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  1. Redshift
    Looks superb, difficult to tell the model from the real thing.
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    Stunningly realistic, I spent several minutes looking for a model on the ground next to the real bike.
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    That looks amazing, and it is always an entertaining education following your builds. When is BB going to become a britmodeller member in her own right?
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    Exquisite, you've done it justice. Shame those kits are so frighteningly expensive, but the end result is superb.
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    Thanks. They turned out easier than I was expecting, I had a curved gouge of exactly the right radius which helped, some diamond needle files and a large box of scalpel blades. The wheels are boxwood, which is amazing stuff almost like plastic.
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    The scale is whatever it worked out to be when printing the plans to fit a4 paper. Its 205mm buffer to buffer, so roughly 1/38. The chief domestic engineer has decreed that she likes it as a wood sculpture rather than painted, so wood it shall remain in the interest of marital harmony
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    Glad I can be of some inspiration
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    Hello, denizens of the dusty end of the forum. Thought I'd pop down here to show off my latest whittling project: a pre-war Peckett 0-6-0 ST. I chose it as a starter loco project as it didn't have too many wheels to carve in case I found the going a bit tough. Everythign is hand carved from wood with a few brass wire embellishments. Oh, and soeme galvanised felt nails for buffers. Hope you like "60 ton angel falls to the earth / Pile of old metal, a radiant blur"
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    Thanks chaps. Heres a WIP pphoto I forgot I took
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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 plastic based excellence found on here.
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    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.
  12. Redshift
    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.
  13. Redshift
    Awesome stuff!
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    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.
  15. Redshift
    I think you've cracked the track conundrum nicely. Looks good.
  16. Redshift
    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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    Really? Stopped clock right twice a day etc.. I suppose!
  18. Redshift
    Awesome progress! Is there anything that carving cannot solve? Should be wood not plastic, but we can overlook that this time...
  19. Redshift
    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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    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.
  21. Redshift
    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?
  22. Redshift
    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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    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 site. Ive been off modelling for a while, partly a lack of enthusiasm, but mostly down to work, lots of layoffs and furloughing but those lucky ones of us left still have to hit the deadlines. Theres a RFI in vehicles if you get bored!
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    Interesting change of subject matter! I was going to upload some snark about not really being a wooden build (using balsa??? a man of your calibre?) but its actually looking really promising. You going to turn the barrel on the lathe? Or hand carve it?
  25. Redshift
    Thanks
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