discussion Review Favorite Old Builds

[minitnkr]

1/87 250 Recce Coy

 

[Tim Marlow]

Nice to see that again. Shows how big a company was, which is something us single vehicle builders tend to overlook…

 

[minitnkr]

Stab section (ketten, schwim, 250/3 & /5), two recce sections (5x 250/9, 5x/9neu) & a heavy weapon section (250/1, /6, 2x/8 & 2x/7).

 

[minitnkr]

Feel free to add your medium sized favorite pics reduced due to the upgrade.
Here's another of my faves. PG coy w/attached Pioneer elements featuring 251s of many types.

 

[Airborne01]

Great idea mate! I may well add a couple of favourites!
Steve

 

[pjgtech]

In a way I wish had photos of the builds I did as a kid, to see just how awful they were,. Lol.
I did have several planes hanging from the ceiling in a dogfight configuration, I remember it vividly.
Sadly I have no old photos of those early models.... 8-(

 

[rtfoe]

These look great Paul. Must have taken you quite a while to make each vehicle even in that scale. For me a company size in 1/35 would take up quite a bit of real estate.
How far back is an old build? 20...30 years? I may not have photos further than that.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[minitnkr]

Thanks Wabble. We're talking years for some of these bigger projects. My US Engineers are going on 50+ years.
Anything posted before August 2024 was my initial thought, as they were limited to very small images due to the software change. My thinking was a place you could post pictures that were better than those in the original thread so people could see them.

 

[flyjoe180]

Excellent idea Paul. So many great build pics were thumbnail sized after the upgrade. I’ll add some of mine later.

 

[scottie3158]

Some terrific builds there Paul.

 

[Jim R]

Love those big dios of yours Paul. So many points of interest and so much time invested.

 

[minitnkr]

'Crossing the Rhine' . An old dio showing the cautious unloading of LVTs prior to the crossing.

 

[minitnkr]

Another old quarry dio depicting rip/rap stone crushing & fill dirt distribution as ambulances pass by.

 

[spanner570]

Some cracking work on display, Paul.

A pleasure to see.

Ron

 

[Neil Merryweather]

That's really unusual, what was the inspiration for that scene Paul?

 

[minitnkr]

Thanks guys.
Neil, there was a photo of a quarry with Utah Beach in the background w/rock crushing plants & shovel doing similar work as my dio. I can't find it, been looking the last hour, but will keep at it. The plant consisted of a rough crusher for rip/rap sized output (4 to 6") that fed a gravel sized output crusher. I just scratched the rip/rap plant & kitbashed a mobile shovel.

 

[minitnkr]

Found it and another.

 

[minitnkr]

Gravel crusher in foreground & RR crusher feeding it, barely seen.

 

[scottie3158]

Another old quarry dio depicting rip/rap stone crushing & fill dirt distribution as ambulances pass by.

Paul,
this was my favourite.

 

[minitnkr]

Not just yours' Paul. Fine Scale Modeling magazine used it in some ads. I'm currently redoing it featuring elements of a Dump Truck Company & some jack hammer operators.