Out of the Shed: A load of model aircraft kits ... and other sundry models

In a recent blog entry I mentioned finding a crate that contained a large number of unmade 1:1200th-scale model warship kits. I also mentioned that the same crate contained a number of other unmade kits. What I didn't state was what sort of model kits they were.

In fact the majority of the unmade model kits in the crate were 1:144th-scale aircraft, including:

• 5 x Revell Sea Harrier Fighters
• 7 x Fujumi Lynx Anti-submarine Helicopters
• 5 x Revell Bf-109E Fighters
• 1 x Revell FW-190A Fighter
• 5 x Revell Ju-87 Dive Bombers
• 3 x Revell Ju-88 Bombers
• 3 x Academy Minicraft He-111 Bombers
• 2 x Academy Minicraft North American P-51D Mustang Fighters
• 1 x Academy Minicraft Lockheed P-38J Lightning Fighter
• 2 x Academy Minicraft Grumman TBF-1 Avenger Torpedo-Bomber
• 1 x Academy Minicraft Martin B-26B Marauder Medium Bomber
• 1 x Crown Nakajima C6N1 Fighter

An interesting and somewhat eclectic mixture of aircraft types! I seem to remember buying the Sea Harriers and the Lynxs to go aboard a model aircraft carrier that I later passed on to Chris Kemp. The rest were bought to supply air support for my Megablitz armies ... but somehow never progressed beyond being bought.

There was a single 1:87th-scale model aircraft in the crate, a ROCO Minitanks Ju-52. I saw this in a shop and just had to buy it. All I need now is a game to use it in. (I can hear the theme tune of WHERE EAGLES DARE in my head as I write this!)

The other kits in the crate were all of ships, including:

• 2 x Heller Potemkin Pre-Dreadnought Battleships
• 2 x Noch HO-scale Tugs
• 1 x Noch HO-scale Motorised Barge
• 3 x Noch HO-scale Dumb Barges

This is enough ships to mount a bath-tubbed version of Operation Sealion ... with added off-shore gunfire support!