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!
DeleteCool, especially the Church, can see loads of periods it can be used in
ReplyDeleteThanks Scotty - that is the great thing about churches - as long as they predate the era played in, they fit into lots of scenarios!
DeleteWoooow! That's really, really great stuff!
ReplyDeleteThe church is pretty good isn't it, Michal?!
DeleteNice church and I think the pillar drill and lathe are spot on,1/64 should be a little smaller if anything? I'm just sticking with HO/OO track and mess about with what's on top and live withe scale disparity, got three locomotives on the go at the moment!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Very nice! The drill press looks about right compared to the one I inherited from my uncle.
ReplyDeleteSome interesting stuff Keith you will soon have a fully fitted workshop in miniature
ReplyDeleteNice delivery, Keith.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy seeing what you pick up from Temu. All of the equipment looks about right to me too.
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