søndag den 11. januar 2015

Lucky find and painted miniatures!

KAPOW! Holy batshit Batman!
This could be fun to try out... Well I think I got lucky at a small local sale. Amongst old books and pottery with flowers on....I found a black car and a fireengine. 





 As for that black car, I have had some people look at it and they agree that this is the 1966 model. The small plastic in the glass jar are to be shot out of the tubes, which are in working order. The small batmobile was part of the deal. The small one is from HUSKY and the big one is a Corgi Toys.


Merryweather Marquis fire tender from Dinky Toys. Good in scale and with the steering wheel in the right. We in Denmark (and most other places) have it in the left side. Just about full metal! I will most likely use it in zombie games but at some time I will give it to my older brother who collects fire engines. 

All cars.....£15. I do believe I made quite a bargain!


14 Genestealer hybrid cultist done and painted! That gives me 7 points and since I have bought other models this year...I will be at a +2.  Not bad when I finish the forgefathers and the zombies too. Keep the pace up and I might be able to keep it positive !

The latest project, I have some models that I will give a bit extra care. These are still a small secret but I will show some progress on my custom bases for them.
This was actually quite easy to do. Going through my bits box I have other things to put on as well. Just need the miniatures to be placed first. More to come on this.

22 kommentarer:

  1. I am interested in your custom bases... Those look like they will turn out very cool!

    That fire engine is neat, I love the hose in the side storage. I think it will look very good on the table.

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    1. In that case I will go more into the bases as I learn. These was quite easy to be honest

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  2. Nice vehicles dude! I use to own those Genestealer hybrids, back in the day.
    The bases look great too.

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    1. Got them for a good price and really just for a bit of fun.

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  3. I had one of those batmobiles as a kid. Oh, the memories :-)
    rumage, rumage..
    Found it! No figures in it though

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  4. Good find with the vehicles, Johnny. Your fire engine is much better than my cheap plastic Poundland model.

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    1. Pure luck finding that one I must admit!

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  5. Nice to see that you got your hands on that old batmobile great find.

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  6. Bargain finds will the batmobile match up with the 35mm Knight models figures? Great job with Stealer hybrids!

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    1. It is even too smal for the 25mm mate!!!

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  7. Good find. Kudos. And nice work on the Genestealer Hybrids. :)

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  8. Great find Johnny, I used to have the Batmobile, many moons ago!!!

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    1. It feels like just a couple ones ago.....

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  9. I think 15 pounds should get you at least 15 vehicles (damn poundlanders!), but those are some nice vintage models.

    I looked into the batmobile (Yeah that's what I do in my free time :D) and it seems like they were produced from 1966 - 1983. First series were just like yours (bats on tyres), but matt black. They were only producing them for 6 months, so they must be uber rare. Yours, with gloss black is apparently from 2nd series. Here you can see different versions if you want to play around:
    http://www.batmobile.free.fr/English/Intro_267.htm
    But basically, it's around 50 years old which is...very old. And it looks like new!

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    1. That is brilliant, thanks mate! Yes it does look very new.

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  10. Gret finds LS, all very useful and congratulations reducing the lead/plastic mountain even if it is just by two - great start to 2015.

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  11. I must say I do like those genestealer hybrids'.

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  12. Good work on the Vehicle finds, its always good when you luck out, also really like the Genestealer hybrids.....very cool man.

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