1/35 Great Wall Hobby 12. 8 cm Pak 44 .

[Mini Me]

Atta boy JR, that's looking the Dog's Orbs! Looking forward to see where this ends up.....keep 'er coming mate. :thumb2:

Rick H.

[Si Benson]

Lovely door work Mr R :thumb2:

[Guest]

Brilliant.

[JR]

John,
Fine work on the doors mate.

Thanks Paul.

John

Really, really top notch work on display John.

A real inspiration.

ATB

Andrew

Cheers Andrew.

Great work John, are you really going to start a fire in there?

Andy.

No not in this part !Thanks Andy .

Hi John
Doors look great. Hoist is a nice touch - worth the frustration. The corrugated sheets are good. Did you make the mould thing or buy it?
Jim

Hi Jim . The corrugated sheets were formed by gluing two separate plastic sheets

(made by Juweelia, I bought a pack just to make the mould ! The plastic ones are far too thick to be correct .)



to blocks of softwood. The two faces form a mould , one face up with a sheet of aluminum foil on then has the other pressed down to mould the foil. Once pressed down you hold the bottom one still and slide the top back and fwd producing the shape. Quite effective really, you then just buy or use old take away containers .These have to be cut and flattened . Household foil is too thin ! I've tried it. Even gluing two sheets together fails .

Atta boy JR, that's looking the Dog's Orbs! Looking forward to see where this ends up.....keep 'er coming mate. :thumb2:

Rick H.

Hi buddy , going to take a while yet, as have to make the joists for the roof, gutters and a run of pipe work going from building to building .Plus a support frame ! Stay tuned .

Lovely door work Mr R :thumb2:

Thank you young man .

Brilliant.

Thank you Peter.

John .

[rtfoe]

Fine work John. Am inspired to do my buildings again having the Oxford nearing its completion and just by looking at what you've done. :thumb2:

Cheers,
Richard

[David Lovell]

Great stuff John you certainly seem to have found your comfort zone ,hope you've tried to book the building inspector you know what their like just turn up unannounced. Dave

[Mini Me]

Sharp as a tack Dave. :thumb2:

[Guest]

Beautiful work John!

I can't help much on the chemistry of the primer, but from its smell I'd guess it's a solvent based etch one, which are acidic to slightly dissolve the surface and give chemical as well as mechanical adhesion.

I could be wrong, but it's a very familiar pong :sick:

[spanner570]

Really enjoying quietly following this build, 453.

Excellent stuff.

[JR]

Fine work John. Am inspired to do my buildings again having the Oxford nearing its completion and just by looking at what you've done. :thumb2:

Cheers,
Richard

Thank you Richard, glad it has inspired you.

Great stuff John you certainly seem to have found your comfort zone ,hope you've tried to book the building inspector you know what their like just turn up unannounced. Dave

Thanks Dave. Arh the dreaded inspection, looking for the slightest point to make. Remember them well .:angry::anguished:

Sharp as a tack Dave. :thumb2:

Speaking from experience I think Rick. It would be worse if you had two come on different visits, the times they would contradict each other as to what you should do. oop::angry:

Beautiful work John!

I can't help much on the chemistry of the primer, but from its smell I'd guess it's a solvent based etch one, which are acidic to slightly dissolve the surface and give chemical as well as mechanical adhesion.

I could be wrong, but it's a very familiar pong :sick:

/QUOTE]

Thanks Andy. The smell is very familiar, to the point where I began to think it was just cellulose. ! Think your reason is right, if so how much are we being overcharged. !

Really enjoying quietly following this build, 453.

Excellent stuff.

570 Your always welcome, any pointers welcome, or abuse if you think needed.:smiling2:

[Steve Jones]

Just popped in to see how you are doing and I had to check this was a model and not one of your carpentry jobs! I'm lost for words mate. This is a real professional job on the dio. You really are excelling yourself on this one. Keep up the great work.

[JR]

Just popped in to see how you are doing and I had to check this was a model and not one of your carpentry jobs! I'm lost for words mate. This is a real professional job on the dio. You really are excelling yourself on this one. Keep up the great work.

Thanks Steve, think I should forget kits and just do buildings ! :smiling2:

[JR]

What a day, snow and more snow but thank goodness It did'n settle.

As it has been so bad outside I've managed to get on in the cave.
Only small stuff to show, but time consuming.

First the doors. Bad shot as not this dark.



Above and below gutters and down pipes, much fun cutting the pewter and gluing.
I've got some debonda so might try to remove some of the CA.

Needed some bends for the large pipe, used some copper elbows, seem ok.




Remember that Mr Hobby black glue I bought some time back, well knew it would come in one day.:smiling2:


So good you can't even see where it is !

Just to show where one of those bends is going.


Ok no more, but thanks for looking in any comments welcome.

John.

[scottie3158]

Very nice John really taking shape.

[Neil Merryweather]

Stonking stuff, John!
what did you use for the guttering?