Small Scale Military Headquarters

Just scored a Corgi 1/72 Ju-52/3m Ostfront '41 for 55$ shipped on a 2nd Chance offer. not my 1st choice, but I lost the bidding war on the Mine-sweeper I was going for from another seller. Edit: won my 2nd Corgi this morning, the Ju88A-5 5./KG30 Finland 41/42..which goes with my interest on the Finnish Front of the 2nd World War..I just need to get the He-111 H-6 Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey(This is the Luftwaffe unit seen in the Film Tali'44) for the last Finnish Front German Corgi.

Add to that:

Dragon Wings/Armour(1/72)
Fw 190A-3 Jabo 14./JG5 Eismeer Finland '43 16.00 Shipped
Bf 109G-2 JG52 18.00 Shipped
DX 08 StuG III Bodo Spranzs Ace 25.00 shipped
both 907 Brigade and 912 Brigade StuG IV(early) for 14.95ea(Italy and Kurland)
and I snagged a Bf 109G-6/R6(Supposed to be a "R6", but you know how Dragon lags on additional weapons esp for the Fw 190As..IEthe Fw190A-3 Jabo without a bomb or the Fw 190A missing outer wing cannon) 18.95

Prob going to pick up the excellent P-47M fighter-bomber that Dragon actually gave rockets and bomb to. And I am looking at the Korea F-51D with the underwing bombs at the moment.

Waiting for Easymodel's 2010 Panzers(IIIL,M,N and Pz IV H,J) and Sdkfz.9. If they are up to the standard of the T-34/76 I picked up they should be good.

that's the JU 52/3m I picked up.

and the Ju-88A-5

Nice
Cool photos too. Did you use photoshop and blur the props to make them look that way? Or are they stock photos?

I might have to switch to 1/72.
I'm getting tired of waiting for someone to make any multi-engine planes in 1/32.

Dauntless wrote:Nice
Cool photos too. Did you use photoshop and blur the props to make them look that way? Or are they stock photos?

I might have to switch to 1/72.
I'm getting tired of waiting for someone to make any multi-engine planes in 1/32.

Those look like Tricatus' pics...
Great score! Especially on the Ju-52..

Do you know any information behind the ju88?
I thought this corgi model had a larger gun in the nose section.

hworth18 wrote:

Dauntless wrote:Nice
Cool photos too. Did you use photoshop and blur the props to make them look that way? Or are they stock photos?

I might have to switch to 1/72.
I'm getting tired of waiting for someone to make any multi-engine planes in 1/32.

Those look like Tricatus' pics...
Great score! Especially on the Ju-52..

I switched after I started to build my Italeri CR 42(Luftwaffe Night bomber kit) and picked up a Heller S35 for 5.99(Kit)

I found his site last night after looking all over the web for out of the box Corgi pics. For Dragon stuff, I go to the flying mule, since they have great out of the box pics of the armour and planes. But for Corgi you can't beat Tricatus's archive.

Today I did some window shopping and I couldn't find the Junker 52/3m for under 100 in stores, and normally it was 120-130ish. The Ju88 goes for 70-99 it seems. Combined I paided around 90 for both planes.

I still want the Anti-Shipping Ju88A-4 Lister/KG30(like the 2cm Cannon in the nose) and the upcoming Ju88C-6(although I'd like a Home Defense paint scheme over the Russian winter one) for sure. And maybe the Do 215B Aufklär(recon)

NHoggard12 wrote:Do you know any information behind the ju88?
I thought this corgi model had a larger gun in the nose section.

That's the other KG30(Lister 1943) an anti shipping model. It was a tosser to pick this one over that one. This one is 5./KG30, don't know much of the combat history of the unit. but the A-5 was a A-1 88 that was re-winged with a longer wingspan

Picked up a 32X "Devil Dogs" Corsair from an ebay seller today for $35 delivered. At nearly double what they retailed for at WM it's not a huge coup by any means, but considering the crazy prices that some of the less common 32X planes have been going for lately I'm quite pleased with the deal...

ostketten wrote:Picked up a 32X "Devil Dogs" Corsair from an ebay seller today for $35 delivered. At nearly double what they retailed for at WM it's not a huge coup by any means, but considering the crazy prices that some of the less common 32X planes have been going for lately I'm quite pleased with the deal...

I saw that one. It was a good deal (I didn't bid on it 'cause I got one already ) considering the crazy prices and they hardly ever come up. Even less frequently than the "Big Hog" Corsair. Glad you scored it.

Finally got a "Black 1" FW-190D9 for $24, $34 delivered. Won just a few minutes ago. That's not a great deal, but the last one I bid on and lost went for $33 plus shipping, so a small victory. Luckily I was the only bidder. It's what they were going for at online retail (Small Joes) before they disappeared, and Aikens wants too much for them.

Now just one more FW-190D9 and I have them all.

ju-52 is fantastic