@Tojo72 I’ve built that one twice. Good kit. You can get after-market smoke ring decals for it, but I just hand painted them.
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No figures but the included kits are sweet.
Nice! I really like those Italian fighters. I did the Italeri Veltro a couple years ago. MRP has all the Italian colors BTW https://mrpaint.sk/Italian
@Tojo72 I ordered that from a seller on eBay several months ago. Unfortunately, he had to refund my purchase. Said it was damaged in shipping. I still don’t have a Folgore in my stash. 
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It’s still on Amazon
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It’s on Kitlinx as well.
https://www.kitlinx.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=HSG9132&title=Macchi-MC202-Fighter
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Tojo72, I agree with you about the C202 being a beautiful fighter design. I’ve got two of 21st Century’s Toys 1/32 C.205 & C.202 kits in the stash. They’re very basic and have deep panel lines but for $10 back in the day at Walmart, they were a bargain.
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Picked up a few items I’ve never seen before. Laser cut micro plywood storage and ammo boxes. Has anyone else built these before? Any suggestions for ease of building?
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I got some of these from a vendor at a model show a few years ago. They look great but they’re still in my stash so I can’t share how well they worked.
Yesterday, while shopping for a picture frame at Hobby Lobby, I found a clearance isle where I picked up Paasche single action beginner airbrush kit for 8 bucks and some artist paint in mostly earth tones for like $3. Figured if I spray some gnarly paint and destroy it it’s no big loss.
We also got the frame.
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I had a layover in Seoul, just enough time to get out and see a few things. I eventually ended up in this store in iPark mall.
Look to the far back top and you’ll see the ame of the store….
I ended up with a hitchhiker finding its way into my suitcase for the trip home.
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Aggieman, are those Montex masks any good? I haven’t tried any premade mask sets yet but I’ve got some 1/72 scale bombers in my stash that I’d like to build soon but masking those tiny canopy frames worries me!
@MR_TOM_SCHRY I’ve been using them for a few years now. Generally, I’d say they work quite well, but you really have to ensure that you get them down securely. I’ve had more than one where I didn’t do that, and had paint seepage under the mask. Which defeats the purpose.
While they can be a little pricey for basically a use and throw away product, I really hate masking windows.
I like them as well but prefer the eduard style tape masks as I have stretched the Montex masks accidentally and seen seepage like you mentioned. But more times than not, I’ve been successful using them so I’ll go that route if that’s all I can find.
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I’ve had a busy couple of days with new acquisitions.
First came in yesterday from eBay, a kit that I remember salivating over when I was a kid in a model shop, but I don’t recall ever actually getting it. It was probably the box art that I really appreciated, even at a young age, and this will be one that I will keep to display in my workshop (which is a bay of my garage).
Then even though I told myself I wouldn’t come home with any kits when I left the house this morning for the relatively short trip to Stafford for the IPMS ModelMania show (ipms-houstontx.org/?page_id=20, I went with cash just in case. I left the model displays for last and went straight to the vendors area to see what I could find, you know, just in case there was something I absolutely had to have. And to be fair, I knew that a shop that I have been to previously in Kyle, Texas (outside of Austin) would be there today, and that I’d go ahead and stock up on some supplies from them as I certainly wanted to support them as much as I can.
Then I remembered I had searched eBay for a kit that turned out to be selling for upwards of $80 for each listing I could find, Academy’s B-50D Superfortress. I spied it for $25 today, and that was that, I knew I was coming home with at least one kit. Then I spotted an old Monogram Pro-Modeler Focke-Wulf Ta154A-0 Moskito, a kit I’ve long flirted with (but never found a price I was willing to pay) for $15. Done.
With the shop from Kyle folks, they had a lot of great kits available, as well as supplies, tools, and books/magazines. They had a big book on the Ju88 that would have been a good resource for my current build, but I really wasn’t willing to shell out close to $70 for a book. Considered an Eduard Dual Combo A6M Zero release, but not for $100. Then I found the Dora Wings Morane-Saulnier MS.406.C1. It was $50, which is probably more than I could have found it on eBay (will be checking that later), but given that I have their Marcel-Bloch MB.151 C.1 in my to-build stash for this year, I thought what the heck. And again, supporting a fairly local shop.
The last two I picked up were akin to those times when you were a kid with your mom in the checkout line and just had to have that pack of gum or some toy. I’ve been considering a tank or some other armor in recent months, just to add some variety to my builds. So I grabbed this Panther, which is a 1988 release so not certain of its quality as a kit but it is a Tamiya. $25. Then I happened to see the War of the Worlds Martian War Machines out of the corner of my eye when I was trying to head out the exit, stopped, said yep, another $25.
All told, I’m out of there today for about $140, so not bad considering what I brought home (along with a couple of bottles of Tamiya liquid cement and Mr. Color Leveling thinner).
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Aggieman, that B-17 kit was directly responsible for drawing me back into model building - in 4th grade! A friend bought one from the local drug store, and after watching him build it, I knew I had to have one.
If my friend did not buy that kit, I might be over at a stamp collecting forum instead of here! (Apologies to the philatelists, no offense meant.)
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I believe it’s a lot tougher to airbrush stamps, but at least your stash would take up less room. 