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Parkside Dundas Linda/Blanche rebuild - part 2 stripping it down.
I wanted to strip the loco back down to a kit of parts, not only because the paintwork needed re-doing but also because there wasn't a straight joint anywhere to be found, in fact the loco was banana...
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7mm scale Heywood dome
Another commission, this time a dome for a 7mm scale Heywood loco;Turned from brass and polished with Brasso. Dome's are a lot of work, the flange shape where it curves around the boiler needs to be...
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ICM Ural 4320 army truck - decals, weathering, and a numberplate.
Before final assembly I decided to lightly weather the model whilst I could still get into the nooks and crannies of the underside. First of all I painted the exhaust with a thin coat of Humbrol...
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ICM Ural 4320 army truck - finished.
Its finally finished;After the load bed and cab were glued in place I attached the mirrors and light lenses, then did any final touching up. There wasn't a lens incuded for the spotlight, so I turned...
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Meridian Models/Mosskito Narrow Gauge Billard T75D - part 4 primer and...
With the body now in one piece (apart from a few details to be added later) I can start thinking about paint. First though comes primer. After a good scrub with Cif and an old toothbrush I started with...
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Military Wheels 1:72 Lublin-51 - opening the box.
Another 1:72 scale kit, and another army truck. This time its a Lublin-51, which is a Russian Gaz 51 built under licence in Poland. The kit is for an early wooden cabbed lorry, later Gaz/Lublin 51s had...
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Badger 200NH airbrush
After using car primer, decanted from a rattlecan, through my airbrush recently I decided that a 'brush dedicated for use with primer might be a good idea. Although auto primer sprays well when used in...
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Military Wheels 1:72 Lublin-51 - chassis.
I started with the chassis. This was built up from 20 parts, including 6 for the engine, all of which were quite rough and needed a lot of fettling. The chassis rails were particularly bad with almost...
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Badger 150 airbrush - bubbles in the paint cup.
Recently whilst using my Badger 150 airbrush I noticed some bubbles appearing in the colour cup (the little metal cup that holds the paint), and it wasn't spraying quite as well as it used to. Nothing...
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Military Wheels Lublin-51 - load bed and wheels.
The load bed is made up from 9 parts, and was a pain to assemble. Underneath there are two longitudinal and two cross members which have slots moulded into them for location. Those slots are far too...
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Aerograph airbrush
This came as one of a pair of secondhand airbrushes that I bought from eBay (the other being the Badger 200NH described here), along with several jars and colour cups that don't fit either...
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Military Wheels Lublin-51 - starting on the cab.
A challenge.These are the main parts;I'm building the basic shell first, once that's done I'll mount it on the floor/wing moulding.A closer look at the two sides;With the front bulkhead;The two sides...
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Meridian Models/Mosskito Narrow Gauge Billard T75D - part 5 basic paintwork.
I started with the bufferbeams, and for those I chose Humbrol 174 Signal Red diluted with ready mixed screenwash. Which I wasn't impressed with, I really don't get on with Humbrol acrylics which is a...
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Military Wheels Lublin-51 - smoothing out the cab.
A lot of work has gone into smoothing the cab out;There were a lot of large gaps to be filled between the bulkhead and the cab sides, for this I used microstrip initially followed by Vallejo Plastic...
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Turning a dome for a 009 Peckett saddle tank.
My friend Ben (who sold me my Unimat SL) recently got in touch asking if I could turn a dome for him. He was scratchbuilding a model of 'Oakhill', a 2'3" gauge Peckett used by the Oakhill Brewery to...
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Paasche model H airbrush
'Tatty but useable' read the description in its entirety. And for less than a tenner I became the owner of a Paasche 'H' airbrush, along with a matching hose (since given away). The finger button for...
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A quick and simple photoplank. With the emphasis on simple. And quick.
My modelling will soon going off in a different direction as I'm about to start messing about with 1:72 scale aircraft. I want something other than a piece of card to photograph them on, so I've...
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Military Wheels Lublin-51 - painting the cab, decals and glazing.
Sometimes I do things in the wrong order...I primed the cab with Vallejo grey surface primer, but not before I removed the raised circle on the drivers (left hand) side of the cab, and drilled a hole...
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Military Wheels Lublin-51 - cab assembled, wheels attached, and a problem...
Once I made up a new gearlever to replace the one lost (made is perhaps too strong a word, I just cut a length of styrene rod to suit) I glued the upper and lower parts of the cab together;I used an...
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Tri-ang Battle Space Satellite Launching Car
Many years ago, when I was 4 years old, I was taken to a Beales department store in Bournemouth to see Father Christmas. Whilst sat on his knee I was allowed to choose a toy, and being a 4 year old...
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