Latest Acquisitions (2024)

[Dave Ward]

Postie just delivered this:

Ebay auction - <£25 delivered! :smiling4: - No interior detail in the radio room, but the chassis looks like the usual ICM highly detailed assembly
Dave

[JR]

Postman delivered some much need supplies to theTowers


Double sides tape , with one side strong adhesion and the other suitable for those tracks
A couple of jewelery copper wire for handles, and lastly a bottle to keep fresh water in for general use .

[Dave Ward]

To go with my ICM Unimog - a set of ICM paints

less than £10 for six bottles - it'll be interesting to see how they perform
Dave

[Scratchbuilder]

Well it has finally arrived, I have taken the plunge....

But it will not see the light of day untill after June when I take my sabatical away from armour modelling... I have plenty of armour kits to keep me going and plenty of ideas, but after the Centurion Bridgelayer and now the M109 Doher build is finished I will need to re-charge my batteries, and what better way than to keep building but go for a different subject and reduce the growing stash in the aviation department.

[Guest]

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Came across these in the nearly-local art supply store a while ago, and now finally got round to buying them. These are yellow and red that are supposed to actually cover well — the shop had a little display (clearly supplied by the manufacturer, though) showing all of the paints from this range on little squares of canvas that were about two-thirds white and one-third black. Most of the samples have the black showing through pretty obviously, but not these two (and a few others, but I need lemon yellow a lot less than a medium yellow ). I’ll have to try them out to see if they really work that well, though.

[Neil Merryweather]

I've been to Winchester for a few days to spend time with my newest granddaughter and yesterday I managed to slip off unnoticed into the Warhammer shop, and came away with these.
The names are baffling so I had to get a teenager to help me..... :tongue-out3:

It's rather sad that this is the nearest I have been able to get to an actual model shop in absolute bloody years!
To be fair it was pretty vibrant in there, and although not my thing I enjoyed looking at the models on display, and thank goodness some youngsters are at least interested in a physical pastime rather than virtual (although they probably can do both without even thinking about it)
signed;
Grumpy Old Git

[peterairfix]

As mine either break after a short while or wear out quickly I thought I would treat myself

[Peter Gillson]

Just arrived - three head.

I bought the non-copyright files and using nomad sculpt i resized them to 1/10 scale, removed some of the necks and shoulders and joined them as one object, tipping them back so there are no supports on the face. This was a test printing to check i had re-sized them to 1/10 correctly and that the quality of the printing was ok.

the idea is that I will use Nomad sculpt to modify the heads, then get the modified heads printed to be the basis for some busts - hence getting copyright free files. The main sculpting of the busts (torsos, headgear etc will still be putty). This will, i think, be a productive way to learn 3d sculpting, and if I get the hang of it I can perhaps do more of the sculpting on Nomad. The first two changes will be to 'age' one of the male heads, and to alter one to have an open mouth.


Peter

[Andy T]

With no chat topic open in the Star Wars GB section yet I'll put my entry here, since it arrived today:



My first Bandai kit, and I'm hoping to create a little Endor scene for it to sit in :smiling3:

[JR]

Just arrived at the Towers

Stock for dioramas.

[peterairfix]

Quick trip to Exeter toy fair not much this time around but I did come away with this.

[AlanG]

They look very nice dio bits John

[malvern_man]

This arrived a couple of days ago, together with a new compressor.

My lad might be moving out in the near future so I thought I'd better get my own setup.

[Dave Ward]

Postie just dropped this off..............................

< £20 delivered :thumb2: An odd thing - American, British & German destroyers in 1/350 OK - Japanese destroyers? They cost twice as much as the others!
Dave

[Flip]

Quick trip to Exeter toy fair not much this time around but I did come away with this. [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1218542[/ATTACH]

I've never done a car...but that one does look interesting :thumb2: