Thanks Alan, as I've never heard of it...
Latest Acquisitions (2024)
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A couple of deliveries the bismarck magazine adds to a full collection I was offered for £80 I duly snapped up I just needed to find the 30 odd magazines that had the parts I only now need 7 for the complete collection 
And the brabham I originally brought on ebay but the seller could only find the box gave me a refund and they promised me that if they found the kit they would send me it for free and they have kept their word
And the brabham I originally brought on ebay but the seller could only find the box gave me a refund and they promised me that if they found the kit they would send me it for free and they have kept their word
Sorry Jakko my bad I wasn’t looking close enough.
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No worries 
For me it’s not so much an acquisition today as temporary custody:
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The chap who gave me the M4 asked if I would paint his Jagdtigers for him, and since he’s also given me a whole bunch of magazines over the years I felt it was the least I could do. The grey one is Takom, the other one is by Hobby Boss.
For me it’s not so much an acquisition today as temporary custody:
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The chap who gave me the M4 asked if I would paint his Jagdtigers for him, and since he’s also given me a whole bunch of magazines over the years I felt it was the least I could do. The grey one is Takom, the other one is by Hobby Boss.
As I stated in another post, I had to have some retail therapy of late. The first one is the reason I can post on the forum again and post pics of the other goodies,
Laptops aren't as expensive as I thought they would be. I also bought a 5 year warranty to keep it going........The next ones were from a sale at MBK and even though the stash doesn't need any more kits, I couldn't control myself. I got 2 of these,
and one of these (because it was so cute),
The three kits came in at €18.45 each, plus free postage. How could I say no...
Evilbay took a bit of my cash too with this,
A good grab for €24...I must have been bitten by the ChooChooPaulE disease lately. Lastly, another evilbay sweep and again, two kits for a bit over the price of one kit,
For those who know me, you know what these are going to be used for. I'm also following another WnW Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 kit auction. Hope it doesn't go too high in price...
Prost
Allen
Laptops aren't as expensive as I thought they would be. I also bought a 5 year warranty to keep it going........The next ones were from a sale at MBK and even though the stash doesn't need any more kits, I couldn't control myself. I got 2 of these,
and one of these (because it was so cute),
The three kits came in at €18.45 each, plus free postage. How could I say no...
Evilbay took a bit of my cash too with this,
A good grab for €24...I must have been bitten by the ChooChooPaulE disease lately. Lastly, another evilbay sweep and again, two kits for a bit over the price of one kit,
For those who know me, you know what these are going to be used for. I'm also following another WnW Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 kit auction. Hope it doesn't go too high in price...
Prost
Allen
Good to see Allen!
Well then, I've been buying too!! :astonished:
Always liked the effect that dry brushing gave to my armour builds, but after seeing a post on YouTube the other day I decided to try and up my game,(seems I was doing it wrong to get excellent results,was using flat brushes),so I bought some of the guy's suggested stuff....
.... A dry pallet,and the round brushes. It's kinda a different ball game to what I was doing,but I'm giving it a go on my current AT-ST build.... :thinking::tongue-out2:
Always liked the effect that dry brushing gave to my armour builds, but after seeing a post on YouTube the other day I decided to try and up my game,(seems I was doing it wrong to get excellent results,was using flat brushes),so I bought some of the guy's suggested stuff....
.... A dry pallet,and the round brushes. It's kinda a different ball game to what I was doing,but I'm giving it a go on my current AT-ST build.... :thinking::tongue-out2:
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Sounds interesting, hope you will do a review Andy and stop using Cohan's foot.
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Soon to be used !
That’s a new one on me Andy. Never heard of a dry brush pallet before, I just use a scrap of cardboard and some cheap make up brushes on larger builds, and old small brushes and copy paper for the little blokes. Still struggle to get smooth application using acrylics though, so will be interested to see how this works.
Their secret sauce (Artis Opus) seems to be dampening the brush very slightly, by dabbing it on a piece of slightly damp sponge.
The texture pallet is supposed to replicate the hard edges one would normally be trying to catch with dry brushing, so giving a better idea of the effect you'll get before committing to the model. I've seen several people make their own by gluing random parts and bit of old sprue etc to a board.
I was talking to a bloke about his Ferguson M20 and remembered this.Looks a nice little kit.
"Foster children!"
This is a completely new idea in model building. Maybe I should look for someone to build the 1/35 tanks for me - I would then paint them myself... :tears-of-joy:
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I wouldn’t normally do this, because I generally like building kits more than painting them, but as I said, the man they’re from has given me plenty of magazines and books over the years. So sure, I’ll return the favour by painting some of his models. Only problem right now is that I wanted to start spraying them half an hour ago, but found I have maybe 3 ml of dark yellow left. The Takom one will be entirely that colour, and the other will be three-colour camouflage, so I doubt the paint I have will be enough.
Bavaria is rather far from Zeeland (tons of NRW licence plates to be seen around here throughout the year, though) and early-/pre-war German vehicles aren’t really my area of interest, else I’d possibly take you up on that
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I didn’t know that was a thing, but I use this:
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A corner of my cutting mat that, for reasons unknown to me, has developed a rather rough texture. I don’t remember if I already used this corner to test whether the brush is dry enough and that caused the wear, or if I only started doing that once the texture appeared. I suspect the former.
The brush is probably like what Andy @The Smythe Meister bought, except I only have this one, that I bought last year at a model show to try it out. It’s about a centimetre across, but the vendor told me he also had other sizes. It does work better than a flat brush, but it’s also very much harder to clean because of its short bristles (the tip is tan here because I took this photo right after using it, but before cleaning). I also bought this at an art shop a bit later:
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This is slightly smaller than the Abteilung 502 brush, and cut at an angle. However, it doesn’t work as well for drybrushing. The bristles are softer and that angle doesn’t help it retain paint but actually seems to make it shed paint faster.
A few more bismarck magazines that makes it 6 to find
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Wifey bought be a surprise present.. Amazon dumped it outside our door, so we were lucky to get it at all but it wasn't in a box or a bag and the front image is ruined by a huge sticker that won't peel off. Way to go guys, would it have killed you to put it in a box?
Really annoying when they do that!!
Complain to Amazon about sub standard packaging and give the product a one star review including the picture. I’ve done that in the past. It probably doesn’t change much but it does make you feel better
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