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For those wondering, YES, Old Crow IS a cast-on-demand company - and a ONE-MAN operation (mostly).

Jez's sculpts are good, and they are pre-finished for you (pre-sanded flat so that halves mate properly) so all you really have to do is glue them together.

I have two of the Sabres, two Claymores, a couple of Trojans and Geckos. I've had no issues with his castings - although atm, he is experiencing delays with the product (BIG WARNI
NG on his site).

Viktor von Domm wrote:i hope they work for you, for my taste they appear to be too much streamlined, i lkie the boxy looking tanks better...also i think the oldcrow models lack a bit too much details...well i guess there is alwaays the option to rivet them up...

The good thing about the Old Crow stuff is that you can always ADD more crap to them.
It gets tedious removing all of the rivets and skulls with spiky skulls from GW models.

For those wondering about the size of the OC Sabre tanks ... Here's a pic (another user on Lead Adventure forum, NOT mine).


It is flanked by two "Claymore" 8 wheeled carriers. They are approximately 7" long (can't tell from front) and 2 1/2" wide. The sabre is 6" long and approx 4" wide.

Viktor von Domm wrote:
if i recall correctly the oldcrow models are nearly one part isn´t it?

the larger ones are two part hull (upper/lower).

The smaller ones (4-6 wheel) tend to be single part hulls.

My Claymores are 2 part (upper/lower hulls + wheels and accessories).
The Gecko is one part hull+wheels and accessories.
The lancer is also two part hull.
Can't recall whether the Sabre was - I did too good a job of putting it together. I think it was two part hull.

Can't say for the rest, but an email to Jez would answer many questions.
(address is on his site.)

Yeah. Jez cleans up the castings himself before shipping.

No need to worry about removal of vents and gates, deburring or usual small crapola that FW don't seem to give a stuff about and have plastered all over their casts.

Surface was pre-keyed for painting, too.
The resin drills easily, and very cleanly (for magnetising).
(I have a vacuum attachment for my drill).

shasolenzabi wrote:
I am really thinking he has gotten too popular for just a two man operation.

I'd have to agree here. With his stuff being "official" for the Hammer's slammers miniatures game, AND also being seen in the AA (Ambush Alley) Tomorrow's War miniatures game as well, the demand has probably increased somewhat out of scale.

I heard that it was (the delays in parcel mail) due to a department of Homeless Insecurity decree;
To whit; NO parcel mail is to be carried on passenger flights, but instead must go on dedicated CARGO flights (better if they blow up a FedEx jet than a United, less PR backlash) into the USA.
This would delay airmail packages as they would have to wait for a slot on a cargo flight/subcontract to a dedicated carrier (I know FedEx and UPS DO have space on their aircraft fleet - they share ONE airfleet between them, after all, and do use it for carrying extra mail cargo, etc).

Doesn't have any delivery effects for anyone outside of the USofA, but the manufacturing delays due to demand are worse (Not that I wish Jez ill. I like his work).
I just had to find an alternate way to get the 4 pieces I needed (fortunately another WAU member was selling what I was after.)

Will be adding a couple of more sabres to my collection in a month or two. His resin pieces are top notch. The surfaces take paint readily, and the lack of ANY excess resin crap on them also says a lot about his pride in his work.

In the meantime, I've received a Gladius, Glaive, Halberd and Outrider (all with grav hulls) from a fellow on WAU - I was going to order them from Jez, but with the delays and all, it was just as easy to get them this way - easier, actually.

The speckly white is the resin's natural colour.

shasolenzabi wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol....

by the way... didn´t realized it the first time when you psted day and night...but did you prime the one black and the other white? or am i just dense?^^

Vik: Glad you like the little report. That is the raw, unprimed natural state of the models when pulled from the box
Chromedog: Correct! Old Crow sends out like that. No oily residue either I noted to my delight. Superglue bonded the pieces as if they were welded steel!

I've not had any issues gluing nor painting Jez's castings (unlike several other resin model makers). The surface takes paint readily and the pre-sanded flat surfaces that are meant to mate means that gluing it is a trick with some fast-acting glues. There was a little dust left on my casts from the sanding, but a quick wash took care of it.
Nothing like the heavy babygak-to-a-blanket stubborn FW mould release issues.

Nice to see there are other people who can see outside the GW box.

Just wish the blind fools at my club could see that.

In their eyes, it isn't 40k unless you use GW models painted with GW paints, using GW brushes (and waterpot), as well as the rules.

Still, they've only ever known a world where my local town has a GW store (it has just turned 17), and you can get a game of 40k in most anywhere.
I come from the days when GW had NO stores here, and using the models you had for stuff was more important than being a brand whore.
They have no idea about Battletech or other games (and what's more, don't care.) or life outside the GW hobby (That's GW's hobby, that is. Selling overpriced trinkets to underexperienced kids).

My previous clubs were also like that (like your store, Shas').

Those clubs are now in another city some 3-4 hours travel time away (each way).

The current club is comprised mostly of 16-20 year olds (who were 12-15 year olds when I started going to it.) with a handful of over 20s.

They never gamed in the 80s or 90s. They don't know the times before GW made their own plastic vehicles.
Their first 40k games were mid 3rd ed - some were 4th ed.

The oldest other regular player (there are 3 of us over 30), started playing in 2nd ed, the other one was an RT vet like me. They can see my pov. The younger ones remind me of the adage "there are none so blind as those who will not see."

The older guys see my Pig Iron tanks and go "cool.".
They see my outlaw biker rough riders and go "cool.".
They see my old Crow stuff and go "cool.".

The younger ones see them and go "GW tanks look better." but they also pooh-pooh GW stuff prior to 3rd ed (except the guard vehicles) as they are "too small" and "modelling for advantage".

My rant over. I'll see about getting shots of my own OC stuff. I have some of their grav tanks as well as wheeled and tracked.

Here's a pic of the Claymore (8 wheeler) with GW models for scale.


It needs a new turret - the missile one went to another tank (my guard manticore).
Sizewise, it's about 2" longer than a chimera and about 1" narrower than one.

The strapping young lads - they're just cadians with headswaps (wargames factory British Line infantry from their Zulu wars stuff).

The making of their crossed belts took the longest.

Need to get me some of those Lancer tracked transports.

SebastionSynn wrote:

found this posted here on dakka in the modelers help thread and after going to it and looking around, figured you might want to take a look yourself. this guy has some really nice stuff and as seen above is so very kind as to provide a size reference as well.

I like this model. The inclusion of both a beaky (RTB001) marine and an old Ral Partha 25mm Battletech/Mechwarrior figure show scale well.
Thanks for that.


As for Shadow Grey - it's just a darker shade of Space Wolf Grey (both of which are blue-greys - some people perceive them as more blue than they are - and cameras especially do - it's to do with ultraviolet reflectivity and stuff. Blues are like that.

I see you have the Rebel there (as well as the Sabre).

Is it a "technical" in the making?

Sanguinary Dan wrote:Definitely a Merkava. The rear compartment can carry troops, but you'd have to dump out ammo and other such. I'm told it's more of an emergency evac option than anything else.

The engine and diesel tanks are in front of the crew compartment and are indeed sealed behind armored bulkheads. They designed the "Chariot" for the highest possible levels of crew protection. Extremely logical for a country with much less population than any one of it's four neighbors.

They DO have a merkava hulled heavy APC though. The Namer (leopard). Replacement for the Achzarit (feminine hebrew for "Cruel", colloquially known as "bitch" by its crews) which was based off a T-54/t-55 (which were salvaged off their opponents during the various Arab-Israeli wars). Mate of mine used to serve in one (Achzarit) while in the IDF.

Took me a while to figure out what the hell "kleets" were.

I thought it might be something from a related, but different language (dutch uses 'k' where English uses 'a hard C' for instance), but then I realised you meant "Cleats".

Very nice detailed work.

My own sabres will have a hull mounted anti-personnel weapon, and no sponsons either.

There's a Hungarian vehicle that is similar but it is hooked up to a water tanker.

It's used to fight fires.

Blows a huge spray of mist at the fire. This cools the core below combustion temperatures. Not a water jet, but fine mist which absorbs much more heat.

As to the crawler, I saw that on "Dirty Jobs" (Mike Rowe got to grease one of them up and do some of the regular maintenance - while it was moving. The crew who work on it don't have much in the way of kind words for the beast.

It's an automatic one, I think.

The first part (speck with an 'i') IS an ethnic slur against Latin-Americans.*
Although the complete phrase is also an old slur on mixed heritage (Afro and Latin-Americans) from the 1950s.



*Possibly derived from Police shorthand. Spanish Person In Custody.

They are 25mm Old Crow resin model tanks.

Website: http://www.oldcrowmodels.co.uk/25vehicles.htm

Specifically, the LANCER (heavy assault carrier), Sabre (heavy tank) and Dragoon (half track).

The 8 wheeler is the Claymore heavy APC.

The Pejorative CAN be used with or without the 'k'.

I've seen it used both ways - and wiki also mentions this (not that wiki is always accurate).

Probably an all-inclusive or over-sensitive filter.

That an old Warzone Orca gunner in the buggy?

Shoulderpads mark him out as non-GW.

Just checking, as I think I've got a pair of them somewhere.