Latest Acquisitions (2023)

[Lee W]

A well deserved reason to go to the local recycling centre, after slinging a load of rubbish, I managed to grab myself this bundle... I did have to ask if there were any models that had come in and hey presto!


Spitfire 100%
D-day 100%
Tirpitz appears to be 100%
German supply wagon partly made but appears 100%
Tempest missing canopy
Female appears 100%
Church window missing a piece

Worth the trip

[The Smythe Meister]

"worth the trip"..... I should say so mate!!

[Jim R]

That's a excellent haul Lee.

[Lee W]

Definitely worth asking if there is anything on offer... be careful who you ask that question too though! :tears-of-joy:

[Richard48]

NOPE Richard as Bob has jioned me in the floaty section but he will do another stug some day im sure but he's in ships so got
to keep him on a tight leash lol so he dont wander lol
chrisb

Oh you must keep him in check.Hope hes not listening but ive never built a Stug in my life.Im sure he will talk me into doing one.
Rich

[rickoshea52]

A trip to Liverpool and I dropped in to Forbidden Planet and found this. But can you believe that Liverpool does not have a dedicated model shop?

[BattleshipBob]

Oh you must keep him in check.Hope hes not listening but ive never built a Stug in my life.Im sure he will talk me into doing one.
Rich

Still have the Dragon StuG stash Rich, lots of new ones about but accuracy not good!

[BattleshipBob]

Spent a few bob on books!

Have the originals which are very good, these are updated


Read the first one, hard work lol

This one is recommended by the Hood association and is superb

Tells her story through crew members interviews, letters etc. The first section takes you through a tour of the ship using deck diagrams, very useful.

In the end got a bit emotional as I found you really got to know the ship and a lot about individual crew. When I read that that was a certain crew members last letter I had a lump in my throat, so sad. Many were transferred off Hood a day before she sailed, lucky escape but haunted them for the rest of there lives.

The sea lords /admiralty should have been shot for sending this magnificent ship into battle with a new Bismarck. The boilers and turbines were knackered, boiler feed water had to be dumped a lot due to leaks and contamination. The engine room stokers performed miracles keeping her going at high speed to get to the Denmark strait.

The fire control system was the same as built, never upgraded. She was painted so much that it made her sit even lower in the water, they started to chip in the numerous paint layers off but never finished. Ramble over lol

[Tim Marlow]

The sea lords /admiralty should have been shot for sending this magnificent ship into battle with a new Bismarck. The boilers and turbines were knackered, boiler feed water had to be dumped a lot due to leaks and contamination. The engine room stokers performed miracles keeping her going at high speed to get to the Denmark strait.

The fire control system was the same as built, never upgraded. She was painted so much that it made her sit even lower in the water, they started to chip in the numerous paint layers off but never finished. Ramble over lol

That, and the fact she was sent to do a job for which she was never designed……….to sit in a line of battle and slug it out against battleships…….she was a battle cruiser, basically a big gunned light cruiser…..a white elephant of a design, outdated by the end of the First World War.
Good job Spurious, Curious, and Outrageous were not around in their original condition, some fool would probably have put them up against Yamato…..

[Richard48]

Still have the Dragon StuG stash Rich, lots of new ones about but accuracy not good!

Hi Bob.
I like the look of the Africa one Stug D?,Plus the Stuh 42.
Rich

[BattleshipBob]

That, and the fact she was sent to do a job for which she was never designed……….to sit in a line of battle and slug it out against battleships…….she was a battle cruiser, basically a big gunned light cruiser…..a white elephant of a design, outdated by the end of the First World War.
Good job Spurious, Curious, and Outrageous were not around in their original condition, some fool would probably have put them up against Yamato…..

Too true Tim, if she had the major reconstruction in the mid 30's I believe Hood would have emerged a true fast battleship, Drach on YT has interesting videos on both her loss and a what if she survived one.

[Tim Marlow]

Too true Tim, if she had the major reconstruction in the mid 30's I believe Hood would have emerged a true fast battleship, Drach on YT has interesting videos on both her loss and a what if she survived one.

I dont think she had the freeboard to be able to take the necessary armour to be honest Bob. She was already known as the Navy’s biggest submarine. Any more weight and she would have been awash in everything except dead calm conditions.
Best use they could have made of her would have been to strip her of all the heavy and most of the medium armament and then turn her into a large flak defence unit to form the nucleus of a future Pacific carrier group.
Trouble is, she was big and pretty so they used her as a mobile status symbol.

[Ian M]

I finally got hold of the paint for Bismarck. Note the new size of the tins. Now 30ml. Glad that they did not make them higher. So they still fit in the drawer.

[Mini Me]

Are the paints enamels or acrylics Ian?

[BattleshipBob]

Are the paints enamels or acrylics Ian?

They are enamels