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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Codsticker on March 26, 2018, 06:59:38 AM
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At the suggestion of Elk101 and tin shed gamer I have started a new thread for my third Pulp Alley table: a remote, seldom used airstrip. The base will be foam on plywood with a smattering of scatter terrain and a couple of old buildings. So far I have completed a Nissen/Quonset hut and a fuel tank as well starting on the table itself.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w0dje4MlmCI/WqvfBD3vpZI/AAAAAAAAAck/6R_LQFVmkfISZr6KQsmT_-3xE96Ns5hUQCLcBGAs/s1600/Pulp%2BAlley%2BTables%2BMar%2B15th%2B001.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ldMVFVJzzGg/WriGZoDpRHI/AAAAAAAAAfA/DiqtA_U93WYT18DmR0OzwvRDaNWHY8MuACLcBGAs/s1600/Pulp%2BAlley%2BTables%2BMar%2B25%2B2018%2B003.jpg)
More photos and words on my blog. (https://apulpalleyproject.blogspot.ca/)
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Great, looking forward to seeing this. There was a thread last year where we were posting images of unusual airfields that would not look out of place on a Pulp table, so it will be good to see an actual Pulp gaming airfield.
The overgrown vegetation around the fuel tank looks spot on. I really like that piece. Is it a complete scratch build?
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Really nice aging. I'm looking forward to the fuel tank blowing up after a direct hit.
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Lovely work, very nice weathering on those!
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Thanks for this, having looked at the blog it was encouraging to see that we can build a pulp table with minimal props and scenic elements, especially as I'm trying to keep costs down just in case the boys don't get as enthusiastic as I'm hoping.
It is also encouraging that my idea of a half abandoned British outpost/airship station isn't so far off the mark...
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Lovely work :)
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Nice weathering, perfect for pulp or PA. 8) 8)
Cheers
Matt
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Lovely detailing work, I'm already getting a good sense of the place :D
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Thank you everyone. :)
Is it a complete scratch build?
No, it is a Novus Design Studio (http://www.novusdesign.net/) fuel tank from their SciFi range. Quite a nice model.
Thanks for this, having looked at the blog it was encouraging to see that we can build a pulp table with minimal props and scenic elements, especially as I'm trying to keep costs down just in case the boys don't get as enthusiastic as I'm hoping.
I think you can have a very enjoyable game with just a few pieces. At Trumpeter's Salute we used perhaps half (maybe even less) of the jungle bases I made for my jungle board.
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Thanks for the link. That's a nice bit of scenery for the money. It obviously helps that you've made such a nice job of it!
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Nicely done! I love the fuel tank. Very simple and very effective. 8) 8) :-*
Looking forward to following this thread.
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Excellent work on both of these :-* :-* I look forward to the rest of your airport.
LB
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Great stuff. The weathering and vegetation growth is brilliant. Can't wait to see more.
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An airstrip is on my list of builds (some day!!) Looking forward to your build. What you have done so far looks great!
Dale
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Thank you guys. Right now I am working on the table itself.
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Fantastic work! THANKS for sharing. :-*
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Your are welcome Mr.Phipps, and thank you ;).
The table surface itself is nearly finished- just the runway itself needs to be 'paved'. My blog post follows the last week and a bit from this:
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kk-wW466YOM/WsG0DrteKiI/AAAAAAAAAf8/OwmLW3NiqhceeOPIz3HtM_IPAWu41UdzQCLcBGAs/s1600/Pulp%2BAlley%2BTables%2BApr%2B1%2B2018%2B001.jpg)
To this:
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tnKi4OT8qRg/WsG5cooJYkI/AAAAAAAAAhk/MrOS9jo9WuIa_CRzaaDbkOa0ZZu9DpqBwCLcBGAs/s1600/Pulp%2BAlley%2BTables%2BApr%2B1%2B2018%2B015.jpg)
Many more pics documenting the work are on my blog. (https://apulpalleyproject.blogspot.ca/)
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Be it by luck or judgement,that's a bit clever.
By having the runaway diagonally across the board you draw the eye, changing the focal point.Allowing the board edge to disappear,and the landscaping to have an equal billing. It's also storytelling before there's anything else on the board. ( the angle and the fact it stops short of being edge to edge straight away implies something that's been built into an existing landscape.)
Had you gone with a runway parallel to the edges,or edge to edge. You'd have still had something pretty but sterile .
In short like it alot :D
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Well, this is a great looking project, I'll follow this thread with great interest! Cheers!
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This is a fantastic piece of terrain, I like the look of the gras a lot. Very well done!
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Really nice work. I agree, the angled airstrip works very well.
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Great stuff & a cracking blog too :D
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Thank you guys- the compliments are very appreciated.
By having the runaway diagonally across the board you draw the eye, changing the focal point.Allowing the board edge to disappear,and the landscaping to have an equal billing. It's also storytelling before there's anything else on the board.
Well, funny as it may sound, I am making art as much as a wargames table. Sometimes when I look at these projects, I ask myself: "What would that look like on my wall?"
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Thank you guys- the compliments are very appreciated.Well, funny as it may sound, I am making art as much as a wargames table. Sometimes when I look at these projects, I ask myself: "What would that look like on my wall?"
This had never occurred to me (model railways being a bit heavy for such things) but it is an excellent idea: storage and decoration solved in one easy move.
Your runway would easily be long enough for an Autogyro for your hero/evil mastermind to escape in...
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The runway is done which means that the table itself is done. Now I just have a few more elements to add in the form of another structure and some scatter terrain.
(https://i.imgur.com/AGCkEXF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/T7YYebg.jpg)
A few more pictures and words on my blog. (https://apulpalleyproject.blogspot.ca/)
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Impressive and certainly photogenic work!
I’ve enjoyed your blog-posts on the other tables as well... what’s your storage solution for all of them?
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Wow, that's looking great! :-*
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Lovely groundwork :-*
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That’s wonderful, the cracking of the concrete looks the business but I really like the subtle little touches, likecthe crumbling of the concrete at the end.
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Its just unfortunately falling short for me.- If only you'd made it for right hand drive. ;D
All the same nicely done.
Mark.
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Thank you guys. :)
what’s your storage solution for all of them?
Er... not ideal. Here they are stacked in an undignified fashion by the hot water tank in the basement:
(https://i.imgur.com/GUDRcTA.jpg)
If only you'd made it for right hand drive. ;D
Not to worry, TSG: it's single lane so you can drive any which way you like ;D
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Cor, no wonder its abandoned,health and safety would have field day !
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That’s wonderful, the cracking of the concrete looks the business but I really like the subtle little touches, likecthe crumbling of the concrete at the end.
This is what makes it for me too. The attention to detail is excellent.
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Thank you guys. :)Er... not ideal. Here they are stacked in an undignified fashion by the hot water tank in the basement:
(https://i.imgur.com/GUDRcTA.jpg)Not to worry, TSG: it's single lane so you can drive any which way you like ;D
I misunderstood you earlier reply and thought they were literally hanging on the wall in your living room. They would be a lot more interesting them the generic 'art' a lot of people use...
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I misunderstood you earlier reply and thought they were literally hanging on the wall in your living room. They would be a lot more interesting them the generic 'art' a lot of people use...
I would love to do that but I would want to hang all three pieces in the same room - they are a set after all- and I don't have one room in my house with the perfect wall space.
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Excellent and enviable work.
Cheers
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Will you be painting an weathered X at the start of the runway to denote it is closed? Lovely work btw :)
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Will you be painting an weathered X at the start of the runway to denote it is closed? Lovely work btw :)
I was thinking about putting some markings on it; an X sounds like a good idea. Where would I put the X- right where the runway ends, where the runway exits the table or somewhere in between?
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Lovely wok.
Looks like a great setting for Pulp gaming.
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I was thinking about putting some markings on it; an X sounds like a good idea. Where would I put the X- right where the runway ends, where the runway exits the table or somewhere in between?
If a strip is out of order they are put at the ends and one in the middle.......on your table basically one should suffice I reckon.
Enjoy some insipration: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
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If a strip is out of order they are put at the ends and one in the middle.......on your table basically one should suffice I reckon.
Enjoy some insipration: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
Thanks Gunbird. I had actually found that site earlier.
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If a strip is out of order they are put at the ends and one in the middle.......on your table basically one should suffice I reckon.
Enjoy some insipration: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
Out of interest, is that "Out of order, but in an emergency you can use it" or Don't even think about it"?
If it's for emergencies, are the runways maintained occasionally, or do they just paint over the 'X' when the concrete breaks up too much?
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Playing devils advocate.
I'd say No ,( without further investigation and deliberation ;))
Once you add markings you limit its flexibly.Both in terms of its age and location
I grew up on a disused airfield.(RAF Mamby in the Uk.) . They definitely didn't have X's on the runway Just large piles of earth and rubble,and in one case a dung heap.(more like a hill) The Hangers were used to store grain.
As an adult I've been on airstrips you'd have thought had been archaeology the day before we landed.
My point is Mark it as a disused airfield,and that's all it'll ever be.
As it stands its suitable for a third world-banana republic- drug barron-posta Apocalypse air strip,and so on.
If you want it to look abandoned just plonk scatter terrain pieces on top.
Much more effective and help set the period feel of the game,(burnt out car,oil drums, fallen tree trunks ,mattress (there's always one, I think they go feral before they die.) you get the point.)
Mark.
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I think that's a good point, it's very versatile as it is. I've seen the mounds of earth blocking runways too and they could be modelled pretty easily to turn it in to a disused airfield. Even piles of scrap and fly tipped junk would work.
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Lots of great suggestions. The idea when I started this project was that it was a remote, unmaintained and infrequently used landing strip. Perhaps, initially built either just before or during WW2 but seeing continued but declining use in the years following. The perfect place to rendezvous with fugitives, exchanges gold or weapons for stolen idols, or stash a getaway plane.
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Lots of great suggestions. The idea when I started this project was that it was a remote, unmaintained and infrequently used landing strip. Perhaps, initially built either just before or during WW2 but seeing continued but declining use in the years flowing. The perfect place to rendezvous with fugitives, exchanges gold or weapons for stolen idols, or stash a getaway plane.
.....or any one of a number of destinations favoured by Ryan Air.
I agree the X, whilst a nice touch, is rather limiting. Scatter items for different times and setting could include landing lights and those little coloured blunt cones you see at the sidecand end of strips, all suitably distressed, chipped and/ or rusted.
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Very impressive work, I must say!
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Very impressive work, I must say!
Thank you Ockman.
A few bits of scatter terrain is all I managed this past week (they could be used on any of my Pulp Alley tables...).
(https://i.imgur.com/2zXVh0l.jpg)
More pictures and some 'splaining on my blog. (https://apulpalleyproject.blogspot.ca/)
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I'd say your on the money.They already set the scene nicely. Still a big fan of multi purpose scenery,if for no other reason than the sheer amount of time it saves,by being re usable.
Mark.
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I'd say your on the money.They already set the scene nicely. Still a big fan of multi purpose scenery,if for no other reason than the sheer amount of time it saves,by being re usable.
Mark.
Thank you Mark. :)
I am looking forward to the other structure and old pick-up. The table should have enough on it once those two pieces are done.
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Last week the pick up and field hangar finally arrived (as they came from the UK it actually didn't take that long...). The Tilly from Warlord Games is finished (it's TINY!) and I have started assembling the field hangar (not the best pictures of the pick-up I'm afraid):
(https://i.imgur.com/vrOcX7r.jpg?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/SjS0OlD.jpg?1)
More on my blog. (https://apulpalleyproject.blogspot.ca/)
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Loving it.
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Thank you Gunbird. :)
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I wish I'd put money on which hanger you'd pick.
I'll be honest I'm not keen on the tilley(sculpt) it doesn't seem to quite fit your style.
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I'll be honest I'm not keen on the tilley(sculpt) it doesn't seem to quite fit your style.
How so? Too old?
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No the idea's great its just like a fair numbers of their models. Its ill researched,and in this case ill proportioned. It appears to be a hybrid of two different models/mk's.
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Great looking project! :-*
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No the idea's great its just like a fair numbers of their models. Its ill researched,and in this case ill proportioned. It appears to be a hybrid of two different models/mk's.
It's supposed to be Tilly 10 (I think the vehicle in your first photo). I picked it because it looked the most non-military of their sculpts but I think in retrospect I would have gone with Rubicon's
Opel Blitz (http://www.rubiconmodels.com/products.php?i=21) or, possibly, their CMT truck (http://www.rubiconmodels.com/products.php?i=69) (coz, you know..."Canadian" ;)).
BTW, thank you Mr.Phipps.
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Being rather blase about the difference between 1/56 and 1/48, I'm currently building a Tamiya 1:48 Tilly, which fits well with my 28mm figures:
http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/32562_10hp/index.htm
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Being rather blase about the difference between 1/56 and 1/48, I'm currently building a Tamiya 1:48 Tilly, which fits well with my 28mm figures:
http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/32562_10hp/index.htm
Thank you for the link Andy. I tried mixing some 1/48 transports with 28mm figures years ago and it didn't really look good. I suppose it would depend a lot on the type of vehicle and the figures used though.
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Being rather blase about the difference between 1/56 and 1/48, I'm currently building a Tamiya 1:48 Tilly, which fits well with my 28mm figures:
http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/32562_10hp/index.htm
The Tamiya Tilly is a proper one. IIRC Captain Blood has one on his desert war thread if you want to see one for scale purposes.
I've often fancied getting one to paint up as a bomb disposal vehicle as per Danger UXB.
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Well that's very flashy :D.
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Missed the scatter terrain earlier, very cool 8)
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The Tamiya Tilly is a proper one. IIRC Captain Blood has one on his desert war thread if you want to see one for scale purposes.
I've often fancied getting one to paint up as a bomb disposal vehicle as per Danger UXB.
I like that paint scheme.
My Tilly is still in primer, but a couple of chaps from my RN league agreed to stand next to it for scale purposes. If anything they are larger than the driver Tamiya supplied.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/952/41718513831_a95ce8fe44_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26ywhHe)
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That looks fine to me scale-wise.
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Another Pulp Alley table done! The hangar was the last major piece (I found a couple of barrels I might paint up). I scrapped the card roofing that came with the kit and upgraded to some Plastruct O scale corrugated roofing I had bought some years ago. I am happy with the result:
(https://i.imgur.com/geSc9ea.jpg)
I also took a bunch of pictures of the whole table with all it's pieces:
(https://i.imgur.com/lZT2F3z.jpg)
As usual, many more pictures on my blog (http://apulpalleyproject.blogspot.ca/2018/04/airstrip-complete.html).
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Do you think one day you might get the hang of this model building lark then? :D
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That is absolutely cracking! You chose wisely with the corrugated plastic card.
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Lovely work :)
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Very nice. Now I see the hanger together all those 'A' framed pieces make sense.
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Do you think one day you might get the hang of this model building lark then? :D
Well... you know... I just keep plugging away at it. :) :D
Very nice. Now I see the hanger together all those 'A' framed pieces make sense.
The hangar is larger than I thought it would be. I assumed it would cover about twice the area of the Quonset hut but it is close to 4 times that; it has turned out to be the dominant feature.
Thank you everyone for the compliments.
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lol it's a cracking build.
The foot print of the hanger does seem quite dominant.
I wonder if it wouldn't be visually reduced (and no doubt you've tried it) if the hanger was on the runway with the runway running into it rather than the hanger being at a right angle to it.
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That roof is PERFECT! Well done to replace it with the corrugated iron.
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I wonder if it wouldn't be visually reduced (and no doubt you've tried it) if the hanger was on the runway with the runway running into it rather than the hanger being at a right angle to it.
You are right I did try that. :D It looked OK; I think it could work, depending on the scenario. It is interesting to watch other people set up the terrain I have made; they come up with placements I never thought off and it it usually looks great.
That roof is PERFECT! Well done to replace it with the corrugated iron.
Thank you Michi.
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Awesome job!!…...I love all the weathering details...and MAN!!, there are a TONNE of details to see :-* :-*
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Fantastic work here. This game table is wonderful and a rich "source of information" for all of us!!!
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Thank you both. :D
I have another table in the works but progress on it has stalled. Perhaps I will get back to it in a week or two.
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Get cracking Codsticker!!….I'm on edge to see where you will take us NEXT...…. :)
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Thank you both. :D
I have another table in the works but progress on it has stalled. Perhaps I will get back to it in a week or two.
Sounds good, something to look forward to.
Regarding the 'dominant' hangar, couldn't you alter the 'dominant appearance to taste by adding or removing roofing panels?
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I don’t know how I missed this thread! Great work on the airfield! :-*
Are you planning on any runway markings?
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Regarding the 'dominant' hangar, couldn't you alter the 'dominant appearance to taste by adding or removing roofing panels?
Sort of... both halves of the roof can be removed independently. Are you planning on any runway markings?
There has been lots of discussion on this- I have ummed and ahhed about it but for the moment it will get left as is.
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I don’t know how I missed this thread! Great work on the airfield! :-*
Me too!
No good reason for it either as I love your previous builds and should have spotted it earlier.
Top drawer, sir!
:-* :-*
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Great looking board. It could be used for so many settings.