Latest Acquisitions (2021)

[Peter Gillson]

Good afternoon all

So yesterday was my birthday. The main event was a trip to Duxford. Should have gone last year for my 50th but Junior had to self isolate due to coming to contact with someone who had Covid. Pictures to follow later.

Aside from the day out these arrived on the big day....I'll let you work out are the most important.....

Andrew

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Some replacements and a couple of new ones...





Something to (hopefully) improve the tidiness of my work area....

From this......




to this.....who knew a new cutting matt could smell so nice!!!




Did someone say chocolate???

r

You cannot beat Rosemary and co brushes - excellent quality at a very reasonable price.

[adt70hk]

You cannot beat Rosemary and co brushes - excellent quality at a very reasonable price.

Indeed... Tim Marlow put me onto them...

[Ian M]

Happy birthday mate. 100% chocolate is great in chilli by the way, really gives it a rich flavour….

And chilli is great on a cup of hot chocolate...

[adt70hk]

And chilli is great on a cup of hot chocolate...

So I've heard..... Just a shame I don't like hot chocolate...I want to, I really do but I've never acquired the taste.....

....Much like alcohol....And I'm being serious.....

[Jim R]

Hi Gerry
I reckon Jakko is right - something big.
Jim

[minitnkr]

Sorry.

[The Smythe Meister]

Sorry.

For what mate?!!:thinking:

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry.

??? What for?

[minitnkr]

For Andrews' lack of taste for chocolate or alcohol.

[Dave Ward]

An ebay purchase.....................

One that I've been bidding on for a year or so - finally a 'buy it now' at a reasonable price!
Dave

[peterairfix]

Wait for me when I got home.

[Andy the Sheep]

A gift from a good old friend

First 1/56 scale kit in my stash... it looks simple but allows some nice details.
The kit offers the opportunity to build one out of 4 possible tanks. The "semovente" (self propelled) solution allows to build some nice interior details.

The impressively large decal sheet offers even more options for each of the 4 possible outcomes.

Just a pity the kit doesn't include a second hull so that, with just one sprue more, Italeri could have offered 2 tanks in one box... the box is already large enough.

Andrea

[adt70hk]

So nothing too exciting.....I didn't need this much decal fix and matt varnish but it was going very cheap albeit with a minimum order...it will last me for a while...

The decals at the bottom are census numbers for British AFVs..

[adt70hk]

For Andrews' lack of taste for chocolate or alcohol.

It was only hot chocolate.....in hindsight the lack of a taste for alcohol saved me a fortune.....14 years of my working life was spent in law enforcement in London, I'll leave the rest to your imagination! :smiling5:

[adt70hk]

So some arrivals yesterday.

The decals are for Junior's Corps level reconnaissance regiment, the Inns of Court. These should have arrived a year ago but there was a mix up at Dan Taylor Modelworks and so the wrong ones arrived. At the time Dan sent some from his personal stash and promised to send the correct ones once reprinted....I forgot to chase him and he's been very busy but sent them this week when I reminded him.





These are a reprint and slight update of the originals from 1984 and 1991 published by the Tank Museum. I don't have either. They should have arrived in September but there was a problem and so the museum gave everyone who ordered them 15% off at the shop, which I of course took advantage of!!

This is the nice little 'box' they come in.




Sorry about the glare but they have a very glossy cover!




ATB

Andrew