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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Anyway, I should have said Happy New Year to all. Although it was busy in our house over Christmas, I did find time to actually make some progress. Raising the roof I guess if you are building a REAL house then putting the roof on is always going to be the crowning achievement… Because I...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Avoiding a lop-sided house One problem that only emerged once I had started putting the walls together was how to level the building within the base. This may sound obvious, but given the sharp slope I had chosen for the terrain, once the structure was in place it looked a little lop-sided. In...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
So I have actually made quite a lot of progress since my last post, although not everything will be obvious here. The advantage of building everything from flat sides is that you can not only lay them flat on the workbench whilst scribing and shaping the stones and bricks, but also detail the...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #60
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Let the cutting and scribing commence! Although Nightshift / Martin Kovac gave me some of the inspiration for this build, I didn’t exactly copy his method. He tends to make structures that sit at the back of his dioramas and which are only partial in depth, so his use of foam blocks makes...- TIM FORSTER
- Post #52
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Materials… The last time I made buildings (on my ‘Liberation, Italy 1944’ dio) was also my first attempt since my teens - way, wayback in the 1980s. My older self had used thin plywood, laboriously cut to shape with a fret saw, then covered in thin plaster. When I made my Italian church (a few...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Building the Building So once I had the basic shape worked out in rough card I began to build the farm house again using thinner card. This meant that I could draw the precise dimensions on to the surface in pencil and cut out the apertures using a sharp scalpel. This does not have to be a...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Jacko, Richard, I am more than happy to go on a bit of a nostalgia trip where Verlinden was concerned - although perhaps he deserves his own thread! My first inspiration towards 1/35 armour modelling came with my very first issue of Military Modelling magazine in January 1977... I was only 8...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Thanks so much guys, that is invaluable info. Looking for the right building So this next bit was fun - even if a bit slow. I went onto Google Maps Streetview and followed a few routes away from the Kaiserbarracke crossroads in the direction of German advance. All the time I was looking for...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Snow or no snow? The whole snow / no snow thing is probably incapable of resolution. We all know that in hilly areas - especially those high above sea level - the climate can be pretty local. Also, if snow has already fallen some days before, patches can linger on hill sides and in crevices...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
A bit more historical context before I get on with the build. All of the above contemporary images come from cine film and stills taken by the Germans around the Kaiserbarracke crossroads. The footage was later captured by the Allies and still images have appeared in many books and all over the...- TIM FORSTER
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Not a Moment to Lose… Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, December 1944
Well, I’m back! Rumours of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, etc… Looking back I can see that it was November 21 that I finished my last project: https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/the-road-to-singapore-malaya-1941-42.34522/ Coming before that one was this...- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
Sorry for the long silence... work picking up and two teenagers doing A levels and GCSEs respectively hasn't helped! But, rest assured, progress is being made! A few more details before I get on to painting… One useful part of the Fine Molds kit which did not come with the Dragon equivalent...- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
Thanks everyone. The next stage was to give the trees some more colour. Looking at the images from Muar River, this one provides a useful close-up of the bark pattern on these rubber trees. This pattern of blotches, with the lighter bark peeling off to reveal the darker bark beneath...- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
Thanks guys. Star Wars? Shep Paine? Are you kidding?! I wish... Yes, maybe I should have just stuck with adapting a Bren gun in the end - but the straight magazine is a little hard to re-create. As for the bits an bobs, yes Simon they may be cylinder heads for all I know - they came from a...- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
Hi Richard. Yes! Absolutely! The backdrop of trees and vegetation is going to be at least as important to this dio as the tank, gun and figures. So what species of trees are those felled across the road? Are they rubber trees like these?- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
"Well I was waiting for Bob, Bing and Dorothy......" Simon, I had to look that one up!- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
Obviously we are all going through strange times - and difficult times for many. However, 'lockdown' does have some advantages and I am glad that we can still share our experiences through this site. So on with this project... I am determined not to let this become as large and complex as my...- TIM FORSTER
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The Road to Singapore: Malaya 1941-42
Dear all, After (finally) finishing my Liberation, Italy 1944 diorama this is going to be my next throw of the dice. The Malayan Campaign began with the Japanese invasion of the Peninsular (now modern day Malaysia) on the eve of Pearl Harbour - 7th December 1941 - and ended with the surrender...- TIM FORSTER
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Liberation, Italy 1944
Dear all, A belated Happy New Year. Sorry it has taken me almost 2 months to get around to another post. Many thanks for all of your kind words. It has been a pleasure to have you all along for the journey and your support (whether it be praise or constructive criticism) has been a great...- TIM FORSTER
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