Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[rtfoe]

Hi Richard
Very good and so interesting to follow your progress. Glad you found your box :hugging-face:
Jim

Hi Jim, I was overjoyed when I found the box. Before that I was going beserk wondering where it was. Glad you find the progress interesting.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Fantastic waterworks there Richard. I can see the tree working really well as well….

Thanks Tim, waterworks of joy will flow when this is completed. I see you can visualise the tree. :thumb2:

Cheers,
Richard

[Mini Me]

This is coming on the Dog's Richard! CCR all the way! Rick H.

[Steve Jones]

Outstanding. Great imagination Richard

[rtfoe]

Thanks Rick and Steve, my frequent hikes in the past through the jungle and streams have been a great help in the imagination portion of the build.

Cheers,
Richard

[minitnkr]

It shows in your excellent work.

[adt70hk]

Great work as always Richard....

[rtfoe]

Thank you Paul and Andrew, appreciate the lovely reply. Sorry no new pictures to show, been a busy day.

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

Greetings , well you don't disappoint Richard, and glad I've not missed too much. These things take time and well worth the wait.

[rtfoe]

Greetings , well you don't disappoint Richard, and glad I've not missed too much. These things take time and well worth the wait.

Yes it does John and sometimes the distraction and going of the track like the bamboo stalks I suddenly got going below.

I picked up this idea from a YouTube build using plastic rods cut at equal lengths and melted at both ends and flattened to create the ridge, then gluing the ends together to form the stalk/trunk.

I started by cutting a batch of different diameters of plastic rod, each with its constant length.



I used an incense stick to melt the ends and smashed them on the glass top table.



Contrary to beliefs, not all bamboo grow straight and true. So to get it to look natural I thought this would be one way to do it and bloody 'ell they don't look half bad even before painting.



I'll need to cut triangular shaped apple wrapping paper to attach the base of each segment...this is where the shoots spring from. I will be using Japanese carpet grass shoots for this as I find they look quite similar to bamboo shoots in this scale.

More pics later when I've done more.

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

Look's very convincing Richard, a cleaver idea.

Your " Chopper " looks a lot cleaner and newer than my poor old thing, is this another replacement ?

[rtfoe]

Look's very convincing Richard, a cleaver idea.

Your " Chopper " looks a lot cleaner and newer than my poor old thing, is this another replacement ?

Same old one I bought 3 years back in Sydney. This is the second time of use...perhaps that's why it looks new.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
Another great idea. It really does look like bamboo. Looking forward to seeing these "grow".
Jim

[tr1ckey66]

Just caught up with this Richard. Superb work. Looking forward to the progress.
Cheers
Paul

[rtfoe]

Hi Richard
Another great idea. It really does look like bamboo. Looking forward to seeing these "grow".
Jim

Jim, as mentioned the idea wasn't mine but is great and it worked. Always nice when it does.

Just caught up with this Richard. Superb work. Looking forward to the progress.
Cheers
Paul

Thanks Paul, glad you caught up.

Cheers,
Richard