vindicareassassin Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Hi all, My current WIP in amongst my figure painting is this..... Austin K6 Type15 RADAR dish, this will eventually end up on a base with the 2 Austin K6 Receiver and Transmitter trucks, plus another K6 with 50Kv Generator set to power it all. For now just the dish is on the go..... Thanks for looking and as ever more to follow when it happens..... ATB Sean 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Impressive bit of scratch building going on there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Hi all, Poured the 3 K6 chassis' I'll need to build the Transmitter, Receiver and Geny trucks this weekend, now though I need to get on with the figures I'm in the middle of painting now though for fear of getting distracted and not getting them done (Pics in the appropriate section if anyone cares). These are a fast build, single pour kit that I've been working on so I'm not constantly just building up multi part chassis kits, ( the kits for the K6 I used to sell used to be 18 parts with a full engine, looked awesome but took for ever to build) , and I can then get on with the fun bit faster 😉 As always, more to follow ATB Sean 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaastav Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Which trucks are those?? I can't recognize them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Vaastav said: Which trucks are those?? I can't recognize them. Austin K6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Type 15 Radar dish on Austin K6 is now finished...... And here are the new Austin K6 quick pour 1 piece kits I've designed to speed up the process of making the K6 variants..... These 3 will be made into the Transmitter, Receiver and Generator trucks. Thanks for Looking Sean 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 One piece? very impressive stuff. Nice radar dish too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 45 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: One piece? very impressive stuff. Nice radar dish too. Yarp, the K6 kit I used to sell was 15+ parts in total on 5 or more sprue blocks, very detailed including full engine, carb and manifolds, separate bonnet, interior and cab..... took an age to assemble. Now I don't sell kits anymore, its just for me and working on the "3 foot rule" made this one piece kit, takes me about 10 minutes to make and then I'm on to building its back body 😉 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 These little trucks look reeeeally nice. Too bad you don't sell anymore 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 With the finishing up of the dish its now on to the rest of the set...... The Transmitter, the Receiver and the Generator trucks. Here I have finished the prep work on the 3 chassis ready for their bodies to be made. (I'm also still trying to find a good universal scale that's not to physically big, as I had complaints an age ago about using a penny as not everyone knows/uses the queens currency, a scale rule is difficult to see in photographs, and not everyone knows how big 1/72 scale is by just saying it in a post...... So, I figure a lighter must be fairly common world wide!?) Thanks for looking Sean 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Boxes made for the Type 7 bodies, also worked out the composition, I think I'm sticking with this but not sure about the Commer van yet or replace it with a Tilly, we shall see..... Thanks for looking Sean 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 This is interesting to follow. One question for you Sean. How do you glaze the windows on these trucks. Eons ago, I built a signals body onto the back of the Airfix K6 and glazed the windscreen with Crystal Clear, but the outcome left a lot to be desired! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 22 hours ago, Bullbasket said: This is interesting to follow. One question for you Sean. How do you glaze the windows on these trucks. Eons ago, I built a signals body onto the back of the Airfix K6 and glazed the windscreen with Crystal Clear, but the outcome left a lot to be desired! John. It very much depends mate, All my cabs are mastered to take a proper hinged front glass, not like the Airfix kits that you have to "insert" it which makes it easier to install, it just means I have to paint the carrier frame on afterwards, which is no biggy..... So for the cabs and if the bodies will have stuff you can see inside then I use clear plastic card, I have used the clear plastic that bought stuff comes wrapped in before too but that can be a little thick. All glued in with Windsor and Newton gloss glaze medium, this dries to a high shine and is thick enough to fill in any gaps left by my incompetance. If it's a body where I'm not bothering with an interior, like these as the info just isn't available, I'll either just cut a hole glaze from behind and paint if black/dark grey on the inside, or, if the body trim is quite thick just trim up where the glass would be, paint the area in dark grey and then float in gloss glaze medium over the top to represent the glass. I tend to use the latter method only on small panes though as it's less likely to look artificial. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 After a conversation with Ted Angus, some of you will know that name I'm sure, I've forced some modifications/corrections upon the dio. I'm dropping one K6 and replacing it with a Crossley Q, in order to do this I'm modifying one of my QL chassis-cab moulds. I've used my AEC wheel hubs and grafted them into a set of my 20" tyres and fitted them to the chassis, I also cut the cab down in order to allow the new cab to be built around it. I also need to fix the body as they are a different type on both the Crossley and the K6 I now want to represent so I'm filling in the wheel arch cut outs ready to re-skin the sides. Also made a start on the Geny truck body as this is part of a group build on a farcebook page..... Thanks for looking Sean 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AltcarBoB Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 If you ever decide to sell some of your Lorry (what's the word for a one piece kit) mouldings I would be interested. Even when the picture is blown up to a good size they still look good. Can't wait to see them painted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandsmodels Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 can we buy them from you? what was the name of the range? nice work btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted March 5, 2020 Author Share Posted March 5, 2020 On 3/3/2020 at 12:10 PM, sandsmodels said: can we buy them from you? what was the name of the range? nice work btw. I never had a 'Range' as such, I produced highly detailed, often high part count, very limited run kits, 25 to 30 at the most depending on demand and mould burn-out, of totally random WW2 RAF MT based subjects that I had interest in and often had multiple variants. Someone already owns several of my kit masters, though I've never seen them in production apart from 2 and those I directly released myself...... I've only done the 'wargame' style chassis/cab masters initially for the ease of my use, are these what you are interested in?? If so probably best to PM me directly rather than do this on open forum.... All the Best Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandsmodels Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 yes pm me by almeans, thanks for the reply shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 After many other squirrels distracting me the Crossley Q 3 tonner cab is finally finished, now on to its back transmitter body..... Thanks for looking Sean 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 The Crossley Q looks good Sean. I don't know if you are aware of them, but Albion Alloys do some very useful nickle silver wire. I have a couple of packs, 0.33mm and 0.31mm, and I think that they would be very useful for you in 1/72nd scale. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Bullbasket said: The Crossley Q looks good Sean. I don't know if you are aware of them, but Albion Alloys do some very useful nickle silver wire. I have a couple of packs, 0.33mm and 0.31mm, and I think that they would be very useful for you in 1/72nd scale. John. Thanks John, I'll look into them, for some reason I've mislaid all my crafting wire and had to strip this out of electrical cable, the wife does jewellry making and it never occurred to me to look for some in her kit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindicareassassin Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 Crossley Q, 3 ton, 409 Signals body, Receiver vehicle is now done, on to the Austin K6 VHF Transmitter and 50Kv Geny trucks..... Thanks for looking Sean 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 I just love those little trucks and the way you make them look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaastav Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Looks very nice and crisp. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 A great bit of scratch building Sean. Nice one. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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