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Cool! I remember how neat those kits were from my earliest days of leafing through the Walthers catalogue and daydreaming about kits I’d buy and build someday. I had their machine shop, that kit with the two little stores in it, but no others. These were such neat things that seemed rare in the hobby, then as now, for the way they used these large metal castings for walls (the machine shop was really just three or four castings with everything cast in place) so falling somewhere between the simplicity of the classic AHM-style snap together kit but with detail we might expect from something a little more involved.
I’m so glad you found this kit in your stash, built it, and shared that with us. What a fantastic hit of memory. I love it.
Chris
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Thanks Chris! I painted up a few of these in my miss-spent youth. I remember one with a small windmill, but there was a whole series which fascinated me.
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Oh my gosh! Yes! Now that we’re remembering together there were more! I’m sure a few moments on Google would help me to remember but this approach is more fun. I think there was probably a moonshine still kit and one charming little station. Come to think of it wasn’t there also a really neat little open sawmill?
Chris
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Yes Chris, there was a fairly extensive series of these “scenes”. Additionally, there was one with a hunter, they did a cemetery, a town square, etc.
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I remember one with a kid on a tire swing. I think I made that one as a gift for my Mother, under one of those little glass domes.
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Great work Jeff! I have a couple of these in my stash and some other buildings, etc. from my attempts to get into being a railroad modeler and/or model railroader. (There’s a difference in my humble opinion.)
I have considered just modeling HO scale model railroad structures on their own, with no model railroad. I was inspired to do this when I found out a well known, and long-standing cointributor to Model Railroader magazine did just that. He modeled buildings, and buildings only, and has never had a model railroad. 🙂
Why do you think it’s unusual for Soviet militia to be drilling with Mosin-Nagants?
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Thanks Warren! I have made fitful starts on HO scale layouts a couple of times. I was more interested in modeling the scenery and trains than in trying to replicate prototypical operations.
Sorry for the ambiguity in my wording – I found the poses of the figures to be unusual, not the weapons. IMHO the most useful figures are the most casual, the “action” poses much less so. I can’t imagine how I would ever use two identical marching partisan figures. Now if they were eating their lunch or having a conversation – that I could use.
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D’oh! I get it now. I too prefer casual poses. I can remember many years ago how excited I was when Tamiya first released their German soldiers at rest kit, and others followed. Finally! We could now model something other than combat.
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That looks great. I’d not seen that hut before. It is a rather nice model really.
The diorama you’ve done is very nice too. I like the autumn colours.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete, I’m far enough along now that I can’t always remember what I have in the stash!
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Love the little Hut Jeff, well done again, I do like these little Dios you are producing now!!
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Thanks Pat, high praise coming from you!
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