discussion Latest Acquisitions (2023)

[Tim Marlow]

If you do break the drills from the box it is easy to buy individual ones to top it up. They are pretty cheap as well. My micro box is like triggers brush……I’ve had it around thirty years, but hardly any of the drills are original. The really small sizes I usually buy half a dozen at a time so I always have spares.

 

[Andy T]

Andy, I've still got some drill bits if you need some

I bought a new microbox set (which I've yet to open) just before you listed these for sale or I'd have snapped some up!

 

[Dave Ward]

Evening all

So a few arrivals this week.

Thanks to @Lee W for these.....I break fine drills simply for fun, so doubled up and I have surprisingly few clamps (the tube on the left contains 20)...and he added the tweezers by mistake!







No idea what happened here but clearly my existing Russian range of kits was feeling lonely and called for reinforcements, so this arrived completely unannounced.....also no idea how the Quinta decals found their way to my door either! Honestly I don't!!

Now this purchase I am very pleased with. Ever since I read my first book on Vietnam and saw pictures of the Skyraider, I have had a soft spot for them for some reason.

Maybe it's because they are such an anachronism....what is in essence a World War II plane flying combat missions in the early 1970s. As I understand it, it first flew March 1945, even it was too late to see action in the war.

Having done my research, I discovered that even now this mid-1990s tooling is still THE best in 1/72. I see Hobby 2000 do a rebox including masks that go for about £27 new. This cost me a touch less than that but what I discovered shortly before bidding is that this contains two kits - that's right....TWO kits. Even allowing for the fact that I have to buy AM masks, I still reckon that is not a bad price.

And also nice to see an actual photo of the real thing on the box rather than an artist's impression

The Zvezda Pe-2 is a very nice model, I made it 2017 - those Quinta decals should really add to it - a canopy mask set could be useful as well!
Dave

 

[BattleshipBob]

Well, Warnock’s nickname was Colin anchor……it’s an anagram of his name. Worst manager Leeds ever had, and that’s against some serious opposition……

To be fair he did a magnificent job at Cardiff City, turned the club around. At a game some idiot called him a w******r, he then said, never worked in a bank !

 

[Lee W]

I bought a new microbox set (which I've yet to open) just before you listed these for sale or I'd have snapped some up!

Going by you track record... I have 3 left, :smiling5:

 

[adt70hk]

Those drills look very much like the microbox ones, just with a different name on. The dispenser is awful but I've had mine for a few years, ever since I started modelling, and have never broken a single one (lost a couple lol), even the very smallest.

Out of the set of Dspiae drills I bought recently, 3 of the 5 broke in the first week! So I'd say you've made a very sound purchase there.

I have a similar box, with now only half the contents! Hopefully these will last longer.:cold-sweat:

If you do break the drills from the box it is easy to buy individual ones to top it up. They are pretty cheap as well. My micro box is like triggers brush……I’ve had it around thirty years, but hardly any of the drills are original. The really small sizes I usually buy half a dozen at a time so I always have spares.

Trigger's brush.....what a classic! Do you know what I had never thought of buying them individually! Pretty stupid really! :sad:

The Zvezda Pe-2 is a very nice model, I made it 2017 - those Quinta decals should really add to it - a canopy mask set could be useful as well!
Dave

Hi Dave,

Good to here it went well.

The reviews were certainly very good, did you blog it on here? The decals do look very nice, though I've not used any before.

As for the canopy mask, that is in the process of being ordered.

For some reason I often struggle to find canopy masks in the UK and often source the from the Polish site Super Hobby. Their P&P is very reasonable and they have a great reservation system that allows you to reserve items for up to six months for no cost up to a certain limit. I've got it on back-order order now with a few other things, so will hopefully be turning up fairly soon. I've also just pressed go on a VERY big order and so the rewards points I now have saved up will cover the entire cost of the mask set.


Thanks chaps!

Andrew

 

[Dave Ward]

The reviews were certainly very good, did you blog it on here?

Nope, it was just before I joined the forum I think I used Montex masks
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MXSM48440?result-token=n7f88
This model was reboxed by Eduard, so all the Eduard PE sets will fit I used the kit decals, but not the one on the box top
Dave

 

[adt70hk]

Nope, it was just before I joined the forum I think I used Montex masks
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MXSM48440?result-token=n7f88
This model was reboxed by Eduard, so all the Eduard PE sets will fit I used the kit decals, but not the one on the box top
Dave

Thanks Dave. Will reply to the PM later. My problem with Hannants is that they have a minimum order amount even for small items, so for those Quinta decals i had to spend 39p on paper 1/48 IP panels.....

 

[Si Benson]

Some great references for kits I’ve been buying…

 

[Ian M]

Forum rule #2 no football.

 

[Stefee]

Just obtained these from a well known auction site for a combined £35.00 Inc postage.
The Ferrari is another of my best customers personal cars which he bought after the 308 GTS, Testarossa and 400i all of which are in the stash except the 400i which appears never to have been produced as a 1/24 kit.
I have waited for months for the MG kit to appear and this will be a special build. It represents the first car I ever bought in 1971 aged 14 for £65.00 including a factory reconditioned Gold Seal engine. It came with 2 sets of wire wheels, one at 17 inch and one at 19 inch. The 19s were for road use the 17s for hill climbing so you can guess the state of the car. Took me and my Dad 5 years to completely rebuild it and I passed my driving test first time in the car on 03/03/1977.

 

[Stefee]

Forgot the photo - what a numpty.

 

[Andy the Sheep]

Interesting: the Modena with Firenze (Florence) in the background... maybe the Enzo would get a Gino or an Antonio as background... and no pizzas or mandolino either :sad::worried::thinking:! Astounding, a Revellutionary improvement! :rolling::tongue-out3::smiling:

 

[Stefee]

Interesting: the Modena with Firenze (Florence) in the background... maybe the Enzo would get a Gino or an Antonio as background... and no pizzas or mandolino either :sad::worried::thinking:! Astounding, a Revellutionary improvement! :rolling::tongue-out3:

Very clever, a cunning linguist in our midst!

 

[stillp]

I have waited for months for the MG kit to appear and this will be a special build. It represents the first car I ever bought in 1971 aged 14 for £65.00 including a factory reconditioned Gold Seal engine. It came with 2 sets of wire wheels, one at 17 inch and one at 19 inch. The 19s were for road use the 17s for hill climbing so you can guess the state of the car. Took me and my Dad 5 years to completely rebuild it and I passed my driving test first time in the car on 03/03/1977.

I also bought a TC at the age of 14, in about 1965, but mine was only £25. I bought it from a chartered accountant who'd bought it to restore, hoping to make a profit. However, being totally un-mechanically minded, he'd dismantled it completely - there wasn't a nut on a bolt. All the bolts were in a box marked Bolts, all the nuts in a box marked Nuts, no record of what went where. Any damaged parts had been replaced with new. I managed to get it all together, except for the gearbox - I still don't understand gearboxes. Engines, differentials, no problem, but I can't do gearboxes even now. I thought I did well selling it without a gearbox for £125 - wow, £100 profit, to a friend who finished and installed the gearbox. He also thought he'd done well when he sold it for £350, but within a month it had sold at auction for £3250, to a private collection in California.
Of course this was just about the time when classic car values were starting to take off. It had only done about 6000 miles from new, and anything worn or damaged had been replaced, so it was certainly museum quality. Sadly I've lost all the photos I had of it, and I can't even remember the registration number.
Pete

 

[Tim Marlow]

The nuts and bolts thing rings a bell Pete. I helped a mate of mine rebuild an engine on his Worsley Hornet. We got it out OK in a day, putting all the bolts and nuts in a box like you said. Took us three months to put it back together though…….very big lesson learned.

 

[Stefee]

Hi Pete,

Strangely similar stories - must be the Halloween influence.
After the TC was finished I swapped it straight for a 1969 Jensen Interceptor in a horrible Primrose Yellow, so an 18 year old driving a 7.0 litre V8. Sold it when emigrating for £3000.00. Wish I still had both.

 

[Andy T]

I've had to learn to be a bit more organised when stripping cars. I recently had the dashboard out of a 7 series to change the aircon/heater box. Laying everything out in order of disassembly, each with it's relevant fixings made it go much more smoothly than it could have!

The maclaren in the background was stripped nearly two months ago though. I'm hoping I can still remember how it goes back together when the parts finally arrive!

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[Stefee]

Much easier these days with camera phones etc., back in my day had to make sketches etc.

 

[stillp]

I worried for ages over the pistons, having read in the workshop manual that they had to go back in the right bores, until a more experienced mechanic pointed out that having such a low mileage it wouldn't really matter. I also had no idea which rings went with which piton! Actually the lower oil control rings were new, but I think they weren't really needing to be replaced.
It's surprising how many parts there are in a car when it's completely disassembled, something I was reminded of when restoring my TR4A. Mind you, there are different ways of counting - remember when BL were assembling Japanese cars in Longbridge and claiming them to be IIRC 82% British? A senior engineer there explained to me how they arrived at that figure; "22 pop rivets holding the trim on each side, that's 44 British components. Engine and gearbox, that's 2 Japanese, etc".
Pete