Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[RonGlass]

John, you might need to be a little patient as I would need to do the groundwork and that takes time. In the mean time you'd like the flame throwers I'll be using for the bubbles...

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Cheers,
Richard

Richard please keep John distracted at your workbench with those new toys, so he'll leave mine alone for a while. It's dangerous enough with me as it is.

[rtfoe]

Richard please keep John distracted at your workbench with those new toys, so he'll leave mine alone for a while. It's dangerous enough with me as it is.

Ron,
The torch lighter is fun but hard to see the flames unless under half light. Works like a panzerfaust hollow charge in reverse on a 1mm plasticard.

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

Hi,
I prepared some plugs using the same balsa and cellophane tape for the bridge legs. This is to stop the resin filling up the holes as I still intend to work on the bridge separately before installing it onto the dio. Besides I need to work the resin under the bridge as well...

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And for you John, I have stuck the boxboard to the back and sealed areas where the resin will be poured with ply glue and later PVA but as luck would have it I have run out of that and have to wait for the EMCO to lift before I can get some from the local stationery shop. I added a compressed foam board to stiffen the backing where the jungle canopy foliage will be attached. This thought is knew and had to be planned ahead. I may have tree trunks and branches protruding from it.

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I'll let this set until I get the PVA to continue.

Cheers,
Richard

Nice to such thought going into this Richard. Will the heat generated by the resin effect the polystyrene in away way ?

[Steve Jones]

Totally missed this one Richard.Will tag along if I may. Great work on the bridge and stream. Looking forward to seeing some more

[Tim Marlow]

Missed this as well. Just had a long catch up. Love the attention to detail you get into your builds. Looking forward to the pour, but am I right to assume there will be ground painting first?

[RonGlass]

Ron,
The torch lighter is fun but hard to see the flames unless under half light. Works like a panzerfaust hollow charge in reverse on a 1mm plasticard.

Cheers,
Richard

[adt70hk]

Richard,

Got behind on this. Just had a very interesting read up on it.

Can honestly say it's a topic I know nothing about - I'll take it as read that having once read the Virgin Soldiers does not count....

Keep up the most excellent work.

ATB.

Andrew

[rtfoe]

Hi, apologies for replying late...

Nice to such thought going into this Richard. Will the heat generated by the resin effect the polystyrene in away way ?

John, I'd be coating the poly with groundwork and layers of acrylic paint and PVA. Poly normally reacts to fire or petroleum solvents and at very high temperatures I think.

Totally missed this one Richard.Will tag along if I may. Great work on the bridge and stream. Looking forward to seeing some more

Steve, good to have you along.

Missed this as well. Just had a long catch up. Love the attention to detail you get into your builds. Looking forward to the pour, but am I right to assume there will be ground painting first?

Tim, the boat left the pier a bit earlier than scheduled. Yes you're right about the ground painting.

Ron, I'm guessing you're speechless?:smiling2:

Richard,

Got behind on this. Just had a very interesting read up on it.

Can honestly say it's a topic I know nothing about - I'll take it as read that having once read the Virgin Soldiers does not count....

Keep up the most excellent work.

ATB.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew, I haven't read the book but will source the movie as it was shot in Malaysia so might recognise some scenes.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi guys,
This next step in most cases is where a dio looks like a disaster but is a very important point where the image in your mind makes you persevere. It's also where your experiment and composition kicks in.
I mixed a concoction of house paint, Vallejo, Tamiya, Fine sand, Grout and Polyfilla...then coated and sealed the stream and surrounding landscape with it. Fine sand was sprinkled on the road...I will saturate it with Future and when it starts getting gooey I'll roll it flat. Hopefully it will look like tarred road.



The landscape still needs another layer of the sludge when I was called to pick my daughter up. If I hadn't been summoned I would have cleaned off the deposits on the tops of the rocks while still wet. I will now need elbow grease to scrub it off. Some do look alright for overgrown moss where I could add tufts of flocking to make it more prominent.



The stationery shop is open today so I can get some white glue to secure some additional pebbles on the shoreline of the stream and bed. I have created a dam under the bridge to catch and retain the resin from overflowing to the lower level.



I think I'm keeping you guessing on how the jungle canopy is going to form. I can visualise it but it's going to be hard work as there is no background for the dark heavy vegetation to fall back on. Only spots where I have a backing to make a false deep wooded area. Basically creepers with lush leaves often cover a face of an entrance to the jungle and I hope I can achieve that.

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

Loving the sealing up, very technical mix of paints Richard.

[adt70hk]

Very interesting technique Richard.

ATB.

Andrew

[rtfoe]

Loving the sealing up, very technical mix of paints Richard.

John, glad you like sealing apart from torching :tears-of-joy: Very simple...everything is acrylic based.

Very interesting technique Richard.

ATB.

Andrew

Not new I'm afraid, Andrew, many river makers use the same technique but different sealing materials.

Cheers,
Richard

[Graeme C.]

Coming along nicely Richard, interesting watching this come together.

[rtfoe]

Thanks Graeme, lots more layers of groundwork to go before any pouring of resin I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Today I thought I'd clean up the rocks and what a scrub it took...



I got most of the rough texture off and noticed the polystyrene rocks needed another coating of my potion.



I then did some civil engineering and labour work making the drain concrete channels using thin black mounting boards.



Time passed so quickly and by the time I finished, 3 hours had gone by. It was really hot today and was melting onto my shorts and had to stop and take a shower to cool off.



So far it's been 3 showers and still melting so I'll add the pebbles and sand another day.

Cheers,
Richard