Yate show and more loads
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This was going to be Happy Christmas message, then things got hectic. Then it was going to be a Happy New Year message, but I got ill. January has been a blur so here it is - Happy February!
I couldn't put it off any longer as at some ridiculous hour tomorrow morning (Sat), we are heading off down the M5 for the Yate show - anyone in the area please do drop by.
I have been playing with various projects recently, mostly restarting and even finishing a few stalled ones. I have been taking the odd picture so will write these up in the fullness of time.
One little job that I have finished though are some more wagon loads. I have spent quite a while looking carefully at many pictures and film and came to the conclusion that there are very few examples of wagon loads except for ones I have spotted already or ones carrying full (and usually cheering!), loads of troops which although in no way impossible to recreate it would certainly be very time consuming, expensive and probably beyond my abilities.
So, it was out with the balsa again! I found a murky film of several wagons with large wooden frames with what looks like chicken with attached. Had not seen these before and after a little research worked out that they are probably for revetting dug outs - any confirmation would be appreciated. I was able to scale them from the dimensions of the wagon so drew one up in PhotoShop and produced a template sheet on A4 for 15, covered it with double sided tape and then (eventually!), found the balsa stripper. I then made up a simple jig to cut all the bits to length and got stripping away.
A bit of PVA later and I had assembled my first sheet. Ah, the chicken wire.... last week I found myself in that Aladdin's cave that is the Hereford Model Center where they had some Greenscene 7mm link fence material at the princely price of £3.49 I think it was a packet. Well I bought one packet to see if it would work and then decided that if it did I wouldn't be able to afford enough of it as the amount in the packet was pretty small. Anyway armed with that one packet as it was going to be easier to show than explain I went to the local haberdashery - oh yes we still have a very good one of those! A few minutes latter after being taken aback by the range of colours available (psychedelic purple 7mm chain link fence anyone?), I walked out with a meter in a neutral grey for just £1.50. Not wishing to put Greenscene out of business or anything as I know it doesn't jump into those little plastic bags by itself but you can make an awful, awful, awful lot of fencing with a meter of dress net as I found it was called.
Once dry these were peeled off and I started again. Once I had a pretty large pile of them I stained them with a wood dye and Indian ink solution and let them dry off on the radiator - I hasten to add that the light was very poor for this shot and the white balance is all off so no, the wall is not that colour!
And finished
Just in case I don't manage another blog before next weekend and given my recent performance that is highly likely I am out and about again but this time heading the other way up to Doncaster - Saturday and Sunday at the race course.
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