Some new arrivals and a few pieces I got a few weeks back but did not have an opportunity to post. Let me know if you have had enough of me waxing lyrical about cheap stuff from Temu - I feel some readers may be interested to know what's available out there - but maybe you all know (or dont care?!)
This package arrived on Saturday - the main contents are teh two shown below
Pack on the right is 10 x 200 mm (in height) trees (less any foliage)
Here is the church from various angles
With a couple of figures for scale
Alongside the Perry church kit - which is of course very nice, but basically twice the price of the new arrival!
It has the potential to have figures placed inside it, too.
The below is something I found for use inside the Stalingrad factory - I ordered two sets and they have been in the queue for two or three weeks
They are listed variously as "28mm" and 1/64 - so possibly slightly over scale - but close enough for background terrain, I think - shown below with a figure to judge the size
I am not an expert on lathes - this looks about right to me?
The drill and saw might be a bit big? Again, I am not an expert - last time I saw any of this type of equipment was high school metalwork classes circa 1976!
Now, these two ARE big - and possibly too modern for 1940's Russia - but I will just hide them somewhere in the building where they don't stand out too much!
The train tracks are great - nice hard plastic and good detail given its really a uber low-cost kids toy! I have painted them up, did some butchery on a couple of the curves, so they head in the opposite direction and even chopped up one curve to create a reasonable (IMHO!) set of points. In a perfect world, there would be 10 straights and four curves - but of course, it is intended to create an oval that a train can run round and round in circles on! All I want it for really is some railway tracks at a reasonable cost - given they were $8 - I might very well get a second pack to obtain more straight sections! Images of the painted track next post - thanks for popping by and I do hope this is of interest!
Cool stuff
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe, I thought so, too!
DeleteThere seems to a lot of good stuff on Temu, but I am always a little wary in case I end up with dodgy stuff. You seem to be hitting a rich vein with it though Keith.
ReplyDeleteI have been pretty happy with everything so far, Lawrence. The trees aren't the best - wire in the trunk but the branches are just bendy rubber-like plastic - so it's hard to pose them into different shapes - but they were $4 or something like that and they are not unusable, so can't really complain!
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