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  1. Afternoon Chaps :bye:

     

    (Yeeees, I'm one of those pesky non aircraft modeller's that waste your precious bandwidth :) )

     

    Well now, in a word, CARS!!!!!!.

    I know I have more chance of meeting a Klingon, but it would be nice to see all the 32nd scale cars retooled. And while they are at it, maybe they can get a wiggle on doing the 16th and 8th scale Motorbikes as well.

    Harking back to my yufe... the 1/600 scale ships would be quite nice too. I used to love building them.

    Oh and the 72nd scale Scorpion too :) 

  2. Afternoon All :bye:

     

    Ahhh man I would love one of those Land Rovers again :) 

    I recently started looking at getting kits I had when I was a kid, and have purchased the Quad & 25 Pounder and SAS jeep so far, that Land Rover, the 88mm gun and the Hamomag are the rest. 

    As for oldest kits, I saw the Schwimmwagen, Kubelwagen and 6pdr in a shop the other day, and I believe they are still producing some of the figures from the first ten releases. 

     

    Mad Steve 

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  3. 3 hours ago, Gorby said:

    Thanks for that Beardie, just had a look at the coming weather. :cold:

    I hope you don't loose any sleep over ruthlessly trampling on my dreams.

     

    (not really, I like it cold and bright, it's the dismal rainy days that get me down).

    We're on the upside down bit to you Gorbs, we are slowly going into winter down sarf here. Been raining on and off for a week, forecast for another week, but its still 25 deg C :) 

    1 hour ago, Beard said:

    Four pages in and no-one has mentioned this:

     

     

    My god Beard, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, man that takes me waaaaaaaaaay back, I had all his singles ( singles, for all the non oldies were big black cd like things that we used to play with sabre tooth tiger needles on wind up record players :) ) 

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  4. Morning Chaps :bye:

     

    Well just a little report back. I've now tried them out a couple of times.

    Basically what you have is decanted Tamiya paint without the hoohah of decanting :) 

    They are exactly the same as the TS paint, and apart from the fineness of the finish, it is difficult to tell the TS and LP colours apart. 

    I used mine straight from the bottle with no thinning and they worked just fine, (that was spraying at 18Psi) and I cleaned them out with my usual Acetone. 

    I think we might be onto a winner here :) 

    I haven't had a chance yet to try out the Clear, but I'll let you know. 

    The only grumble really is the bottle size, but then to keep the price down and make them competitive I can see the point. A bottle will do a couple of bikes or a car body and a half but then they are cheap enough to get a stock in. 

    The big thing though is, the guys that live anywhere outside of the EU and UK that cant get Zero or Gravity paints, airbrush ready paint from Tamiya really is a blessing in disguise.

    Two thumbs up :) 

  5. Afternoon Chaps :bye:

     

    Shaun, Yep quite correct, they are the same paint as the TS colours, just in bottles. I was led to believe that they are actually airbrush Ready, but as I said, haven't had a chance to test them yet. (and my japanese isn't good enough to read what it says on the bottle :) ) 

     

    Steve, Didn't buy them in the UK, But if we have them down here in Africa's bottom, you should have them up there. 

  6. 3 hours ago, wyverns4 said:

    A decent pint of Beer in a pub, with character, followed by another. (Back in the UK...).

     

    Watching the avian life here, (132 different species spotted in 11 months!). Plus any other non-Homo sapiens  sapiens forms.

     

    My bench and man-cave

     

    Wagner's Ring Cycle.

     

    Britmodeller.

     

    Walking, especially mountains, highlands and moorlands.

     

    Christian, exiled to africa

    One lives is Dar and one did not even mention the beautiful beaches..... You are truely a local :) 

    (Might have something to do with the 473657 people on said beaches :) ) 

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  7. Afternoon Chaps :bye:

     

    Nothing makes me happier than sitting on a veranda somewhere down by the coast, couple of books or magazines, sitting there listening too and watching the sea.... :) 

     

    Even though I have been accused of being a grumpy old fart, (namely by the other residents of Chez Mad) there are those odd days where that little ray of sunshine pokes through the clouds of old fartydom and makes one smile and feel contented. 

    Moreover it'll be my kids... They are imports (step daughters) as Mad Mrs 1.0 wasn't forthcoming in the child department, so the day that they were adopted and they called me dad for the first time.... :crying:

    Nowadays its far less soppy, and i'm happy just finishing a kit without effing it up :) 

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  8. 2 hours ago, rs2man said:

    Very true .  They were delightful little kits of a wide range of subjects .  Can't say I recall the Range Rover , but they definitely did an LWB Land Rover . 

    As well as the British stuff they also did , as you would expect , a range of French cars ranging from the mundane such as the Peugeot 504 to the distinctly sporting such as the Renault 5 Turbo (the mid-engined one) & Alpine A310 . 

    Mention of this stuff has set me off - next stop Ebay to see what's around .

    :) They do tend to have that effect on people.

    They aren't bad kits, pretty basic but not bad for 30+ year old kits.  

  9. I agree 100% Gavin. 

    The sad fact is that the people that are saying that, are the people that are bringing kits in, and if they decide there's no market, then buggery, that's it.

     

    You know, I have never quite understood why, given the range of vehicles that were produced, that models of British cars are so few on the ground.

    Just take this for example. How many kits of British car models can you name, from the late 40's to the early 60's? in 1/24th scale.

    French, German and Italian on the other hand you can basically have your pick.

    60 odd years into plastic modelling and we still don't have Morris Minor in 24th scale. nuff said :)    

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