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  2. If only it were real. It would be barnfind heaven!
  3. Thats fantastic! What a great idea for a display. Malc.
  4. I just couldn't resist having another little play as I was clearing everything away.
  5. Your scrapyard just keeps on getting better and betterer! GTO mmmmm
  6. What a fabulous creation, execution and concept - clever display of the poster too - well done! TT
  7. This scrap yard diorama, which I’ve shown a couple of times before, only exists for a few hours at a time on my work bench when I’ve got some additional scrap vehicles to photograph. It’s been over a year since I last set it up. The latest wrecks are a Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz and a Pontiac GTO. The Caddy is a Maisto diecast, acquired relatively cheaply on Ebay as it had no box and faded chrome. It was also horribly pink, so I had a fun few hours giving it some junk yard patina. The Pontiac is an ERTL diecast, very cheap on Ebay because it was missing a couple of wheels. I had some spare Corvette wheels from a Revell kit - problem solved. I just gave that one a light kerbside aging, no under bonnet work yet. There's a link at the bottom to the Flickr album with a lot more photos. Flickr Album - 1/12th Scale Scrap Yard
  8. here ist the finished Thing from the WIP posting , slightly weathering, they where not really dirty too fast for the Dust to set 🤣 and a little detail painting come back from the Exhibition, comes the "Order" to write a Story abou it for our Printmagazine "Modell Panorama" ......
  9. Not really finished, gone to our Exhibition, nobody realize it.... here ist the finished Thing
  10. Last week
  11. Made some progress today: Next step is to paint it. I also managed to find an online shop selling the resin figures I was looking for. 😃
  12. Thanks Ian. I wasn't intending on using the oil bowser this time round, but I probably will at some point, so that is very useful stuff. So I was probably close with 25' by 25'. I can do 25' x 15', no problem. The bomb train has been worrying me a bit. According to the squadron operational records book, N6086 was loaded with four 2000lb AP bombs and a single 250lb GP. I guess the GP bomb was there as a marker, as the low charge to weight ratio in the AP bombs, around 8%, made spotting where they had gone difficult, particularly if they struck anything softer than a battleship. I have not been able to pin down a more accurate date for the introduction of the type C mkIII bomb trolley, which could carry two APs, than "by 1942", so I'm looking at four of the early type Cs plus either a fifth C, or a B, for the marker bomb. That's a lot of trolleys to sneak past SWMBO! Murray
  13. The individual concrete slabs for the peri-track measured 25' x 15' when I recorded them at my local former bomber station . . . If you are going to use the OIL bowser from the re-supply set then be aware that the chassis, and body, are too long and would look better and an improvement if you cut out 12mm from each section. Model wheel base measures 48mm (12ft) when actually it should be 36mm (9ft). (Airfix got it wrong ) Just in case you are so inclined . . . I haven't seen anybody else do this mod so it would make a pleasant change and a more accurate depiction on your diorama . . . Good luck with your idea and build Ian PS Having measured an actual OIL bowser, I scratch made one in 35th scale to accompany my HK Lancaster and it looks much better
  14. Thanks Keith, I'm rather proud of myself that I salvaged this little rascal instead of smashing it against the wall 😁. Thank you sir! The Motherland won't forget!
  15. Thanks, Paul. Obviously, I hope it turns out to be a nice project, but I fear that "plan" might be a strong word! 😁 Murray
  16. Weathered a bit, as they are coffee sticks and I am doing this as much from scratch as possible, I used, errrrm, coffee! Top one untouched, middle one right panel with weakish coffee, bottom one very strong coffee on the top and medium across the boards.
  17. Comrade, we go to squash Newts for the Motherland! A brilliant solution to your woes. Love it
  18. Small, well made (the water is great!) and interesting.... it draws you in! Well done on saving a small part of the kit! 👏 Keith 😁
  19. Thanks John. It turned out for the best, at least for the T-26 🙂 Thanks a lot!
  20. I have been so impressed with the dioramas I've come across that I have decided to try doing one myself, and I've not even finished the Mk I Male tank yet! So far I've just started on the trench supports, making them modular so I can keep adding as I go, the plan is to create a panel for each model that will fit together if I ever have enough space... Thanks to 'spoons for the coffee stirrers!
  21. That looks great! The turret, figure, water and shore are perfectly replicated. What a nice and unusual model.
  22. About a year ago I made a return to model making after a break of almost half a century. The model I chose to start with is a 1/72 scale Short Stirling mkI, which I will complete as N6086, "MacRobert's Reply", LS-F of XV Squadron. I want to display her, at the squadron base at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire, being bombed up on the morning of 18th December 1941, for a daylight attack on the battleship Gneisenau in the harbour at Brest. I have made a start by laminating two sheets of 5mm foam board to make a 10mm thick A2 sized base, which I will populate with the Italeri Stirling, a couple of vehicles from the Airfix Bomber Re-Supply set, Flightpath bomb and accumulator trolleys plus whatever figures my painting skills allow. The proverbial blank canvas. I want this to be a fairly quick base build, in contrast to the airframe which has been keeping me occupied for the last nine months, so I'm thinking of using abrasive paper, suitably primed and weathered, to represent the concrete taxiway and scenic scatter material for the grass areas. Anyone who has seen my WiP for the Stirling will know I'm on a steep learning curve and my ideas often run ahead of my current abilities, so we shall see how this turns out. I am already fretting over things like "What size were the concrete slabs that formed the perimeter track at Wyton?" and "How dark a green colour would the grass have been in December?"! I think I'm going with 25' squares for the slabs, based on the 50' width of standard taxiways later in the war and from looking at photographs of aircraft parked at Wyton on the 60s and 70s. As for the grass, I'm going with dark green for winter in East Anglia. More pictures next week! Onwards and Upwards, chaps. Murray
  23. That's a very clever way of dealing with a build that you've lost interest in. Nice weathering and that figure is superb. John.
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