My latest purchase

[luchs]

some other old airfix kit..
phantom ,dauntless ,fiat G91 and leopard tank..

[west1871]

today i bought
hats american 75mm gun
hat ww1 german artillery
hats german heavy weapons x 2
another revell warrior
redboxs british naval brigade
and two spartan CVR(T)

Dom where did you get the spartan's from and how much?

And it's you you little git that keeps buying up all the warriors is it you must have more than the British army

[Paul]

Two paintbrushes (I seem to have an enourmous capacity to ruin them very quickly) and a pot of "Midlund flesh" from a manufacturer called "privateer press" ??
Never heard of them before, www.privateerpress.com
They´ve got a vid about minis painting
http://privateerpress.com/formula-p3
The Paint doesn´t seem too bad, anyone else heard of it/used it??

[monty]

today i bought
hats american 75mm gun
hat ww1 german artillery
hats german heavy weapons x 2
another revell warrior
redboxs british naval brigade
and two spartan CVR(T)

Dom where did you get the spartan's from and how much?

And it's you you little git that keeps buying up all the warriors is it you must have more than the British army

yes rich it is me who keeps buying warriors but i need them cause they've been used in all major conflicts by the brits since the 1980s

and i got the spartans from kingfisher models you know the company you got the 105 crew from they were of off ebay and they were the last two and they were twelve quid each but worth it

[Wheeling Turn]

Russian Arty and Cavalry for the Great Northern War, Also the Zaparosnian Cossack, some indians and finally a staff car for my Russian WWII Army

And tataaaa Hong Kong 20mm copies of the Airfix Cowboys (54mm only release from Airfix) - Pics to follow when painted

[Paul]

And tataaaa Hong Kong 20mm copies of the Airfix Cowboys (54mm only release from Airfix) - Pics to follow when painted

Are they new, as in not second hand ?? If new, which make ?(copy?)

[musketier]

Two paintbrushes (I seem to have an enourmous capacity to ruin them very quickly) and a pot of "Midlund flesh" from a manufacturer called "privateer press" ??
Never heard of them before, www.privateerpress.com
They´ve got a vid about minis painting
http://privateerpress.com/formula-p3
The Paint doesn´t seem too bad, anyone else heard of it/used it??

Yes Paul I have some and use it its very good and nice to work with.

[Wheeling Turn]

@ Paul : Used ones but a bag complete with those wobbly bobbly plastic Cowboy riders. Ok the riders are mostly crap but with the footsloggers I am happy with. Excellent stuff for my growing Daisy Town.
I will be at Kampen to show them painted

[Erich von Manstein]

And it's you you little git that keeps buying up all the warriors is it ... you must have more than the British army

Yes, the 2 Warrior kits are out of production at the moment, like many of their excellent 1/72 armour kits as well. Same is true for most of their still remarkable 1/72 figures range as we all know.
A bit weird that they keep up with that rotation system, since many modellers worldwide are willing to pay high prices at ebay for items such as the Panzer IV H & J, Cromwell Mk. IV, Australian Infantry, Japanese Infantry & WWI French Infantry.
One can only guess that this strange marketing concept is based on some considerations of keeping the warehousing costs low... .

On topic:
I was a naughty boy and placed 2 huge orders lately. Both arrived during the last week!

Italeri
Anti Tank Teams - had to buy 1 more box of this highly useful set.
Italian 90/53 Gun with Servants - needed more italian arty-crews, my third box already.
German Motorcycles - my third box as well, so much better than the Hät ones.
Waterloo 1815
Japanese Infantry - these mix nicely with my Esci, Matchbox & Revell units.
US Marines - very useful for the later Pacific campaigns.
Italian Heavy 149/40 Gun - lovely crew, suitable for the NA theatre, the gun is simplified but still ok for many I guess.
Japanese 70mm Gun - again very useful figures.
Caesar
German Paratroopers - 2 boxes
German Panzergrenadiers (Set 2) - 1 box
US Army - 2 boxes
All very nice figures! Great sculpting, anatomy & detail. The only objection I have is their general height - which is on the small side. Although they're visibly smaller, they still mix well with Revell, Esci/Italeri, Pegasus & Imex.
Hät
British Mortars
British Machine Guns
These 2 sets are the only dissapointments regarding WWII sets during the last months. Substandard quality at best imho. Poor sculpting and anatomy & soft detail. A somehow chunky appearance. Although I have to say that the mortar set is the better of the two, I won't buy any more of these sets. Again I had high hopes in Hät products, but now one can only hope that Pegasus, Caesar or Italeri will do some British support weapons in the future!

Ordered some plastic kits as well.
Revell
Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. C with Wurfrahmen 40 (Stuka zu Fuß)
Sd.Kfz. 251/9 Ausf. C
RPM
Lorraine 37 L tracked carrier
Hotchkiss H 35
Renault R 35
ICM
Krupp L2H143 Kfz. 69 with towed 3,7 cm Pak 36 (also known as Krupp Protze)
Sd.Kfz. 222
IBG
Bedford QLD
Chevrolet C15A (general service truck)
Excellent kits! Except for the Sd.Kfz. 251/9 these are all older models & actually reinforcements for some long-term projects.

Only problem was that I couldn't hide the parcels & the following enlargement of the (already extensive but ever growing) stash from missus... .

...again I had to promise not to squad more and more space in the future... .

[Martin]

@ Paul : Used ones but a bag complete with those wobbly bobbly plastic Cowboy riders. Ok the riders are mostly crap but with the footsloggers I am happy with. Excellent stuff for my growing Daisy Town.
I will be at Kampen to show them painted

Hi, You're welcome to show.

[Martin]

@Erich:
That is quite a list.
We all understand that such an amount is difficult to hide.
On the other hand: it keeps us off the street (and the bar) and in the house.
Must be worth something?

[Paul]

@Erich, If I bought a similar amount to that my wife would go and me!!!!!

[Wheeling Turn]

@ Martin.
We will be there with a wild west shoot out game..

cheers Markus

[Erich von Manstein]

@Erich: That is quite a list. We all understand that such an amount is difficult to hide. On the other hand: it keeps us off the street (and the bar) and in the house. Must be worth something?

In my case there is still enough spare time for football (soccer of course) & the pub too!

@Erich, If I bought a similar amount to that my wife would go and me!!!!!

Joking aside, I place such orders quite regulary every 10 - 12 weeks or so. Sometimes they're smaller, sometimes bigger. Keeps the shipping costs low if you buy many items at once imho & I'm normally not in a hurry to buy the latest sets just to own them immediately.

So, my missus got used to it since long. But honestly, I'm definitely not allowed to receive more than the usual ration every 2 or 3 months!

Best Regards,
a fiddling, gluing, painting & swearing but happy EvM

[musketier]

my previous 5 sets arrived Yeah!
also HaT Franks are in transit
Strelets sets
Alexander Nevsky's Army
Carolingian cavalry
have arrived too.
A bit disappointed at the Carolingian horse as the riders don't fit the horses very well, but the riders are nicely sculpted. The Alexander set is very well done. As well I am happy with the HaT sets too. So me happy overall.

[monty]

made a big withdrawl from the royal bank of mum and dad in order to pay for new recriuts and equitment for my army if only a certain chancellor of the echequor had done that seven years ago
anyway here what i got
another two warriors rich you probably hate me right now
two of waterloo 1815s dervishes
hats camel corps
emhars ww1 german artillery
a set of escis brit napolionic artillery
and finally a set of scots grays by italeri

[Susofrick]

Bought a box of Airfix's Sheriff of Nottingham-chaps. And oooh are they going to die! Along with some Italeri, Strelets, Revell and Zvezda-fellas. Right now waiting for a package with other stuff (but also 1/72) from the UK.

[Marshall Nay]

Just received the ZVEZDA Scythian Cavalry. Very fine. Beautifully sculpted. Excellent detail. Zvezda huge but a little smaller than some recent sets. Three wonderful horse archers shooting behind them, a difficult thing to produce. And the human anatomical proportions are right, something I wish PSR would stress more. The horses might be a bit thin but still good. I'd give it high marks in all PSR areas except pose number. You get four horse poses, but 6 of one, and 5 of another. So if you don't mind a lot of repetition in the horses, I'd highly recommend it.

"Soylent green is people!" Charleton Heston

[musketier]

I have rec'd the HaT 8082 Roman Legionaries (see the Rant post)
and I am awaiting the following:
Caesar 017 medieval crusaders
Lucky Toys TL0011 Vlad Tepes
Lucky Toys TL0012 Medieval Turks of Mehemed II
Orion 72030 Khazar army
HaT 8148 WWI Early French infantry

[monty]

today i bought
imex korean war Chinese People's Liberation Army X 2
airfixs ww2 autralians
revell reissued ww1 german infantry
esci british light dragoons and their curassiers