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davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -If you find yourself in BSE, try Model Junction in Whiting Street. They have a good stock of all that sort of thing, including balsa (not sure if they have dowels, but I'm sure they'd be able to get some in). I get a lot of my airbrush paints for lure making from there.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
OLDESOX wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:44 -here you go guys great service and lots of luvrrly fings to buy;By Email
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By Phone
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Units 8B-11, The Raveningham Centre
Beccles Road, Raveningham
Norwich, Norfolk
NR14 6NU
Steve Dennington wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:49 -Cheers Steve. Where’s Whiting Street please?Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -If you find yourself in BSE, try Model Junction in Whiting Street. They have a good stock of all that sort of thing, including balsa (not sure if they have dowels, but I'm sure they'd be able to get some in). I get a lot of my airbrush paints for lure making from there.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 15:19 -It’s the very worst thing about getting older. I absolutely hate change! Virtually every little patch of wilderness we played around on as kids has now been covered with featureless, boring housing estates.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:25 -My 'worst thing about getting older' is my knees!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 15:19 -It’s the very worst thing about getting older. I absolutely hate change! Virtually every little patch of wilderness we played around on as kids has now been covered with featureless, boring housing estates.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:24 -It's the road that leads off the Buttermarket (southern end), to the right after you pass what is now Wetherspoons, heading towards Angel HillSteve Dennington wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:49 -Cheers Steve. Where’s Whiting Street please?Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -If you find yourself in BSE, try Model Junction in Whiting Street. They have a good stock of all that sort of thing, including balsa (not sure if they have dowels, but I'm sure they'd be able to get some in). I get a lot of my airbrush paints for lure making from there.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Steve Dennington wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:41 -Angel Hill, that’s where the buses pick up? At the end of the road heading down to the Abbey Gardens from the market square?Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:24 -It's the road that leads off the Buttermarket (southern end), to the right after you pass what is now Wetherspoons, heading towards Angel HillSteve Dennington wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:49 -Cheers Steve. Where’s Whiting Street please?Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -If you find yourself in BSE, try Model Junction in Whiting Street. They have a good stock of all that sort of thing, including balsa (not sure if they have dowels, but I'm sure they'd be able to get some in). I get a lot of my airbrush paints for lure making from there.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
davelumb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:34 -Think yourself lucky those monkeys have taken the strain for you down the years. My knees are fecked. My back is ruined. My wrists are destroyed and my hips are starting to play up.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:25 -My 'worst thing about getting older' is my knees!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 15:19 -It’s the very worst thing about getting older. I absolutely hate change! Virtually every little patch of wilderness we played around on as kids has now been covered with featureless, boring housing estates.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 18:38 -davelumb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:34 -Think yourself lucky those monkeys have taken the strain for you down the years. My knees are fecked. My back is ruined. My wrists are destroyed and my hips are starting to play up.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:25 -My 'worst thing about getting older' is my knees!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 15:19 -It’s the very worst thing about getting older. I absolutely hate change! Virtually every little patch of wilderness we played around on as kids has now been covered with featureless, boring housing estates.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Listen kids. Don’t get involved with the building game.
…they pay good money for a reason!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:25 -The village I'm from has changed big style, Farm yards are now plush houses, orchard's that were prime scrumping places, gone all leveled for houses. Ok I'm too old to go scrumping now and it's a long way to go to France or South Africa to scrump apples......let's face it that's where most of our apples are grown now.davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 15:19 -It’s the very worst thing about getting older. I absolutely hate change! Virtually every little patch of wilderness we played around on as kids has now been covered with featureless, boring housing estates.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 18:33 -That's itAngel Hill, that’s where the buses pick up? At the end of the road heading down to the Abbey Gardens from the market square?
Crackoff wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 01:16 -https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142315862045 ... BM1LGkxMBjI have 1 or 2 rings that need re whipping that was sealed with varnish back in the day.
I don't want to buy a full tin of resin.
Could I use clear nail resin?
As I have some left over
Cheers guys.
Grant
Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:24 -make my rods that way and still have ones 50yrs later[ in my oldies rackThe local tackle shop owner taught me the secret to the high gloss finish he finished rod eyes with Grant. Forget using a brush. Just make sure your hands are clean and use a finger tip to apply the varnish. It takes lots and lots of coats but the finish is flawless.
]OLDESOX wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03 2024 15:03 -You and me both OS.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:24 -make my rods that way and still have ones 50yrs later[ in my oldies rackThe local tackle shop owner taught me the secret to the high gloss finish he finished rod eyes with Grant. Forget using a brush. Just make sure your hands are clean and use a finger tip to apply the varnish. It takes lots and lots of coats but the finish is flawless.
martin(rockape) wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 21:14 -It’s terrible eh Martin?Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01 2024 17:25 -The village I'm from has changed big style, Farm yards are now plush houses, orchard's that were prime scrumping places, gone all leveled for houses. Ok I'm too old to go scrumping now and it's a long way to go to France or South Africa to scrump apples......let's face it that's where most of our apples are grown now.davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 15:19 -It’s the very worst thing about getting older. I absolutely hate change! Virtually every little patch of wilderness we played around on as kids has now been covered with featureless, boring housing estates.Chris Hammond wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29 2024 14:19 -My childhood hobby shop is now an eastern European mini-mart.davelumb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28 2024 09:22 -I went to a local toy shop last week that used to keep modelling stuff, specifically to buy some Humbrol or Revell paint. Sadly they no longer stock it, nor the balsa dowel I’ve used for float making for years.How about a small tin of Humbrol varnish from the model shop like we used to use? About ten coats will make a nice job!
Regards
Martin
