Thanks Alan, to be honest this was the sum total of countless visits over 4-6 weeks to my local charity shops and a few on a visit to another local town. LOL ornaments, clothing, books and DVD's are our charity shops regular stock also.
A decent haul - I started building model kits in 1955, and still at it ! 😁👍🏼 …..try Mister Muscle oven cleaner spray to remove the paint from the Citroen Avante.
Hello there @eugenegilleno9344 and thanks for watching. thanks a few people chipped in with suggestions for removing the citreon's paint, Mr Muscle won, not tried it yet but will do shortlky.
@@TheNoviceModeller Careful you don't use too much or you'll blister the plastic. (I used to manage the factory in Manchester where it's made & it's evil stuff not to be trifled with.)
If you squeeze all your Humbol glue in to an empty glass paint jar, then add chopped up sprue pieces and allow them to devolve, it makes quite good filler or ‘sprue goo’.
Hello again @IamNasman, yes i have heard of this concoction LOL. I was actually collecting sprues to have a go and then realised that i had about 30 sprue sets under the desk, will give it a go at some point i am sure though the sprues i methodically collected went to recycling.
The aircraft models all good, especially the MIG. BTW--They're not Bulgarian but rather, Hungarian markings. Re the car, AK makes a paint stripper you could use. Alternatively, just give it a sanding---perfect for your B&D 🙂Then you could experiment with matt and gloss clear coats straight from the rattle can to smooth out the finish. If nothing else, the charity shop has thanked you for buying, but I'd say you've done okay.
Hello there @ianfoggin8263 and thanks for watching. A monthly live stream puzzle now theres an idea LOL. I reckons i will find something to do with it and some way to relate it to us old buggers.
Hi Andy. You have some good charity shops where you live. Most of the one where I live are full of old clothes, old people and tat. I will have to take a closer look from now on. So the models then. The two Spitfires are a good little bargain, you can,t go wrong with a Spitfire. The Citroen is different for sure.but it does have potential. I think that Airfix used to do 1/24 scale tanks and I vaguely remember that they did a Panzer III. So maybe do the Citroen in satin black as a German officers commissioned car parked next to the Panzer III. The its time to look for some figures, I am sure that there some out there, an officer and a tanker in early war uniforms. I used to be a member of a scalextric racing club and we used to put the Airfix 1/32nd scale car bodies on a scalextric car chassis, I did two VW Beetles. A 1960s British jet with the Aston parked next to it would be a nice vignette. Now the Mig21. This will be a nice kit to practice your spray painting on. There are a variety of paint schemes that you could do and the are many aftermarket decal sets out there if you wish to go for something different. Anyway for 24 quid you did alright. Well done buddy.
LOL that little lot took several weeks of searching, though not an issue as i always go for a rummage in the charity shops when i go to town. I'll probs strip the paint on the Citroen and practice extreme rusting, the Aston gloss black as per box, good practice for my icm merc 770 tourenwagen. The MIG for the price is a bargain, using the Indian markings would be interesting.
That's a great haul alright. Like the cars, Citroen in a ditch with a 1/48 tank passing by-diorama could be nice. Mig is a great score, there's plenty of interesting camo schemes - russian ones in Afghanistan, egyptian Nile valley scheme...
Thanks @griffn14, some good practice material, The Aston looks nice will give me gloss practice, the citreon i am thinking rust practice (after striping the paint) as its missing parts (rusty junker), doing one of the spits now for a workbuds birthday Man Utd (bleurgh) colour scheme. I like the Mig though am going to use the provided Indian markings No26 sqn "The Warriors", might get me a couple of Indian subscribers LOL.
Hello there @Zero_Reaper13 and thanks for watching, I only started back with modelling in February, though like yourself i am a keen rummager in charity shops, mostly DVD's and books, never even thought of looking for kits until i saw the 1/72 Stirling and 2x 1/48 F-16's 6 weeks ago, now i am eagle eyed on my visits. TBH this is the accumulation of 4-6 weeks searching so the pickings are slim, but bargains are there to be had.
@TheNoviceModeller thanks for the reply, I think I will have to pay more attention in my visits and grab what I see even incomplete or started kits can be useful for kit bashing or testing new techniques I am currently trying my hand at foiling.
Will be uploading some "whats in the box" vids for the aston, citreon and the mig over the next few days, opening them up reveals some interesting issues LOL, the Aston and the citreon i will be using for practice purposes so yes even an incomplete or undesirable kit can be useful providing its the right price
Hello there @fenman1954 and thanks for watching. You can never have enough brushes. I am about to make my original £15 Amazon set redundant and start with some new ones, hmmmmm which ones i am not sure, i seem to have a drawer full, tune in next week for paint brush chaos. The glue on the other hand i have no idea what to do with.
Nice haul! Never seen anything like this in the charity shops round where I live. Soak the Heller "Traction Avant" painted parts in brake fluid. Should get the paint off without harming the plastic. By the way, the red/white/green chevron markings in the Mig 21 are post communist Hungarian!
Hello there @davidbrigenshaw8721 and thanks for watching, i picked up a 1/72 Stirling and two 1/48 F-16's from the one shop 6 weeks ago for £20 ruclips.net/video/URy_As0hKoU/видео.html i have been keeping my eyes peeled ever since, these have taken 4-6 weeks to assemble, so the picking are slim but there are bargains to be had. LOL yes someone else has pointed out my faux pas with the Hungarian, same colours easy mistake. The Citroen i will be stripping and will probs be trying some extreme weathering on ( not tried weathering yet), rusty junker i am thinking.
Oven cleaner (Mr Muscle) will get rid of the paint. Spray it on ( outside) cover and leave for a couple of hours. Use gloves when handling just wash off the paint residue amd you are down to virigin plastic. Good luck!
Hello there @briankirwan6958 and thanks for watching. LOL had loads of recommendations for this problem, Mr Muscle was the most popular so will be having a go of this, using the Citroen sometime soon.
I accidentally found out that my ultrasonic cleaner that I use for motorcycle parts removes paint and zinc plating and doesn't affect plastic at all. I have never had the need to chuck a model in it yet but it would be interesting to see what would happen.
@@Kitsnbits It'll do that to tin foil but It doesn't affect plastic, I've cleaned plenty of plastic bike parts in it before. It fetched the black paint off an airbox where someone had tried to pretty it up.
I've used Fairy Power Spray successfully for stripping paint of of models before. Also strips chrome off plastic parts as well. At a glance it looks like it may be enamel paint. Wouldn't be surprised if it was due to the age of the kit.
Cheers Adam, i am sure i'll try do somthing with this at some point though as there is also a light missing may have to be a junker, good for weathering practice and excessive rust perhaps.
Fairy Power Spray doesn’t work nearly as well since they changed the formula about 15 years back, the lemon scented stuff is useless. Brown Dettol bleach works, but stinks.
If you haven’t done it yet. First try soaking overnight in 99% isopropyl alcohol first, if that doesn’t work oven cleaner should. Use the least toxic first
Hello there @ClydeThomas-i2c and thanks for watching. I think you are referring to the Citreon? no not had a go at it yet, though thanks, i have had a few suggestions on what to do and have a few other old kits (from a box from my attic from 20 years ago) that i want to strip and have another go at so will try a few suggestions on them.
YOU DID OK SIR,THAT 1/43 CAR WOULD WORK WELL IN A FRENCH RESISTANCE ERA.YOU COULD ALWAYS GIVE A KIT TO A KID TO GET THEM INTERESTED IN MODEL BUILDING. DID THAT BACK IN 82,GIVE AWAY STAR WARS FIGHTERS TO CUSTOMERS KIDS.BOUGHT A STORE CLOSEOUT WHERE I WORKED.OVER A 1OO KITS FOR 25 DOLLARS..TAKE CARE
100 kits for $25 that sounds like a real steal whatever the year. The Citroen is missing a light so i am thinking of turning into a rusty junker, practice the weathering skills etc
Great buy for 20 pounds, the Mig is worth that, couple of Spitfires, Good old James Bond Aston Martin . The Citreon is an interesting scale, but certainly a challenge. There are goobs of paint stripping RUclips's about stripping, none of them work very well because you can't tell which kind of paint and how old it is.. You could try a 70 to 90% Alcohol, with tooth brush, , that's the cheapest way. Some of our paint strippers are called Mineral Spirits, ( turpentine could do t but etch the plastic which would be OK), from the tablet screen it looked like Enamels. Give it a good 24 hour soak. Or you could build as is, save it till November and but a firecracker in it for Guy Fawkes :-) The King looks good on that 20 quid note. Our money is so boring. You did well, Cheers Bob
cheers bob, not quite as good as my last charity shop haul, had a few suggestions about paint stripper, thinking about doing this as a rusty junker so thinking if the plastic gets scarred it will just add to the authenticity.
Hello there @fightersweep i regularly visit the 10 or so Charity shops in town, though i normally return empty handed, my best find to date was an Italeri Shorts Stirling 1/72 that i picked up for £9.99. ruclips.net/video/URy_As0hKoU/видео.html
@@TheNoviceModeller You certainly got a bargain with the Stirling. I would have been chuffed with that. Last kit I saw in a charity shop was a Revell/Matchbox Twin Otter but they wanted £14 for it. About the going rate. Do a lot of boot sales too, and there also, kits are hard to find. They must all still be squirreled away in people's lofts.
LOL well my most recent acqusition was 4 Starfix 1/72 and 1/48 kits for £4 each, i had to take one back as it was a box with sprues but the parts were gone. i am not going to complain about them being Starfix though, the last one i built i had much fun with. ruclips.net/video/NVHOCWlw0mk/видео.html
@@TheNoviceModeller Been selling a few on there from the stash. The realisation set in that the stash had exceeded probable life expectancy. Being a true modeller though, I'm still buying them as quickly as I shift them.
The only kits I ever seem to see in charity shops are Airfix Lancaster bombers but I don't do things with wings. Why don't people ever seem to donate armour models? I've never built a car model in my life (other than Jeep's and Kubelwagen's etc.) so I guess I'd have passed on them as well.
Hello there @martinoconnor4314 and thanks for watching. I picked up a Italeri Stirling 1/72 in my last vid, TBH i'd be very happy with an Airfix Lancaster. Fair point about armour kits though, not seen one one during mt charity shop rummages ......yet.
@@TheNoviceModeller I'm always nosing around in charity shops but I usually come out empty handed. In the last year I have seen two Lancs both priced at £20 each in different shops which to me seemed a bit expensive for old mould Airfix kits.
Ah well my Stirling was £9.99 off a 2014 moulding. £20 for an old Lanc is not a bargain, though a charity shop local to me had a load of Vintage Matchbox 1/72 ww2 and airfix 1/72 lots of Napoleonic figures etc, priced at £25 to £50 per box i kid you not, i took the camera down asked to make a vid, opened them up and jeez, most of the ww2 was ok but the star of the show lrdg chevy and jeep £45 (missing the jeep) and the .Napoleonic figures all off sprue, some missing 25 counted from box of 42, some painted (badly), missing heads, all mixed up cavalry in infantry boxes was a right shit show, i showed them and told them sorry but some of this is pretty much worthless and the rest is over priced by 100%, walked out and it was all still there 3 months later last time i looked LOL. The Stirling vid is in the description box.
@@TheNoviceModeller I've just got back from Burton and I actually found three model kits in the charity shops, I didn't buy them because I don't do ships either. One was a crappy Chinese model of the Titanic for £10, a Revell 1/225 Battle Of Trafalgar Gift Set with HMS Victory in extremely battered box for £6.95 (bargain if complete) and an M&S Revell 1/146 HMS Victory Gift Set with the paints missing for £15.49. One day I may find some 1/35 armour or figure kits.
@@martinoconnor4314 Have just bought my first ship, a U.S cruiser. Not too sure whether i'd want to have a go at a HMS Victory yet and the Titanic well i know airfix do a couple of those so possibly this version was best avoided. hope you find the allusive armour kit soon.
Going to try stripping the paint off and turn it into a rusty junker as its missing a light and god only knows what else, so will be a good cheap test subject for learning new skills.
And are you a married man mate , and if so how do you get around to buying so many models and live ?? i get flak all the time but i continue to collect and build .Now because of lack of space i have gone to 1/144 scale kits and printed models , excellent detail for the size though 🙂
hello again @owdpotter; my favourite brand of whiskey is Singleton, i think that is the answer to your question LOL. I have a couple of 1/144 kits they will be in a "haul unboxing" tomorrow, though size was not a consideration when i bought them, i just NEEDED them if you know what i mean? Unfortunately when i started this RUclips lunacy & model making malarkey back in February i didn't really consider what to do with built kits, i am still to figure this conundrum out. good luck with your next build, i am sure your Mrs understands.
As the age old saying goes, one can't simply have too many Spitfires.... Nice haul there young Padawan.... £23 today, what does that get you, two pints? 😉😆😂🍻
You did well there mate...all the charity shops were i live just have old ornaments in them 👍
Thanks Alan, to be honest this was the sum total of countless visits over 4-6 weeks to my local charity shops and a few on a visit to another local town. LOL ornaments, clothing, books and DVD's are our charity shops regular stock also.
A decent haul - I started building model kits in 1955, and still at it ! 😁👍🏼 …..try Mister Muscle oven cleaner spray to remove the paint from the Citroen Avante.
Hello there @eugenegilleno9344 and thanks for watching. thanks a few people chipped in with suggestions for removing the citreon's paint, Mr Muscle won, not tried it yet but will do shortlky.
@@TheNoviceModeller Careful you don't use too much or you'll blister the plastic. (I used to manage the factory in Manchester where it's made & it's evil stuff not to be trifled with.)
If you squeeze all your Humbol glue in to an empty glass paint jar, then add chopped up sprue pieces and allow them to devolve, it makes quite good filler or ‘sprue goo’.
Hello again @IamNasman, yes i have heard of this concoction LOL. I was actually collecting sprues to have a go and then realised that i had about 30 sprue sets under the desk, will give it a go at some point i am sure though the sprues i methodically collected went to recycling.
The aircraft models all good, especially the MIG. BTW--They're not Bulgarian but rather, Hungarian markings. Re the car, AK makes a paint stripper you could use. Alternatively, just give it a sanding---perfect for your B&D 🙂Then you could experiment with matt and gloss clear coats straight from the rattle can to smooth out the finish. If nothing else, the charity shop has thanked you for buying, but I'd say you've done okay.
One of the lights is missing on the Citroen, thinking about stripping it and the practicing some heavy weathering on it.....rusty junker.
you could always do the puzzle as a monthley live stream for us billy no mates who get pissed and build plastic kits in our old age
Hello there @ianfoggin8263 and thanks for watching. A monthly live stream puzzle now theres an idea LOL. I reckons i will find something to do with it and some way to relate it to us old buggers.
Hi Andy. You have some good charity shops where you live. Most of the one where I live are full of old clothes, old people and tat. I will have to take a closer look from now on. So the models then. The two Spitfires are a good little bargain, you can,t go wrong with a Spitfire. The Citroen is different for sure.but it does have potential. I think that Airfix used to do 1/24 scale tanks and I vaguely remember that they did a Panzer III. So maybe do the Citroen in satin black as a German officers commissioned car parked next to the Panzer III. The its time to look for some figures, I am sure that there some out there, an officer and a tanker in early war uniforms. I used to be a member of a scalextric racing club and we used to put the Airfix 1/32nd scale car bodies on a scalextric car chassis, I did two VW Beetles. A 1960s British jet with the Aston parked next to it would be a nice vignette. Now the Mig21. This will be a nice kit to practice your spray painting on. There are a variety of paint schemes that you could do and the are many aftermarket decal sets out there if you wish to go for something different. Anyway for 24 quid you did alright. Well done buddy.
LOL that little lot took several weeks of searching, though not an issue as i always go for a rummage in the charity shops when i go to town. I'll probs strip the paint on the Citroen and practice extreme rusting, the Aston gloss black as per box, good practice for my icm merc 770 tourenwagen. The MIG for the price is a bargain, using the Indian markings would be interesting.
Brake fluid will remove enamel paint from plastic. Nice haul!
Hello there @mikes5637 and thanks for watching. Thanks i do like a charity shop rummage, seems lots of things will remove that nasty lumpy paint.
That's a great haul alright. Like the cars, Citroen in a ditch with a 1/48 tank passing by-diorama could be nice. Mig is a great score, there's plenty of interesting camo schemes - russian ones in Afghanistan, egyptian Nile valley scheme...
Thanks @griffn14, some good practice material, The Aston looks nice will give me gloss practice, the citreon i am thinking rust practice (after striping the paint) as its missing parts (rusty junker), doing one of the spits now for a workbuds birthday Man Utd (bleurgh) colour scheme. I like the Mig though am going to use the provided Indian markings No26 sqn "The Warriors", might get me a couple of Indian subscribers LOL.
Nice haul, i often frequent charity shops where i live mainly for book and dvd hunting but i have never seen model kits in any of them.
Hello there @Zero_Reaper13 and thanks for watching, I only started back with modelling in February, though like yourself i am a keen rummager in charity shops, mostly DVD's and books, never even thought of looking for kits until i saw the 1/72 Stirling and 2x 1/48 F-16's 6 weeks ago, now i am eagle eyed on my visits. TBH this is the accumulation of 4-6 weeks searching so the pickings are slim, but bargains are there to be had.
@TheNoviceModeller thanks for the reply, I think I will have to pay more attention in my visits and grab what I see even incomplete or started kits can be useful for kit bashing or testing new techniques I am currently trying my hand at foiling.
Will be uploading some "whats in the box" vids for the aston, citreon and the mig over the next few days, opening them up reveals some interesting issues LOL, the Aston and the citreon i will be using for practice purposes so yes even an incomplete or undesirable kit can be useful providing its the right price
Great haul, as a massive bond fan I’d have to do it in silver as his.
Hello there @simonrichards6739 and thanks for watching. an interesting idea......perhaps.
The brushes are good. I too have loads of those tubes of glue.
Hello there @fenman1954 and thanks for watching. You can never have enough brushes. I am about to make my original £15 Amazon set redundant and start with some new ones, hmmmmm which ones i am not sure, i seem to have a drawer full, tune in next week for paint brush chaos. The glue on the other hand i have no idea what to do with.
Nice haul, you did well.
Hello there @johnbollig2790 and thanks for watching. i do love rummaging for treasure in charity shops LOL.
Nice haul! Never seen anything like this in the charity shops round where I live. Soak the Heller "Traction Avant" painted parts in brake fluid. Should get the paint off without harming the plastic. By the way, the red/white/green chevron markings in the Mig 21 are post communist Hungarian!
Hello there @davidbrigenshaw8721 and thanks for watching, i picked up a 1/72 Stirling and two 1/48 F-16's from the one shop 6 weeks ago for £20 ruclips.net/video/URy_As0hKoU/видео.html i have been keeping my eyes peeled ever since, these have taken 4-6 weeks to assemble, so the picking are slim but there are bargains to be had. LOL yes someone else has pointed out my faux pas with the Hungarian, same colours easy mistake. The Citroen i will be stripping and will probs be trying some extreme weathering on ( not tried weathering yet), rusty junker i am thinking.
Not a bad haul shame about Citroen could have been good ,heard brake fluid works on paint dip a test piece first.
Cheers Steve, well you win some and you lose some, will do some investigations as to getting the paint off at some point.
Oven cleaner (Mr Muscle) will get rid of the paint. Spray it on ( outside) cover and leave for a couple of hours. Use gloves when handling just wash off the paint residue amd you are down to virigin plastic. Good luck!
Hello there @briankirwan6958 and thanks for watching. LOL had loads of recommendations for this problem, Mr Muscle was the most popular so will be having a go of this, using the Citroen sometime soon.
Brown Dettol bleach will shift it too, might need leaving in for 2-3 days.
Great model kit haul.....and for a low price. Enjoy.
Bill
Thanks Bill, to be honest took many trips over many weeks to accumulate these kits, but i do enjoy a charity shop rummage so all is good.
Revell, Mr hobby,paint remover,or your common dettol, antiseptic or similar, should do the job,of taking the paint off.
Thanks kits seems there are a lot of household items that may do the job
@@TheNoviceModeller well dettol,I believe does the trick,or buy a proper paint model stripper, but do not use airbrush cleaner or bleach lol
I accidentally found out that my ultrasonic cleaner that I use for motorcycle parts removes paint and zinc plating and doesn't affect plastic at all.
I have never had the need to chuck a model in it yet but it would be interesting to see what would happen.
@martinoconnor4314 It most likely look as if a bradly shot it to bits lol
@@Kitsnbits It'll do that to tin foil but It doesn't affect plastic, I've cleaned plenty of plastic bike parts in it before. It fetched the black paint off an airbox where someone had tried to pretty it up.
I've used Fairy Power Spray successfully for stripping paint of of models before. Also strips chrome off plastic parts as well.
At a glance it looks like it may be enamel paint. Wouldn't be surprised if it was due to the age of the kit.
Cheers Adam, i am sure i'll try do somthing with this at some point though as there is also a light missing may have to be a junker, good for weathering practice and excessive rust perhaps.
Fairy Power Spray doesn’t work nearly as well since they changed the formula about 15 years back, the lemon scented stuff is useless. Brown Dettol bleach works, but stinks.
If you haven’t done it yet. First try soaking overnight in 99% isopropyl alcohol first, if that doesn’t work oven cleaner should. Use the least toxic first
Hello there @ClydeThomas-i2c and thanks for watching. I think you are referring to the Citreon? no not had a go at it yet, though thanks, i have had a few suggestions on what to do and have a few other old kits (from a box from my attic from 20 years ago) that i want to strip and have another go at so will try a few suggestions on them.
I get paint of using dettol
Hello there @ellie26cat and thanks for watching. Thanks been recommended all sorts of household items for this task.
@@TheNoviceModellermixed 50/50 usually works
Revell pant remover will work fine or if you cant find that then everyday oven cleaner will also remove the paint.
Thanks @jaws848.......oven cleaner, well that an interesting suggestion thanks might give the Mr Muscle a go on it.
YOU DID OK SIR,THAT 1/43 CAR WOULD WORK WELL IN A FRENCH RESISTANCE ERA.YOU COULD ALWAYS GIVE A KIT TO A KID TO GET THEM INTERESTED IN MODEL BUILDING. DID THAT BACK IN 82,GIVE AWAY STAR WARS FIGHTERS TO CUSTOMERS KIDS.BOUGHT A STORE CLOSEOUT WHERE I WORKED.OVER A 1OO KITS FOR 25 DOLLARS..TAKE CARE
100 kits for $25 that sounds like a real steal whatever the year. The Citroen is missing a light so i am thinking of turning into a rusty junker, practice the weathering skills etc
SOUND LIKE A PLAN,WORKED RETAIL 55YRS SO THERE WERE MANY DEALS I MADE.TAKE CARE@@TheNoviceModeller
Very KkOoL kits
Thanks @Reset317 i do like a charity shop bargain.
Great buy for 20 pounds, the Mig is worth that, couple of Spitfires, Good old James Bond Aston Martin . The Citreon is an interesting scale, but certainly a challenge. There are goobs of paint stripping RUclips's about stripping, none of them work very well because you can't tell which kind of paint and how old it is.. You could try a 70 to 90% Alcohol, with tooth brush, , that's the cheapest way. Some of our paint strippers are called Mineral Spirits, ( turpentine could do t but etch the plastic which would be OK), from the tablet screen it looked like Enamels. Give it a good 24 hour soak. Or you could build as is, save it till November and but a firecracker in it for Guy Fawkes :-) The King looks good on that 20 quid note. Our money is so boring. You did well, Cheers Bob
cheers bob, not quite as good as my last charity shop haul, had a few suggestions about paint stripper, thinking about doing this as a rusty junker so thinking if the plastic gets scarred it will just add to the authenticity.
Hardly ever see kits in charity shops, and when I do, they're usually asking close to the RRP.
Hello there @fightersweep i regularly visit the 10 or so Charity shops in town, though i normally return empty handed, my best find to date was an Italeri Shorts Stirling 1/72 that i picked up for £9.99. ruclips.net/video/URy_As0hKoU/видео.html
@@TheNoviceModeller You certainly got a bargain with the Stirling. I would have been chuffed with that. Last kit I saw in a charity shop was a Revell/Matchbox Twin Otter but they wanted £14 for it. About the going rate. Do a lot of boot sales too, and there also, kits are hard to find. They must all still be squirreled away in people's lofts.
LOL well my most recent acqusition was 4 Starfix 1/72 and 1/48 kits for £4 each, i had to take one back as it was a box with sprues but the parts were gone. i am not going to complain about them being Starfix though, the last one i built i had much fun with. ruclips.net/video/NVHOCWlw0mk/видео.html
Do you sell kits on Ebay?
@@TheNoviceModeller Been selling a few on there from the stash. The realisation set in that the stash had exceeded probable life expectancy. Being a true modeller though, I'm still buying them as quickly as I shift them.
Caustic Sodas good for paint removal from model kits - make sure and wear gloves if doing this though
Hello there @wolfiesmith20007 and thanks for watching. I think i am going to try oven cleaner as this has also been recommended and i have it already.
The only kits I ever seem to see in charity shops are Airfix Lancaster bombers but I don't do things with wings. Why don't people ever seem to donate armour models?
I've never built a car model in my life (other than Jeep's and Kubelwagen's etc.) so I guess I'd have passed on them as well.
Hello there @martinoconnor4314 and thanks for watching. I picked up a Italeri Stirling 1/72 in my last vid, TBH i'd be very happy with an Airfix Lancaster. Fair point about armour kits though, not seen one one during mt charity shop rummages ......yet.
@@TheNoviceModeller I'm always nosing around in charity shops but I usually come out empty handed. In the last year I have seen two Lancs both priced at £20 each in different shops which to me seemed a bit expensive for old mould Airfix kits.
Ah well my Stirling was £9.99 off a 2014 moulding. £20 for an old Lanc is not a bargain, though a charity shop local to me had a load of Vintage Matchbox 1/72 ww2 and airfix 1/72 lots of Napoleonic figures etc, priced at £25 to £50 per box i kid you not, i took the camera down asked to make a vid, opened them up and jeez, most of the ww2 was ok but the star of the show lrdg chevy and jeep £45 (missing the jeep) and the .Napoleonic figures all off sprue, some missing 25 counted from box of 42, some painted (badly), missing heads, all mixed up cavalry in infantry boxes was a right shit show, i showed them and told them sorry but some of this is pretty much worthless and the rest is over priced by 100%, walked out and it was all still there 3 months later last time i looked LOL. The Stirling vid is in the description box.
@@TheNoviceModeller I've just got back from Burton and I actually found three model kits in the charity shops, I didn't buy them because I don't do ships either. One was a crappy Chinese model of the Titanic for £10, a Revell 1/225 Battle Of Trafalgar Gift Set with HMS Victory in extremely battered box for £6.95 (bargain if complete) and an M&S Revell 1/146 HMS Victory Gift Set with the paints missing for £15.49.
One day I may find some 1/35 armour or figure kits.
@@martinoconnor4314 Have just bought my first ship, a U.S cruiser. Not too sure whether i'd want to have a go at a HMS Victory yet and the Titanic well i know airfix do a couple of those so possibly this version was best avoided. hope you find the allusive armour kit soon.
You could make the french Citroen in a camouflage German occupation colours
I'm sure there lots of pics
Going to try stripping the paint off and turn it into a rusty junker as its missing a light and god only knows what else, so will be a good cheap test subject for learning new skills.
And are you a married man mate , and if so how do you get around to buying so many models and live ?? i get flak all the time but i continue to collect and build .Now because of lack of space i have gone to 1/144 scale kits and printed models , excellent detail for the size though 🙂
hello again @owdpotter; my favourite brand of whiskey is Singleton, i think that is the answer to your question LOL. I have a couple of 1/144 kits they will be in a "haul unboxing" tomorrow, though size was not a consideration when i bought them, i just NEEDED them if you know what i mean? Unfortunately when i started this RUclips lunacy & model making malarkey back in February i didn't really consider what to do with built kits, i am still to figure this conundrum out. good luck with your next build, i am sure your Mrs understands.
Mr. Muscle oven cleaner to strip paint
Hello there @stephenodonahue6569 and thanks for watching. Thanks I have some of that under the sink, so will probs give it a go.
As the age old saying goes, one can't simply have too many Spitfires....
Nice haul there young Padawan....
£23 today, what does that get you, two pints? 😉😆😂🍻
Indeed you can never have enough Spitfires. A Drinking establishment would not receive my custom if i could not get 4-5 pints for £23.