Fidelis Models Update and News

 

 

Update on the link it should work now.  My error.

 

 https://www.ebay.com/str/fidelismodels?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197

Fidelis Models where I have gotten models for over 25 years now has an eBay store.

My friend Randy owns Fidelis and before I retired and moved to Kentucky we used to wargame together almost weekly for over 20 years.  Now he is still working and I am playing with the army men full time.

 His website https://fidelismodels.com/ is primarily 1/87scale and similar small scale items.  His eBay store will likely have some of them in the future but for now he is selling military models that don't fit that category.

The first offerings on the eBay store are Dragon Models 1/6th scale World War Two era figures.  I have several of these exact figures and they are wonderful.  The detail is fantastic, the figures are very poseable and each figure has a unique head and face sculpt.  While I love my G.I. Joe figures these Dragon Figures are amazing.

Fidelis Models have also launched a new newsletter, and you can subscribe for free on their website.

  

 

Panzer IV Tank in Resin

 

https://fidelismodels.com/collections/87th-scale-artitec-main

Artitec resin model Panzer IV that I got from Fidelis Models.

Note the detail on the turret front.  One piece, wonderful.

Tracks, hull, and turret are three separate pieces.

It's just test fit, no sanding or gluing yet.

Other resin bits on the sprue.

These parts need to be carefully removed but look great when done.

They came in a little bag like this one.

Panzer IV

Artitec makes this nice 1/87 scale Panzzer IV Ausf. F1/F2 model.

It's a resin kit.

https://fidelismodels.com/collections/87th-scale-artitec-main 

I got the model from my friend Randy at Fidelis Models.

The instructions are simple but plenty good enough.

The main gun and small decal sheet.

Flipped over.  No flash, excellent resin model.
 

How to Fix Floppy Cannon Syndrome

 Nobody likes a Roco Minitank with a floppy tank main gun. Here is how to fix the problem.

Take a piece of very thin plastic card.

Cut a tiny circle of the card and glue it to one side of the inside of the tank turret where the pin from the tank cannon fits.

Press the plastic down good and tight, so it is completely glued in place.

Once it's dry, I wait overnight, pull the tank turret apart, gently and insert the cannon into the hole.

Now your gun barrel won't be all floppy and droopy.

Now your M60A1 tank is again ready to fight communism.
 

M4A6 Sherman Tank

Sherman M4A6 tank and US Army troops training in late 1944.

The M4A6 had a diesel engine and was more fuel efficient than the gasoline Shermans.

 They were relegated to training and testing.

Only 75 were made out of an initial contract for 775.

This one is made by Heiser Models, resin with plastic detail parts, easy to assemble.

I got it from Fidelis Models, Poway, California, owned by my friend Randy.

Soviet Tank Company

Soviet command post, 1942.  Made out of sheet styrene for the base, dyed gauze for the netting, and sprue for the "wooden" supports.

Soviet T-26 tanks prepare to move out to support a limited infantry counter attack.

Heavy armored cars will provide flank security in their role as cavalry.

The tanks are slow but the armor is good.

Supply horse and limbers for the infantry guns.

Machine gun armed tanks in the front to defeat infantry weapons.

Wasserfall Surface to Air Missile

This is a launch pad for a surface to air missile.

This is the Wasserfall missile by ArsenalM.

It's a really neat model of an experimental World War Two German surface to air guided missile.  It's HO scale and pretty easy to put together for a resin and PE model.

It was radio guided and was supposed to be launched and then directed to explode when in proximity to a B-17 or other heavy bomber.

It was almost good enough to be fielded but too late to matter.

I use this ArsenalM trailer as a launch control vehicle.  I got these from my friend Randy at Fidelis Models.   https://www.fidelismodels.com/product/Arsenal_91054.html

The Mother Lode

I have been saving up for months and I got the mother lode of hobby stuff.

Living in rural Kentucky is great, but the hobby shops are very poor.  It is pretty much Hobby Lobby and not much else.  

So I mail ordered a ton of stuff from my best friend Randy of Fidelis Models.

He and I go way back and we worked at a lot of places over the years and he was best man at my wedding.  So he really is my best friend.  And Fidelis Models is my favorite hobby shop for HO stuff.

I got Roco, and decals, and Shatton, and Peddinghaus, and lots of good stuff.

The "new" Roco Sheridan actually has a gun shield for the commander, very cool.

I got both WWII and Modern era vehicles.  US and German stuff.  No Soviet or Russian this time.

I like this little tank from Shatton.  Very nice resin kit, looks easy to put together.

I got five Paul Heiser Models M4A6 tanks with the extended hull for the large engine.  The M4A6 only served in the USA and was used for training.  They made about 75 of them, so more than a battalions worth.  Paul Heiser is also a good friend, I have been to his house many times.  I remember my late wife had called him and purchased a secret stash of models for me for Christmas.  Paul snuck over to my house and put them in the mailbox, and I caught him just as he was closing the door on the mailbox.  Hi Paul, watcha doing?  Busted.  He is very a very nice man and makes great products.

I got a bunch of WWII German decals for my railway guns from Lima and my Karl mortars.  Of course you will be seeing more of these models over the next few days, weeks, and years.  Fidelis Models.  Check them out.   Free shipping on orders over $75 in the USA.   https://www.fidelismodels.com/

Pepsi Truck

This is a 1937 Pepsi Cola bottle truck.

It's very streamlined.

Military bases in World War Two, stateside, would have trucks like this deliver cool beverages to the troops.

It is an odd looking truck.

I think it was intended to represent a tractor cab with trailer as a one piece model.

It's long out of production, but you can still get them here:  https://www.fidelismodels.com/product/Golden_Wheel_18212_1937.html