1/35 Scale Shadow box Dinner on the front line from Miniart.

[JR]

Great work as always John.

ATB.

Andrew

Thank you Andrew.
Cheers Paul.

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What a change in the weather from under 40 f during the day to a high today of 48 f .

Meanwhile in the cave the following was achieved, gone have the wooden top halves of the rifle racks, too wide in between to look right.
Drilled some Balsa out with a .4 drill and ca's some wire in from the back. Also glued some pewter into the floor, even bent the edges to fit in between the boards !





Now I advise Members of the Untidy Bench Club at this point to turn away.

IVE' HAD A CLEAN UP !!!!!! Like Paul no room and staring to loose more things than I find.

From my normal bench.


To this, of course this will not last.:smiling3::nerd::nerd: Sorry Jim failed again.:loudly-crying:


Did find numerous items, a sandwich, sock , bike , and some PE.

Thanks for looking in, comments welcome.

John.

[Guest]

That bench!

Who are you and what have you done with John?

:tongue-out2:

[monica]

I like the 1st pic of the bench ,,reminds me of my one,work to be done.
the 2rd one no work will happen hear ,
some great work going on with this build,liking it a lot well done,

[Si Benson]

Now be honest John, did you just sweep the bench mess onto the floor with the yard broom again :smiling5::smiling5:

Rifle rack Version 2.0 looking good:thumb2:

[JR]

That bench!

Who are you and what have you done with John?

:tongue-out2:

At the present time Matron is out looking for him, straight jacket at the ready.

[JR]

I like the 1st pic of the bench ,,reminds me of my one,work to be done.
the 2rd one no work will happen hear ,
some great work going on with this build,liking it a lot well done,

Hi Moni, thanks for looking in. Hope you are well in the Land Of Down Under.

Now be honest John, did you just sweep the bench mess onto the floor with the yard broom again :smiling5::smiling5:

Rifle rack Version 2.0 looking good:thumb2:

You know me too well Si :smiling2:, I did then clean up the floor, before the Management saw it .

[Lee Drennen]

John. Looks nice and tidy. BTW what kinda sandwich was it??????

[Tim Marlow]

Nice work John. Detail is looking great.

[JR]

John. Looks nice and tidy. BTW what kinda sandwich was it??????

Peanut butter ! Cheers Lee.

Nice work John. Detail is looking great.

Thanks Tim.

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Bit more done , some of rifles have has straps , spent a lot of time, removing the straps from my fingers, the ca holder from my wrist and hand, very time consuming.

Made a mix up of paint for the basic wash for the timber.The good thing is the water has raised the grain, making it look much more like bark.




Made up the tarp for the door, used some eyelets Paul ( Scottie ) kindly sent me. Need to play around with it a bit more yet. Also cut out some paper for coats hanging upand treated it as above with V.M.S LIQUID.





Don't know how many times now I've put it together to check as I add more things,
It's the only way with this type of dio, so you can keep checking all is fitting.

Thanks for looking in, comments welcome.

John.

[GerryW]

Must admit that for timber, I've had some good results using cold coffee to stain (last project took a couple of applications of really strong coffee to turn 'pale' to 'teak'), though not too sure how it would work on balsa - might well penetrate too deeply

[Si Benson]

Your making a splendid job of this mate....suitably impressed :nerd:

[PaulTRose]

Must admit that for timber, I've had some good results using cold coffee to stain (last project took a couple of applications of really strong coffee to turn 'pale' to 'teak'), though not too sure how it would work on balsa - might well penetrate too deeply

ive done the same but when i did it to balsa i found it caused fibres to stand up and give almost a 'furry' appearance.......guess it was the liquid causing balsa to absorb/expand?......think it also depends on how dense the balsa is

[GerryW]

ive done the same but when i did it to balsa i found it caused fibres to stand up and give almost a 'furry' appearance.......guess it was the liquid causing balsa to absorb/expand?......think it also depends on how dense the balsa is

Thanks - as I said, hadn't tried it with balsa.

[Mini Me]

In the Gun trade we called it "Whiskering"......New gunstocks were wiped down with a wet cloth to raise the grain so they could be final sanded before finishing. I do like the effect that you have achieved in this case JR as like you said.....a little like tree bark. I think it will be the Bomb! :thumb2: Rick H.

[Lee Drennen]

John. I agree with Rick the rifles look great. You didn’t throw that sandwich away did you? Wonder what it would taste like with some Yorkshire Tea?