hmmmm....modelling...or working..

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 modelling...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....

more on airbrushing..motorart's jcb's meet the the desk...how to get orange spray paint of your fingers.. all this and more...in your next instalment of the non-award winning part work that is norman's howse......

wooo...package day!...ish...

actually it's the result of three deliveries but.....

..finally it's all turned up!

from the top....

4 of Motorart's JCB 3CX's

2 of Corgi's New Ford Transit

2 of WSI's lovely Scania R 6x2 Tractors

plus 2 lion toys Nooteboom 4axle Ramped semi's to go behind them..

oh...and the JS330 in 1/35th.....

The best thing is when i've finished there wont be a trace of JCB Yellow amongst them!!!

An awful lot of silver...and Green is destined for them...

these are destined for a customer at work...here's the fleet inspiration

This is not the first i've done, that was a DAF XF superspace... but this time its scania's with 2 x 3CXM's on the back...no pressure but these are destined for the MD's desk....the transit's are intended for the same customer...as they run them as fleet engineers vehicles......

i'll stick something up here as i do each part of the conversion and repaints...as the first of the ford transit's is already on my desk in pieces.....

And a couple of updates from other projects......

Super Long Front.....Started on the base machine....http://www.land-water.co.uk/page.asp/LongReach25m.htm yep...one of land & water's Hitachi EX750's!...nothing like doing things the hard way!!!!....i'll try and put a more detailed post up eaplaining a bit more!

Challenger tank and Low Loader....not much really just got to chain it down and get a a case for it..apparently the recipient finishes with the MOD on the 5th of November!!!!!!! no rush then!

Dave