Spots on the Internet (2021)

[Dave Ward]

Dave,

Appreciated its not your thread and anyone can post and it is appreciated what you do post :thumb2: , I see what goes on the modelling news and what you post, I then get a notification from a company on Fakebook about new product releases... hang on! You've already posted this, why are things so slow on my Farcebook??? :thinking:
Nevermind, your posts get seen quicker that the guff that's on 2facebook, :smiling::thumb2:

Lee

Lee,
I don't look at modelling news, I just use Facebook - I visit most of the makers pages, whilst having my breakfast! - although several of the largest manufacturers simply don't bother updating their pages - totally bewildering, when its essentially free advertising! If you have a page, why not keep it up to date? DOH
Dave

[Lee W]

Lee,
I don't look at modelling news, I just use Facebook - I visit most of the makers pages, whilst having my breakfast! - although several of the largest manufacturers simply don't bother updating their pages - totally bewildering, when its essentially free advertising! If you have a page, why not keep it up to date? DOH
Dave

Why advertise when you're well established?!
Let word of mouth do the advertising!
Business promoting is weird... I'd be bragging and showing off my product and kicking the backside out of doing it!

Lee

[Dave Ward]

On the Takom Facebok page - this seems to be Takom acting as a distributor for T.Rex Studios

3D printed? The Pz.I tracks are tiny, and anything which makes assembly easier is welcome. I guess the crunch will be the price. It would be unfortunate for a set of tracks to cost far more than the model they are fitted to ( like Fruils ).
Dave

[Guest]

“Completed within 2 hours” — we’ll be the judge of that

[Guest]

I'll certainly be interested in the sea wolf and sea dart set... typical ex matelot!

Lee

Why not the anchor ! :smiling2:

[Guest]

“Completed within 2 hours” — we’ll be the judge of that :smiling3:

I agree 2 hrs spent looking for those pins you've shot into the floor more like, or drilling out the holes.

[Lee W]

Why not the anchor ! :smiling2:

I don't have a boat to be able to use it! :smiling5:

Lee

[Tim Marlow]

“Completed within 2 hours” — we’ll be the judge of that :smiling3:

I find this interesting, it’s the future! Cost will certainly be a factor, but that will get cheaper with time. I would assume these are resin prints so there shouldn’t be any layer issues.
3D printing should virtually eliminate the clean up, so that’ll save some time. The holes should always be correct size as well......still be a pain putting in the pins though.....and not sure how they are glued up, or even if they are.

[Dave Ward]

From ICM - Boxart for their June Releases...............

Quite like the Marder, but not a fan of the ICM vinyl tracks...............
Dave

[Dave Ward]

From MiniArt - 'new kit coming soon'

Rather confusing - I thought NVA meant North Vietnamese Army, but all the colour schemes are for East Germany ( DDR )

Unless NVA tanks had East German markings, I think a mistake has crept in somewhere!
Dave

[prichrd1]

Dave -
Nothing to do with Vietnam!!

Wiki Link

HTH,

Paul.
:smiling:

[Guest]

From MiniArt - 'new kit coming soon'
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Rather confusing - I thought NVA meant North Vietnamese Army, but all the colour schemes are for East Germany ( DDR )
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Unless NVA tanks had East German markings, I think a mistake has crept in somewhere!
Dave

Dave, strange as it seems it is in fact correct.

The NVA was, in relation to its equipment and training, one of the strongest armies in the Warsaw Pact. It was outfitted with a large number of modern weapons systems, most of Soviet origin, from which a small portion were given back to the Soviet Union in 1990.

The remaining equipment and materials was very substantial. Large quantities of replacement parts, medical supplies, atomic, biological and chemical warfare equipment, training devices and simulators, etc. had to be disposed of.

One of the first measures taken after reunification was a survey and securing of weapons and devices by former members of the NVA. The federally operated Material Depot Service Gesellschaft (MDSG) was charged with taking custody of and warehousing this equipment. The MDSG employed 1,820 people who were primarily taken from the Bundeswehr. The MDSG was privatised in 1994. Unless the defense material was given free of charge to beneficiaries in the new federal states or other departments, to museums, or to friendly nations in the context of aid supplies in third world nations, it was destroyed.

Left behind were:

• 767 aircraft (helicopters, fixed wing aircraft), 24 of which were MiG-29s
• 208 ships
• 2,761 tanks
• 133,900 wheeled vehicles
• 2,199 artillery pieces
• 1,376,650 firearms
• 303,690 tons of ammunition
• 14,335 tons of fuel and cleaning materials

[Guest]

Rather confusing - I thought NVA meant North Vietnamese Army, but all the colour schemes are for East Germany ( DDR )

In this context, NVA stands for Nationale Volksarmee, “National People’s Army”.

In the context of the Vietnam War, NVA or North Vietnamese Army is the American designation for what in English is properly the PAVN, People’s Army of Viet Nam (or in the original: Quân đội Nhân dân Việt Nam).

[Dave Ward]

On the Rye Field Model Facebook page - 'available next week'
they have been busy...................



Just what the hobby needed, a Sherman and a Tiger!

Following on from the Takom 3-D printed tracks - RFM are also going down that path


At least, they don't claim that they can be assembled within 2 hours!
Dave

[Guest]

To be fair, I think that two-hour claim is not inaccurate. I think it took me not much more than that to assemble the plastic Rye Field Model Sherman tracks I built a while ago, including removing all the bits from the sprue and cleaning them up.