Aliexpress finds for wargames

[carlos marighela]

I'll take a snap or two of them in their naked state. With all such ply, basswood and MDF structures, I tend to do quite a bit of work resurfacing and detailing them. I use the models as dollies , so might be a while before you see the finished item.

[Digits]

I’m interested to see how they scale up.    Looking forward to what you do with them fella.

[carlos marighela]

So the Temu Houses arrived today. No problems removing the parts from the sheets. It's a sort of thin ply. I've built similar Chinese manufactured kits before and had one or two arrive with parts incompletely etched and parts requiring cutting to remove. These were fault free. The good thing, at least from my point of view, is that the surface detail is so light it will definitely disappear once primed and painted. I like my MDF/ply models to be a blank canvas to detail.

Instructions are, like most of these things, a but rudimentary but better than many and it's not that hard to work things out.

Scale wise, well I'll let you be the judge but overall they seem pretty much perfect for  28mm. The entrances are too small, more 20mm than 28mm but that's easy to fix and I intend to replace the doors anyway.

I did a quick dry fit to test size. I need to find some more roofing material so these are way back in the queue behind some resin buildings I also had delivered this week as well as another Temu offering see below.

[carlos marighela]

One of the other items received in my bag of goodies from Temu was a subway entrance. I've already scratchbuilt a couple of U-Bahn entrances for my model West Berlin but hey a third was welcome and the price was right.  This one will be the main Sesamstraße entrance with some added signage.

It's a great little bit of kit basically a glueless kit and scaled well enough for 28mm.

Picked up some park benches and trees as well. Almost bought a bus shelter but as I have a couple of my own creation, I thought a third was a bit redundant.

[Funkmachine7]

The first thing to do is make sure your ordering the right thing, Aliexpress sellers love to show you a thing an then sell you the cheaper version of it, often a smaller or more basic thing i.e. a drill but you only order the bits.

As a rule there ok for consumable, brass wire, cheap brushs, flock, bases, saw blades etc.

Here's some stuuf i've bought, likey a lower price then its posted now an with free shipping.
if you order a goody list you can likey get them to offer to a deal on the same items from other venders, it'll be £8 minim for free shipping or 3 items for free shipping, something like that.

The cheap Organizer Boxs, there £1 or less but you can fit a whole 28mm arm an weapon in them, get the largers ones an some spears can fit.

Organizer Boxs

Bases, a slotter or nomal base is just a cheap bit of plastic.
25mm bases

display boxs
display box

turn tables
fancy but cheap turn tables

brush stand an pot
[urlhttps://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005879868311.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.78.9c8d1802rZkMef]brush stand an pot[/url]

nail art brushs, there fine and cheap
at £1

pin drill bits
buy them to maKe sure that you dont break them

brass wire in 10meter rolls
i think it'll last a while...


cheap pendints
he can be 32mm beast man

craft knife blades
cheap

razor saw
link

[tereydavi]

New product added- 1:43 scale Humvee

Thanks to Potan's War YouTube Channel I discovered this little gem that fits any existing 28mm miniatures range.



It's a 1:43 scale Humvee for just 5'29€. I know it's not the best quality, but it's the cheapest for sure.

[carlos marighela]

Cheers! Been looking for a source for those Maisto Hummers. Hopefully this retailer will actually have them in stock. I ordered a quite expensive bus through AliExpress recently, waited and waited and then was told I was getting a refund as they were out of stock.

[tereydavi]

Thanks funkmachine7!!

The display box is a good idea, as the cheap brushes.

Did you say 10 meters brass wire?
It's not expensive at all, and I think you get wire enough for your whole life.

[has.been]

Some interesting stuff there lads.

[carlos marighela]

Here's the green plastic truck (Zis-150/ CA-10 knockoff) from page 2 with a little bit of work. Puttied the back of the wheels, added some plastic strips and cut away the spare tyre to orient it in the correct fashion (horizontally stowed).

As the plastic is so easy to slice, I'm going to get a bit more ambitious with these.They're sold in packets of 10 after all.  I've realised that a bit of chopping will allow the body to be lengthened and an aditional pair of wheels added to the chassis, making a serviceable Zil-151/ 157 proxy. I'll probably make up a few as North Vietnamese trucks covered in foliage, some generic ComBloc types and maybe even a civilian example. For a few pennies apiece, these are a definite good buy.

[tereydavi]

A new product added: Magnifyng glasses.



I friend of mine told me about this product that he had bought and was really Happy with.

As I get older my Sight is not what It used to be, so I thought this glasses would be a good option.

They arrived last week and I have to say that this product is outstanding.

I'm painting again with great detail and quality as they are really confortable.

For me they are awesome, outstanding and I have recovered the joy of painting small details.

The link for this awesome and essential product is in the blog post.

[Rick]

I have the exact same pair of magnifying glasses (headset/goggles?) as the ones in your picture, for about the same price, but bought off ebay.  I was so impressed with them that I bought a set for my dad.

[tereydavi]

I have the exact same pair of magnifying glasses (headset/goggles?) as the ones in your picture, for about the same price, but bought off ebay.  I was so impressed with them that I bought a set for my dad.

Impressed is the exact feeling when I first used them. I had a lamp with magnifying glass but.many times It was difficult to Focus on small details. These glasses are top!

[Daeothar]

Polystyrene buildings in a variety of scales. I bought a lot of these years ago for a 10mm city table and they're great to work with, if a bit of a blank canvas. They come in pristine and battle damaged variants too and there's a very good selection of different ones available.

Be careful; they're offered in 1/87, 1/150, 1/300 and even 1/500, so check the scales before you buy. Most buildings go for about €15,- per set when looking at HO- or N-scale ones.

Search for '1:150 Railway model' for instance. Once you've found one, the site will suggest a plethora of similar offerings, so you'll be in your own scale building bubble

[carlos marighela]

Of course, you still have the issue of the retailer sending you the wrong size.

For a more comprehensive look at what's available and more scale options, like 1/72 and 1/64, yo can always go to the source for these buildings: https://outlandmodels.com