Jump to content
Playing in the Sandbox Group Build Sept 1, 2024 - Jn 1, 2025

Soo.... What did you just get???

Dave J

By Dave J
in Modelling Discussion

 Share

Recommended Posts

GazzaS

GazzaS

Posted
Posted
13 hours ago, GusMac said:

You'd have thought with all that schlepping up and down Alps that the Gebirgsjager wouldn't have such pencil legs??

Or maybe it's just very baggy shorts! 😕

After looking at the German helmets that friends and others have...   I've come to the conclusion that most of those German soldiers were skinny little fellas.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted

Today, I wanted to settle on my bench and start some building and exactly the moment, I switched on the light, it honked in front of my house and the Transportista brought my eagerly awaited new cartridge for my turntable. The old one broke a week ago. I have a second turntable, but to be without my prime one, is like somebody gave you ten new WNW kits, but took away your Tamiya Extra Thin.
No building time then, it's setting up the new cartridge an exhausting task to do, not knowing if it is a real success. After eight hours of adjusting and test hearing, it seem, like everything works and I have an able substitute for my trusty old Benz Micro Ace.

IMG_0308.thumb.JPG.819414bda77f9bb1298ecdbd95a1e574.JPG

Cheers Rob

  • Like 11
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
belugawhaleman

belugawhaleman

Posted
Posted

Yup, got another one. This one came from Tower Hobbies today.

From Tamiya it's their Russian Heavy Tank KV-2 (35375). I've heard good reviews

of this 2021 release and despite its weird looks, I decided to give it a go. 

      Oddly enough, whenever I see this tank, I'm reminded of a parrot our family once

owned.  Ramon,   (the parrots name) was an ungainly, gaunt, bird with an enormous head

and beak. It never could be taught to speak and was afraid of people. This tank's  big

turret and gun - very like Ramon's head....to me at least. Anyway, the kit looks good.

The tracks are the Tamiya link & length type with great detail and the turret has nice

metal texture detail. 

IMG_20220824_141045_kindlephoto-56221342.jpg

  • Like 8
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted
19 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Fantastic and enjoy🔊

 

19 hours ago, harv said:

Saweeet !....harv

Muchas gracias hombres, seems to be a decent cartridge, but I have still a lot of testing and adjusting to do. Setting up a turntable is not an easy task, when it should done be perfectly. For pure relaxation, I put the also new Tool vinyl on last night and this is one of the best sounding records, I ever heard. Grinding metal / post prog rock, but with unbelievable detail and depth with absolutely clear focusing and soundstageing.

Cheers Rob

  • Like 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted
21 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Today, new Tamiya 32nd scale stash additions

Nice catch Peter, I have built the birdcage as my first model, reentering the hobby, when it came out. I loved the kit and just today bought the -1A variant along with some goodies. I would have preferred the -D, as I never did a GSB paintjob, but there was a mixup with the dealer and now it's tritone -1A time.
My favorite though is the birdcage with the early colors and only stars no bars, but I rarely do builds, I've already done. I hope for one of your magic WIP's on the gullwing.

Cheers Rob

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
KevinM

KevinM

Posted
Posted

 

Rob that looks heavy I can imagine the balancing act that had to done.I finally lost my Marantz SR225 I bought in 1980 lost the right channel so I p/u a Sony basic 2ch 100w/ch.I had bumped the turn table while messing around but some how it through the arm out of balance I did not want to play with it and got some double side tape and put a dime all the way to the back before the fulcrum it worked(trial/error):hsmack:

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
GusMac

GusMac

Posted
Posted
6 hours ago, DocRob said:

 

Muchas gracias hombres, seems to be a decent cartridge, but I have still a lot of testing and adjusting to do. Setting up a turntable is not an easy task, when it should done be perfectly. For pure relaxation, I put the also new Tool vinyl on last night and this is one of the best sounding records, I ever heard. Grinding metal / post prog rock, but with unbelievable detail and depth with absolutely clear focusing and soundstageing.

Cheers Rob

Totally agree Rob, you have to listen to Tool on something quality. So many layers and Danny's drumming to drool over.

  • Like 3
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, KevinM said:

Rob that looks heavy I can imagine the balancing act that had to done.I finally lost my Marantz SR225 I bought in 1980 lost the right channel so I p/u a Sony basic 2ch 100w/ch.I had bumped the turn table while messing around but some how it through the arm out of balance I did not want to play with it and got some double side tape and put a dime all the way to the back before the fulcrum it worked(trial/error):hsmack:

The new cartridge is only some grams, but the turntable has 25 kg onto a 15 kg slate base. 
I love big vintage amps, so I can feel your pain. I once had one set up for quadro sound, with a joystick for balancing the four channels, pretty cool. It had wooden sides and all the classic looks. Loved it, but the capacitors of amps are prone to ageing, sadly. 
Your turntable tweak doesn't sound hifi to me :D. Hopefully your dime isn't inflation ridden :D. 

Cheers Rob

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, Peterpools said:

Thanks Rob ad I'm planning on hopefully building a few more Corsairs this year: F4U-1A and the Birdcage. Just love those Tamiya kits and if you have any photographs of your Birdcage, love to see it.

I have only bad ones Peter, by the time I still had a big mistrust into digital photographing (which is not completely gone by now) and was mostly taking slides. The Corsair was my first model reentering the hobby and I wanted to do it right. I added a Brassin cockpit and engine along with the wheels. I wanted to make the cowls removable, as I wired the engine to show all the detail, but failed with that. I tried three different set of cowlings, the thinned kit ones, the resin ones from Brassin and some made of soldered brass parts, but it didn't work as I liked. In the end, I had to glue the cowlings in place.
The markings were sprayed, using the great Maketar masks. It was quite a project for the first kit after a pause of maybe thirty years, but I loved it and the result was ok to my eyes. When I left Berlin, I gave the Corsair to a very good friend as a present.

Cheers Rob

C1.thumb.JPG.df6ef2bd1d310e60f0f4d17127599171.JPG

C2.thumb.JPG.3b6979da1cbb34b442180cfdcc1d6f5c.JPG

C4.thumb.JPG.dcf96cbcbfa9d4a7d94ee5adb0c2a2c3.JPG

C7.thumb.JPG.654b7322570743e66435e51e532041d1.JPG

  • Like 6
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, GusMac said:

Totally agree Rob, you have to listen to Tool on something quality. So many layers and Danny's drumming to drool over.

I love it, when the recording fits to the music, which is definitely the case with Fear Inoculum. There are so many great albums out there, which suffer only by the subpar production of the music. With Tool, everything clicks, powerful and detailed sound which even in the heaviest passages remains cristal clear.
You are absolutely right about the drumming. It's great to hear drummers, who not only define themselves as a rhythm section, but an indispensable part of musical creativity. What happened to The Who without the driving force of Keith Moon or would The Police would have been the same without Stewart Copeland?

Cheers Rob

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
KevinM

KevinM

Posted
Posted
35 minutes ago, DocRob said:

With Tool, everything clicks, powerful and detailed sound

:wtf:is that?I hated as of now I cannot get my Onkyo equalizer to work with the new receiver I tune it for my ears.Rob that Corsair was great looking build for a re-entry you sure you're not pulling my leg:D

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
KevinM

KevinM

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, DocRob said:

Nice Kevin, is there a lifeboat on the first pic?

It could of been today Rob it's wet I hit a storm going to Mobile with 1/2" rain rate could not see the horizon at all for much of 30/40miles then on the way back hit a 1' rain rate for about 25 miles some streets had 8" rain for a long ways.:hsmack:

  • Sad 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
DocRob

DocRob

Posted
Posted
14 minutes ago, KevinM said:

:wtf:is that?I hated as of now I cannot get my Onkyo equalizer to work with the new receiver I tune it for my ears.Rob that Corsair was great looking build for a re-entry you sure you're not pulling my leg:D

Get rid of equalizers Kevin, they don't do any good for the sound of a solid hifi equipment. To much bad influences through the potentiometers. My amps don't even have a bass or treble setting and I don't miss it (not entirely true, my latest amp has the possibility of adjusting the sound, but I never used it).
Tool is a band a bit off the trotten path, post prog rock / metal style.

Cheers Rob 

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...