06/24 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 Had to take the car for it’s MOT today, so enforced day off, spent it working on the rather neglected Renault FTs. Replacement springs from beading wire (and resin from Blast Models on one) 1/35 scale by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 1/35 scale by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr The postie brought an exciting packet, various The Bodi figures who will be repurposed for the first quarter of the 20th century. 1/35 scale by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Mot ?...surely the Model T is exempt..!! the Renault looks a very rivetty thing, and quite "steampunk" at this stage, be interesting to see it evolve. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 So I have three Renault FTs to build, the two under way and the TSF as well. Each track run is 32 links, so 6 sets of links, each needing the mould stub sanded away. 192 links later, and I really don’t like the black plastic, it’s hard on the eyes! A word of caution for anyone following in my footsteps, the rear bogies are handed. Despite trying to follow the instructions as closely as I could, I still managed to get one wrong. That meant an anxious few minutes wriggling it out of the frame, and refitting, and of course one set of wheels escaped. All sorted now, but could have been avoided. 1/35 Renault Ft by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 1/35 Renault Ft by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 On checking, I got it wrong on two out of the four, and opposite sides at that, so it’s definitely my error and not anything in the instructions. At least hopefully I can avoid repeating myself on the third kit! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 We live and learn, hopefully ! The black does seem a weird colour to do tracks in... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 18 minutes ago, Pig of the Week said: We live and learn, hopefully ! The black does seem a weird colour to do tracks in... Especially as it appears they were grey in real life! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 What are the model tracks made of btw ? Is it the same stuff as the kit (in black) or some orrible rubbery stuff ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 It feels pretty much like kit plastic, not tried gluing it yet to see how it responds to Tamiya extra thin, I have some tiny numbers to add as casting numbers to the track so will find out when I try to fit them. 32 links is very loose on the suspension, but 31 does not fit, so I suspect I shall have to glue the track runs in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Hopefully it's not some weird plastic that won't stick, tho you wouldn't think they'd use that these days, would they ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 1/35 walking wounded by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Nothing particularly noteworthy, just primer on the casualty figure, he needs a suitable name, so open to suggestions! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 You could call him '..andy' D'ye Geddit..?. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 On 29/03/2021 at 17:46, Pig of the Week said: the Renault looks a very rivetty thing, and quite "steampunk" at this stage, be interesting to see it evolve. I like the little oval makers plate on the main suspension beam (at least I assume it's a makers plate) Very steampunk and very cool. Matt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 Yep, big cast brass makers plate “RENAULT BILLANCOURT”. Although I’m fascinated by the big British Rhomboids, the FT really was the success story, and served for many years after WW1, through campaigns in the east of Europe, and on to serve at the start of WW2. I have half an idea to finish all these vehicles in a fantasy “liberation of Ruritania” style, as a representative of the various wars of national self determination fought across the remains of the German, Russian and Austrian-Hungarian empires. I believe war surplus US Model T ambulances were shipped east at wars end, and the FT served the Poles in their war with Bolshevik Russia, so neither would be implausible, and as the Mark Iv was produced in greater numbers than any other contemporary British tank, it’s not beyond imagining that they might have been “lent” too. The later Mark V served both white and later red armies I believe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 23 hours ago, 06/24 said: The later Mark V served both white and later red armies I believe. Well, Wikipedia says that 70 Mark V's were supplied to the White Russian Army by Great Britain, and then 'some' were captured by the Red Army, how true that is I have no idea to be honest Matt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 They even had a couple of "lozenges" looking rather battered in Berlin at the close of play 1945 ...apparently brought back from Russia to Germany as a triumphant display item earlier in Barbarossa. I'd guess that likely most of the 1919 Brit "aid to white Russia" kit ended up with the Soviets 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 There’s some fairly well documented examples, and I think a couple of Mark V’s survive in a Ukrainian museum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Cameron_Bruce I am particularly impressed/amused by this example of the use of the Mark V, in which a single tank captures a city and 40,000 soviet troops. Ultimately all in vain of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsaritsyn 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Go on..you know you want to... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 I do want to. How cool is that! Meanwhile, back on planet almost sensible more figures: Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr and more progress on the second FT Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 An essential trip (Mrs 06/24’s COVID jag) gave me a chance to do a little WWI memorial. On the night of 2 April 1916, one hundred and five years ago today, two Zeppelins, L14 and L22, attacked Edinburgh, dropping bombs across the city. One fell on the Castle Rock, another fell in the Grassmarket, landing among the onlookers gathered to see the spectacle. The bomb exploded outside the White Hart, which was severely damaged. In all 13 people were killed across Edinburgh and Leith, the youngest a baby, killed by a bomb at Bonnington. #RIP Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Maybe by this time next year I’ll be able to have a pint and a dram in the ‘Hart 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, 06/24 said: I do want to. How cool is that! Meanwhile, back on planet almost sensible more figures: Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr and more progress on the second FT Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Untitled by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr I thought you might like the lil' tank-car ! Those figures look very crisp in detail...esp. the chap with the petrol can. Are you going to weave all these into a single diorama ? Edited April 2, 2021 by Pig of the Week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 That’s certainly in the back of my mind. The chap with the can is one of the Bodi figures, the slightly exaggerated stance is because he’s designed to carry a jerrycan. His leather jerkin had to have a pocket carved off, and embroidery was removed from his cuffs, so that with a replacement head he looks like an AEF driver (perhaps, at least in my eyes). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig of the Week Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Having lugged many full 20 ltr jerry cans about in my time I can sympathise with him ! Interested to see them painted, you seem to draw some good characters out of your figs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 Renault FT progress by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Renault FT progress by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 The chance to spray base coats out in the sunshine means the first two FTs are really starting to take shape. Renault FT by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr Renault FT by Jon Gwinnett, on Flickr 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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