discussion Latest Acquisitions (2024)

[vizenz]

Hello,
and once again the postman was very good to me!
New eBay finds. Since each one came in a separate package, SWMBO looked a bit surprised. :smiling5:
But now I've almost stocked up on all the old Bundeswehr kits that were available. All that's missing are a few old M48 and Leopard 1 from Esci/Italeri/Revell - but these are very hard to find.
Best regards,
Andi

 

[A_J_Rimmer]

Hello,
and once again the postman was very good to me!
New eBay finds. Since each one came in a separate package, SWMBO looked a bit surprised. :smiling5:
But now I've almost stocked up on all the old Bundeswehr kits that were available. All that's missing are a few old M48 and Leopard 1 from Esci/Italeri/Revell - but these are very hard to find.
Best regards,
Andi

Very cool - I do like late Cold War subjects.

 

[Ian M]

opps!
I earned £20 odd yesterday.
I have been looking at:

For quite a while but the price was nagging me. £85 (Dkr.860 plus postage) and marked as the last one in stock, then they are no more, I have seen the new one with lights, bells and whistles. Erm no thanks. Anyhow I was trying to find instructions on the interweb, like you do and found this on a webshop for £62 inc post. And here it is. two days later. All because I wanted to know what colour, as in which green, it was. (it was a mix by the way. Four colours! )

 

[minitnkr]

You have all three Marders Andreas?

 

[Guest]

Yes the front part of the Butane gas canister has arrived.
Deep Joy as you can well imagine .

Oh such fun, will there be anything safe ? :upside: :upside: :upside: :tongue-out: :nerd:

Fire brigades in five counties alerted, COBRA emergency meeting now taking place, Putin has taken to his bunker, the virgin Mary has packed her bags and moved south, Mount Etna has given up because it cannot compete with what is about to be unleashed and St Peters square is now packed, but not with people holding prayers, but fire buckets....

 

[Guest]

Fire brigades in five counties alerted, COBRA emergency meeting now taking place, Putin has taken to his bunker, the virgin Mary has packed her bags and moved south, Mount Etna has given up because it cannot compete with what is about to be unleashed and St Peters square is now packed, but not with people holding prayers, but fire buckets....

Oh dear Wibble what a to do.

Am I bothered!

 

[vizenz]

You have all three Marders Andreas?

Do you mean the Marder 1 A3 from Revell that was released under three different item numbers?
The only thing that is different in this kits are the decals.
I definitely have one or two of them in the basement. And I may have also a conversion kit for an A2 somewhere, if I remember correctly...

 

[minitnkr]

I meant Marder A1, A2, & A3. Don't know what is available in 1/72 or 1/35, but I have all three in 1/87. 1 & 2 are very similar(A2 loses the remote MG), but A3 is uparmored & is different in appearance. I believe the BW is planning to replace w/Puma.

 

[Ian M]

It's beginning to look a lot like chit chat again. So soon? Wow.

 

[Ian M]

Was looking for:

Humbrol Gloss about the only good gloss that's easy to use. I can't find an Ivory white as good as theirs either.
While there, this kinds fell into the basket...

Almost cute. A nice little kit but the Ram will a new one from scratch. The kit one has two options. Open or closed. Or is it up or down? Whatever. it needs a new one. lol

 

[Guest]

I meant Marder A1, A2, & A3.

There are also further versions, off the top of my head the latest is the 1A7, but anything beyond about the 1A3 is too modern for my interests so I’m not really up to speed.

It should be possible to backdate a 1A3, but that would be a fair amount of work, I suspect.

I believe the BW is planning to replace w/Puma.

Once the electronics start working properly, anyway … There have been reports of Puma companies with a whole two working vehicles when they’re supposed to be going out on exercise, for example. Not breakdowns during the exercise, mind, but before they could even start it …

 

[Lee Drennen]

Was looking for:

Humbrol Gloss about the only good gloss that's easy to use. I can't find an Ivory white as good as theirs either.
While there, this kinds fell into the basket...

Almost cute. A nice little kit but the Ram will a new one from scratch. The kit one has two options. Open or closed. Or is it up or down? Whatever. it needs a new one. lol

Nice truck I received some paint yesterday I’ll post later

 

[Lee Drennen]

Open or closed.

Maybe there talking about the Tailgate

 

[Ian M]

Maybe there taking about the Tailgate

No that was me talking about the hydraulic ram that lifts the tip bed.

 

[Guest]

This just arrived from ebay. I got it for the upcoming D-Day group build.

 

[Lee Drennen]

talking about the hydraulic ram

Oh ok thanks

 

[adt70hk]

This just arrived from ebay. I got it for the upcoming D-Day group build.

Nice! I have one of these in the stash!

 

[OldWalrus]

Quick delivery from the store, thought that they deserved a trial, hopefully as good as most reviews say.

 

[Allen Dewire]

With all the recent BS, I decided a little retail therapy might be good for my melon and get the Mojo up. Saw this in evilbay with a starting price of €139 and started dreaming about converting it into the single seat, float plane version based at Zeebrugge,


But...Knowing that the prices for these kitsets go so high and also having to bother, coerce, threaten, and or beg Dr. Merryweather into making a set of floats for it, I killed the idea (we still love ya Neil). I emailed Lukasz @ Lukgraph and ordered the Rumpler 6B.1 resin kit from him instead. It's this one,

All resin, 3D printed and PE parts. The kit comes complete with the beaching trolleys and float support stand too...It's not a kit for beginners and I will do a kit review of it very soon.

So looking again in evilbay, I saw the WnW's Rumpler kitset was still sitting at €139 with 4 minutes left to go. Said the hell with it and threw a cheap cheeky bid of €145.89 on it at the last second, figuring I would surely be overbid. I be damned, I won it for the starting price + postage, which was €0.10 over my cheap bid. Funny, as the original sell price from it's release in 2012 was $129.00. Now looking at the Camo and decal sheet, this wing thingy with wheels will fit into my Zeebrugge theme as well,


This one was used by the MFA (Marine Feld-flieger Abteilung) in Flanders for support of the Zeebrugge float planes. A win, win situation for me, to say the least...

Prost
Allen

 

[Neil Merryweather]

I'm ready when you are Allen :tongue-out3: