Latest Acquisitions (2024)

[ColinW]

I got carried away with the 1/144 , I still want a Phantom, Harrier, tomcat and EE Lightning, but there's no hurry :smiling:

[The Smythe Meister]

Been after a decent quality Arado float plane in 1/48 for a while now,really hard to find.But tonight i bagged this one, for a very nice price....

Rather chuffed with that :thumb2: .

[David Lovell]

Got some of the new atom paints from the sm shop dropped of by the postie this morning as usual service second to none well done John and team

Be a while but will let my thoughts known when I've given them a run out. Dave

[Jack L]

Always wanted to give 1/16 a go...and the creator is having an anniversary sale at the moment, so thought why not. It's huge. The size of it terrifies me!! Can of pop for reference against the upper hull.

Need to decide if and what aftermarket to go for. A couple more figures and some internals will be double what I paid but the AFV Modeller offerings (David Parker) do look really nice.

[peterairfix]

All this talk of 1/144 scale I thought I would give it a go and at £4 I can't go wrong

[papa 695]

Just got this one.

[Guest]

I was coming home from the dentist today and spotted a toy shop in town, so I went in, in the hope they sold Tamiya extra thin as some idiot knocked mine over and spilt a third of it. (ie me!) alas nope, they don't but they do sell model kits.

So I had a good look and the surprising thing is that they only sell Airfix, they must have had 40-50 Airfix kits and not even one by a different manufacturer.. how odd!

but, that said.. I did buy something, well.. my excuse is that I don't have any ships in my stash so needed to fix that!

[Andy T]

Something for the kitbash / scratch building projects - Lego!

I've tried getting my son to part with some of his mountain but with no success, so I got a 1kg lucky bag from Ebay. The first thing I did wash to wash it all. Lord knows how many snotty kids mouths it's been in.



The blocks & plates will be handy for demountable joints, it's perfectly square so could make a good base for a build, there's plenty of random bits to add as detail, and being a form of styrene it'll glue with model cement and cut & sand easily.

[Guest]

Lego is ABS, though, so it probably won’t glue too well with normal model cement. Superglue probably works well enough, and else there’s this:

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Superglue with a kind of marking pen with activator, which I suppose is a similar kind of thing to the adhesion promoter for paint we were talking about in another thread You can even securely glue polythene parts together with it, is my experience. (Oh, and you only need to buy a set like this once, until the marker runs out anyway — the activator will work fine with “regular” superglue as well.)

[Andy T]

I have to disagree with you there. In my tests it seems to weld perfectly well with TET, but I do have some of that 2 part CA if I need it.

[Tim Marlow]

If it’s ABS then plastruct solvent will do it as well. After all, plastruct sections are ABS…..if you can get solvents at work Andy, try Butanone. It’s what C and L used to sell to stick their ABS railway track parts together.

Ive also heard of Lego being used as a former when scratchbuilding boxes for things like buildings because it is dead square.

[peterairfix]

As I struggle to paint wheels I found these so I will see how I get on with them

[Miko]

A successful eBay bid finds me in possession of this soon to be re released Hasegawa classic



although it turned up with the wrong instructions, these being for a 617 sqn Tonka!



Miko (I do enjoy a large helping of raspberry ripple)

[peterairfix]

As they say I only went in for the wire and you know the rest

[Steve-the-Duck]

Picked up at Salute last weekend. I was hoping this had been released in time but only one stand had it

Although I've already got all the BEF infantry I need, I was hoping to use this lot for extras to gun crews and such, but the poses and layout don't lend them as easily to that as the Warlord late war Brits with their open hands
Still, nothing like a little plastic surgery... And I've already made one faux pas, in converting a BEF guardsman to a Lewis gunner, by completely missing the Lewis magazine pouch on the sprue, until AFTER I'd scratchbuilt some!