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Latest Acquisitions (2023)

Waspie said:
Interesting!
Brit subs always used red! I wonder what the science was behind using blue!!!
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Good question (although you have a U boat?) Blue also has night vision retention properties. I think the Americans used green interior lights for their tanks during WW2. They also use a green-white paint for some interiors because psychologically, according to studies, it is the best colour for cramped interiors.

Im just speculating here, but maybe the subterranean maps used in U boats had red contour lines? Red light would render them almost invisible. As it was safer to attack at night and many U Boat attacks were carried out on the surface, night vision was still a requisite for using the deck weapons
 
Magneto said:
They also use a green-white paint for some interiors because psychologically, according to studies, it is the best colour for cramped interiors.
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They only use it on infantry carriers, though, and I think it’s more because it’s light enough for a vehicle interior, but not as stark as actual white is, and so less of a problem when the big rear hatch is open.
 
OK chaps....so some more arrivals this week....

ATB

Andrew


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A modest start......for some recent purchases.....








So I happened to be in Lidl again and noticed that they'd refreshed the stock and had some different kits out that I didn't have!
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Oh and for reasons best known to themselves, as you may have seen, they were doing them for 50% off........I mean.....what is a man supposed to do!!
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So these two only cost me £6.98!!
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And this is the final part of birthday present, unfortunately a few days late for my birthday.

As you'll see this is something of a departure for me being post-WWII.

It's also the first 'pure' US tank kit I have ever bought. I have built Shermans before for my wargaming, which are obviously US designed and built, but they have been the 75mm and 17pdr versions of the M4A4, which was (as far as I know) was not used by the US and was the version was most used by us Brits and other allies.

I put this on pre-order about two months ago with @john , as it really piqued my interest. I've had a quick peak in the box and they look very nice.

Unfortunately though and despite being nicely packed, Royal Mail clearly did their best to damage it in transit, as you might see from the bottom right hand corner of the box in particular - the packing box actually had hole in the side. Fortunately, I don't think any damage was done to the kit.


 
Not expensive so it's nearly xmas

Every Saturday on Drachs YouTube channel he does a 5 or so minute video on a ship, so recently

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Only £20, Chinese gunboat

Plus Fujimi 1/200 Yamato's bridge
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BattleshipBob said:
Not expensive so it's nearly xmas

Every Saturday on Drachs YouTube channel he does a 5 or so minute video on a ship, so recently


Only £20, Chinese gunboat

Plus Fujimi 1/200 Yamato's bridge
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They're cool Bob. He actually did an interesting top or bottom 5 tanks on the Tank Museum YouTube channel!

Will reply to your email sometime this weekend!
 
Magneto said:
From Germany (Scalemates - guy was great and very reasonable!) Thank you! Very tough kit to get - rare! But hey, if you love the new tool by Airfix/Revell like I do you can get the other JU88 A - it’s pretty much the same kit. Awesome detail.

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That's a very nice score!

You're not kidding about rare.....I was after one for six months for the below collection of kits I'm putting together. In that time I only saw two or three pop up (including Scalemates) but the prices and/or P&P were prohibitively expensive. In the end, one popped up on Kingkit for price I was willing to pay.

ATB

Andrew

https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/the-hunters-and-the-hunted-kits-and-reference-material.34408/
 
Jakko said:
They only use it on infantry carriers, though, and I think it’s more because it’s light enough for a vehicle interior, but not as stark as actual white is, and so less of a problem when the big rear hatch is open.
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I think you might be right.
 
Magneto said:
Good question (although you have a U boat?) Blue also has night vision retention properties. I think the Americans used green interior lights for their tanks during WW2. They also use a green-white paint for some interiors because psychologically, according to studies, it is the best colour for cramped interiors.

Im just speculating here, but maybe the subterranean maps used in U boats had red contour lines? Red light would render them almost invisible. As it was safer to attack at night and many U Boat attacks were carried out on the surface, night vision was still a requisite for using the deck weapons
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To my knowledge, oceanographic charts, (WW2 era), were black and white. easy to copy and reproduce. Also as you mention, red light would negate and red markings on a chart. Not good when you are only using sonar and occasional sun sightings to navigate by.
As an ex navigator, when night flying, and the red light was used it played havoc with some important features. Instruments were also illuminated in red at night. Danger areas on aviation maps were marked in red, you don't want to to stray into an active danger area. Additionally, we used to mark areas to avoid, towns villages etc in red.
There was talk when I was serving to start using white light in cockpits but it didn't transpire during my time.
 
Magneto said:
The panzers on the T Shirt don’t look very accurate :sad:

:tears-of-joy: Sorry! Couldn’t resist it! You had a great shop there highlighted by the fact you were in your club plus you got the kits at great prices! Btw the Panther comd tank goes for just under £40 normally however it’s tricky to get hold off now plus you have P&P so double bonus - you still win.
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Paul

My initial £50+ was based on internet research undertaken at the show in question and the mobile coverage was iffy in places, and so I missed on cheaper prices.....the cheapest delivered I could find was £45, so as you say I basically saved myself the P&P as you say!

ATB

Andrew
 
Just in this morning at the Towers.
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Another for my Lend Lease stash .
Was on special offer from 1/35:.com
 
John Race said:
Just in this morning at the Towers.

Another for my Lend Lease stash .
Was on special offer from 1/35:.com
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Very nice John! Would like some more 1/35 tracky things but I need to thin the stash out with some completed builds first!

ATB.

Andrew
 
adt70hk said:
Very nice John! Would like some more 1/35 tracky things but I need to thin the stash out with some completed builds first!

ATB.

Andrew
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You do that Andrew. Even happier as just had a look it has rubber tracks, oh the good Lord has indeed remembered me.:smiling3:
 
Very nice indeed John, I'm looking forward to seeing this beauty built..
 
Had a visit to jadlam. Been looking at this one online so instead of coming out with radio gear for my boat (which they didn't have) I came away with this. IMG_20231211_152453.jpg
 
This arrived yesterday.

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To explain, the “curse” struck again during my Soviet GB Hurricane build. I found that one of the wing landing lights was missing, I presume I lost it during the build.
It is very prominent and not something I felt I could scratch build very convincingly.

So I decided to get in touch with Arma Hobby to see if they could help and indeed they could :smiling4:

They sent me this free of charge :surprised:

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A new clear sprue with the required part.

Brilliant customer service from Arma Hobby 10/10 :thumb2::thumb2:

Geoff.
 
Not plastic but collected my new desk top PC today.
1TB ssd
32mb ram
12 GB 4060ti graphics do-dah.
Works well just need the updates to run through, install a few programs...and a million passwords and user names to sort out lol.
 
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