Onspring

Better to graze than to gorge.

I checked my scalemates: I only have 13 x 1/32 (+ 2 x 1/35) 66 x 1/48 47 x 1/72 If I had to edit my stash I would keep all the large kits and Eduard limited edition kits, and… to be honest I would end up with the exact same stash I have now

So just the 22 kits then? Should be able to get through them I a couple of decades lol

Amazing? Don’t you mean tapped?

Pandora’s box has been opened

Hey John, It has also definitely convinced me to buy these volumes!

You saved our day! I can now sleep! Thanks! On a serious note (I started it) how does one post pictures here? I’m on an iPad

And that is how it should be done! My stash is like a warehouse full of fruit. If I don’t consume the stock in due course some of it will start to rot. Roughly translated as; Having a vast amount of kits is like having the key to your own personal model shop, your own kingdom or your very own Aladdin’s cave. But if you buy (hoard) more than you build then the kits you have had for decades in your stash starts to become aged, out dated and diminishes in value. Ive worked out I have to start building 50 kits a year - for the next 5 years. As soon as I made that rather shocking discovery I stopped buying kits - books I still buy as they are easier to sell and take up much less room but even they are getting unwieldy. I implore all fellow modellers to follow this fine exemplar - you will be all the better for it!

Great photos - but it does beg the question how a larger cannon along with ammo feed and chute as well as oil reserve can fit behind engine whereas a lighter cannon has to have the ammo box above? I can only surmise and say it’s because the Ta152 was a later development (?), cannons less likely to jam being closer to the axis (?), a different engine (?) or a combination of some/all of these points (?) Just as moot is that the D-12 also has the MK108. I think it’s interesting to know these factors if you want to build any of the later Dora’s with open cowlings - or even just the top gun flap open. Loading ammo becomes a different operation between the 2 configurations for any dioramas So; The Ta152 (Mk108) has everything tucked behind the engine block (and armour plate) The Dora (Mk108) has the ammo can above and a crescent shaped oil tank integrated on the port engine bearer (with less protection) The Ta152 was provisionally designed to be fitted with cowling guns. The reason I point out these discrepancies is because it seems that only a very few kits have the correct configuration

I was thinking more along the lines of #Metoo

I thought that this would stump a lot of people! From what I’ve just seen only drawing exist and they show an ammo box perched on the cowling shelf. I didn’t see that coming…

Best to stay that way. Otherwise you could end up like The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Of course - that 4 x 1/32 scale If that’s all you have then there is a good chance you will finish them in the foreseeable future but…I somehow doubt that’s all your stash. My experience leads me to believe that only when we’ve satisfied our cravings for our favourite kits do we begin to get multiple copies. It happens to us all!

Talk about being above my pay grade - awesome build! However, I just looked at another thread about stash. One fellow builder has 20 Spitfires. If we take the time it took for this magnificent build of 1 year plus that’s a couple of decades and only on one type. Also he has over 20 Fw190s and 35 Bf109s. As J McEnroe often used to say…

You must be immortal, like Highlander because that’s the only way you will be able to build them all. “There can’t be only one!”

Hi all, I have a question that has been bugging me for many weeks. I have some good references but not the best. I have searched high and low but cannot find any answer. So here goes: Is the Motorkanone ammo storage used on the Dora the same set up as the on the Ta152? Or in other words is there an ammo can that rests on top of the cowling? I have the Flugzeug Classic extra teil 7 which shows a drawing of an ammo can on top of the empty cowling bay. Edit: I have just ordered the ‘Yellow 10: The story of the ultra-rare Fw 190 D-13’ by Jerry Crandall. Would that enlighten me?

Very glad to have a fellow Christian Warrior on here!

Truly an inspiration - I hoping to get near this level within a decade or two

I have the Hartmann kit and was expecting the engine decals to be included for this one. The engine is really nice but missing another pipe that goes over the top. Maybe the cowling fitted would hide the missing pipe and overhead engine marking but still, I am surprised these items were missing as not much work to add

Ok my friend, please spend away!

Absolutely. What’s dangerous about my pricing? I think it’s far less offensive than your thunderbolt. My pricing would only be dangerous to clumsy speculators gushing for modelling companies, posing as modellers. I would find that most dangerous. $150…

Now hold on a moment. What we don’t do is make wild speculation at the ‘cost’ to the builder ie US modellers. I’ll make a nice and reasonable guess - let’s see now…around £50.00 That’s my guess. I have found your posts both useful and informative but not this one

I’m just wondering how the new ZM kit will compare? Talking of soft plastic I compared the hobby 2000 TA 152 and the ZM 1/48 and although the ZM has more parts the moulding is notably softer/blurrier.