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  2. Hey guys😉 The stool looks like this Then I prepared the handles and lids for the oil cans Made with teakwood and thick plywood , they are going to the paint booth with the tool box The container of floor paint is finished See you😎
  3. Hi Noel, the scale will be 1:35 which should mean that I can use it after the build for diorama settings. I plan to build as much of this as I can with styrofoam type materials, balsa wood, coffee stirrers and straws etc. Any small items, such as junction boxes and window latches etc., could be 3D printed. I hope to start on this after my builds for the "Give peace a chance" GB are competed. I just need to get help with the dimensions as all I have is those photographs. If anyone is visiting Alsace in the near future and happens to have a 10m tape measure with them. cheers, Mike
  4. I live about a ten minute drive from the museum some of the finest scenic modelling you will ever see the attention to detail is phenomenal! Check out the videos on you tube!
  5. Anyone else using this forum visit Pendon?
  6. I don't think that I have seen what scale this diorama will be built in Mike. Looks a nice interesting little courtyard for this project. There may be some proprietary stuff available depending on the scale from model suppliers like Slaters that might fit the bill.
  7. That is indeed where the inspiration for this build comes from Malpaso. Unfortunately no-one makes a Ford Model T Roadster in 1/35 so I will either use some "artistic licence" and just have to use one of the Roadster Pick-ups from the ICM kit as is, or try and convert it somehow to look more like a Roadster. Luckily I have two, so one to experiment on and if that fails back to plan A.
  8. Last week
  9. So lights. I have a large set of leds that could work It looks like suspended lights were on every other length and every other row. So 10 leds should do it. Test placing them in I would normally run the cables between an inner & outer roof, but there won’t be inner & outers here so they will need to follow the girders. I think I will wrap the wires to the girders and glue the lights in place. Then solder them all up & spray the whole frames, wires and all. The section of roof just inside the doors has a cross brace running side to side so I have put the extra length wise struts in, with the cross girders still to be made & fitted.
  10. Cool. I read Bagnold’s “Libyan Sands” a couple of years ago. Well written descriptions and stories of his early exploration. This was 1941 copy from the local library!
  11. The first Model T (Bagnold's) is well under way. Some of the chaps' luggage. A few of the large number of fuel cans required. Now attached quite basically with a piece of wood between the handles. The fuel was siphoned into the tank so that they didn't have to keep removing the cans. Bagnold's sun compass. Slight scale difference in the figure helmets in the ICM ANZAC figures kit and the resin heads with tropical helmets attached that I ordered. We will overcome this hopefully. That's all for now, more to follow.
  12. Hello guys😉 On the waiting list to the paint booth : three "spray paint cans" , a pot of paint, a carboy of water, a support plate and... a sea shell (?) Spray cans are almost ready Inflator ready for service Stay tuned😎
  13. Started on the base. Only a base coat of some old house paint and sand followed by a mix of plaster, PVA, water and pigment so far.
  14. Hello again all. Been a while since I've posted anything but I have now finally started a new project. We're going back to the Western Desert in the Autumn of 1927. Ralph Bagnold and a selection of his fellow officers have been adventuring in the Middle East in motor cars over the last year or so. This diorama will eventually depict an overnight stop on their most ambitious adventure to date, an 800 mile round trip across the Western Desert from Cairo to Siwa Oasis in Libya. If successful it would be the first time the journey had been completed by motor car. With no water, food or fuel to be found along the way they would have to carry all their supplies with them. The trip would be undertaken by the six officers in three of their privately owned Ford Model Ts (two tourers and a roadster). At this time the cars were largely unmodified with none of the engine covers or wheel/mudguards removed as was later the case when they upgraded to Model As. They did however re-introduce the makeshift external condenser tank attached to the radiator cap that had been used by the Light Car Patrols towards the end of the First World War. Bagnold also introduced his first sun compass on the trip, which would later be used so effectively by the Long Range Desert Group and SAS during the North Africa campaign of the Second World War. As you can see from the above there's not much to work with on the scenery. Some progress images to follow.
  15. Nice work. Maybe take a couple images and change them to black and white or maybe sepia tone to produce pseudo-real images.
  16. And here we go again ! In the red clamp is the compressing part of the inflator and just in front the alu plate in which I'll cut the colling fins Okay , now the floor jack is ready to be weathered , the air tank almost done, and the compressor waiting for the fins Seen from under, the tiny standing pods of the inflator Inflator ready for its hose , in the clamps are the "paint tube" and the electric plug , just in front three bits of bamboo to emulate spray paint cans.
  17. I must remember to read things first🤐
  18. In fact you'll see that the Seven is tucked neatly just in front of the bench : I wanted to keep it easy to place on my shelves ( hence the title of the topic😉)
  19. Will it be big enough for the whole collection or just the Lotus? It'll be interesting to see this as it goes on.
  20. Hello guys ! On the left you can see the small wheels and the supporting beams for the floor jack , and the used metal plate to create its chassis and on the right side the future air tank for the inflator ( inspired by a very old model seen on the net ) All the ads and signs were glued on styrene sheet See you😎
  21. Making progress with this today. This is it sitting in the walls with a Cessna 150 for scale With the v shaped strips in place the roof will simply be sheets of thin card dropped on top. The roof does not need to provide structure as the frames does that I started building up the side girders attach the roof frame to the walls. Just strips of card glued together The main roof card I sitting loose in place with the second girder built And getting the girders attached to the roof structure sides I think I need to ponder fitting the lighting next and then spray the whole structure white. It would be nice to put a new skin on the walls, build the upright girder supports that are attached to the walls. The outer wall skins need wrapping in brick paper, and somewhere along the way I need to fit the windows. There are also cross braces either side of the doors and across under the door end roof, but they could go in later. It’s really just juggling the order of things to get done
  22. That’s the side extensions to the roof frame made up. I texted the first side this morning and they are quite strong enough So both sides are done and I have added strips to the bottom of the roof sections. The peak sections can then just drop over I feel the need to connect the long bottom, in the orientation, horizontal rod with diagonal struts from the. Mid points to the apex of each roof line. Kind of hard to describe and probably not in the real structure but it would brace & strengthen this up. There is the a ladder girder on each end that attaches the roof to the walls, and pilar girders that run up from the ground between the windows. Those will all be flat card.
  23. The Riley is finished and I'm taking care of its display box at the moment , then when I manage to squeeze out some free time I'm frying my brains out to elaborate a method in order to build the chassis of my next project , the Morgan Super sports. All this intense thinking led me to believe that it would be a good idea to share and old build of mine : a nice cozy shelter for my Lotus Seven ( 1/14 scratch build with a LOT of errors and discrepancies ). I spent a whole morning scouting for cool ideas ( either real garages or models builds ) and came up with a drawing of my main guidelines I then gathered bits, pieces and images of ads cut in magazines to create the centerpiece and its companions ( stool , tire inflator, tool box, floor jack, paint and oil cans ) See you 😉
  24. I put some thick card blocks on the corners of the building and literally screwed it together with a bunch of standard screws. As there are no side supports for the roof frame it’s held up front & back at the moment. From the side view you can see the end & 2 side windows. The roof will just be thin card sitting on the frame. I will glue in some card v channels at the low and high points of the roof before the roof skin goes on Getting a taste of the inside potential look Now I should say at this point that I am building a, for want of a better name, Wattisham style Type C. It seems there are several sub versions. First the Mildenhall style type C. Roof sections go along side to side with upright triangular ends The Coltishall style type C. Sloped ended roof sections and a sloped downward roof end over the doors And the Wattisham. Squared ends with an upswept roof over the doors, but sloped ends to the roof sections So as you can see from the mock ups at the top, the roof rake had to stop short of the side walls in order to slip down the ends. That presents a tricky engineering challenge where the whole weight of the roof frame sits on the lower cross structure. And I need a slope down for the roof end to follow. And the cross structure needs to extend out about 9cm either end. So I came up with these. May not be fully true to the original but should work to spread the load And in place on one end And I think there is some more cross bracing needed, but it should reach to the walls and hold the weight. Then I need to build up a frame to attach the walls and the frame. Plus some upright columns between the windows on which the rename will sit I think looking at the mock up it’s about as big as I can make & store!
  25. This is an excellent collection of images, Dan. They're very convincing. Inspiring work, keep 'em coming
  26. Lovely little scene. Doing anything at this small scale, and getting all the details so good is a work of art. Fantastic scene. P. S. Personlly I'm doing only 1/72 scale armour, but 1/144 is probably beyond my abilities.
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