A Boiler House.....Minsk, November 1941

[Guest]

Amazing, some real skill there Ron!

Brilliant detail, 11/10

[spanner570]

Thanks Colin and Curtis for taking the time to have a look at my model and posting your excellent comments......

Cheers,

Ron

[Centurion3RTR]

Hey John, where have you been hiding mate?

Big problem with my old lap top mate, had to save up to get a new one. But i'm up and running (well, i am when it stops with the updates lol), now have 500gig hd so loads of room for photos.

Have fun, John

[Guest]

coffee stirrers for roof timber...genius! as always ron. its top work, some of the pictures make it look so real! the figures look great. it really does have a frozen feel!

[Guest]

How did you make the corrugated roofing? Is it cardboard? if it is, how did you separate the top layer to expose the corrugated part? I am having the hardest time over here trying to figure this out.

[michaelm]

Superb!! You've got that first snowfall effect perfect, it really looks cold there.

[yak face]

Jeez Ron , its making me feel cold just looking at it, cant those two poor buggers get the boiler fired up and have a warm?!! Excellent stuff as usual matey, its really captured the atmosphere of a cold, miserable , desperate situation. The scratch built plumbing looks fantastic (in fact im thinking of having my central heating replaced next year , are you available?) A freezing five stars for you bud , cheers tony

[spanner570]

Thanks Bobby, Chris, Michael and Tony for all your great comments......

Chris, it is corrugated cardboard. There is no foolproof way that I know of removing the paper layer to reveal the corrugations. Some times it just rips and I start again.....Anyone out there know of an easy method?

Tony, no I'm not...But I could bring you some cheap pipe to Cosford next year!

Right, since I built this model, it's been staring at me and saying..."Any chance of a sensible background?"

So here it is, I spent a couple of hours this morning making a corner factory wall to fix to the model. Not a great deal of detail, but enough for a backdrop and I think it finishes it off nicely.....Made from guess what?! Then painted with children's water colours.

What say you men?

Cheers,

Ron

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[yak face]

Finishes it off perfectly Ron , cheers tony

[spanner570]

Ah tell thee what Tony, me owd mucker, ast thee nowt better to do than sit in front of yon 'puter!

Glad you like the background mate.......You don't want the pipe then?

Cheers,

Ron

[yak face]

Its my tuesday- saturday week matey , ive just been to feed the ducks in the park and now i think its time i got in the shed !! p.s. if you do my heating i dont want it making out of polystyrene and cardboard!!!LOL cheers tony

[spanner570]

I might have you know the boiler and hot water tank in this dio. were made from some top quality plastic pipe off-cuts, so there!!!

Cheers,

Ron

[HAWKERHUNTER]

amazing work Ron. Brilliant.

Steve

[Alan 45]

Absolutely brilliant Ron it looks so realistic nice use of corrugated paper

[ojays]

What amazes me about people like yourself, apart from the finished items of course.

Is the imagination behind all these dio's. I only just manage to build the kits themselves.

Gregg