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Title: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: GROGnadsUSA on February 08, 2022, 12:20:42 AM

Hoi y`all, as I've been kept busiest lately, while I also uncovered these here too: ""Raiden Miniatures U.K"" (http://www.raidenminiatures.co.uk/index.html) ](http://www.raidenminiatures.co.uk/resources/Genda+1+Web.jpg)
along with: ""ShapeWays 3D 'Plastic' Printing"" (https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/miniatures)
(https://images1.sw-cdn.net/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,gravity=auto,format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1920/product/picture/710x528_243475_561374_1616800535_1_0.jpg)
They're fairly inexpensive for what these provide in regards of 'details' or the like at what any are accustomed in purchases today.

Title: Re: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: bob48 on February 08, 2022, 06:10:56 AM

Those look nice.  :bigthumb:

Title: Re: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 08, 2022, 06:16:25 AM

that is a lot of detail on those ships

wow

Title: Re: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: Sir Slash on February 08, 2022, 11:44:51 AM

Yes, very pretty.  :applause:

Title: Re: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: GROGnadsUSA on February 09, 2022, 10:24:36 PM

Hoi, as I too shall concur upon their exquisite 'details' of vessels. I recall for when my purchases from "ALNAVCO"-(1:1200th 'scale' in mid-1970s) lacked much with theirs and these cost around the same amounts! I started off for obtaining them "Battle of the River Plate" participants and they didn't even have that 'H.M.S. Exeter', so, they substituted a 'Cumberland Class' "CA" instead?!? Luckily, there were the 'Model Kits'-(displayed below) that had become of avail later on, as they were much cheaper, and some even have alternate 'Decals'-(I recall this in particular with 'wavy-water camouflage' side-decals'! 
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gqIAAOSwzUFhuR3Q/s-l1600.jpg)
Plenty of the latest 'Kits' provide "Glue and Paints", as evidenced with the one shown below. It also cost much more today, than when I bought them initially even as recent from in the mid-1990s!
(https://web4.hobbylinc.com/gr/rvl/rvl66822.jpg)

Title: Re: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: bob48 on February 10, 2022, 05:36:50 AM

Is that 'Hornet' set up for the Dolittle raid?

Title: Re: Online 'Miniatures Sites'
Post by: GROGnadsUSA on February 12, 2022, 12:39:58 AM

Hoi and yes, as I also discovered that 'Kit' with "wavy-waves" all along its hull-length too. There are even some 'Aircraft' in this scale at the 'ShapeWays' site:
 ""Miniatures Sites""  (https://grognadsusa.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/additional-sites-of-miniatures-online/)
(https://grognadsusa.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/png-uss-hornet.png)