discussion Great service

[Guest]

I have ordered most of my stuff from various retailers online. However, one has stood out from the crowd for me. Model Hobbies. I placed my second order with them on Tuesday night, Wednesday I got an email saying it had been dispatched and it was delivered today, Thursday. By any account, this is great service.

Model Hobbies Plastic model kits and diecast models for the enthusiast

Part of this order was for the 1/35 German Field Kitchen and the Mounted soldier. The field kitchen, even without horses, is simply superb. great looking figures and accessories. Ron will be impressed to know that it includes a bucket in which you can place a plug of potatoes if you wish lol. I will post more details in 'Under Construction' when I start it.

Also for Ron, the mane on the mounted soldiers horse is a separate part and could easily be discarded for a real hair one. Human hair may be about right I would think (not my grey hair though lol)

 

[Guest]

Yeah I bought some stuff from them before Christmas & it came quickly so I can't fault them. I did think that their site looked identical to e-models though? Could be just that they both used the same generic template.

 

[Guest]

Certainly near each other. Mmmmmmm I wonder. Just checked using Google Maps Satellite view in case one was a warehouse address and the other a domestic but they are on two separate industrial estates.

eModels

Unit 4

Mossfield Road

Longton

Stoke-on-Trent

United Kingdom

ST3 5BW

Model Hobbies Limited

Unit 2, Bank Works

Warren Street

Stoke on Trent

ST3 1QB

United Kingdom

 

[Guest]

One might say "close enough for government work" ) only if one was a cynical sod of course!

 

[stona]

Well I'm a cynical sod then,unless Stoke is an unknown modelling hot bed! If the service is good it doesn't matter anyway.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

"close enough for government work"

As a Civil Servant or Uncivil servant as my colleagues know me as, I take great humbridge at that comment. I will have you know that Government work does not need to be anywhere near as close as that........

 

[Guest]

Placed my first order with Model Hobbies, they've got a wide range of modelling stuff on the site, neeed to do quite abit of trawleing though to find what you want, thanks for the reccomendation Fenlander

 

[Guest]

Come on then Ben, what ya bought???????

 

[Guest]

Got my delivery this morning, would of been yesterday but I wasn't at home to sign fot it :-( in reply to your question fenlander I bought decal adhesive, finishing sandpaper, fiiler, tamiya enamel thinner & a few new paint brushes, it's not alot but I'm sure I'll be buying more from there in the future.

 

[Guest]

I haver just ordered a new odd ball kit from them, the Tamiya 1/35 Livestock Set and an Italeri 1/35 Horse Drawn Breda 20/65 mod. 35 w/ crew.... getting a bit obsessed with horse drawn stuff now. This Horse Drawn Breda looks quite nice though. I wanted the Livestock set for the German Shepherd dog as well as other bits, but the dog will go nice with an informal group.

 

[Guest]

I know you live out in the sticks Graham but all this horse stuff! I think a late Stalingrad dio with starving German soldiers eating the horses is called for!

 

[Gern]

Graham! Don't listen to him! Soldiers eating horses in full 3D glorious technicolour!? You'll have do-gooders everywhere queuing up to drop on you like a ton of bricks! We can't expose people to the realities of war in this day and age! Goodness me no. Everybody would see how terrible it is and stop having wars. Then where will future generations of modellers be if there's no war stuff for them to make?

Besides which, when you've got the ribs off one side, and they're cooking up nicely (Yum yum!) in your Goulaschkanone, how much research are you gonna do to find out what the rest of the inside of the horse looks like so you can model it accurately?

Gern