Prop Duster

Oliver The progress with the seats is a beautiful recreation or the original. Thanks to you, I am also ordering some of " your" , Tamiya light curing putty- it looks like an interesting product, especially for the fast curing. Créez, émerveillez-vous, inspirez ou faites une sieste, votre choix

Badder. No mater what, any of your words written or spoken, are as "pearls (of wisdom) strewn before the swine". Well not ME especially, but the literation must trump any minor hurt feelings of the communi hominum. So jobs well done, both the Face Book and the Brit Modeller. I must away on my mighty steedto spread joy and hope to the " little people" (of whom there are so many). Noblesse oblige is a burden most gladly taken up, as you well know. "To limitlessness and a long-ish way off" -Loose Right Ear

T.M.Oliver. Wheew! you have the patience of a saint and the eye of an eagle. As noted by another avid viewer, you method of modeling may be more exacting than some of us are used to doing. But to see how you accomplish each step and then produce a self required correction, that is the incredible teaching example you give all of us. Now before you feel I have gone too far, allow me to say Thank You for your examples . p.s. I agree with you on your choice for your forum name.

First the small picture screen and now U TUBE! Makes me glad to say I knew him before all the media storm took over. All though truth to tell your channel is going to be a great way to understand the kind of work you are doing with the moving pictures as has been said the scale of the project comes across with more clarity. Regarding your worry about the accent, don't have a care. you are quite understandable and as the dulcet melodious vocalization alights on our shell like ears, we can hear " Eh? Whatz that he said? " p.s. the above is mostly all Bravo Serra, so rest easy, your videos and voice overs are very fine. Well Done.

Once again I must congratulate you on finding and correcting, the problems. I envy you the new micromotor unit, it looks very impressive. I was able to catch up with all the work since my last viewing, today as I sit here recovering from a tooth extraction! coïncidence bizarre hein? 😄 As always, stay well, keep the glue off your fingers and the paint smooth, Au revoir

Oliver Your persistence and desire to create a "Magnificent Mustang" is paying dividends with every post. The additional fender bulges were a great way to correct the model. re: the wheel/ tier shape ( your post March 27 yellow encircled ) As a thought, have you considered perhaps creating a 3D print of just the outside of tire sidewall as in the form of the 1:1 tire? Then affix that new shape on to the model tires outsides That way you could have the outside shape you need to show the depth between the tier and the wheel without having to print a complete tire. I shall now return to my corner and wait quietly. 😏

Badder As I once again gaze across the miniature hinterland, sighting the ancient ruins of a once thriving family enclave. Having now been left to the whims of nature and weather, I can see how the effort of the family members and neighbors had tried to keep the buildings whole and hearty, have been eroded away, leaving a derelict structure. The sound of the whistling wind and the creak of half rotted timbers and stone walls settling into the sodden earth below, is ever present. There! That may the sound of a furtive animal scouring the debris for a new den, but always the keening wind ever present. OR Great job of re-de-structing on the latest additional piles. I once had pil------ Never mind-TMI. Your masterful calculations for the size/shape/content of your debris field are a inspired touch. While it may not, necessarily be obvious to a casual observer, those trained in the structural engineering field will apricate your craftsmanship, as do I. Here in the former colonies, at our palatial hovel in the wilds, my dame and I have received the second of the two required Covid shots and have had nary a speck of any reaction, so we're feeling a lot more calm. [I suppose the wild eye swings and barking will go away soon, don't you think?] Stay hail and hearty and keep the brick dust to a reasonable level, as you gamely model on (or model gamely on ?)

M. Crazy Crank? Bonjour. Have you been able to work on this fine project at all? Or have you heeded the siren call of the Bugatti, M.B. or Talbot Lago Record and left this poor little Delahey😢 lost and lonely in a dark, dank corner of your châteaus lower storage cellars? 🥺... Just kidding. But it has been a long time😁 Au revoir, prends soin de toi and enjoy yourself doing whatever you are doing.

Oliver, A spectacular build. I have enjoyed every step of your adventure to date. Though it makes no difference at all, may I add to your fount of knowledge, a minor bit of American English automobile terminology? All the best to you.

Congratulations on the completion of an extraordinary model. Now on to Bugatti! I am looking forward to your expertise on this beauty.

Badder, Just a quick note re: your current progress to date. Spec-tac-u-lar! So many changes that work, in concert, with the previous works. I have taken a page from you book so to speak, and have CA-ed it to my current construction/modelll/vain attempt, to build a car kit. In accepting the advanced age of my kit (circa 1950's ) the interior supplied was a seat, dashboard, steering wheel, floor. However I felt the total lack of a interior door panel was an egregious error. So paper in hand, Photoshop-ery completed, printer fired up, a set of new door interior panels was born! of course now I'll redo them to a more correct size-sigh. Hope the Spring season has begun to lighten and brighten your world, as it has ours.

Spectacular work. Well done, so "real" you swear you can hear the roar of the exhausts even now. I hear the 1/20th scale racing fuel refinery has had to close until the covid is over, so I guess you'll have to wait to test drive you Lotus, until then.😉

Pascal I was looking for a description of British Racing Green and had the good fortune to find this epic work of yours. Most impressive, the amount of detail added and the colours used to bring out the various parts. Though my poor efforts pale beside yours, you have given me ideas to try. Merci beaucoup d'avoir partagé votre travail.

A very interesting "quest" you have here. It is good you are trying to match actual colours used. It should make the model that much more impressive. The background showing your vehicles "waiting in the wings" looks like a lot of fun for the future.🚌

@Totally Mad Olivier Thank you and @JeroenS . I never knew how to do this either. Not really sure why I should do this but as an old guy I don't always get the new age stuff. 😄

..."He started off in the reclamation business, then went into demolition as well,"... OK, I see this kind of work is a family trait, this building up and tearing down housing. Good for you, following in the families foot steps, so to speak .😄 Well enough light hearted banter. Your discovery and use of No More Nails for this project is again another spot of brilliance in the "Galactic Splendor" of your personal universe (I have NO idea what any of that drivel means either.) regardless the new /replacement/substitute wall work is quite grand. Well must toddle off now, face masks to wash, floors to scrub, windows to clean and all the other happy chores of a modern home manger.

Well Done Badder. It has the look of an abandoned house. BUT as the real-estate agents would say "it needs a bit of clean up and a touch of paint, then Rpobert's your mothers brother" (agents are a snooty lot it seems) Glad you were able to push on and get much done . It looks the "worse" for it, and thats a good thing.

Badder I have once again found myself fascinated by your clever, yet quick-witted way to turn "trash into treasure". Thus saving arduous minuets- nay hours, of toil trying to clean up an area . Only to have to create debris with which to fill said area at a later date. Doubtless a special award for "Duty Above and Before the Mundane Requirements of Modell-hood and Dust Pan Polishing" by the Wiltshire Council will doubtless be in the mail before Christmas. Sigh, I am in aww of such a grand achievements and accolade. However I do have a small, even miniscule, point of query. To wit, the idea of using a ballpoint pen refill as a downspout, while most ingenious causes me to wonder the efficacy of sticking a sanded cocktail stick into the tube. Would this not impede the flow of the modelling water after the first modelling rain? re: the usage of model vs modell, here in My home hamlet we have had to forego the double "L" as the local printer lost one of his "L"s in the flood of 1812 and replacements were not very forthcoming from England at the time. Having now become used to this version and the incredible speed now able to be achieved when writing the word, we have adapted to the faster pace as is so like us (or U.S. ) . Now as needs must, I close as the candle burns low and the quill pen grows dull from use, I whish your a peaceful and healthful time as you create and expand-----On the project! ---gee, so embarrassing--sigh. p.s. I find it very neighborly of you to set your dictionary to "US English", shows your world classy-ness. (Please tell Graham, when next he stops by for tea and cakes, he's just jealous and naner naner naner, so there.😛) 🤣 Stay well and be well.

Badder Once again you have skillfully progressed from the dreary depths of brown to the angelic heights of white-ish-gray-like siding-walls-with mossy-green (wow really Green) blobs abounding. All together; Well Done you old FTINFBISS, Wrangler. I can see progress where others may only see destruction and devastation. The subtle nuances of plaster, like applique as found only in the finest houses of couture. Or it could just be the way you spash it on with wild abandon. Regardless! The thing is an amazing feat of the "cottage industry" mode of creation-ness and model building-ery. Oh, There was that brief news article in the YouWon'tBeliveThis Times of East Undershirt (now sadly out of print and just after the UFO sightings too-humm?). That small article related the story of a "...neighbor who's some sort of a "craftsperson" . This man had caused quite a stir, locally, when this person's entire rear yard was suddenly covered by a giant fuchsia coloured tent and then much muttering and gnashing of teeth was heard to be issuing forth. Unconfirmed was the rumor of clouds of a white plaster like dust puffing out of the tent at irregular intervals. All that said, it is obvious the work being performed under the tent must be of great import. Else why are all the secret workings being covered up? " Sadly with the decease of the YouWon'tBeliveThis Times of East Undershirt the hope for answer may never reach the light of day for our loyal reader. As always, stay healthy as possible, keep a smile in your heart, and a warm fire ablaze, uh, in the hearth.

Badder " I'm just hearing on the grapevine that you meant lanolin. Tut. Those typos eh?" Ahh yes . You wise gramerian you. Confound those pesky vowels and consents they are truly the bain of a creative mind such as mine . However I have an excuse - Reason- yeah, thats it. The dog barked just as I was setting fingers to keyboard and in the ensuing wild commotion I was unable to ---uh--that is to say, I wasn't paying attention to the text in regards to proofreading every line----and so the dog is now banished to his bed, whenever I sit down to contact you and to once again revel in the warm glow of your creative genius. (cock-cough-cough sorry there must have been a bit lint in me airway) Regardless, the most recent of you posts is an inspiring use of coffee stirrers. Though, I never cease to be amazed that the UK has, coffee stirrers, to presumably, stir Coffee. Which begs the question, does one use a "Tea stirrer" for that beverage ? Then there is Hot Chocolate, so do they too have a specific stirring device ? Hot Cider? Wassail at the Christmas events?---my mind simply reels (NOT a totally unusual occurrence, I might add) . How-sum-ever (a native American colloquialism-replacing "howsoever" in the scattered rural hinterlands of my land). The use to of the jig is inspired. You may rest assured, I have had my top Engineering staff, the best Draftsmen, the Mold makers as well as Tool and Die makers, all hard at it to recreate, as well we can, your device. Truth be told there is really only me but I multitask like a Beaver in the Spring. As always, wishing you good times, sunny days, and the skills to be happy . --------- As sound of me stirring my coffee on my desk, is heard in the background. Swish,swish, swish swish.

Badder Once again I was trapped in my Covid bunker the darnd steel door rusted shut and I had left my only 20 Liter can of "Rust-Cutting-Through-When -All-Else-Fails" and whale oil, fluid, in the room on the other side. Well needless to say I found a way out at last, (the bruises from the ordeal should be healed about the time this missive reaches you). I also assume the packet ship got underway in good order, despite the typhoon and reported small fire in the armory. Regardless; to the pint er- point of my communique. I was able to catch up with you current progress and not surprisingly am once again "gobsmacked" (so much fun the quaint expressions one learns) by you progress. Good Job all 'round. Well I must start the carding of the sheep's wool to begin once again the spinning of needed thread to make my new face mask material (which once the smell of laloin dissipates, works quite well) So for now, fair winds calm seas and good health- Covid be damned. Seriously for a moment- you latest wall/tile/lumber construct seems to have surpassed many of those that have gone before. The progress and the "style" on creating stones seems to have matured and looks the better for it. Stall well

Badder Many thanks for the illumination of the antecedents of my native tong. As you may have surmised, we of the American (i.e. U.S.) lingual im-perfect are always delighted to find that many of our words do indeed have a meaning, let alone a real historical provenance. As to your currant non-use of the barbaric sharp blade in scrapping the skin of your of your worthy countenance, I say, Wha-Hoo! Well done! I too for some years have allowed the world to marvel at my comely bearded appearance. This has proven to cause much delight to nubile young women ah, I mean small sparrows, humming birds and the like-sigh, ah well. Regarding the currant state of you construction. Very fine work. The thing that keeps me enthralled is your ability to create such life-like components out of such every day materials. So in closing, I wish you well in your newly, opened pubs and hope you will not be a "gad-fly" among the many, no doubt hoping for your patronage.🍻 As I go to re-raise the plague flag over my humble underground bunker/ root cellar. I salute you. Eruditi posui in vestibulo

Badder By Gad sir! I see great progress in the redoing of the redone section of the completed or at least of the previously constructed wall to wall and roof to peak, shingled boards that aren't, BUT could be...... (pant, puff) To carry on- most impressive workings. The dish soap-dust-color (sorry, colour) recipe is now indelibly written on to the last bit of flash paper I have, from a past experiment -best left unspoken of. To see this progress to date may indeed silent those knaves that whisper twixt each other " ya think 'ell finish afore the kor-ved ends er aft-tor?" Pay them no mind, oh Great Manipulator of Fibers and Such! They are indeed ner-do-wells that have no skills of their own. Well the alarm is going off here , so its time for me to close me subterranean bunker door and set once again the anti-personal munitions. Good seeing you work as always and always. Partes eae contra Vigilantium manet in facitis* *Remain Vigilant, the Value is in the Doing, I think🤨

Howdy right back at you Badder. Yes "howdy" is still heard . Though usually relegated more to the "midwest" areas of the country. That being any area between the Eastern Seaboard and the Rocky Mountains and the Canadian to Mexican borders. Its usage is less prominent among the our local SoCal "native" population (which, truth be told, are emigrants from all parts of the U.S. and the entire rest of the world.) Only a tiny percentage were actually born here; making the term "native"a totally subjective one. However, as a "native" one must be ever vigilant to instantly switching to the very latest trends, styles, moods, newest gadgets, most popular of anything, etc., etc, ad nauseum. This could possibly occur several times a day. All overshadowed by the really, really important issues of how to stay young, viberant, with it, cool, and fashion forward, "trending" on the social media. sigh- I'm so lacking. But I have learned to feign indifference as I don't want give much thought to it at all. Regardless, as to your current progress. It is mind boggling and very impressive. I think the thing that strikes me is, the ever evolving nature and scope of the project. I congratulate you on the fine progression. We are all well, hale and hearty.😷 Hope this finds you and yours the same.

Badder- not much time; the Regimental Buggiler has just sounded "To Horse". So I much dash. re: your latest brick bats uh, works, may I say brilliant. It is so good to see that the ol' "Minitruest Extraordinaire " has once again broken through the barrier of ennui and begun to once again stride forward into the future. The bricks look like the real deal and the ideas generated from those changes should be grist for your next adventuer. All hail the conquering hero--------oops too much? Oh well. 😉