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Please can I get some feedback on the best type of brushes and where to get them for painting with acrylic paints . They would be for my grandson who is doing great work on War Hammer figures . Thanks Chippy

Hi all, I'm looking for on line sites that supply modelling tools preferably in the UK . My grandson has recently started doing Warhammer figures and asked for his birthday this year if I would make some modelling tools his birthday present . I thinking a head loupe and a daylight lamp as a...

I'm going to try my hand at this old Andrea 54mm Knight 1325 figure . It's been sometime since I've painted a figure . I've primed it and undercoated in black . I'm using an old Del Prado figure to work out some colour schemes and metal finishes before starting on the actual figure , hopefully...

Finally finished this project , I got a bit carried away with a few things . I thought it might be fun to have some siege type weapons instead of just rolling the marbles so now we have a Boombastick and a Hephastus Hammer all imaginary . I also thought it could do with more colour so the grass...

Like the title said , it's a game . I'm making a marble game for my granddaughter as she likes playing with marbles when she visits . I'm making it out of hard packing foam and cardboard . I used my old pyro groove to simulate the stones in the building . Made the doors from cardboard and glued...

Japlans a large internet company in the hobby trade has opened an actual shop on their premise . Based on the outskirts of Glastonbury which is about 30 miles away from me . My son ,grandson and myself visited it last week and boy is it huge . They carry a vast and varied range , Airfix, Hornby...

Hornby a Model World I'm just wondering is anyone else in the UK watching this program . It is on free view channel 26 Yesterday . It is shown on Monday at 9pm Thursday at 8pm and for insomniacs 12 midnight Sunday There are some amazing layouts with a lot of scratch building off scenery and...

Just thought I would give you all a heads up on these lamps that will be for sale in Lidl stores from Sunday 12th September . They seem very to be very good value . I have bought a few spot lamps from Lidl in the past and found them to be very reliable . I will be buying 2 of these myself . chippy

This week I had a day out with my grandson . Nothing spectacular , I just wanted to show him some of the history that is in our area that is no more than an hours drive away . These are places I use to travel through regularly when working and never stopped off to see them . First is a place...

A web site worth checking out is The Modelling News . I don't know who runs this site and this is not an interactive site so no input or feed back from visitors . What you get is regular input of new releases on kits ranging from tanks to figures (plenty of figures ) I know there are quite a few...

I saw this on Facebook . Very interesting and as a lot of us have much more time on our hands it might be worth a try . It's a bit of a long video but try and watch until the end enjoy and stay safe chippy

I came across this on Facebook . It would make a great diorama . Dog LoversLike Page 3 November 2019 · Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who...

Hi I know this is not a common scale on this site but I want to do a small diorama in which I need some 1/72 WW1 figures . I know there are a few manufactures who make this scale but not what their quality is like as they only show the box art on their sites . So I'm asking does anyone know...

I have just discovered this artist Olaf Wieghorst through watching an old John Wayne film Eldorado . His paintings were used on the opening credits . He is as good as Fredric Remington and his paintings of American Indian faces are stunning . So if you have any interest in the American West...

I am looking to find two 1/35th scale or 54mm WW1 pilots to start a salute to Alcock and Browns first Atlantic crossing in 1919 so outfits where very much as WW1 . I was going to copy the statue outfits . But better pictures show Alcock and Brown looking this . These look closer to WW1...

A small snippet on the news this morning brought this to my attention . 100 years ago on the 15 June 1919 Alcock and Brown made the first none stop flight across the Atlantic . Leaving St Johns Newfoundland on the 14th June 1919 they made land at Clifden, County Galway , Ireland 15 hours 57...

Last night while out walking my dog around 8 pm I was pass by a jogger wearing head phones selecting tunes on his mobile phone , he didn't even notice that he had forced us into the road . Coming the other way was a teenager on a bike texting with no lights on the bike (look Ma no hands ) and...

What to me was the best of what was on display were these figures on the Stoke-On -Trent club stand , the two figures highlighted are 120 mm Master Box converversions . These are cheap plastic figure kits but looking at them you would never know . Just goes to show if you have the know how...

I was only able to spend the morning at Bugle Call this year due to my granddaughter having her 2 nd. birthday party on the same day , also I was an hour on the door so all in all I didn't have a lot of time but this is what caught my eye (some of it may be a duplication of ARJs )] more to...

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