Halftrack to Halftrack

[Guest]

Hi Mike
Your scratching is so neat and accurate. The whole build is very impressive. A real credit to your skill and patience.
Jim

Cheers Jim,
The wife always says I have no patience...
Mike.

[Guest]

Attention to detail Mike is a hall mark of your work. :thumb2:
I can see why I stick to distruction .:smiling:
Hope Management is improving.
John .

John,
Nothing wrong with your work, you do yourself an injustice.
Management is still breathing, coughing, wheezing, cursing, so she must be on the mend.
Cheers, Mike.

[Guest]

Sorry no update today, still bending little pieces into smaller pieces. Will prime up the model tomorrow and we can see it in one colour for a change, just doing things like the doors and engine covers which should all be finished and primed tomorrow.
Cheers, Mike.
ps. Started to look at a base for this so must be getting near the end...

[Neil Merryweather]

Scottie,
Was going to paint them red, but sanity has prevailed, green it is.
Or I could start all over again....
Mike.
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Wow, wouldn't this be something to see!

[Guest]

Update,
Finally it is in primer, at the last minute I changed the tie downs for ones from Eduard, so spent a couple of hours trying not to go blind or cross eyed :tongue-out3:. Placed and bent 14, and not one lost, got to be a record. Just got the doors to finish off and prime and then it will be into base colour. I have put the 'A' frame, gas bottles and fire extinguishers into their base colours ready for weathering. The devide between the hull and the top addition has come out ok, not too pronounced and as it looks on the photos of the real thing, so I am pleased with that.
And this is where we are today.
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Cheers, Mike.

[scottie3158]

Mike,

That looks great the paint has really highlighted the details you have added. Neat idea with the chains

[JR]

Suberb Mike.:thumb2:
Glad to see Management is recovering.
John.

[Guest]

Mike,

That looks great the paint has really highlighted the details you have added. Neat idea with the chains

Cheers Scottie,
It saves the chains sticking to the primer, and you cannot explain it away as a bird walked up the side...
Mike.

[Guest]

Suberb Mike.:thumb2:
Glad to see Management is recovering.
John.

Cheers John,
My turn now, she is currently cursing daytime tv...
Mike

[minitnkr]

Yours' too? Mine just can't stay away. BTW excellent progress on the track. PaulE

[Allen Dewire]

Yes Sir, this puppy is definitely looking good!!! All the little details have made this a master class work of art!!!

[Guest]

Yours' too? Mine just can't stay away. BTW excellent progress on the track. PaulE

Paul, I sympathise. Mike.

[Guest]

Yes Sir, this puppy is definitely looking good!!! All the little details have made this a master class work of art!!!

I thank you.

[Guest]

Update,
Just a quick update, made up the 'cable tensioners' that fit on the cable between the jib and the vehicle anchoring point.
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I also painted up the fire extinguishers...

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The decals came from AA's set, just need a bit of weathering once attached to the vehicle.
Tomorrow is paint day, so it will be an early breakfast followed by some push ups, 26 mile marathon, and then when I wake up and get out of bed - some finger flexing just to exercise the finger, cannot overdo things.
Cheers,
Mike.

[JR]

Load ratchets and those fire extinguishes look very realistic Mike. :thumb2:.
John .