IJN Grey-green - either Tamiya or Mr Color
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Not exactly the most glamorous thing to arrive at the workbench, but I’m strangely excited about this one. 
Four feet of 30"-wide Oramask 810. I bought a Cricut recently and wanted some masking material so I can start making my own paint masks for markings, stripes, insignia, etc. I’m told this is some of the best stuff for low-tack masking on model aircraft, but it’s surprisingly hard to find except in big rolls.
The funny part was that the shipping cost more than the masking material, so I figured if I was going to pay for shipping, I might as well buy enough that I’d never have to order it again.
Now that I’ve actually seen the roll, I think I succeeded. 
Has anybody here used Oramask 810 for making model masks? Any hints, tips, or tricks I should know before I start cutting into my lifetime supply?
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I forgot to show these pics from long ago.
This is what I have to put up with cleaning and organizing my friend’s house after he passed away. I can have any of his model kit items, but what I’m finding has been opened up and is missing parts. What the hell am I supposed to do with leftover parts? 
Eventually, I’ll find a purpose for some of this stuff. Hopefully.
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This must be really challenging, going through your friend’s modeling stuff and trying to sort everything out and figure out what should go with what.
And I don’t want to immediately go into fix-it mode if you’re really just venting a little. Sometimes you just want to tell people what’s going on without everybody jumping in with solutions.
But if you are looking for ideas, a couple of things came to mind.
I actually bought a set of B-1 wings on eBay from somebody who was parting out a kit, because I needed the wings and didn’t need an entire B-1 just to get them. Since you’ve already sorted out what belongs to what, you could bag up the leftover parts from individual kits and list them cheaply as miscellaneous parts. Somebody may be looking for exactly the oddball piece you have.
Or you might take some of it to a local IPMS club and simply give it away. The styrene and miscellaneous parts could be useful to somebody for scratch-building or as spare parts.
And if none of that is worth the effort, there’s nothing wrong with eventually deciding you’ve done enough and letting some of it go.
But mostly, I can imagine this isn’t an easy collection to have to sort through.
I have waited a long time (3 years!) to get this resin kit of the Nupitiet Vergnitz, Breetai’s command ship from the anime movie “Macross:Do You Remember Love?”
Is it only me that thinks this ship bears a remarkable resemblance to Oumuamua, the mysterious interstellar visitor that whizzed through our solar system?
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That looks like a nice set of tools and a good case that’s that’s a good win!
I’ve been on these smallish early war tanks lately,this one came at a very good total price from Japan on ebay.
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I needed a means of cutting a 25ga stainless steel hypodermic needle to act as a replacement 20mm gun barrel at 1:72 scale… HammerBarn provides…
I’m covered for eye protection, but can’t deny I’m still slightly intimidated by using a high-speed tool (engraver) to cut an item designed to pierce the skin 
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Would be a little awkward explaining in the ER 
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The accumulation continues here. My stash, I’ve determined, is technically a liquid – every time I reorganize or get rid of a bunch of stuff, the stash simply fills the empty space, taking the shape of the container – my hobby room.
I am on a continual quest to buy kits of equipment that the Finns used during WWII. I’ll have to convert these figures’ uniforms and gear to Finnish, but that should be doable.
Tamiya makes a nice Finnish StuG – “Sturmi” – kit, but reviews suggest this Takom kit is the superior out-of-the-box StuG. We’ll see. In any case, I can use the Finnish crew and assorted bits from the Tamiya box.
And I can’t resist esoteric books.
I have a lot of books on Finnish WWII aircraft, mostly by the same authors (Kari Stenman, I’m your biggest American fan!) but I always grab them when I see them because I never know when a photo or detail will be totally new to me. Like the captured P-40M here. It’s the same airframe I modeled in its Soviet paint a couple winters ago, and I’ve wanted to do this Finnish version but I’ve only ever seen a tiny, underexposed version of this one photo of the bird. This, though… this is something to work with.
These are just neat. The PE-2 book was in the free pile at a recent club meeting, and the Yak-9 book is dense with detail and photos.
Check out this diorama just waiting to be built:
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Yeah that would be a full facemask for me I think. I had one of those little Dremel wheels come apart in use once and it bounced right off the eye protection I was luckily wearing (I didn’t always). I would be blind in one eye today without them.
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A nice haul,i really enjoyed the move The Winter War-Talvisota several years ago.
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There are some great Finnish war movies – all versions of “Talvisota” are worth watching. Huge outdoor set pieces, great practical effects.
“Tali-Ihantala 1944” has lots of good StuG and T-34 action. “Ambush” from 1999 is a bit slower but captures the feel of the war-torn countryside. And of course Väinö Linna’s classic war novel “The Unknown Soldier” was just made into a movie (for the second or third time) in 2017, and it’s excellent as well. Has that modern “Saving Private Ryan” aesthetic.
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This makes me happy.
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Holy cow, that’s amazing!! That refection and weathering are soooo coool!!!
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For my birthday last month I bit the bullet and paid the insane shipping for some harder-to-find models from Hobby Link Japan. I only even knew about that outfit due to this forum – I think it was either @PhoenixG or @RealG that sent me there first, a couple years ago – and have been drooling over their selection ever since.
I’ve actually got two 1/72 scale boxings of the Heinkel He115, a Matchbox and a Revell, but I’ve really found myself enjoying the 1/48 aircraft more and… wait… this thing is huge.
It’s an impressive kit, and a bit of a daunting project. It also came with a photoetch fret and a baggie of resin parts, including engines. That said, the bag inside was cut open… hoping nothing’s missing.
Then there’s this extremely well-reviewed RFM KV-1 which I plan to build up as one of the two Finnish-captured examples.
No more posts from me in this thread for a while! 
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My apologies, Toimi Tom, for poisoning your mind and wallet! Shipping from HLJ these days is exorbitant, so much so that I have stopped buying from them. But you got some cool models! That He-115 has huge wings like a He-111. And Rye field Models is a quality company, so you know you are getting a great kit inside the box.
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