Quote from: Wizzel on March 12, 2015, 10:56:22 AM
Zak, it was fantastic to see the finished models on the table last night.  I've stopped commenting so much as I find I'm just repeating the same old compliments over and again.  I particularly liked the cobbled road that the gun tractor was on - a fine bit of recycling of what would otherwise have been scrap "hole punch clippings".  How fortunate that the size was 1/35 too and not 1/32.

Regarding workbenches, I also find that while a project is in progress, I get awfully cluttered - but it works.  In between kits is the only time it looks owt like decently tidy.   Now the Crocodile is done, I shall have a tidy up prior to starting my continuation of Thirtle Bridge Camp.

Well I never even thought about the cobble size, but it looked ok, is this your warped sense of humour working overtime?

Now I am into posing - models and figures on a base to get the best look, the jury is still out.
Eventually all will be stuck into place.
The figures were converted from the MasterBox range.

As you can see the Fowler traction engine has fallen through the wooden road into the mud.

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That is spot on!!!  I love the angle in the first picture too - I'm sure that happened a fair bit in the conditions the poor buggers had to live and work in too!  You may have to get rid of DCOS Smith to make room for all your dioramas if you keep that up - have I inspired you?

You always inspire me, I think.
Mrs Smith can have the box room if she is lucky, but don't tell her.

I was serious about the cobbles - they looked absolutely perfect!  until I got close up, I thought it was one of them sheets of ready printed "World War One Cobbled Streets".  Some things are just meant to be - such as my lights on the huts of my Thirtle Bridge Camp - the shades were made from hole punch cuttings which (looked) exactly right for 1/72 scale light shades.

What a sorry bunch we modellers are - always looking for other uses for everyday mundane objects.

Isn`t that what modelling is all about?

What, being a sorry bunch?
Oh, do you mean alternative uses?
Silly me.

Quote from: Wizzel on March 12, 2015, 04:57:02 PM
That is spot on!!!  I love the angle in the first picture too - I'm sure that happened a fair bit in the conditions the poor buggers had to live and work in too!  You may have to get rid of DCOS Smith to make room for all your dioramas if you keep that up - have I inspired you?

It was a photo in a book that inspired the diorama, in that picture one traction engine is being used to pull out one that had got stuck.

That must mean your'e going to build another one then?

Quote from: Haddock on March 13, 2015, 02:49:55 PM
That must mean your'e going to build another one then?

Already built - look back a bit.
I know, I know, I rush too much, but I don't do much thinking, it is mostly doing, the thought processes are in need of a major overhaul.

Visiting family for the weekend so that's it for three days.
Here is the latest progress on the Fowler engine and its base.
Figures have been undercoated.

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I must say Zak, you have got it spot on in the previous set of pictures......one man with a spade and 5 others  just hanging around-.....typical. What a super model this is becoming.

Agreed with Kitey-Babe.  I can feel another show award looming!

Hi Zak,

You should be putting this stuff in modelling magazines, its fantastico!

I think you have sent some stuff to Don Carrick for IPMS Mag already that is still awaiting to appear??

It should be in print matey!!

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