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Author Topic: A quick layout dry run.( tsg's WW2 thread)  (Read 67180 times)

Offline voltan

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Re: Musings on finishing railway and bridges(Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #330 on: March 01, 2021, 06:10:06 PM »
Well, at least the trees look to be in pretty good nick. Just hope they didn't cost too much.
Yvan eht nioj!

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Re: Musings on finishing railway and bridges(Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #331 on: March 04, 2021, 02:03:47 PM »
Not all .
Apparently I'd put the maiden bid on them .She Who must be obeyed was on EBay with the youngest , when they finished. So she paid for them .So it was a bit of a surprise when they turned up. Mind you so where the fruit tree's they arrived in an 18mm deep box. ( just like flock and tufts normally turn up in.)

The level crossing arrived. It appears my hunch paid off.
The level crossing has at some point in the last fifty years been assaulted with a hacksaw. To widen the track slot.
Which to be fair is exactly what I was contemplating before it arrived.
The re shaped slot is 30mm wide. (If now 4mm off centre ) which is fortuitous as my scratch built track is 30mm between the rails ( so a figure base fits )
That's not technically accurate as the piece of track in the picture is an example of why it's important not to rush and to stop when your tired.
As superglue is unforgiving. The tracks actually 29mm and nearly 32mm at the other. Hence it being set as the board edge section .So it can think about what it's done.
The road sections of the level crossing are as near as damn it. To the width of my road section .That I dont feel the need to adjust them. The only adjustment other than detailing ,I need to make is a vetical for each end of the track area so it will but up nicely with track sections.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2021, 02:05:22 PM by tin shed gamer »

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Re: Musings on finishing railway and bridges(Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #332 on: March 04, 2021, 02:19:13 PM »
Going to simply stick drive over planks on a piece of my track.....no barriers.....life was a little more dangerous then! Lol


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Definitely dodgy time's indeed. lol
I aged everytime I use the unmanned foot cross with the kids on our walks. It comes out of trees and 200 yards from an unmanned station. You can't see or hear a thing until your through the gate. Coming back is only marginally better as your stood next to an old engine shed thats now a commercial unit so you can here but you can't see. ::)

I managed last night to throw some paint at it in a rather loose and half bothered fashion. But despite my lack of enthusiasm it's still I think proved a useful reference piece.So I'll probably do another one at least another one as this one isnt raised enough to work with the embankment track.

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Looks good!

Offline gamer Mac

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Very nice job :-* :-* :-*

Offline Tommy20

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Brilliant!
-Tommy

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Just catching up - you have been busy!  Stonking stuff as ever :D

Offline Bravo Six

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Like Rich, just catching up on this thread as well. Amazing work!!  :o :o

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Cheers,
I'm working on a 'Propper'  Captain Colin Maud . Both beach and resistance version ( just haven't had chance to chase up which vehicle he used Civillian or Military)

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Re: (Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #340 on: March 15, 2021, 06:58:13 PM »
Very nice.

Offline Truscott Trotter

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Cheers,
I'm working on a 'Propper'  Captain Colin Maud . Both beach and resistance version ( just haven't had chance to chase up which vehicle he used Civillian or Military)
Wot are you telling me he didn't look like Capt Birdseye and have a British Bulldog?  lol lol lol

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Re: (Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #342 on: March 28, 2021, 02:13:42 AM »
Mark, are the figures in the above photos from the C20 Follies range?

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Re: (Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #343 on: March 28, 2021, 07:59:22 AM »
 lol
No not the obvious Bulldog .I was thinking more along the lines of the nuttier stuff he got upto from going on raids. To plodding round occupied France in his jeep days after the Normandy landings. Wear shorts letting the resistance shout through a mega phone.
Rather than the Hollywood version. For one he's on the wrong beach.I aways thought it was a little sad they didn't add just how nutty and fearless he was. Especially during the landings. Like swimming out to struggling landing craft and instructing the crew on how to handle the landing craft properly. All whilst it was been fired on.

The car and two of the figures are in the Follies range. The figure in the trench coat is just one knocked up for a game. It's made from two broken master's a WW1 motorcycle rider( head and boots ) and an officer in a trench coat.



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Re: (Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.)
« Reply #344 on: March 30, 2021, 08:59:59 PM »
OMG! I know I'm a bit late to the party, but this thread is brilliant!
Hoc quoque transibit
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