ChairmanMilo

Thanks for the compliments.

The Defiant is the only one currently on offer from IXO/Altaya.

However, Corgi recently announced that they developed a Defiant tooling of their own in the same scale (1:72) with the first release being a Battle of Britain day fighter livery.

MYT DC-10

Awesome. cannot wait for that release

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ChairmanMilo

I finally had a chance to display some newer additions to my collection.



^ three "Desert Storm" aircraft by Corgi, a Jaguar, Tornado & Buccaneer. I'm very happy to finally have these three.



^ three Falklands War Harriers by Corgi, with the GR.3 & FRS.1 from the HMS Hermes set, and the "Sharkie" Ward FRS.1 released last year.



^ my first Century Wings F-14, AJ210. A gigantic fast mover if there ever was one.



^ my night fighter collection, the most recent addition being the LX*A Hurricane IIB by Easy Model.



^ my 1:72 armour collection, with all of my WW2 German collection put away & replaced with a row of Centurion main battle tanks, Korean War armour and modern tanks (Leopard 2A4, Leopard 2A5, Leopard 2A6 and Challenger 2 with bar armour). It is nice to finally have the Centurions out. I have yet to add the first, third & sixth releases to my collection. Give me time.

vince1159

The Jolly Rogers Tomcat is stunning,which VF is it from 84 or 103?....Thanks.

ChairmanMilo

VF-84. It is a stunning model indeed.

ChairmanMilo

Here are some updates.



^ Hobby Master "Black Sheep" A-4M sitting next to the only other jet I have from that era in US carrier aviation, which is also my only Century Wings F-14. I figure they look pretty good displayed together.



^ Another shot of the same A-4.



^ new cheap Ikea shelf that has RAF night fighters on top, boxed 1:400 aircraft below that, my "to read" pile below that, and tons of boxed 1:72 armour below that. It's nice to be organized, and even more nice to have that many 1:400 aircraft (including three of the hard-to-find C-5 Galaxy heavies released by Dragon eons ago).



^ I shuffled my 1:72 armour display around a bit to fit in yet another Hobby Master Centurion. I managed to pick up the three I didn't already have (Australian, British and British Suez Crisis) from the Flying Tiger last month. It is nice that they don't have to worry about mandatory pricing over in the UK when it comes to HM products. I managed to squeeze the Suez Crisis Centurion in the second shelf.



^ Gemini's "Snoot's Sniper" at long last.



^ newly re-arranged RAF night fighter collection, with the new HM Guy Gibson Beaufighter in the back row.



^ even better than finally getting "Snoot's Sniper", a mint RAF Coastal Command Flying Fortress!

ChairmanMilo

Here are some quick updates.



^ the absolute pride of my collection, the Arrow from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's new line.



^ I moved & re-arranged my collection of Falklands War aircraft as well as my two Hobby Master Harriers.



^ two Hobby Master A-10s, including the most recent - "Killy Chick" as flown by Captain Kim Campbell during OIF.



^ I moved my Vietnam War collection to where there is more room. Out again is the Century Wings USAF A-7 and both Hobby Master US Army 174th AHC Huey "Frogs". On the shelf below that are my last 1:32 and 1:35 scale tanks. I sold off all of the rest recently - I couldn't sell the Forces of Valor Matilda II, though, or the two dragon Tigers.

ChairmanMilo

Here are some more updates, brought to you in part by Merritec! Scott Merritt was kind enough to send me a box of diecast earlier this month.



^ Dragon's most recent 1:35 Tiger I (left) sitting with two of the earlier Tiger I releases.



^ Corgi's most recent Swordfish, a Mark I as flown off of a MAC with 836 Sn FAA.



^ at long last, Corgi's most recent Hurricane, a Mark I flown by "Cobber" Kain during the Battle of France.



^ I managed to squeeze Corgi's first Do 17 on my Luftwaffe shelf. It looks great.



^ the Vietnam War shelf now.



^ the second A-1 Skyraider released by Hobby Master. I had a bit of "glue fog" inside the canopy, but I managed to wipe most of it away with some patience and a piece of tissue paper. No special work required - no Future.



^ Hobby Master's first F-22 Raptor. The nose gap is only really terrible if you hold it up to a light at a certain angle. The canopy fits perfectly and none of the ordnance was damaged, although it was surprising how it was all stuffed into a tiny little compartment in the vacu-form packaging.

Dudishdanny

I just love that Corsair you have I adore those planes, but I couldn't ignore those P-51 Mustangs and Spitfires, that is one mighty fine collection you have there Sir

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Danny,

Pretty fly for a white guy.

Just in - GJ Concorde Union (G-BOAE) and GJ Concorde 70s colours (G-BOAA). GJ British Airways 752, all thanks to Matt109

My Collection - http://www.wings900.com/modeldatabase/mycollection/collection-15362.html

ChairmanMilo

Which one, the "Hammy" Grey Corsair on the top shelf, or the A-7 Corsair on the Vietnam War shelf? They're both great, although it would have been nice if Corgi had made Grey's Corsair a regular release. It was released as part of their "Warbirds" line with no pilot and no u/c options. It was easy enough to pop the canopy off & stuff a Hobby Master RAF pilot in there, though.

Dudishdanny

Sorry my mistake, I love all the Corsairs, didn't notice the others. Agree on the fact the Corsair in the Vietnam section should have rockets or bombs of some sort.

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Danny,

Pretty fly for a white guy.

Just in - GJ Concorde Union (G-BOAE) and GJ Concorde 70s colours (G-BOAA). GJ British Airways 752, all thanks to Matt109

My Collection - http://www.wings900.com/modeldatabase/mycollection/collection-15362.html

ChairmanMilo

Here are some updates.



^ my ROCAF jet set, seven strong so far. I wish I could find the third Dragon F-16.



^ possibly the most intricately detailed 1:72 aircraft in my collection, the ROCAF F-84 by Skymax.



^ two recently reorganized shelves - USAAF aircraft swapped for RAAF aircraft, and Luftwaffe aircraft swapped for Korean War fighters below that.



^ some of the RAAF fighters - the Beaufighter XXI by Hobby Master, Clive Caldwell Spitfire V by Corgi, P-39F by Hobby Master and Robert Gibbes Spitfire IX by Witty. I popped the conformal fuel tank off of the Witty Spitfire with a box cutter and it looks quite a bit better. I might have to do that with the rest of my Witty Spitfires.



^ other half of the RAAF fighters - Robert Gibbes Spitfire VIII by Corgi, F-4 recce Lightning by Corgi, Stan Galton Spitfire V by Dragon and Desert Air Force P-51D Mustang by Dragon. This is the first time I've had the recce Lightning out, and I am very much hoping Corgi releases another at some point in the near future.



^ some Korean War jets, including a new addition to my collection, the first Skymax F-84.



^ more Korean War jets and a P-51D. The two F-86s to the front are recent Easy Model releases, one of which is a SAAF Sabre.



^ all four Korean War MiG-15s by Hobby Master released so far, including the recent Chinese volunteer releases to the front.



^ three Canadian Starfighters by Hobby Master, including the most recent release in the middle.



^ the aforementioned Canadian Starfighter.



^ RAF night fighters, including all three all-black Hobby Master Beaufighters.



^ the most recent addition, "Bambi".

ChairmanMilo

It's hard to believe I haven't updated this thread in almost half a year.

Work has been incredibly busy and while additions to my collection keep on coming, I've slowed down the tempo somewhat now that I have damn near every piece of diecast I set out to buy when I first started collecting. It goes without saying that I have very little space now and I have to slow down out of financial consideration as well. I may be moving this summer to an apartment of similar size, but we're purging some furniture we don't need and we'll have a storage unit in the building we're moving into. That will make things a lot easier for my Lauren & I, as the size of my collection seems to be adding some strain to our marriage

I can laugh because that's an understatement, and it isn't adding strain so much as increasing the amount of strain that already existed when I started collecting 1:32 tanks back in 2007 when we had only 450 square feet in our first apartment. 40 diecast tanks in that scale pushed her over the edge. 500 diecast aircraft and tanks of a much smaller scale seem to be less strain somehow Almost all of the large scale stuff is gone, except for my 1:32 Forces of Valor Matilda II, which I have kept because I'm fond of the type (have been ever since I read Colin Forbes' "Tramp in Armor"). I also kept my three 1:35 Dragon Tiger Is because they are pieces of art compared to the Forces of Valor tanks I sold off, and I would never be able to build a kit and make it look a fraction as good.



^ my three Dutch F-16s by Witty and Gemini Aces in front of the soccer flag I bought during the World Cup last year. Orange is great, what can I say.

The Hobby Master RAF Harrier GR.7 and GR.9 are still there on the shelf below. I think I'll be upset about the disbandment of the RAF Harrier fleet for a long time.



^ I rearranged the Vietnam War and Korean War shelves last month over a few beers. Took quite a while. I ran out of room on the SEA shelf after I got the F-111, so I decided to split the shelf between USAF and USN/USMC aircraft of that period. Less looks a lot better in my humble opinion. I finally had room to get out the first Hobby Master A-1, which is a peach (apart from the glue fogging on the canopy of course). The "Thor's Hammer" F-100 looks great, too. The first two much-sought Hobby Master F-4s take "center stage" over the F-111. In my opinion, all three of the aircraft in the center are show-stoppers.

The Korean War shelf now has the first two Falcon Models releases on it, the Panther & the T-33.



^ three USN and one USMC aircraft of the Vietnam War, including the first Hobby Master Skyraider.



^ five USAF aircraft of the Vietnam War, including the most recent F-100, "Thor's Hammer".



^ a shot showing the re-arranged Vietnam War and Korean War shelves that is more recent. The Korean War shelf had to be rearranged even more to fit the recently released HM Korean War Skyraider of VA-195 "The Dambusters". Looks great with the torpedo, don't you think? What you may also notice is that I switched the RAAF aircraft out for a full shelf of Hobby Master Texans & Harvards. What you see are all 18 of the releases out so far, including all four exclusive releases on the far right, and not including the most recent three releases (USMC, Swedish AF and Spanish AF) which will be here soon enough. These Harvards and Texans are about the easiest to set up out of all of the diecast I have in my collection. Once you set them up, they're steady on their undercarriage and stands and aren't going anywhere. There are no fiddly bits and there is no fuss. I think the two RCAF Harvards (far right) and the Luke Field Texan (second from the left in the front row) really steal the show.



^ the top two shelves showing a late-war set of RAF and RCAF aircraft and more noticeably, four heavy bombers and a B-25 on top. I haven't had the B-25 out since I first started collecting - it was one of the first 10 aircraft I bought, and it is still one of the best bargains I've gotten through dealing with fellow forum members. The Halifax ("Friday the 13th") and Lancaster ("Phantom of the Ruhr") dominate one side while the two most recent Corgi B-17s, "Memphis Belle" and "Hell's Angels" dominate the right. I really wish I had enough room to display all of my heavies at once.



^ the second Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Avro Arrow, RL 201, sitting next to where I am typing this out right now. I had to put RL 203 away because they won't both fit on the desk, and Lauren would murder me if I cluttered the desk more than I already do. We share this desk, so I have to be a tad considerate right?



^ two gorgeous photo-recce Spitfires by Hobby Master. "The Last" is probably the best out of the lot so far.



^ the first Hobby Master Spitfire I in 1:48 sitting next to one of the Franklin Mint Hurricanes in the same scale. I rather like HM's new Spitfire and plan on adding quite a few of them to my collection.



^ three Corgi SE.5s, including the most recent release, McCudden's specially modified mount.

vince1159

Do you know by how much the prop and spinner improved performance,and was it used on any other aircraft?...I've got a few SE.5s and Camels(not Corgi) but that is the only one i've seen with four blades....

ChairmanMilo

The first SE.5 has a four-blade propeller: Corgi Aviation Archive

The most recent release, however, has the prop & spinner recovered from an LVG C.V. I believe he claimed that this installation increased the maximum speed of the machine by 3mph.