Stalingrad 1942.

[Guest]

Thanks Jim .
Tea tonight is Salmon fish cakes with some finely chopped spring onion. Home made of course, with slight weathering. !
John .

[Guest]

Better than mine John, anyway going to distract you and talk about... Yes bricks... Now aren't you feeling better...
What I call engineering bricks, same size as a normal house brick, but with two holes in, are they right for ww2 buildings ie factories , and is the size right also.
Don't you feel good now:thumb2::smiling3:

[Guest]

Sorry John should start a new chit chat really. Apologies.:thinking:

[Jim R]

Hi John
Figures are fine and just need a matt coat.
Jim

[Guest]

Brad .
Much better.
Don't think anyone likes bricks ! So we will carry on .
Not quite sure when the two hole red brick you mentioned first appeared don't think it was around before the war. Most brick then appeared to be solid . I've looked on the net, but very little about those brick .As for sizes the imperial brick is 225 x 110 x 65 and up to 70 and 80 in the north of England . The modern metric brick is smaller at 215 x 100 x 65 mm .
HTH
John .

[Guest]

That's good enough for me, this John thank for that :smiling2::smiling3::thumb2:

[rtfoe]

John, figgies are fine...just need some dulling. I did try the one eye'd thing and completely made a mess. I have even more respect with what you have done.

Cheers,
Richard

[Guest]

John figures look absolutely fine ! Can’t wait to see it placed on the dio! Regards Danny

[Guest]

Afternoon SM Plastic lovers. ( don't think I will use that term again ) :rolling:
Brad ..... Your welcome.... I shall be looking out for post !
Richard .... Good for you, and thank you. Going to tidy up the odd bits of paint and spray with some AK Ultra Mat, the varnish coat as being recommend by Si.
Danny ...... Cheers mate , not to your superb standard unfortunately.. might be a bit better when I add Bobby's and my recent arrival and spend a few more hrs painting.
Think it might be ok to post here, as they are part of the dio, If not Ron I can move them .

Post came this morning, first Jiffy Bag.... .CD from Paul Richardson containing all my albums. So Paul thank you. Top man .:thumb2:


In the second from Evilbay
Checked on Scalemates first brought out in 1988 and no changes noted on tooling. So will be interesting to see how they fair.

Box front [ATTACH]298780[/ATTACH]

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Plenty of action poses here. and for those that just love a spru shot.


Thanks for looking in .
John.

[Jim R]

Hi John
Action poses are great. I personally think that figures add so much to a dio and yours needs a population.
Jim

[Guest]

Thanks Jim .
It will be like Piccadilly circus by the time I get finished.:smiling3:
John.

[Jim F]

Hi John,
Well it didn't take long for you to return to type:smiling5: I bet you were pleased to get the disc, and those figures although not up to some of the more modern sets they are a great set and I've seen some great vignettes and dioramas using them so no excuses
Jim

[Guest]

A great set of figures John. I think that some of them may date from earlier than 1988, as I'm sure I made them as a lad in the mid 70s.

Peter.

[Steve Jones]

The figures look even better from down here in Plymouth mate!:smiling5:

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
At least one of those looks like the guys that used to jump out of the Hannomag....I remember it on the cover of Milmod back in the mid seventies....