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4mm-scale model vehicles and plant, ham-fistedly created

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Bedford HA vans - one finished! (photos)

Finished one... Mods include narrowing the track by cutting-down the bosses moulded onto the rear of the original Corgi wheels by 1.5 mm per side, adding etched stainless-steel interior and exterior rear-view mirrors and windscreen wipers from the TPM "60s car details" etch, home-made decals and registration plates and some detail painting. A couple of photos (rather cruelly enlarged!):       The decals were scanned from an old BR photo, tweaked in Word 2010, inkjet-printed onto Crafty C

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Corgi Bedford HA vans - the saga continues...

Ah yes, the HA vans... No 70s/80s layout is complete without at least one in the background.   I'd originally been looking on eBay for BR-liveried examples split from the Corgi BR vans set; no joy, although the rest of the set seems widely available... It's clear that there's a market for HAs in BR Road Vehicle Yellow. Given the rarity of Mk1 Escort vans in BR service, it's perhaps surprising that a Mk1 Esky was chosen for the volume-production "yellow BR van" rather than the HA.   Sooo...

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Coles Argus 6-tonne crane, CD style

Road vehicles are my other modelling interest, so I've decided to separate them from my traction blog.   My first effort is a Coles Argus 6-tonne SWL mobile crane, based on the Corgi 1/76 diecast model but modified slightly and weathered. The cab guard was knocked-up from fusewire, fine metal mesh and Microstrip. Other tweaks include copying the wasp stripes from the rear of the example that appears in the background of so many Crewe Diesel Depot photos, plus adding OLE warning flashes and red

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