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Posted by Beano Boy on 05 Apr 2023, 01:27

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:coffee: i can ever have to many archers. BB
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Posted by Peter on 07 Apr 2023, 13:15

Wonderfull gift Remco! Now start painting! :mrgreen:

Nice catch Paul! :thumbup:
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Posted by Iceman1964 on 29 Apr 2023, 18:28

My new purchases, just arrived home !
Two wars not much covered in hour hobby:
- the 3rd Italian Indipendence War (1866, Italian Guides cavarly and Austrian infantry)
- the 2nd Schleswig-Holstein war (1864, Danish Infantry building threnches)

All from Massimo's 42nd Black Watch

The problem is when I will work on them .... if I see my accumulated boxes and my rate of painting, not before 4-5 years :xd:

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Posted by Rich W on 03 Sep 2023, 01:59

I visited Rotterdam and Amsterdam last week-both lovely cities! Whilst in Rotterdam I found a very nice model shop who stocked a few 1/72 kits. Treated myself to Zvezda GNW Russian artillery and infantry boxes-very reasonably priced as well! No idea when I'll ever get around to painting them though...oh well!
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Posted by Minuteman on 03 Sep 2023, 11:14

Rich W wrote:I visited Rotterdam and Amsterdam last week-both lovely cities! Whilst in Rotterdam I found a very nice model shop who stocked a few 1/72 kits. Treated myself to Zvezda GNW Russian artillery and infantry boxes-very reasonably priced as well! No idea when I'll ever get around to painting them though...oh well!


Yes, I agree with your sentiments on these Dutch cities, always fascinating and welcoming places to visit.

Looking forward to seeing what you create with these fine Zvezda sets, Rich. For my money, the Zvezda artillery sets in particular will always be amongst my favourites so far as 1/72 figure sets go.
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Posted by sberry on 03 Nov 2024, 16:31

I have made myself an early Christmas present and ordered some wonderful items from Crynsminiaturen:

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These canoes are based on ancient shipwrecks found at Zwammerdam in the Netherlands.
The site where they were found was a Roman camp on the Rhine frontier, and this is exactly the theme for the (future) diorama that I have in mind with these models.
For size comparison I have included the party-guest from the old Atlantic set. Disclaimer: I don’t encourage the drinking of alcohol on board of a ship in any way, this was just one of the first suitable figures I found when taking these pictures!
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Posted by sberry on 03 Nov 2024, 16:31

I also ordered four different sets of bricks:

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They are intended as cargo for the ship models by Crynsminiaturen. Producing bricks and transporting them to the various garrisons was a big thing for the Roman army on the Rhine, so I could use them in my diorama. However, these versatile sets can be used elsewhere, too, and I had started already another diorama with a little construction site. So I was really happy when they became available.
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Posted by sberry on 03 Nov 2024, 16:33

But the star of the show is the large barge, based on the Zwammerdam 6 shipwreck. Again, the old Atlantic guy for size comparison.

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As you can see, the model comes with quite a number of separate parts. But I think all these parts are more or less necessary because of the casting process. This seems a general trend among resin models, by Crynsminiaturen and others, too: They apparently break down their models only into the number of individual parts that are inevitable for technical reasons. By contrast, with plastic models I often feel that the set has been made unnecessarily complicated, resulting in a myriad of fiddly parts that are sometimes really awkward to handle. I understand that this is probably to maximize the building fun of the modeler. But to be honest, my fun comes from being able to assemble my diorama in the end, and not from having as many obstacles as possible on the way…
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Posted by Santi Pérez on 06 Nov 2024, 20:20

Congratulations on that early and wonderful Christmas present, sberry. The ones you give yourself are the best gifts and, if they are wonders like Mr. Cryns', even better, hahaha. :mrgreen:

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Posted by Peter on 23 Nov 2024, 14:01

Always liked this set but never had the chance to find it. Now I have it.

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This one I wanted for the civilians in it.

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Posted by Santi Pérez on 24 Nov 2024, 20:55

Peter wrote:Always liked this set but never had the chance to find it. Now I have it.

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I can only praise your good taste in acquiring this Pegasus set, Peter. Did you do it more for the Franciscan monks or for the Native Americans? And if it was for the former, do you plan to paint them as they are or turn them into other religious figures, as I'm doing in my Swiss Guard, Pope and Cardinals diorama? :winky:

Peter wrote: one I wanted for the civilians in it.

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Really, both the knight and the monk included in this set look great. :drool:

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