A Small Pile Of Model Kits

I have lots of bad habits but in this case two of them have combined forces.

Firstly, my tendency to be irresistibly attracted to shiny objects. Secondly, my awkward inclination towards procrastination.

And since you're now wondering what the bloody hell I'm going on about, I'm talking about the pile of model kits gradually stacking up on my kitchen table. I really must get started on at least one of them

Two were from charity shops, two were bought brand new.  

Let's start with the charity shop finds. 

 The is the first one I bought and it must have been 6 months ago. 

Honestly I'm a little bit intimidated by it. 

  This particular kit is one of those sneaky "What-if" Wunderwaffe projects that never existed in the real world but it looks cool so hey! let's have a kit. 

 I suppose I'd better explain what a Mistel is.  

  Towards the end of WW2 the Luftwaffe bomber force was looking badly out of date so somebody came up with the bright idea of converting old Ju88s into flying bombs by replacing the forward fuselage with a whole can of explosives.  Since this contraption needed to be guided to the target  a BF109 was mounted on top and the pilot steered the whole odd, affair. Once he got to the target, the BF109 pilot would point the Mistel at the target, then detach his plane from the flying bomb and (hopefully) skedaddle before any P51s showed up.  

  The whole things sounds damn near suicidal but there are records of Mistels being used against Allied bridges so clearly the Luftwaffe had some right nutters willing to give it a go. 

Here's a picture from https://www.militaryfactory.com that shows you what it looked like. 

 Picture sourced from this page: https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=842

At some point there may have been some debate on doing the same but with jets for both parts. Hence this kit.

I have a feeling I'm gonna leave this one until I'm feeling brave. 

By contrast this next kit was brand new and I'm probably going to build it first.

 I don't usually do modern jets but this one was nice and cheap - check the price - so I figured I'd give it a go.  Pillock that I am, i didn't notice until I got home that it's 1:144 scale so will look very out of place on my shelf of 1:72 aircraft.  Oh well. I might paint it something weird and tell everybody it's from the Lemurian Imperial Air Korps.  

 Next kit is also new and an aircraft I've always had a soft spot for:

 The P40 Warhawk/Kittyhawk/Tomahawk might not have been an outstanding fighter but like the Hurricane, it held the line until something better came along. On both the Russian and Desert fronts the Tomahawk was thrown into combat to replace obsolete biplanes so deserves some respect. 

  One additional reason for me to pick up this kit is that https://www.hannants.co.uk/  have some decal kits for early model P40s and one in particular caught my eye.

Pic from here: https://www.hannants.co.uk/Allied Fighters under the Turkish Flag

I haven't got anything in Turkish markings so next payday I plan to get a set of these. Looks cool, hey?

Lastly we have this, which was a whopping £1 from the Samaritans shop in Southsea.  

Matchbox went out of business decades ago so how long has this been sitting in some body's attic?  

When I do finally get round, expect a post or two and probably my neighbours asking me why I keep shouting "Bollocks!"

That's all folks.