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Title: Hue 1968
Post by: MSea on October 17, 2021, 03:18:56 PM
Next model started for "Playday 4"  Got the Mark Bowden book about the battle for Hue during the Vietnam War, this got me thinking about the model I was going to do a while ago after seeing the drawing about street fighting in Hue in the Campaign series No 4 by James R Arnold.
So it was out with the book and and up in the stash to find the 2 sets of figures that could be used in the model.  Decided to do the section in the back garden with the ARVN troops blasting through a wall, so will now go and make a base and walls from MDF.
Title: Re: Hue 1968
Post by: MSea on October 17, 2021, 03:54:11 PM
Four wall sections made and also the base slotted to give some strength when the walls are glued into the slots. The second photo shows them all fastened together and the last shot has some tea leaves added to the garden areas.
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Post by: zak on October 17, 2021, 05:17:09 PM
You have tea shares?
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Post by: MSea on October 17, 2021, 09:31:09 PM
You with your cereals and me with tea, think we have breakfast sown up - hohohoho
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Post by: chriswil42 on October 18, 2021, 04:43:28 PM
I'm looking forward to this one Martin.
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Post by: MSea on October 18, 2021, 07:28:40 PM
Plaster added to the walls - reading my book on Hue, most of the walls/houses are a pale pastel colour.
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Post by: MSea on October 19, 2021, 03:45:51 PM
Pale blue and pale red added to the walls.
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Post by: MSea on October 19, 2021, 08:24:27 PM
Both buildings made in card to sort out size and position
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Post by: cph64 on October 20, 2021, 04:28:46 PM
Looks a bit like the toilet block I used in Kazakhstan!!!
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Post by: MSea on October 24, 2021, 07:21:11 PM
Some work done on the two buildings the second one with a flat roof has had some fancy surrounding walls made and the last photo is a start made on some trees to place in the garden and surround.
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Post by: MSea on October 24, 2021, 08:12:37 PM
Coat of yellow green on the plaster on the walls and the bricks picked out on the sections that the plaster has been damaged and removed.
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Post by: chriswil42 on October 25, 2021, 12:32:45 PM
You've got a move-on since yesterday Martin. Looking good.
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Post by: MSea on October 25, 2021, 12:44:34 PM
Thanks Chris - got a lot done last night after Playday 4 when I was listening to the Liverpool match - hohohoho   Five nil will say no more !!!!!!
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Post by: chriswil42 on October 25, 2021, 01:16:52 PM
Obviously not a Manu fan!
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Post by: MSea on October 25, 2021, 01:24:19 PM
Three years studying in Liverpool gives you a view on football and its not MUFC - sorry for all you Manu fans, I will not harp on about the five nil score ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: MSea on October 25, 2021, 07:32:02 PM
Window and door frames added - when dry and solid will smooth and make all fit, then damage them were the brick work has been damaged.
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Post by: MSea on October 26, 2021, 11:53:25 AM
Some Flory wash on the outer walls and colour on the window and door frames
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Post by: MSea on October 26, 2021, 12:37:18 PM
Two doors under construction
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Post by: chriswil42 on October 27, 2021, 12:39:17 PM
Looking good Martin.
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Post by: MSea on October 27, 2021, 01:52:24 PM
First layer of tiles put down on the roof, when solid will add the top layer of individual tiles.
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Post by: zak on October 27, 2021, 03:41:37 PM
A nice use of materials.
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Post by: MSea on October 27, 2021, 04:08:08 PM
Thanks zak - and I also had a pie to enjoy - hohohohho
Cut the individual tiles and have fastened them on , next job is to make more tiles, amazing how you think you have enough until you start the job.
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Post by: MSea on October 27, 2021, 08:37:26 PM
Outdoor cooking range made to put in one of the gardens
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Post by: zak on October 28, 2021, 08:40:42 AM
You have been busy, I still need to get going after having family here.
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Post by: chriswil42 on October 28, 2021, 09:47:10 AM
Nice oven and roof.
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Post by: MSea on October 28, 2021, 11:32:18 AM
Taking orders from the oven BUT the only thing I can cook is bread  - think it would be a very small loaf  hohohoho
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Post by: cph64 on October 28, 2021, 04:21:52 PM
Are you fuelling it with buffalo dung, as I've seen used?
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Post by: MSea on October 28, 2021, 04:34:36 PM
No Chris - "HOT AIR" from committee meetings
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Post by: zak on October 28, 2021, 05:47:12 PM
Taking orders from the oven BUT the only thing I can cook is bread  - think it would be a very small loaf  hohohoho
Using his loaf obviously.
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Post by: MSea on October 28, 2021, 08:09:04 PM
I will not rise to that one
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Post by: zak on October 29, 2021, 07:12:07 AM
Oh dough you won't.
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Post by: MSea on October 30, 2021, 09:50:08 AM
Work done on a pergola -- when finished it will be covered with wisteria and then damaged and partly collapsed.
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Post by: MSea on October 30, 2021, 03:34:56 PM
Some different size wire twisted to make wisteria and second photo shows this added to the pergola
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Post by: chriswil42 on October 30, 2021, 03:46:00 PM
This is looking interesting.
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Post by: MSea on October 30, 2021, 03:56:51 PM
That's a word Chris that covers a multitude of sins - hohohho
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Post by: Bigkev on October 30, 2021, 04:29:04 PM
Hi Msea,
Looks another interesting build from the master of 'interesting/different/insane.
Nice work, another winner from the Msea stable.
Bigkev
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Post by: cph64 on November 01, 2021, 11:50:20 AM
Any chance you can make me a 1:1 scale pergola? We could do with one in the garden (but no zombies!!!!)
Title: Re: Hue 1968
Post by: MSea on November 01, 2021, 12:04:31 PM
ALL my products come with a zombie attached - so sorry about that - hohoho
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Post by: MSea on November 03, 2021, 09:23:10 AM
First 3 leaves made for a banana plant to go in the corner of the first garden about 4 more small leaves to add and then make several small pups to make it into a banana plantation
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Post by: chriswil42 on November 03, 2021, 10:23:49 AM
ALL my products come with a zombie attached - so sorry about that - hohoho
So where is the zombie in this diorama?
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Post by: zak on November 03, 2021, 10:46:49 AM
ALL my products come with a zombie attached - so sorry about that - hohoho
So where is the zombie in this diorama?
Patience, patience - maybe none?
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Post by: MSea on November 03, 2021, 11:37:11 AM
NO ZOMBIES in this one - how about that BUT I did watch Mad Max Fury Road last night so think I will have to finish off the zombie shopping mall and then do another post apocalyptic one - so just have some patience Chris - ho ho ho
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Post by: zak on November 03, 2021, 12:01:28 PM
NO ZOMBIES in this one - how about that BUT I did watch Mad Max Fury Road last night so think I will have to finish off the zombie shopping mall and then do another post apocalyptic one - so just have some patience Chris - ho ho ho
I am a fan of all the Mad Max films.
I don't think my imagination runs into modelling it though.
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Post by: MSea on November 03, 2021, 06:32:54 PM
I think it could Zak
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Post by: MSea on November 03, 2021, 08:52:26 PM
Five bananas now made and coat of pale green on them all.
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Post by: Haddock on November 04, 2021, 07:56:04 AM
They look real which, I suppose is whay you're after.
Haddock.
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Post by: MSea on November 04, 2021, 08:01:18 AM
Yes that's the look
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Post by: cph64 on November 04, 2021, 08:46:43 AM
Didn't take much to turn Britain into 'Mad Max' once the Express headlined petrol shortages. Pity they couldn't have timed releasing it to the same time as the Goth Weekend, we'd have had some great costumes at the pumps!!!!
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Post by: MSea on November 05, 2021, 12:49:36 PM
First five bananas added.
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Post by: zak on November 05, 2021, 02:07:42 PM
What about some fruit on them?
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Post by: chriswil42 on November 05, 2021, 02:21:25 PM
Great backyards Martin.
Title: Re: Hue 1968
Post by: MSea on November 06, 2021, 09:33:29 AM
What about some fruit on them?
Sorry Zak the fruit has been removed and put in a pot inside the house - as per photo - will think about making some scale fruit for the model and adding it later if that will make you happy - hohoho
Title: Re: Hue 1968
Post by: zak on November 06, 2021, 12:14:37 PM
Very good, it was the model I was referring to.
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Post by: MSea on November 06, 2021, 12:26:08 PM
I thought, so but as this is about the only thing I grow in the garden that could be said to be  edible, thought I would keep you up to date with its progress - hohohho
Title: Re: Hue 1968
Post by: MSea on November 13, 2021, 04:04:19 PM
Pergola removed from the bottom of the garden - it just looked wrong and out of scale
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Post by: zak on November 13, 2021, 05:30:57 PM
Whatever makes you happy.
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Post by: MSea on November 13, 2021, 05:42:52 PM
I am now happy - BUT what to replace it with on the back wall - decisions decisions decisions
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Post by: chriswil42 on November 14, 2021, 01:31:52 PM
I am now happy - BUT what to replace it with on the back wall - decisions decisions decisions
Some crates?