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    English Civil War - Cavalry charge!

    After taking a little rest - and with an eye to finishing this in time for the Telford show I have returned to this project and made some progress - two cavalry men, one horse and a drummer: The intention is to have a horse leaping over the fallen drummer with all 4 hooves off the ground...
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    Modelling with non-modelling tools ...

    I found some old croc clips in a drawer in my workshop, combined with some old electrical wire into these: Great for holding small parts while painting etc. Peter
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    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    Not bad for £2.45 for both of them, including post:
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    Modification to my modelling desk

    Hi Guys now I am almost 100% retried my need for an office had virtually disappeared so the room is being repurposed as a modelling room - still some suff to remove and reorganise but I have made one modification which works quite well A 3cm deep drawer. The full dimensions are 3cm high, 30cm...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    In my last post I mentioned a garden project I had just finished, well here it is; two new runs for our two tortoises: There were three raised beds have been replaced by the two runs - each about 2m x 7m. Peter
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Itseems like sges since I have been able to work on this but other projects (garden) and over the weekend i returned to this to 'play' with the layout Finally deciding on this layout: if you can remember back to when I last posted there is one major change to the composition ; gone is the...
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    Auction of German ww2 equipment

    A local collector is auctioning his collection of WW2 German artifacts. There are some unusual items which I had not heard of before. Since this may be of interest here is a link to the auction site...
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    Difficulty in using your vote - little sympathy from me. Non-political General Election thought

    Difficulty in using your vote - little sympathy from me. Non-political General Election thought Hi all, especially those of you in the UK. i apologise that this is similar to a 2020 post of mine but those of you who, like some friends of mine, who are pondering upon who to vote for may find...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Thaks guys for the support. a bit more progress - the 4 tanks are (almost) finished, as you can see from these photos: the wading tanks are finished: the Milicaste Sherman DD is finished apart from painting the gun cover, the converted Airfix Sherman DD needs a little painting on the inside...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Here are a few photos of the tanks - ready for painting: One wading Sherman: Second Sherman , the one to be half buried in the sand: Milicaste Sherman dd: Second sherman DD - converted from an Airfix kit; when I built the half-sunk Sherman I decided not to add the tracks, instead I used one...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    This is turning into one of those projects which just gets more complicated as it progresses. I did a bit of research on Sherman DD tanks and found that for most of the time the US crews would stand on the outside of the tank so they could easily escape of the tank was hit and started to sink...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Andreas - I was surprised by the number of parts; tempted to cheat and add the air vent to an Airfix kit! David - the modern 1/72 (dragon etc) are a world away from the likes of Airfix, really are mini-1/35. I have for a long time wanted to build all of Hobart's funnies but put off by the cost...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    I was just about to start the second UM Sherman when i realised I had not taken a photoof the sprues - so here it is: As you can see - loads of parts fo a 1/72 scale kit - more like the number in some 1/35 kits! Peter
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    This arrived in the post today (actually a pair of them did) Lee is correct - these kits are a bit fiddly; look at the instuctions to see how many parts go into building the wheel units: 8 parts! and one of those is etched brass! Although they do provide a little jig to bend the brass: I...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Hi guys a productive evening yesterday and a large chunk of today; working on the swimming Sherman conversion. first step to turn the Airfix She, into a waterline version by cutting in half just above the tracks and adding the 'skirt' - far easier to adda single flat sheet of plastic. This...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Slight change today - I put aside the Milicast Sherman and decided to work on the Airfix sherman on to which I am going to add the deep wading trunking. Finding any scale drawings proved more difficult than I expected; i had resigned myself to having to scale some off of photos but...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Good progress today. i had forgotten how quickly some 1/72 kits go together. I am building them OOB with no extra detailing, unless I can see something obviously wrong. So far I have nearly completed: Higgins boat: A LCM(3): Both almost finished. A few smaller parts will wait until the...
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    peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

    Here is my contribution to the GB. i had been thinking about this and had already added the kits I need to the stash, which are: Pegasus infantry: Some more US infantry I had pickedup off Ebay a while ago: Pegasus LCVP landing craft; a ver simple kit: millicast deep wading Sherman...
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    Wizard by Black Crow

    This is a really excellent bust - I wish I could sculpt this well!!! painted in Vallejo acrylic paints. the big change i made was to scratch build a replacement staff so I could do this: The led is inside a plastic bead with the cable going down the staff, through the body and down the...
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    Regiment Magzine

    Hi Guys just finished binding the magazines into 6 volumes of o magazines in each volume. They match the Military Nodelling mags which I bound a while ago. they form a great reference source. Peter

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