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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #570 on: May 26, 2020, 04:21:27 PM »
Another class in 'How to Model'. Great work. I like how you made the front wheels and may copy the idea for something that's in the pipeline. Thanks for the inspiration.

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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #571 on: May 26, 2020, 04:44:29 PM »
Another class in 'How to Model'. Great work. I like how you made the front wheels and may copy the idea for something that's in the pipeline. Thanks for the inspiration.
It's a pleasure, just stick those bits of plastic together.
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #572 on: May 26, 2020, 09:12:24 PM »
But you stick them so well
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #573 on: May 27, 2020, 09:59:03 AM »
Tractor undercoated and shown next to the original.
The second picture shows a roller (compactor) under construction - one will pull this across the grass, the other the fuel bowser.
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #574 on: May 27, 2020, 01:18:06 PM »
That's a great looking model, and with a grass compacter too boot!
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #575 on: May 27, 2020, 07:24:44 PM »
Is that flat or angle iron for the frame? I'll be making a frame in the future.

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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #576 on: May 27, 2020, 08:15:04 PM »
I used flat, but many rollers also had angle iron frames, this is based on an old Britains one.
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #577 on: May 27, 2020, 08:32:36 PM »
I used flat, but many rollers also had angle iron frames, this is based on an old Britains one.

Hi Zak,
It looks good to me whether flat or angle-iron. I can just imagine it trundling up and down the runway, with some 'erk driving the tractor.
Have a house point!
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #578 on: May 28, 2020, 10:06:40 AM »
Great work Dave, you must have more equipment than the rear RAF.

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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #579 on: May 28, 2020, 10:27:28 AM »
Great work Dave, you must have more equipment than the rear RAF.
Thanks Bob.
Nearly, but this may be it, for now.
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #580 on: May 28, 2020, 01:09:05 PM »
Can't be the end - you still have not made a zombie running around the airfield - hohohoho
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #581 on: May 28, 2020, 02:34:04 PM »
Transfers being added, then a coat of varnish, so what next?
I think a tractor in a different scale perhaps.
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #582 on: May 28, 2020, 04:47:41 PM »
We're going to have some of the best stocked (and best kept!) airfield dioramas that have ever been modelled.

I even did a bit of modelling myself this afternoon...
... sanding down the join lines on a Specail Hobby Fiat BR.20...
... on the patio in the sunshine!

keep safe and keep modelling ya'll,
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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #583 on: May 28, 2020, 07:24:21 PM »
Absolutely spectacular Dave! I'm Speechless ,really!

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Re: 1:48 Battle of Britain Diorama
« Reply #584 on: May 28, 2020, 07:43:21 PM »
We're going to have some of the best stocked (and best kept!) airfield dioramas that have ever been modelled.

I even did a bit of modelling myself this afternoon...
... sanding down the join lines on a Specail Hobby Fiat BR.20...
... on the patio in the sunshine!

keep safe and keep modelling ya'll,
Biggles
 All these modern things (aircraft) are a bit beyond me, but where does a Fiat BR.20 fit in the BOB scheme of things?