Modelling World War 1

[Bigkev]

Keep plugging away Zak.
It looks like another winner is in the making.
Bigkev

[zak]

This has been fizzing away in the background for a while, just been weathering it and making the little diorama.
1/32 Airfix Bus and Tommy's War Figure.

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[zak]

Back to the Crossley.
More body work assembled.
Bending the brass for the wheels.

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[zak]

Progress is quite slow the etched brass spokes proved quite difficult to fit and some adjustment and trial fitting was required to get them to fit.
Here are the front wheels in place.

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[Haddock]

That looks very impressive. I know the difficulties involved in getting brass to conform to that sort of shape ( a cone ).
Well done that man.
Haddock.

[zak]

Yes quite difficult, after that progress was reasonably rapid.
I have added some nuts and rivets here and there.
For some reason no starting handle is supplied?
The tilt will require a lot of work.
I think that I have built the rear wheels wrong way round?
mmmm, it may bee too late now.

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[Kiteman]

wow Zak....I am amazed, you are to WW1 what haddock is to ships. Fantastic.!!!

[Haddock]

Starting to quiver with excitement now!!

[Bigkev]

A true modellers build.

Well done Zak.

Bigkev

[zak]

Painting now, oh well, it has to be done.
RFC or RAF?

[zak]

Well the Crossley is being primed, I had this idea to put it on a diorama with figures and an appropriate aircraft in 1/32 scale.
Whilst in Cropper's emporium I bought a 1/32 Sopwith Camel by Italeri.
Great I thought and put it away without even opening it.
Well I have just opened it and was a bit disappointed to say the least, I had imagined  a new release, yes, you probably already know, it  is the Hobbycraft / Academy one that they have poly bagged.
Ejector pin marks on the top surface and so on.
Well I will give it a go, the string supplied to rig with seems most inappropriate.

Purple with rage, I must take another blood pressure tablet!

[Bigkev]

You can borrow one of mine, Zak.

I made the same mistake with same kit a few months ago. Poly Bagging at its worst, I'm afraid.

Ho Hum!

Bigkev

[zak]

Some painting done on the Crossley tender, still lots more to do.
While the paint dries I am researching the next project, this will probably be a little agricultural if the research comes together.
I am having trouble accessing photos of the engine and smaller details - more later, no doubt.

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[zak]

Well details have been found and so while I watch the paint on the Crossley dry, I may as well make a start.
Here are a few details of the real thing.
This will be a scratch build.
There is a picture here http://www.cheffins.co.uk/lot/1920-international-titan-1020-2cylinder-petrolparaffin-tra-448217-vintage-1

International Titan 10-20 (First World War)
With a chronic shortage of horses and traction engines, maintaining food production levels became a challenge. To help resolve the problem International Titan tractors were imported from the USA.
These tractors were built at the Milwaukee plant of International Harvester in Wisconsin.
Some were supplied directly to farmers and were operated by the Food Production Department or supplied to the ASC (Army Service Corps).
Farming was undertaken on land that once been fought over well behind the frontlines. Three auxiliary petrol companies were established to operate the tractors; each company had 60 tractors on its strength.
Until the arrival of Fordson F tractors the Titan 10-20 was the mainstay of the British tractor fleet. Nearly 4,000 were delivered. It proved to be a simple, reliable and dependable power unit.

[zak]

This will be in 1:32 scale.

So I decided to start with the wheels, these are the easiest to scale from photographs.
The front wheels are 3ft diameter and 6in wide and have 5 spokes on each side.

So here we are, the photos probably explain it all.
Some plastic card is persuaded into a circle of appropriate size and glued.
This is allowed to dry and then the hub and spokes are added.
The rivets were made with my new Rivet Maker from RP Toolz, this is the second one, the one I bought at Telford did not seem to work as well as it should, they sent me another, so far so good. I think the problem is the plastic card. Contrary to their instructions it needs to be really thin.[/color]

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