i just won these kits on ebay for a bargain, i know they are plaster, what are they like?
well detailed, easy to build?

verlinden italian farm ruin 1/35





verlinden european house ruin 1/35



cheers

joe

hi joe I only see the white with the red cross....

but mostly the verlinden buildings are ok aslong as they arnt damaged in the box.

guess you got 2 dio winners their

I'd agree with zero_cool. VP is pretty decent on detail of buildings. You realize you'll have some detail things to add like windows doors etc.
Even if they are cracked or broken take them out of the box carefully and reassemble them and use some white glue or some epoxy or even stronger yet pin and epoxy.
I've had to do that on occasion.

Be prepared they may have some damage as the plaster is usually damaged when shipped, this is not uncommon, but is almost always repairable. I am familiar with both kits they are good ones. You will enjoy them.

Hi Joe,
Some of verlinden kits have door and window details as resin parts in the box. I had both of those kits before,the detail is good and they look perfect when painted. As the other friends told ;(unfortunately)they usually come to you broken,especially if the surface of plaster is wide. Probably italian farm will be fine but european house will have some damages.(I wish not)..my european house was broken but it is easy to fix.
Willing to see your dioramas with VP buildings,I made the red dots visible

thanks for posting the pics for me graywolf,

thanks for the info guys, im waiting for the postman now! got some glue and polyfilla ready to fix any breakages.

cheers

joe

Have done them both - quite nice, especially the house which has super detail. Plaster does break a lot in shipping, which is why i have started doing all of my commercial work in Dental Plaster instead of the white plaster... it's about three times as strong. I was getting too many customers with broken kits until I changed. White plaster is easy to repair however, with a little "spackle" wall paste, and hey - what is one or two more cracks in a ruin, right?

spackle? i assume its the US equivelent of pollyfilla

http://www.polyfilla.com.au/

cheers

joe

got them this morning,

no need for any repairs, everything arrived in perfect condition

i bought them from an ebay store called panther models,

they had loads of VP, hornet etc and pretty cheap too,

id recommend them to any one over here, fast shipping, cheap, based down south i think

cheers

joe

the buildings look good, but i prefer doing my own
1. i cant find this verlinden kits in Romania and is hard to buy from abroad
2. i dont have problems during shiping
3. my buildins are not lookink like some hundred others