Une Ferme Abandonnee.....and some squatters! Normandy, July 1944

[spanner570]

Thanks Andy and me mucker!

I'm well happy you both approve of progress thus far.
I must confess to really enjoy having a go at modelling 'water'

Thanks again chaps.....

Capt. Nemo

[Jim R]

I seem to have missed a lot of updates. Just had a catch-up, a cup of tea and half a Mars Bar. This dio is well up to your usual very high standards. Probably thanks to Mrs Ron keeping her beady eye on you. Love the bridge and the water ain't half looking good. All those sweepings from your driveway - you'll be down to pre- Roman levels pretty soon.

[spanner570]

Jim, thanks for the nice compliments and also your humorous post.

HALF a Mars Bar? I hope you didn't share it with someone!

Yep, for sure, we have one shiny driveway.....

Cheers.
Ron

[scottie3158]

Ron,
I am always amazed the effects you achieve with the most basic media. Looking good.

[Gern]

Jim, thanks for the nice compliments and also your humorous post.

HALF a Mars Bar? I hope you didn't share it with someone!

Yep, for sure, we have one shiny driveway.....

Cheers.
Ron

Has your missus worn away the bristles yet on that sweeping brush you so generously bought for her a few months ago?

[spanner570]

Paul.
Sometimes simple is best....For me anyway.

Dave.
That sweeping brush? She has had another since then!



I've made me a diddy farm field gate. A bit posh, but I got carried away when marking it out!

Made from plastic card, suitable marked out with a pencil and cut out with a Stanley knife. Painted and weathered with kiddies acrylics.

Now here's a thing. This is the second one I've made.
Yesterday, I cut out the first one, went for lunch and when I returned, it had vanished - Honest!
I searched my bench, retraced my steps, checked my sleeves, all to no avail. This thing is just under 2" long. How can such an item simple vanish?!

Anyway, here is number 2.

Cut out and ready for cleaning up....


Weathered.


Finished.



...and loosely fitted. BBQ skewers for posts.



Cheers.
Ron

[Jim R]

Looks good Ron. Now that missing gate. Are you sure you made it? At our age the mind can play tricks. You think you made a gate but in reality perhaps you had a little nap and dreamed you made a gate. :smiling: :smiling3:

[Andy T]

That's not modelling, it's witchcraft!

Very nicely done sir.

[Gern]

Have you checked your sweepings bin? Maybe Justine has been a bit over enthusiastic with her new sweeping broom? You know what folks are like. Buy them a new tool and they just have to try it out!

Or maybe it's spiders as Scratchbuilder suggested a few weeks ago?

[AlanG]

Stunning work yet again Ron

[spanner570]

Thanks for all your humorous and encouraging comments boys - Love them all!

Still no sign of the missing gate. Just plain bonkers!

Cheers.
Ron

[Gern]

Thanks for all your humorous and encouraging comments boys - Love them all!

Still no sign of the missing gate. Just plain bonkers!

Cheers.
Ron

I'm surprised you haven't found it. It's the nature of our hobby that missing bits usually turn up immediately after you've:

1) Built a replacement or
2) Bought and paid for a replacement or
3) Changed the design of the model you're building so you no longer need it (like closed up instead of hatches open, wings open instead of folded, wheels up instead of down or hedgerows with no gate opening etc.)