This weekend i have been mostly.....

apart from failing miserably to motivate myself to detail the car.....

i've been modelling!!!...first was some green action...i've had a 1/48 Challenger 1 on my desk as part of a custom comission from a customer at work...finally got got a blast of british army olive green...which is a bit of a custom mix..nato green and olive drab..couple of coats and i've got a pretty green tank!!!!

it's an academy kit...less said the better....not the greatest...but it does the job after a fair bit of furtling! especially..underneath and at the rear.....as the final destination is someone at the MOD my big worry is to get it to look right! and the more eager readers (are there any?) will notice it's sat on one of the very fine WSI Nooteboom low loaders...but the next step is to secure it to the trailer! using the appropriate MOD Tie-down scheme! so after this moment..i'm on a painting frenzy! so just after i mixed up some CAT Yellow...first shot on the scraper body...then my compressor called it a day!!!!!! turns out my pressure regulater has called it a day!!!!...so cap on the paint and back to the building desk...

And this is the result of yesterdays plastic bashing session....the main boom of a super long reach

excavator.. today i've been rebuilding the dipper which is sat next to me as type this drying....

as is normal with me it's been an on and off project for some time!!! Mostly off....but anyway after struggling to deal with laminating 2mm sheets of perspex to build up the main boom and the resulting delaminating and swearing!!!

I stumbled across some old perspex display stands in the warehouse at work...so these were dutifully claimed..the nice 10mm thick sections form the core..and after finding an easy way to cut it! (scroll saw cuts but it melts back together behind the blade, Jigsaw not too bad..tile cutter! the way forward!)and sanded to final shape with a laminate of thinner plastic coat of filler and bosh jobs a good un!, it must be right...i've left it alone!

notice i didnt mention the base machine....all guesses welcome!....

anyway back to work tomorrow.....