Old Crow order review

My Old Crow order arrived yesterday. But....you would not buy any more stuff? Well, I haven't....much. But not this order. I made a inquiry for items suitable for 20mm Sci-Fi back in July 2nd 2015, and then.....silence.

Lots and lots of silence.

Then October 13th a general Old Crow email arrives, aimed at (what I assume) was everyone who emailed him for the last 6 months or so, with apolagies and a offer for free postage. I got a reply on my more expanded request on the 15th of October and I made my order on the 21st using Crisis funds, with a confirmation and final quote on the 22nd. I was then told that his current workload it would take him about 2 weeks to get everything cast and ready to ship out.

But alas, it would take a bit more time then that, but on the 25th I got a reply that everything was ready to ship, I made my payment, and waited. But not for long :) Yesterday on the 2nd the small box arrived. I ha to wait till tonight to open it, so just made a group pic and did a head count. Uh oh, something doesn't add up.....

First, the overall shot:

Brilliant as always, with all that resin there is only 1 bubble on the underside of a base. So, that's like perfect :) The metal parts have some minor mouldlines but nothing that can't be fixed, the only problem I see is that 2 from the 3 twin gun miniturrets have 1 of their barrels miscast (only half ot it cast). I can snip em and drill in a new bit of brass rod no problem though. They are very delicate and that might even be smarter, brass rod is much more durable.

Anyway, I'm missing stuff.

My order:
25mm Fixed Turret Base; 4 Pounds x2 = 8 Pounds Check, ok

25mm Point Defence Turret; 4 Pounds x2 = 8 Pounds Check, ok

25mm Support Turret; 4,50 each x2 9 Pounds Check, ok

25mm Gun Barrels (30mm) pack of 6; 2,50 Pounds - I can't find any other then the 4 that go with the Support turrets? These are the ones I need for my tank conversion

15mm White metal laser turret on the Outrider and Glaive, I'd like 3 please. Price? Just the laser one was good enough, but I like the missile variant too, excellent.

6mm Small Double Barrel Gun Turret (10mm) pack of 6; 2 pounds Check, but there are only 3 and 2 have 1 of the guns miscast, around half length is missing?

And there is a small bag with 6 triple barrel mini turrets?

Ugh.

I see no real problems though. Jez is a stand up guy (if a very busy one) and people make mistakes, so I have emailed him and let him now what is the issue. The 25mm gun barrels are not even the biggest problem as I could use the ones from the Support Turret to get a head start on the tank conversion as I don't think I'll start any of the turret systems anytime soon.

But still, I'm having terrible luck with orders and trades lately.  The LE pre order starter model from the Antares game that was a gift from Portugal? Lost in the mail. The 2 Cars cars I overpaid for? Way damaged. The bottle of paint I managed to lose in an hour time? Ugh.
Anyway, I'll update this post as soon as Jez gets back to me.


Edit: Jez got back to me lastnight. Barrels will be sorted asap, miniturrets were his last remaining stock so he sent all, miscasts and everything, plus the 3 gun turrets as replacements for the incomplete 2 barrel ones. Grand service I say.

Old Crow Order - well reccomended

On the 20th of September I made an order with Old Crow. I did this cause I read on the Lead Adventure Forum, that although the site had not reopened, Jez was taking orders if you sent them to his emailadres. >> Jez at Old Crow

I wanted to make an order for over a year, I had selected a range of his 15mm turrets for Sci-Fi defences, but with his site offline, I didnt order them. I know many more people are doing the same due to the current state of the site.

After my email to Jez i got a reply in the evening of the same day, telling me the store was open and what the costs plus shipping would be for my order. I ordered:

 1x 25mm Comcen Turret (2.50) (2.50)

1x 25mm Fixed Turret base (3.00) (3.00)

7x 15mm Turret Base (1.00) (7.00)

8x 15mm Point Defence Turret (2.00) (16.00)

2x 15mm Multi Missile Turret (2.50) (5.00)

(small error on my part, the Point Defence turret name only applies to the 25mm model. I actually meant the Support turret in 15mm. Jez sent me a link the next day to his old site on the Wayback machine from which I got the correct name as I managed to confuse him)

The next day I got a Paypal request that I paid and in that same day again I got a message telling me my items would be cast and shipped next week.

My order arrived on friday the 3rd of October , 14 days after making initial contact. For a company that casts to order I find this to be extremely good, factoring in the week it takes  most packages to ship here from the UK.

My order:

The individual parts were packaged in zip lock bags, namely 1 bag of turret bases, 1 bag of Support turrets, 1 bag of Multi Missile turrets, 2 bags of Support Turret weapons (miniguns and large calibre guns) and 1 bag of Comcen turret bits. The 25mm Turret Base was unpackaged, and I don't see a point in bagging it so no problem there.

This gives me the following:

(I already own  3 turret bases I got in a 2nd hand 15mm Old Crow lot a while back)

2 Light SAMs, 8 Support turrets (which will be 4x Anti Personel and 4x Anti Vehicle) and 1 large Radar system.

Everything was cast to perfection, like I am well used to from Old Crow. Bubble free, the only ones remotely visible are on the sanded undersides and will be invisible once bits are glued together. I'm always amazed how good the quality actually is, I handle a lot of resin stuff for the hobby and Jez is always the best.

What am I going to do with these. Well, as you might have seen, Sci-Fi is not in my 12 Focus points lits and I have said I will not do Sci-Fi for a while. I am however now buying stuff for the future with the money from my sale, so I don't have to spend anything for most of 2015. Having said that, the Support turrets with the gatling guns would do nicely for my Stalker project, and the 25mm Radar can easily be used in Modern games as a objective.

Also, as you can see in the picture, a 20mm model shows how well these 15mm and 25mm items actually work in 20mm. The smaller ones work as unmanned, automated turrets, the larger 25mm Radar has a stairway that could easily be 20mm. I might add some details like panels to it to tie it more into the scale, but really, it  is good enough as it is.

In the future I'd like to pick up more 25mm bases and 25mm Tank Turrets and Support Turrets as they fire nicely overhead of the troops and are more in scale with 20mm tank turrets. But that's for another time and day.