London Haul - lots of weirdness!

[Faust]

At the start of June, my local club, IPMS London (in Ontario, Canada) hosted it’s biannual model show. It was a fun event, as always, and the Vendors’ Room gave up a considerable stash of interesting and unusual kits!

From Giant Robots to ‘30s Cars and a few weird planes for good measure, I managed to snag some stuff that I think will interest almost anybody. There's a lot of Whiffing potential in here too; the Goblin cries out for something, and the chopper is already kind of a whif!

Check it out at the link below, and let me know which one is your favourite. I kind of feel a draw to the BMW Celica…

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/londons-scale-model-expo-haul-2025/

[Story]

Some of those cry out for period gangsters and their 1921 Thompson guns.

[Robomog]

Rolls Royce Coupe for me. Although I'm sure I've seen the Towne car in some period tv series at some point

Mog
>^-.-^<

[Kerick]

I’m sure I had that Cessna helicopter a very long time ago! Skip the missile and add a short stub wing with a couple of two shot rocket pods with white phosphorus marking rounds for an air FAC mission like the old Cessna O-1 Birddog. Some extra radios behind the cockpit and off you go!

[Dr. YoKai]

Show hauls are the best. The old Pyro car kits would be handy for a lot of armor dioramas, to say nothing of some period gangster modelling. I knew that a number of older giant robot shows were getting modern treatments, (Max Factory's updated Dougram kits, spring to mind) but the Ideon is a surprise. It is one of the few Robot anime from the period I have not seen, though I have built a few of the villain robots from the series. Excellent haul!

[elmayerle]

I’m sure I had that Cessna helicopter a very long time ago! Skip the missile and add a short stub wing with a couple of two shot rocket pods with white phosphorus marking rounds for an air FAC mission like the old Cessna O-1 Birddog. Some extra radios behind the cockpit and off you go!

Yeah, those missiles are, I suspect, more than that helicopter could lift.  It was not a successful program for Cessna and they ended up, IIRC, buying them all back and scrapping them.  I can definitely see one as a FAC helicopter.