Mr Robinson's Tractor

[zak]

Neil asked me to build a 1:48 scale Fordson N tractor for his latest build involving Westland Whirlwinds from 137 and 263 Squadrons.
It will be very like the two in the Battle of Britain thread, but I thought I would document the build as i went along.
Unfortunately I dumped all my scribblings while building the other - never throw anything away!

[zak]

Rear wheel construction.
Lots of discs of 20 thou plastic card.

[MSea]

Will this be like the work you did for the BofB - started with one airfield building and then ended up with HOW MANY ?

[zak]

Will this be like the work you did for the BofB - started with one airfield building and then ended up with HOW MANY ?

I hope not, I have other models on hold while I do this.
I am not happy with the tyres and so may re-do them.

[zak]

More bits of plastic and filler.

[chriswil42]

Look pretty good to me.

[Bigkev]

Your scratch building skill always amazes me, Zak
Bigkev

[Biggles]

The wheels look superb to me Dave.
Like Kevin, I'm astounded by your scratchbuilding skills...
... you're a proper modeller as opposed to a kit assembler.

I'm getting on with the Whirlwinds, (all three of them), and have got to the decal... sorry, transfer application stage!
Got to be careful here and model from a photo of the speciafic airframe I'm modelling as the blighters placed the fuselage roundels on slightly different positions from aircraft to aircraft!
I've already had to repaint the engine nacelles on all three as the upper surface camouflage demarcations also varied from airframe to airframe!

Having fun though!
Tally Ho!
Neil 

[zak]

More bits of plastic rod, card and disc stuck together.

[chriswil42]

Blimey! Coming together nicely.

[zak]

More bits of plastic stuck on.
The front under construction.

The last photo shows what it should look like.

[Haddock]

Could the "some sort of compressor" be a hydraulic pump?
Looks good.

[zak]

Could the "some sort of compressor" be a hydraulic pump?
Looks good.

I wondered if it was some kind of air reservoir for the hydraulic system?

Front jib under construction.

[zak]

Held together with Blu Tac - a few rivets and nuts to add.

[MSea]

Are the rivets for the counters - hohoho