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Tales from the woodpile: 1/48 spit mk 24
Redshift replied to Redshift's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
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So, the 2020 weirdness is not quite dead, so what better distraction from the end of the world than a wooden spitfire? Having already done a Mk1 a while back (that now looks hopelessly childish) I thought I'd fast-forward 10 years to the last mark to fly from the spitfires birthplace: a Mk24. Carved from my dwindling supply of beech and accented with whatever slivers of dark wood (or possibly mouse poo) I found at the bottom of the woodpile and finished with a very old tin of danish oil. Hope it looks vaguely recognisable, and is an acceptable deviation from the more usual plas
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Hogwarts Express, Scratchbuild, 1/48 Scale
Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work In Progress - Vehicles
I keep trying to come up with something wryly amusing or semi ironic to say about this build, but I can't. It's just too damn good. I am seriously impressed by the skills and ingenuity on display and its going to end up a cracker of a model. I think I'm tempted to come over to the sooty side of modelling for a bit. I hope we see more from Baby B in future.- 297 replies
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Panzerhaubitze 2000, 1/24 scale, Scratchbuild
Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
Love the lateral thinking and spare model part recycling. Thats proper modelling that is. When life gives you lemons scratch build a giant lemon-flinging trebuchet and decorate it with the spare parts of other failed siege engines.- 226 replies
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Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
Awesome stuff!- 226 replies
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Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
Can't help feeling that there's a bit missing at the top... and what about the sticky-uppy-triangley-guidey bits? Nevertheless, Pog would appear to be appropriate. Jolly good show old chap.- 226 replies
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Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
I think you've cracked the track conundrum nicely. Looks good.- 226 replies
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Thanks everyone for the kind words. Give this away as a gift? Never! It took far too long to make. Anyway, I am a typhoon fan, so I'll be keeping it
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Panzerhaubitze 2000, 1/24 scale, Scratchbuild
Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
Really? Stopped clock right twice a day etc.. I suppose!- 226 replies
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Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
Awesome progress! Is there anything that carving cannot solve? Should be wood not plastic, but we can overlook that this time...- 226 replies
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Hi folks, here is my latest lockdown project. The inspiration for this build came from a walk through the fields down by the coast. I passed an information board partly hidden in the undergrowth that told the tale of RAF Needs Oar Point, an advance landing ground used around the time of D-Day by a Typhoon squadron. So, here is my interpretation of a Typhoon 1b carved from Beech in approx 1/48 scale and finished in danish oil. Thanks for looking.
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Wooden Lockheed Constellation Rework and Respray
Redshift replied to Army_Air_Force's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Normally I'd prefer seeing the wood grain, but given how superbly this has turned out I am almost persuaded to consider paint on my next wooden model. -
Panzerhaubitze 2000, 1/24 scale, Scratchbuild
Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
How about modelling it in a repair shop with the tracks off? Or is that too much of a cop-out? Or hull-down in a firing scrape?- 226 replies
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Thanks. The project is simple, find a bit of wood and remove all the bits that don't look like a ferrari! I start with the Internet and look for photo of the chosen car, then head to the-blueprints.com to find a decent 3 view scale drawing, then attack a lump of wood firstly with a bandsaw to get the sillhouette right, then it's chisels, knives, gouges, sandpaper, teeth and finger nails And time.
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Redshift replied to Bandsaw Steve's topic in Work in Progress - Armour
Read a whole thread before jumping in to make uninformed comments? Thats not what the Internet was invented for! Ok, suitably chastened I have now done the homework reading and yes, the turret and gun look impressive. Deinitely a change of aesthetic about this project: planes, ships and subs (and trains) all have an air of romanticism about them, man battling the elements and all that, but artillery is much more functionally brutalistic. Not a criticism, just an observation. Lots of skill on display as usual. Ive mostly been lurking and being gobsmacked as usual by the talent on this s- 226 replies
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