I know I ordered to packs of Pak 38's many moons ago as I still have the order list. So somewhere there should be four of the little blighters. I can find the Pak 40's and Pak 36's, but I'm damned if I can find the Pak 38's :(. It's driving me nuts as to where they've gone as they're not in my 'German' box.
Order another couple of packs ... the first two will turn up moments after the second lot arrive :)
Down the back of the sofa ?
WHEN I get back to actually having time to paint some of the wee men..I'm sure I'll have the same problem. :'( :'( :'(
My 'bugbear' is the amount of 'white metal' I sling into the circular file..'Cos I don't need it anymore, and it's getting in the way....and there's absolutely no point in saving it....I'd NEVER find it.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: Techno on 15 August 2020, 04:56:40 PM
Down the back of the sofa ?
WHEN I get back to actually having time to paint some of the wee men..I'm sure I'll have the same problem. :'( :'( :'(
My 'bugbear' is the amount of 'white metal' I sling into the circular file..'Cos I don't need it anymore, and it's getting in the way....and there's absolutely no point in saving it....I'd NEVER find it.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Can't you send it back to Leon to melt down again?
Yep, Sod's Law when I place the order they will turn up again!
Quote from: Steve J on 15 August 2020, 04:12:35 PM
I know I ordered to packs of Pak 38's many moons ago as I still have the order list. So somewhere there should be four of the little blighters. I can find the Pak 40's and Pak 36's, but I'm damned if I can find the Pak 38's :(. It's driving me nuts as to where they've gone as they're not in my 'German' box.
They're probably hanging out with my WW1 French Senior Officers that have been MIA for about four years. :'( :'(
Quote from: Steve J on 15 August 2020, 09:18:17 PM
Yep, Sod's Law when I place the order they will turn up again!
I am sure Leon won't mind you ordering them twice. :)
I've got master moulds that we've 'misplaced' for years now, with shiny new releases in them! They always turn up somewhere eventually, usually when we're looking for something entirely different.
Quote from: Orcs on 15 August 2020, 07:34:46 PM
Can't you send it back to Leon to melt down again?
I
think.....That Leon avoids using 'recycled' white metal, Mark.
If I lived closer, I'd pop them back to Pendraken Towers.
Cheers - Phil
QuoteI think.....That Leon avoids using 'recycled' white metal, Mark
I think you're right, based upon a conversation we had at Colours several years ago. IIRC it boils down to each manufacturer might use slightly different mixes/grades of metal that are not nescessarily compatible.
Whilst looking for the offending items I realised how many boxes of stuff I have scattered all over the house. I really, really need to have a bloody good tidy up!
Thought I'd lost my 20mm WWII brits 2 yrs ago, so ordered the PSC box, and found them, so it does work ! And I have 2 Brit infantry companies in 20mm.
Quote from: Leon on 15 August 2020, 10:42:26 PM
I've got master moulds that we've 'misplaced' for years now, with shiny new releases in them! They always turn up somewhere eventually, usually when we're looking for something entirely different.
LOL! With regard to a different manufacturer, (Of 1/200 stuff...and also providing excellent service, too!), I ordered a Churchill AVRE which came on a non AVRE hull. Upon enquiring about availability of the hull... it was a 'lost ' mould that someone had used by mistake, would replace, with apologies. :)
The lost mould was for Churchills III to VIII...with a whole selection of different turrets, (not perfect but ok for the job), welded, cast, 6pdr, 75mm, 95mm!!! :o IMHO, the casting is vastly superior the the catalogue item, (some hulls are sans the front track covers and they do not have the 'squashed' look!) ...so I now have bought about 30++ and have a bag of turrets!!! LOL :D :D :D. (Still not catalogue listed, (Don't think many go for 1/200 WW2...either go 10mm or 1/285!), but, as said, excellent customer service for 'special orders'! :) ).
Dig out YOUR 'Gems'! LOL!!! ;)
I have it a bit harder than you.
I have a lot of my wargaming stuff in my house in Wales. I have stuff in a lock up in Wales,
and I have a lot of stuff here with me where I live in Germany.
so I know I have stuff go looking for it in my pile here in Germany. cant find it !
so order it again thinking oh ill just re buy. :o
then when I get home I find I have it both in the stuff in the house and another lot in my lock up :'(
but I suppose its better than going out drinking. ;D
I have WW2 VIN 6MM,15MM AND 20MM :-
Modern again in all three, Sci Fi in 6MM AND 10MM.
as a point in case just ordered some 20MM Modern BAOR Infantry and some East German Infantry. because I knew I only needed the Infantry !
Nope need vehicles as all of my Cold war 20MM,1/72 scale vehicles are in UK so off to the model shop for only one or two vehicles per side lol
came back with a 1/72 chinook a T55 and challenger 1 =)
Regards
Sean
Well the items have been found :). They were almost hiding in plain sight on the dining room table, half obscured by wargaming notes for a proposed campaign. I must have taken them down from the attic last week with some other items, yet completely forgot that I had done so :-[. When I told my family they just looked at me with more than a hint of despair!
Quote from: Steve J on 18 August 2020, 08:38:15 PM
Well the items have been found :). They were almost hiding in plain sight on the dining room table, half obscured by wargaming notes for a proposed campaign. I must have taken them down from the attic last week with some other items, yet completely forgot that I had done so :-[. When I told my family they just looked at me with more than a hint of despair!
One of my kids teachers used to say to the kids when "have a proper look not a Daddy look".
Unfortunately one of Mrs Orcs girls had the same teacher- So wjhe i can't find something I get "Have you had a Daddy look" :)
I won't be able to find a load of stuff, soon. X_X
Made such a 'white metal' mess on the desk. (I was reaming 90% of a fair sized model down with the 'heaviest/biggest/roughest' tungsten carbide burr I've got......The 'dust' went everywhere.)
I had to clean the desk of all the models sitting there and then use the mini Vax...on the desk, floor and ME. (Silver dandruff, or what ?)
Used that as an excuse to have a really good tidy up....It was actually quite satisfying, almost cathartic (?)....Binned loads of garbage, put things away....properly...VERY dangerous, as I'll wonder where the 'proper place' was, in a couple of days. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2020, 06:58:11 AM
(I was reaming 90% of a fair sized model down with the 'heaviest/biggest/roughest' tungsten carbide burr I've got......The 'dust' went everywhere.)
Do you have a razor saw? Probably a better choice for removing large amounts of metal, then can use the dremal to do the final shaping. The metal for figures is soft enough to cut.
Quote from: fred. on 19 August 2020, 09:17:03 AM
Do you have a razor saw? Probably a better choice for removing large amounts of metal, then can use the dremal . . .
Is this good advice? Remember who you're talking to . . .
Quote from: fred. on 19 August 2020, 09:17:03 AM
Do you have a razor saw? Probably a better choice for removing large amounts of metal, then can use the dremal to do the final shaping. The metal for figures is soft enough to cut.
I actually have two different sized ones, Forbes. :) (Though I really ought to get some handles for them !)
I never use them. :D
If I have to saw anything off, I use a jeweler's/piercing saw..I've got much more control with that.
The model I was playing with yesterday was
basically the right shape...It just had a load of thick/heavy armour over the main body....It was all the armour that had to go.
I'd have had to use the saw sideways....Which as Martyn has hinted, would probably not be a good idea. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil ;)
4 g/h class destroyers???
I have the rest of the order they came with, canna find them...
Poot.
Left the convoy to hunt a U-boat
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2020, 10:49:46 AM
I actually have two different sized ones, Forbes. :) (Though I really ought to get some handles for them !)
I never use them. :D
If I have to saw anything off, I use a jeweler's/piercing saw..I've got much more control with that.
Fair enough - other saws are available.
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2020, 10:49:46 AM
The model I was playing with yesterday was basically the right shape...It just had a load of thick/heavy armour over the main body....It was all the armour that had to go.
Makes sense, it sounded like you were removing 90% of the volume, which seemed easier to use a saw for, but this sounds more like 90% of the surface area needed work.
Quote from: fred. on 19 August 2020, 12:54:03 PM
Makes sense, it sounded like you were removing 90% of the volume, which seemed easier to use a saw for, but this sounds more like 90% of the surface area needed work.
It was just about
all of he surface detail that had to go, Forbes. X_X ;D ;D ;D
There's about 70% of the head's detail left......But all the rest is VERY shiny metal now ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2020, 01:51:09 PM
It was just about all of he surface detail that had to go, Forbes. X_X ;D ;D ;D
There's about 70% of the head's detail left......But all the rest is VERY shiny metal now ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Couldn't you have just cut the face off and stuck it to a new body :-\
;)
It would almost certainly have taken longer, Meirion...
(And as it's got four legs already, that theoretically made for an easier/quicker 'former'.....Though now I've taken all the rough fur off....the existing front legs are going to have to go. X_X)
Cheers - Phil =)
If I were use an expression that involves silk purses and sows' ears, Leon should know which one it is ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Lots of useful comments, but remember we are "Teaching the master to suck eggs"
He may be lethal with anything sharp, but I am sure he does know what he is doing when it comes to little men.
Quote from: Steve J on 18 August 2020, 08:38:15 PM
Well the items have been found :). They were almost hiding in plain sight on the dining room table, half obscured by wargaming notes for a proposed campaign. I must have taken them down from the attic last week with some other items, yet completely forgot that I had done so :-[. When I told my family they just looked at me with more than a hint of despair!
The queue for wargames sympathy with every family is frequent and often fruitless. I can see their faces now.
Well I have just done the same. Sorting out a 20mm Royal Marine Commando Assault squad for Chain of Command- (Holiday painting project). I KNEW I had a Vickers with commando crew and enough riflemen. But when I planned it out I could not find the Vickers or enough riflemen.
I looked in the draw with my unpainted 20mm WW2 stuff twice. Cleared my painting table. Checked the basing table and all places I had been in the house - nothing.
So placed Order with SHQ for a couple of packs of rifles and one of SMGs in the cap comforter as I already had berets. Added an extra PIAT team and an early war German motorcycle combo for good measure.
This arrived two days later on Wednesday. last night I was checking what paints I needed to take away and opened the ringbinder I keep all my painting guides in - Guess what fell out !!!!! >:( >:( >:(
still at least I have a good few figures in cap comforter instead of all in Berets. :)
Now should I do a complete assault squad in comforters - HMMMMM
It's always the way that when you've placed the order, the offending items will miraculously re-appear!
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 15 August 2020, 10:30:06 PM
They're probably hanging out with my WW1 French Senior Officers that have been MIA for about four years. :'( :'(
Well a nice surprise this morning, the postman delivered a replacement pack of French Senior Officers. Much appreciated, will have to think about how they'll take charge in 1930s Indochina :), I do have a spare N Gauge Citroen 11CV to carry them around. There's no date on the packet but I'm assuming that they took a long time to swim across to me here downunder :D
Always great dealing with the paragons of customer service at Pendraken.
Cheers
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 29 September 2020, 11:36:08 PM
Well a nice surprise this morning, the postman delivered a replacement pack of French Senior Officers. Much appreciated, will have to think about how they'll take charge in 1930s Indochina :), I do have a spare N Gauge Citroen 11CV to carry them around. There's no date on the packet but I'm assuming that they took a long time to swim across to me here downunder :D
I ordered some 1/600th decals a little while ago from the USA that took 41 days to get down here to NZ via airmail, I emailed the seller to confirm that they finally arrived, but he was saying that his record for longest delivery in 2020 is 49 days for a order to get from New Hampshire in the US across the pond to France.....
I feel a lot of the couriers seem to be using the dreaded Covid as an excuse at the moment.
seem's pipeline's seem to be extending (maybe its a lack of planes flying)
regards
Sean
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 29 September 2020, 11:36:08 PM
Well a nice surprise this morning, the postman delivered a replacement pack of French Senior Officers. Much appreciated, will have to think about how they'll take charge in 1930s Indochina :), I do have a spare N Gauge Citroen 11CV to carry them around. There's no date on the packet but I'm assuming that they took a long time to swim across to me here downunder :D
Always great dealing with the paragons of customer service at Pendraken.
Good to hear that they arrived safely, I was wondering how long it would take for them to land! We're slowly seeing the postal systems get back to normal, but there do seem to be delays still in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. That could be due to the reduced flights as Sean says, very possible with so many passenger flights grounded.
There is definitely a reduction in the air freight capacity to the Antipodes and the costs have apparently gone up significantly