Predators PR99404 (NVAF MiG-21PF), PR99416 (Indian AF MiG-21PL) and PR99410 (NVAF MiG-21PFM). The weapons loadout on the Corgis is (as usual) pathetic but thankfully the weapons are interchangeable. Just have to match up the colour of the weapons pylons to the underside of the aircraft... I have HA0125 (Soviet AF MiG-21SMT) and HA0142 (Romanian AF MiG-21MF) on the way as well. I'm still looking for HA0103 (Polish AF MiG-21MF), HA0140 (Czech AF MiG-21MF) and HA0149 (Soviet AF MiG-21SM). I'm a bit of a MiG-21 fan.

[parsig9]

What a disgusting display of aircraft models. I love it!

Milo, we have to talk more. Seems we might be able to split sessions with the same therapist.

It's times like this when I begin to feel sane again. Oh, and Milo, you should really consider getting into some other scales. Then you're cooked for sure. That desert Junkers 88 is very nice by the way.