SMA What's New In Your Stash?!?

[TimM63]

I don't mind supporting Ukraine business.

 

[Down Time]

Frankenkraine?

(sorry)

Ha ha, sure, why not?!?

 

[Edbert]

Was a play on words not a derogatory term, I've got 2 separate orders from Ukraine I'm waiting on.

 

[TimM63]

Was a play on words not a derogatory term, I've got 2 separate orders from Ukraine I'm waiting on.

I got that. I didn't think it was derogatory.

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

Attended Syrcon 36 in Cicero on Sunday. Made a killing all for $50

The P-38 Lightning I got for $5
Mig 21 bis 'Black Lynx'… $10 This one has 2 kits inside Great deal!
M3 Stuart tank…. $15
Monty's Humber 1/32 scale…. $10

I also picked up a bunch of paint colors 10 for $5 - seller let's me have 14 for $5. Grabbed the last of whatever PollyScale colors he had and the rest were Testors Model Master enamel colors. All used. With the exception of 2 Gunze colors… brand new. $5 for 2

Bought raffle tickets for model kit door prizes. 6 tix for $5. Guy miscounted and gave me 7 tix. No cigar on winning anything this time around. Maybe next year

 

[Down Time]

Attended Syrcon 36 in Cicero on Sunday. Made a killing all for $50

The P-38 Lightning I got for $5
Mig 21 bis 'Black Lynx'… $10 This one has 2 kits inside Great deal!
M3 Stuart tank…. $15
Monty's Humber 1/32 scale…. $10

I also picked up a bunch of paint colors 10 for $5 - seller let's me have 14 for $5. Grabbed the last of whatever PollyScale colors he had and the rest were Testors Model Master enamel colors. All used. With the exception of 2 Gunze colors… brand new. $5 for 2

Bought raffle tickets for model kit door prizes. 6 tix for $5. Guy miscounted and gave me 7 tix. No cigar on winning anything this time around. Maybe next year

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Nice haul.

 

[urumomo]

Attended Syrcon 36 in Cicero on Sunday. Made a killing all for $50

The P-38 Lightning I got for $5
Mig 21 bis 'Black Lynx'… $10 This one has 2 kits inside Great deal!
M3 Stuart tank…. $15
Monty's Humber 1/32 scale…. $10

I also picked up a bunch of paint colors 10 for $5 - seller let's me have 14 for $5. Grabbed the last of whatever PollyScale colors he had and the rest were Testors Model Master enamel colors. All used. With the exception of 2 Gunze colors… brand new. $5 for 2

Bought raffle tickets for model kit door prizes. 6 tix for $5. Guy miscounted and gave me 7 tix. No cigar on winning anything this time around. Maybe next year

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Weird ,
Figured you would have loaded up on Italeri kits and a bunch of Vallejo paints

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

Weird ,
Figured you would have loaded up on Italeri kits and a bunch of Vallejo paints

Hardy har har…. You're a real comedian… NOT.

However, the seller did not have any Vallejo paints for sale at all. Out of 30 tables, I spied only 2 Italeri kits for sale.

 

[TimM63]

Today's arrivals

 

[Jakko]

Too often, I've found myself having to make discs of sizes I had no good tools for, so the other day I decided to do something about that problem:

It is definitely the heaviest modelling tool I ever purchased, though:

 

[Andy T]

Now that looks extremely useful! I have a few hollow punches but never seem to have the exact size I need.

 

[TimM63]

Too often, I've found myself having to make discs of sizes I had no good tools for, so the other day I decided to do something about that problem:

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It is definitely the heaviest modelling tool I ever purchased, though:

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Too often, I've found myself having to make discs of sizes I had no good tools for, so the other day I decided to do something about that problem:

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It is definitely the heaviest modelling tool I ever purchased, though:

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What would you use this for in modeling? I can't think of a time where I would've needed this.
Just curious

 

[Edbert]

What would you use this for to n modeling? I can't think of a time where I would've needed this.
Just curious

Punching out circles for insignia or masks for wheels? (all I could think of)


Edit:
I got something in the mail today...

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

Today's arrivals

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I've been wanting to get the Tri Motor kit for awhile now. Regretted I didn't grab one at Ollie's last year.

 

[Andy T]

What would you use this for in modeling? I can't think of a time where I would've needed this.
Just curious

When scratch building or adding extra detail (things that Jakko excels at) there are a lot of times you need a disc of styrene. Making a circular hatch or vent for instance, stacking several together to make a cylinder, layering different sizes to create a wheel & tyre, that kind of thing.

 

[Jakko]

Now that looks extremely useful! I have a few hollow punches but never seem to have the exact size I need.

Hollow punches never work well for me — I usually find them too blunt to use on plastic card unless it's very thin, and they tend to leave much too ragged edges for the discs to be useful

What would you use this for in modeling? I can't think of a time where I would've needed this.

Making discs to glue to models. It's not like I would use this all the time, but over the last few years I've often enough found myself needing to make discs of larger sizes than I can make with my modelling punch and die sets (one by RP Toolz that goes from 0.5 to 2.0 mm and one by Historex Agents that goes from 0.65 to 3.9 mm), that I was looking for something with bigger sizes of punch. For example, for this model I made the discs on the sides as well as the ventilator between the hatches using this tool:

To be honest, if I had found one half the size of this, I would have bought it instead — I can't see myself needing the larger sizes at all (though the commander's hatch on that same model is made from a 20 mm disc and an 18 mm disc I made with a circle template and a needle … I could now punch them instead if I wanted to make another ). There are sets with fewer punches on Amazon, but they were all either weird sizes (not-round numbers) or skipped too many to be useful (like having only 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 16 mm), not to mention those were only around 10 euros less than this one that has both round numbers for the sizes and doesn't skip any.

scratch building or adding extra detail (things that Jakko excels at)

Thanks for the compliment, but I wouldn't go that far

 

[TimM63]

I've been wanting to get the Tri Motor kit for awhile now. Regretted I didn't grab one at Ollie's last year.

I thought it looked like an interesting build.

 

[Edbert]

Many of these have been posted, but the one on the bottom came today.

 

[Down Time]

 

[Pantherman]

Welcome to the Panther club. Pantherman

A few recent additions. Pantherman

 

[TimM63]

Today's arrival

 

[Down Time]

Today's arrival

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Adding clowns?

 

[TimM63]

Adding clowns?

I get all the clowns I can handle right here on the forum. JK.

 

[Down Time]

I get all the clowns I can handle right here on the forum. JK.

HA!!!!!

 

[Steve Jones SMS]

Hollow punches never work well for me — I usually find them too blunt to use on plastic card unless it's very thin, and they tend to leave much too ragged edges for the discs to be useful


Making discs to glue to models. It's not like I would use this all the time, but over the last few years I've often enough found myself needing to make discs of larger sizes than I can make with my modelling punch and die sets (one by RP Toolz that goes from 0.5 to 2.0 mm and one by Historex Agents that goes from 0.65 to 3.9 mm), that I was looking for something with bigger sizes of punch. For example, for this model I made the discs on the sides as well as the ventilator between the hatches using this tool:

To be honest, if I had found one half the size of this, I would have bought it instead — I can't see myself needing the larger sizes at all (though the commander's hatch on that same model is made from a 20 mm disc and an 18 mm disc I made with a circle template and a needle … I could now punch them instead if I wanted to make another ). There are sets with fewer punches on Amazon, but they were all either weird sizes (not-round numbers) or skipped too many to be useful (like having only 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 16 mm), not to mention those were only around 10 euros less than this one that has both round numbers for the sizes and doesn't skip any.


Thanks for the compliment, but I wouldn't go that far

Like Andy I use the hollow ones all the way up to 20mm. I am intrigued on how practical they are in the sense of retrieving the disc from the holder. Is it easy to do? Also are the edges really sharp on the larger punches as you must need to use a lot of force to get a clean cut?? Also do you have the link from where you got these please??

 

[JOHN R]

Today's arrival

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A friend had a real one, went like a rocket. Stuck to the corners on country roads.Will follow when you build .

 

[Scratchbuilder]

Like Andy I use the hollow ones all the way up to 20mm. I am intrigued on how practical they are in the sense of retrieving the disc from the holder. Is it easy to do? Also are the edges really sharp on the larger punches as you must need to use a lot of force to get a clean cut?? Also do you have the link from where you got these please??

I use a set of leather punches for the thicker card, punching out onto a block of vulcanised rubber - but have to do it in daytime - the neighbour thought SWMBO and me were having 10 rounds untill I showed him...

 

[TimM63]

I use a set of leather punches for the thicker card, punching out onto a block of vulcanised rubber - but have to do it in daytime - the neighbour thought SWMBO and me were having 10 rounds untill I showed him...

SWMBO, I had to look that one up. HA!!

 

[Jakko]

Like Andy I use the hollow ones all the way up to 20mm.

I could never get those to work for me.

I am intrigued on how practical they are in the sense of retrieving the disc from the holder. Is it easy to do?

I've so far only used the 6 and 7 mm ones, and getting the discs out is not that easy. Each of the holes is bored all the way through the lower (and upper) parts to its actual diameter, they don't open up like modelling ones do. This meant that the discs "stick" toward the bottom, and to get them out required pushing with a tool that fits through, but not with the punch itself.

Also are the edges really sharp on the larger punches as you must need to use a lot of force to get a clean cut??

The edges are fairly sharp. It looks like the punches are simply sawn from a length of steel rod — you can see parallel lines on them at both ends — without any more work done on them.

Also do you have the link from where you got these please??

I searched on Amazon for disc cutter tool (after discovering that this is what they seem to be advertised as) and found two or three basic types being offered for varying prices by what seems to be different vendors, so I bought the cheapest one among them. The exact one I ordered is this but you may notice that the punches there are more elaborate than the ones I actually received. Also, I notice the price has gone up by about €10 in the week and a half since I ordered it …

 

[TimM63]

A few recent additions. Pantherman

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I have the Bandai 1/72 X-Wing in the stash. Maybe another future scifi GB.