28mm tanks in Poundland

[fastolfrus]

Poundland have some roughly 28mm clip-together tank kits in stock again.

Notionally Abrams or Challenger from a company called Grafix - the box even includes paint!

Not sure what to use them for, but they might be a good basis for conversions.

[Wyrmalla]

Nothing Russian? Damn I passed a Poundland yesterday. I don't have much use for either of those tanks, but given the price I'd probably find one (this is coming from the guy who glutted himself buying those 1/48th Russian cars they sold, and well months later I have the perfect use for the things).

[fastolfrus]

There may be others in the range - they also make aircraft varying between a Spitfire(ish) WW2 fighter and a Mig

[Daeothar]

If they're the same ones I'm thinking of, I got me some of those Spitfires last year. They set me back about €2,50 a piece at Action in the Netherlands and are quite good for what you pay for!

I'll check out a shop again to see if they are also carrying those tanks now. No immediate use yet, but you never know when they'll come in handy.

But tanks at roughly 28mm will be quite huge compared to a Spitfire, so I suppose the boxes will be bigger?

[fastolfrus]

Boxes are roughly 24cm x 16cm x 4cm

[dadlamassu]

As far as I am aware there are only the 2 tanks and they are basic.

The Spitfire is dreadful as a model but useful a wrecked aircraft terrain piece!  There is also a Mustang and a few modern jets.  I bought some for my grandchildren and they enjoyed making and painting them.  There are two sizes of aircraft - small ones about 1/100 scale and larger ones.  The box size determines scale.  The plane on the box art is not always the same as the model inside.  Not ideal for a scale model but great for converting, using as terrain pieces or filling out a background.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

I visited the two Poundland stores in Worcester yesterday and could not find either the tanks or the planes. What I did find was more 1/43rd sports cars. These were in the older store and there were Aston Martins and Jaguars.

Tony

[Wyrmalla]

Yeah all I saw in mine were those sports cars (which they've had in for a good while now oddly). As with the Russian stuff I suppose it varies as to when things are rolled out into shops. Personally I was just going to use one or two of them as wrecks or whatever, and well for the price I could certainly find something to do with them/

[aliensurfer]

my poundland is rubbish, everytime someone gets a great find, I check mine for a couple of weeks, and they never have any    unless of course lots of other LAF'ers live in my area without me knowing, hmmmmm 

[fastolfrus]

Haven't checked locally since I found the first ones.
The tanks (hull) are about 16cm long.
The turrets don't turn.

But could still be a useful basis for something.