Mike,
glad you had fun with the washing machine. The dozer is really taking shape.
glad you had fun with the washing machine. The dozer is really taking shape.
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Younger than me but older then him.
I nearly fell off the chair reading the attack of the hose, in fact it was a good job I wasn't partaking in liquid refreshment.
The dozer is superb, love the dirt left on the blade, typical of your attention to detail.
I nearly fell off the chair reading the attack of the hose, in fact it was a good job I wasn't partaking in liquid refreshment.
The dozer is superb, love the dirt left on the blade, typical of your attention to detail.
Damn Olderthanme,
If it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any at all. Chock it up to Murphy's Law and I hope the thumb is healing up well. How's the new washer working???
BTW, one helluva nice dozer your building there Mike with the your usual finery!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prost
Youngerthanyou
If it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any at all. Chock it up to Murphy's Law and I hope the thumb is healing up well. How's the new washer working???
BTW, one helluva nice dozer your building there Mike with the your usual finery!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prost
Youngerthanyou
Thanks Mike, my wife & I had a great laugh over your story. brought many fond memories. BTW, great dozer work.
Hi Mike
I know I shouldn't have but I did laugh at your washing machine repair saga. Good job your modelling is better than your washer repair skills. The bulldozer is looking superb.
Jim
I know I shouldn't have but I did laugh at your washing machine repair saga. Good job your modelling is better than your washer repair skills. The bulldozer is looking superb.
Jim
Update,
Hello John, Scottie, Allen, Paul and Jim,
Pleased I brought a bit of humour into your lives - the problem is that you know there is something not quite right, but you still have to carry on... I had the water escaping under preasure and still the brain was telling me to keep unscrewing the attachment. Luckily there was very little damage from the water, and it was pure Laurel & Hardy at work, and yes we still laugh and any injuries are healing and the new machine arrives Wednesday.
Mike.
Hello John, Scottie, Allen, Paul and Jim,
Pleased I brought a bit of humour into your lives - the problem is that you know there is something not quite right, but you still have to carry on... I had the water escaping under preasure and still the brain was telling me to keep unscrewing the attachment. Luckily there was very little damage from the water, and it was pure Laurel & Hardy at work, and yes we still laugh and any injuries are healing and the new machine arrives Wednesday.
Mike.
Mike
Firstly great work on the kit. Secondly, sorry to hear about the washing machine woes..
ATB.
Andrew
Firstly great work on the kit. Secondly, sorry to hear about the washing machine woes..
ATB.
Andrew
No, not woes, just life in an ordinary disfunctional household where I am the only sane one in it, and I have the paper to prove it :tongue-out3:.
DIY is not the problem, I am actually pretty good at it, having moved or rebuilt internal walls, refurbished the kitchen from the floor up. It was just a case of not connecting the brain to the hands and eyes. And as someone that would use a shoe to knock a nail into a wall I do not think she qualifies.
Update,
The bar armour and brackets are now underway, but I cannot just cement the lower brackets in place as there is not locating drawings or locations marked, just the 2D sketches on the instructions which give a vague location....
Locating the first bars and uprights in the jig....
Work underway.....
This one finished....
And a test fit - now for the lower brackets.
Cheers
Mike.
The bar armour and brackets are now underway, but I cannot just cement the lower brackets in place as there is not locating drawings or locations marked, just the 2D sketches on the instructions which give a vague location....
Locating the first bars and uprights in the jig....
Work underway.....
This one finished....
And a test fit - now for the lower brackets.
Cheers
Mike.
Hi Mike
Bar armour has turned really well. Always a fiddly, painstaking job but right up your street.
Jim
Bar armour has turned really well. Always a fiddly, painstaking job but right up your street.
Jim
Outstanding bar work. She gets high marks for improvisation though.
G
Oh wise one, like the paper template for the work, great idea.
On another note the annual shoe hurling is about to except names, should I put you down ?
Skippy Hop.
On another note the annual shoe hurling is about to except names, should I put you down ?
Skippy Hop.
Update,
Been a few days since the last update, but I have not been idle... I have had one small enjoyable distraction. The cab has had more brass added and still more to go.....
Bar armour for two sides only....
...Rear and right side...
Tracks - I started to construct the tracks but really found them to be weak and really would not take too much pulling around, so a quick search on the interweb found a set produced by MK+35 (MMT35-007). These are metal in the Fruil genre and I had very little clean up to do, but I changed the cast track pins for 1mm dia plastic rod which only required the hole to be enlarged a whisker which took place during the clean up - AND they fitted !!! I did remove about 1mm from the bottom run of the track ready for when mounting on the base, and using the D9R Doobie book as a reference weathered them before fitting...
The ripper is only a dry fit to be added tomorrow...
As I said I have a small enjoyable distraction - we have a young lady (aged 10) who has been a great admirer of my work and professed her interest in building a model. It was obvious that she could not build any of the kits I have in the stash, so for Xmas I bought her a kit which I thought would interest her more. I should say the without her hearing aids she is totally deaf, but that has not stopped her in any way, drama, dance, kickboxing and a love of her own and our three dogs to name a few.
So the rules were laid down - I would guide/advise but not build so the ideas come from her and are discussed and acted upon - the model....
Work so far, all filling done, the tail has a slight bend and the brown is the new texture being added as a lot of the original detail has been lost with filling and shaping - the texture for the new 'skin' AMMO by MIG anti slip Brown.....
Cheers,
Mike and Becky (age 10 going on 100).
Been a few days since the last update, but I have not been idle... I have had one small enjoyable distraction. The cab has had more brass added and still more to go.....
Bar armour for two sides only....
...Rear and right side...
Tracks - I started to construct the tracks but really found them to be weak and really would not take too much pulling around, so a quick search on the interweb found a set produced by MK+35 (MMT35-007). These are metal in the Fruil genre and I had very little clean up to do, but I changed the cast track pins for 1mm dia plastic rod which only required the hole to be enlarged a whisker which took place during the clean up - AND they fitted !!! I did remove about 1mm from the bottom run of the track ready for when mounting on the base, and using the D9R Doobie book as a reference weathered them before fitting...
The ripper is only a dry fit to be added tomorrow...
As I said I have a small enjoyable distraction - we have a young lady (aged 10) who has been a great admirer of my work and professed her interest in building a model. It was obvious that she could not build any of the kits I have in the stash, so for Xmas I bought her a kit which I thought would interest her more. I should say the without her hearing aids she is totally deaf, but that has not stopped her in any way, drama, dance, kickboxing and a love of her own and our three dogs to name a few.
So the rules were laid down - I would guide/advise but not build so the ideas come from her and are discussed and acted upon - the model....
Work so far, all filling done, the tail has a slight bend and the brown is the new texture being added as a lot of the original detail has been lost with filling and shaping - the texture for the new 'skin' AMMO by MIG anti slip Brown.....
Cheers,
Mike and Becky (age 10 going on 100).
Hi Becky
That is a wonderful beastie you have there. Well done. Making models is a fun hobby - far better than staring at a screen for hours on end.
Mike - your work isn't bad either
Jim
So Becky is 10 but I didn't realise you were nearly 100 :rolling::smiling:
That is a wonderful beastie you have there. Well done. Making models is a fun hobby - far better than staring at a screen for hours on end.
Mike - your work isn't bad either
Jim
So Becky is 10 but I didn't realise you were nearly 100 :rolling::smiling:
Sorry Jim I think he's past it!Hi Becky
That is a wonderful beastie you have there. Well done. Making models is a fun hobby - far better than staring at a screen for hours on end.
Mike - your work isn't bad either
Jim
So Becky is 10 but I didn't realise you were nearly 100 :rolling::smiling:
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