as the title says.... thats mostly what the happy smiley (caution may contain sarcasm)people here at norman's howse have been up to.....
the fun packed roadshow that is heavy transport continues apace at work...helping out ainscough with the very accident damaged AC2000 http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=7129 if you havent already seen the pics...we recovered from site to an ainscough depot..and then it's going to germany to demag's to be rebuilt...apparently there's an ac500 coming from spain to cover/replace it...600 ton boxes on the docks at ellesmere port..115tonne generating rotors in newcastle..we've actually run out of axles and had to hire some in!!!!
plus trying to keep a brace of smaller trucks running during these "trying" times....all good fun..or so they say!
but anyway on with the mo
delling...WSI's very nice Scania R620 6x2 toplines have a had their first visit to the desk...
delling...WSI's very nice Scania R620 6x2 toplines have a had their first visit to the desk...as you can see..a stunning model in its own right..it just looks right! the stance..etc one of my pet hates! is good...
but...we are not here to sit there and fawn over it! (a couple of hours with different trailers if your interested)
how do we take this apart.... as they dont generally supply instructions for this...we now have to enter the zen like mental approach of...."why the fishcake isnt this coming apart!". so an evening later...with a variety of sharp flat bladed tools and the latest weapon in the fight against ready built models...!!SUPERGLUE REMOVER!!! something every modeller should own! you should end up with stage one...
then more levering swearing and dissolving...
gets you to stage two as the next pic shows...
and then its upstairs for the first soak in paint stripper and into the paint booth...
and currently as i type this....chassis and mudguards are primered..awaiting purple...and the cabs have got their first shot of silver...along with the transit's....
