Latest Acquisitions (2019)

[AlanG]

Cheers Jim

[adt70hk]

Just got a little bonus today. Friend of mine was selling her nail varnish/brush stuff (not into that sort of thing despite the rumours lol). She was just going to bin this 3.5L compressor until her husband pointed out i use an airbrush for my models. so she kindly offered it to me for free. Well chuffed. That can replace my Clarke Wiz compressor :smiling3:

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That's a nice result Alan. I got one last year as my first compressor and have no problems so far and it's not particularly noisy.

And as Jim said its easy to service and plenty of spares you can get hold of.

ATB

Andrew

[Dave Ward]

After a barren spell on ebay, bidding and missing on a load of items, I finally won one, which postie duly delivered

The mouldings look a lot cleaner than the Revell Etihad Airbus that I'm in the process of building. Oddly the decals, Air Berlin & Sobelair are of companies that have both gone bust.
Not much benchtime at the moment, I've got a neck strain - really pains me when I move it ( absolute agony when I sneezed! ) - looks like I'll be propped up in front of the telly, with a bottle of painkillers for a while...............
Dave

[adt70hk]

Hi Alan
That is a great pressie. Looks like the very popular AS186 which is sold under many labels. If it doesn't work as it should don't just give up on it. It is really easy to service. Have a look at THIS video. I have done mine and I'm a mechanical idiot :rolling:
Jim

Jim

Thanks for the link. Not the most professional vid but they do show easy it is to service it. Hopefully won't need it for a while but useful nonetheless. Thanks again for sharing.

Andrew

[adt70hk]

Hi all

So a friend was helping a neighbour/family member clear our her loft and she came across these very old publications (two are HMSO) and knowing of my WW2 interest thought I would like them - and all free.

ATB

Andrew

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[peterairfix]

I had ordered some replacement parts that replace the paper decorations on the well decks they came from mimibrass so I will be ordering some more in the future.

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Jim

Thanks for the link. Not the most professional vid but they do show easy it is to service it. Hopefully won't need it for a while but useful nonetheless. Thanks again for sharing.

Andrew

Mine was only 6 months old when I had to strip & clean it, similar to that video.

Others seem to go for years with no issues but at this price point quality control will be sadly lacking so you're bound to get good ones and bad ones.

[Fernando N]

Postie delivered this pre-order last Monday from Hornby, with another on its way from the UK guess they are filling out the orders before the Brexit…:thinking:

As I like the band too and even saw them at a gig a while ago, pretty neat to The bomber in model form:

[Guest]

Postie delivered this pre-order last Monday from Hornby, with another on its way from the UK guess they are filling out the orders before the Brexit…:thinking:

As I like the band too and even saw them at a gig a while ago, pretty neat to The bomber in model form:
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Nice one, I wondered if anyone one would get one of these, I get my chair now for this one, please post build thread for it.
Pete :thumb2:.

[Guest]

So a friend was helping a neighbour/family member clear our her loft and she came across these very old publications (two are HMSO) and knowing of my WW2 interest thought I would like them - and all free.

I’ve got the Special Operations book, in Dutch — perhaps even two copies, I’m not sure anymore. These kinds of publications, though they are propaganda, are very readable and usually include quite good photos.

[Fernando N]

Nice one, I wondered if anyone one would get one of these, I get my chair now for this one, please post build thread for it.
Pete :thumb2:.

Will do, although this year’s schedule is pretty stuffed with the GB’s…:rolling:

[Dave Ward]

An ebay auction win..........................

I got this for £6.60 delivered! - I don't know what happened with this model, but ebay has listings for lots of 5 & 10 in bundles at low prices! Overproduction?
The model itself is a simple short run product
A lot of clean up needed on the small parts, I've seen worse!
The decals look OK

The instructions are sparse, to say the least, and you are left to your own research for the positioning of the decals & colour demarcations ( apart from the boxtop ).
At the silly price, it was worth a punt - we shall see how it goes!
Dave

PS be careful if you do an internet search for S & M!!!!!!!!!!! ( it's S&M - no spaces )

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be careful if you do an internet search for S & M!!!!!!!!!!! ( it's S&M - no spaces )

Without testing it, I doubt that will make much of a difference, and TBH, adding “models” after it may not help much either … IOW: it’s a somewhat poor choice of name for a company

[Bortig the Viking]

I think the company is scalemates, think that sounds better than S & M. :nerd:

[Guest]

You could always put on this album when building one of their kits, though:

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