Latest vehicle received

[Predatorpt]

Another piece of my SOTR project!



This brand - MPM - has lots of interesting models 

[lou passejaire]

a lorraine 38 with trailer from Mad Bob Miniatures :


a lot of work on the trailer :


and we have a lorraine 37 supply carrier for french tank units :

[carlos marighela]

Quality stuff and nice camo job too. I wonder if Bob could be tempted into making some Cold War kit?

[Gunbird]

Some roughly 20mm scale James Bond cars (Aston Martin DB5 and Lotus Esprit) plus the engine block of a Me-109E to make copies of for home made wrecks, plus a M35A1 with recoilless rifle for my Cold War Dutch

[former user]

Popped up to Newcastle this afternoon and came home with these:



another bit of transport for the VBCW stockpile

what scale are these?

[former user]

I might have a few more for You

[Predatorpt]

And my 1/48 saga continues:





Now with an extra incentive, since I lost most of my model collection in 1/35 during a flood, last week:

Doesn't look like much, right?


But that picture was taken when the water was lower. At its highest, it reached this high


Meaning that all the shelves (except for the first) were under water. The older boxes looked intact but they were flooded and the interiors ruined. Some others just turned into pulp. If you can spot the GW box, there's a white box on top that survived intact but between them, there's a box with a Merkava that just disappeared


And I won't talk about all my terrain that was stored in a lower cabinet that was completely under water for 6 hours (the time we took to drain the basement)


Plus some paints..all of my resin; my compressor; and a sci-fi model that I had commissioned from Mainly28s.

Sorry for the long post, non-vehicle related but I just needed to vent a little

[twrchtrwyth]

Predatorpt, that's a really shitty thing to have happen. Vent away.

[zizi666]

Aw man, that is horrible ! 

You seem rather calm despite the disaster.
Here's hoping you can salvage most of your stuff (and with that I don't just mean the gaming stuff)

[carlos marighela]

That's really bad luck. I feel for you amigo. Rain or plumbing?

[Predatorpt]

Aw man, that is horrible ! 

You seem rather calm despite the disaster.
Here's hoping you can salvage most of your stuff (and with that I don't just mean the gaming stuff)

I'm calm because it's the third time in 10 years that this happens. But I was confident enough to put most of my models there because we installed a powerful water pump - it shouldn't have flooded. But alas, Mother Nature gave me and my parents a hard lesson. In 5 minutes it rained enough to overwhelm the pump. So, I lost most of my stuff due to my own fault, I can't do nothing else but be calm about it.

I'm cleaning the scale models in warm water and soap - they are full of mud - but lost all the boxes, decals and instructions. Some of the little pieces broke from their sprues and were damaged. Guess I now have a big pile of sprues for scratchbuilding stuff 

Most of my GW paints - the old ones - survived pretty intact even after spending all those hours under water, same for Vallejo ones. But lost most of their labels, .

My compressor is an industrial one - without oil - so it's closed I hope it survived the water. I'll let it dry for another week before trying to start it up.

Assorted terrain got all broke, same as the model from Mainly28s I mentioned above - the pieces were too light and floated in their cabinet, bumping against everything. Lots of books were also destroyed, same for clothes (old ones and some that was left to dry). The main problem was that water that came from the street was loaded with sand and it turned into a smelly mud that enters everything.

The only thing that didn't get completely destroyed was a Warlord Hetzer that I was painting for my SOTR project - found everything (the figures were still on a bag, they floated; the hatches and guns didn't broke) except for one track. Now I have a semi destroyed Hetzer, .

But as my brother jokingly says... I will rebuild. Yesterday I bought those 2 models, some paints and decals.

[Predatorpt]

That's really bad luck. I feel for you amigo. Rain or plumbing?

Heavy rain, something that we call "tromba d'água" 

[former user]

You will probably find all instructions as online files

[zizi666]

Decals can be found from aftermarket sellers.
Might set you back some euros 

[Predatorpt]

zizi666 and former user - except for a couple of models (Merkava and a Jagdpanther), there's no need for instructions and decals, I'll just use the parts for scratchbuilding stuff. I'll now have the opportunity to build one heavy German mech for my SOTR guys.