Latest Acquisitions (2024)

[A_J_Rimmer]

Over on Scalemates, someone offered this Churchill kit for sale:

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“Already started” he said, which now I have it, I consider a slight understatement:

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More like “almost completed, with some broken bits that are all there” — but for €11 including postage, I can’t complain, can I? Especially as it also has an aftermarket set of resin exhausts with etched covers. I do need to disassemble the turret to correct it, and buy a set of separate-link tracks for it, but at this price, I don’t mind.

Yes that's a little bit more than 'started'...

[BattleshipBob]

From the shop for the new build



Never used these before but feedback is positive and sprays well plus I can try the new marker pens as well. Read that it's also better to brush paint than Mr color or tamiya, we shall see folks

Although I contacted AK and the pens do not cross reference to the bottled real colors which I find odd??

[Allen Dewire]

Hi folks,

As I stated in my GTR build, life is back to normal and my 4 brain cells are once again working. Some retail therapy helped, but what I ended up with was pretty outrageous, to say the least!!! I gave out €147 and ended up with all this from various places. Evilbay got me this for cheap,


I always wanted one and I have the Friuls to go on it too. A rain forest buy for €49.99 delivered and I had a €28 credit from them,


Dude 2 (JR) got me hyped up with his and I wanted one, but I guess with all the tax and import duties, the Insel price is much higher than here......A new release from Dragon of an old kit, but it comes with figs now too and was €47.00 delivered,


The cover is now matt printed and no details of the kit. Ron Volstad's pic is still used. The figs that come with it,


The box bottom is plain cardboard now with no pics either. Another evilbay grab was a 3 kit deal for €47.50 delivered. They were,




The etch set is from Plus Models and is for the radio van. It was inside the kit. The box was rather large and also included all this for free,


All sealed in their bags and the figs are the Tamiya Fallschirmjäger set from 1971. There was even more,

All Tamiya with 2 sets of FlaK figs in winter clothing, a Flak 38 Vierling AA gun and the pedestal to mount it on a vehicle, w/decals. Talk about a surprise!!! It was like Christmas in July. The only other thing in the box was a hand written note in German that said "Thank you for your purchase"...............

Prost (and still shocked)
Allen

[scottie3158]

Hello mate, now that was hell of a shopping trip. But you bagged yourself some nice kits.

[Neil Merryweather]

I guess you were due some good luck , Allen!

[boatman]

HI ALL Postie dropped this off this morn for me
a nice super hornet cutaway to help with my build

[Dave Ward]

An early drop off from postie

very good price - pre-owned.................
Dave

[Scratchbuilder]

Over on Scalemates, someone offered this Churchill kit for sale:

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“Already started” he said, which now I have it, I consider a slight understatement:

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More like “almost completed, with some broken bits that are all there” — but for €11 including postage, I can’t complain, can I? Especially as it also has an aftermarket set of resin exhausts with etched covers. I do need to disassemble the turret to correct it, and buy a set of separate-link tracks for it, but at this price, I don’t mind.

If you need another turret I can let you have one, PM me. Mike.

[Scratchbuilder]

Hi folks,

As I stated in my GTR build, life is back to normal and my 4 brain cells are once again working. Some retail therapy helped, but what I ended up with was pretty outrageous, to say the least!!! I gave out €147 and ended up with all this from various places. Evilbay got me this for cheap,

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I always wanted one and I have the Friuls to go on it too. A rain forest buy for €49.99 delivered and I had a €28 credit from them,

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Dude 2 (JR) got me hyped up with his and I wanted one, but I guess with all the tax and import duties, the Insel price is much higher than here......A new release from Dragon of an old kit, but it comes with figs now too and was €47.00 delivered,

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The cover is now matt printed and no details of the kit. Ron Volstad's pic is still used. The figs that come with it,

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The box bottom is plain cardboard now with no pics either. Another evilbay grab was a 3 kit deal for €47.50 delivered. They were,

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The etch set is from Plus Models and is for the radio van. It was inside the kit. The box was rather large and also included all this for free,

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1229495[/ATTACH]All sealed in their bags and the figs are the Tamiya Fallschirmjäger set from 1971. There was even more,

[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1229496[/ATTACH]All Tamiya with 2 sets of FlaK figs in winter clothing, a Flak 38 Vierling AA gun and the pedestal to mount it on a vehicle, w/decals. Talk about a surprise!!! It was like Christmas in July. The only other thing in the box was a hand written note in German that said "Thank you for your purchase"...............

Prost (and still shocked)
Allen

The book is not what I expected, but thankfully the author does go into how he builds his structures. Well worth the money.

[Peter Gillson]

Not bad for £2.45 for both of them, including post:

[Allen Dewire]

Hello mate, now that was hell of a shopping trip. But you bagged yourself some nice kits.

I guess you were due some good luck , Allen!

Thanks guys and yeah I got lucky. End of September, my friend Thorsten and I have 5 meters of tables at a show to display our builds as private folks. The organizer also said we could use 1 meter of it to sell stuff too. Mega stash clearance is in the cards for it. Man doesn't need 3 Italeri Opel radio truck kits, do they???

The book is not what I expected, but thankfully the author does go into how he builds his structures. Well worth the money.

I scanned through it quickly and it does seem interesting. I have to sit down and do a good read soon. I also wanted the 500+ page AK F.A.Q. diorama book, but €109 was a bit too pricey for my blood...

Prost
Allen

[Guest]

If you need another turret I can let you have one, PM me. Mike.

Thanks for the offer, but that’s not necessary. AFV Club made a mistake with the Mk. VI turret, making the round part underneath taller than on the Mk. IV, rather than wider. But the kit also includes the Mk. IV lower part, and I think I have two more of those kicking around from the AVREs I built, so what I need to do is pry off the lower part and stick the other one on, then add a collar around it from some plastic strip. Easy

[vizenz]

Be careful Allen, the "Zügkraftwagen" is probably a Turkish copy of the German vehicle! :tongue-out3: :tears-of-joy:

[vizenz]

Hello,
I was lucky again with eBay!
There was a whole collection of different M113 kits available and I won this S-Model set. It contains two vehicles and the only drawback is the tracks. But I can replace these quite easily with the help of 3D printing! :tongue-out3:




The next set is for my small 1/144 collection. Also a bit of a bargain. It seems as if you only find the "big ones" of these Dragon Panzer Korps things. The normal battle tanks are incredibly expensive!



And the next bundle was a great surprise! Our good Jakko here has cleared out his stuff and given me some 1/144 models. In addition to the heavy mortar, there are a few unfinished models (Challenger 2, Leopard 2 + 2 US Amtracs) and decals that I will of course happily use for my purposes.

Once again, my big thanks for this very generous gesture!

[Guest]

You’re welcome to them, at least then they might actually get finished someday I’ve had the bagged models for 15 years or so, and not done any work on them for … at least 14 I wonder where I put the boxes, though, because I think there must also be a Leopard 2A4 in addition to the 2A5, and etched parts for both?