Latest Acquisitions Revisited!

They are amazingly strong, you need pliers and some effort to snap them, think piano wire strong

Ordered Friday. Here on Monday. Nice job Spraygunner!

You just reminded me , i bought an H&S some time ago. Never used it, wonder where i put it. TBH my Badger does everything need till i run out of spares.

I sprayed some with it just now. I like it. Parts look identical to the Gaahleri Mobius but it sure doesn't act like it.

It's like other people's hairdos. I have NO room to criticize.
I'm on my 4th Testors Aztek, with one more left. I do have a Tamiya Sprayworks airbrush I rarely use.

I used one of my basic H&S brushes yesterday with the .6 tip and needle and sprayed the red primer on the carriage of my howitzer. To clean the Vallejo primer out, I use lacquer thinner which works great. I only thin the Vallejo with Vallejo airbrush thinner and a bit of Vallejo flow improver.

To get the H&S Airbrushes cleaned at the end of a session, I spray it out, add lacquer thinner (which dissolves Vallejo fairly well), spray it out, then take the tip off, and pull the needle out the front. Take the cup off, and use Q-Tips and the Gum between the teeth brushes as in this photo.

I received this on the last Monday of September but only recently opened it up and it is, like all Cold War Studios, excellent in value and a comprehensive correction and detail set!

Click to see inside the box!

1/16TH (for my Pz 3 L wreck in Russia)

1/35 accessories for a Willys

1/35 3d Print model. - a good cheap wreck.

A couple of PE tools i think i might need arrived from Amazon.


Its a shame amazon tend to beat most model shops on price however i think some of their items are supplied by model shops just via amazon...
As someone who used to run my business in competition with amazon i have huge sympathy with private retailers. The real problem or should i say decider in most cases is the postal service is so bad now that Amazon win because you just know you will get the item the next day if not the same day
The PE I ordered for my ship managed to do 5600 miles to the UK in 2 days and now its been sitting in customs just 20 miles away for 2 days and yet because of the value its not even liable for customs duty.

paddy said:

A couple of PE tools i think i might need arrived from Amazon.

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Its a shame amazon tend to beat most model shops on price however i think some of their items are supplied by model shops just via amazon...
As someone who used to run my business in competition with amazon i have huge sympathy with private retailers. The real problem or should i say decider in most cases is the postal service is so bad now that Amazon win because you just know you will get the item the next day if not the same day
The PE I ordered for my ship managed to do 5600 miles to the UK in 2 days and now its been sitting in customs just 20 miles away for 2 days and yet because of the value its not even liable for customs duty.

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@paddy Here are a couple of items you might look out for. I have found them quite handy for all kinds of things, but especially for working with odd PE parts.





Also to keep from launching small parts, check out my thread on reworking and cleaning up your tweezers. To keep from launching "really" small parts, use a small ball of silly putty or soft tack and place it on the edge of the part. When the part cuts free, it will be held by the putty and won't fly off.

The Tweezer Thread Link

The trouble with good quality tweezers is they bend when you lever the lids of Humbrol pots..

I jest and Thanks Paul, i have some good tweezers now but i will follow you advice and dress them as you describe in your link

I finally got paid and so decided it was time to get some things off the wish list and into my stash pile. It also helped that a number of sales were happening that helped.

















And that's it so far. I should be digging into some of these very soon.

This weekend I had both my IPMS club meeting and the Antelope Valley model contest. The weekend before was Orangecon. I gained quite a bit from all of these events.

First, at Orangecon I got these two in the raffle:





Later at our meeting, I got these in the raffle:





At the Antelope Valley contest, my friend Sean won this Black Knight kit and gave it to me:



At the same contest I was able to buy this:



It's gonna be an interesting time on the bench!

I have a number of new acquisitions that have piled up over the last 2 or 3 weeks, so here we go.


As most of you know I use a jewelers saw for a lot of my cutting. I was finally down to my last 6/0 blade (.010 wide) and it was time for some more. This time I also bought a bunch of 8/0 blades which I think are .007 wide. A little more delicate, but I didn't really have too much trouble with the 6/0 blades, so why not.



Finally found some of the small A sets in stock so bought them. They will work for 1/35th and small 1/16th just fine.



On Sprue Bros I noticed in their "restock" email that they had a bunch of items for the old Revell 1/32 He 111P1 kit which I have had since it first came out, but had no aftermarket parts for it. Now it is fully stocked.







These are new! Masks for insignia and letters as well as the canopy inside and outside.



Andy's had ICM kits on sale and I had wanted these so I snagged them I would like to get the yellow Stearman with the red marking but it was sold out.







This finally came in to stock with Squadron. Big ugly tank, but it has always intrigued me. It is in the same box size as the King Tiger and the tank is almost as big as the King Tiger. Plus it is fully filled with all the engines generators, running gear and other interior stuff. Fun part will be figuring out how to have it being worked on so the interior can be shown. Might have to get plans for the 20 ton gantry and scratch build it so that it can be taking the tank apart, or reassembling it.



I now have 3 of these large boxes and the best way to get rid of the boxes will be to build the tanks.