scratch building

sfcgreg29er · Post by **sfcgreg29er** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:47 am

exsubguy wrote:

i have to agree with my compatriate thank you
but not to sound greedy but do you have any other building's you would
like to share??
thanks
dave

Greedy? Greedy?..we're just addicts looking for our next fix!

Ask and you shall receive..

The original photo I used to "paint" the "wallpaper".

The "wallpaper"for 4 city buildings

Pics of two completed buildings ..front and rear..

I just finished these the other night. All I have left is to base them and add sidewalks, grass, fences, etc.
Once again use 1mm thick styrene for the walls. Use .5mm x 2mm strip for the cornice moulding. The four storey building measures 42mm wide x 47mm tall. I used 600 grit emory cloth for the roofs(makes a neat looking gravel roof in 6mm scale). The flat roofs should make these a little easier to build. These should keep you busy for a little while.

No. That's not me in the doorway!! I think its some Frenchman since this is a photo off a real estate website of Frence propertys.

Enjoy

paul · Post by **paul** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:01 am

Very nice.

jb · Post by jb » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:37 pm

Thanks for everything 29er. I like the method of cutting out the print,them placing over styrene ,and brushing the cement over it. I tried that last year and it works wonderful. Thanks for your top notch buildings-as MK-1 would state "more,more,more" (please)

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:32 am

Has anyone tried to make camouflage netting in this scale? I got an idea for this looking around the local model/train shop. There is a company that makes a photo-etch camo-net in 1/35th scale which has given me an idea for 1/285th scale but I was curious if anyone had tried an easier way.

Paul

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:26 am

av8rmongo wrote:Has anyone tried to make camouflage netting in this scale? I got an idea for this looking around the local model/train shop. There is a company that makes a photo-etch camo-net in 1/35th scale which has given me an idea for 1/285th scale but I was curious if anyone had tried an easier way.

I had some interesting results with sliced foam. I found I was able to slice it thin enough to be semi-transperant. Painting with diluted acrylic did not clog the mesh up too much. I was able to drape this over the front of one of my US M3 TDs. This was done by some US TD crews in Tunisia -- they would drape their net from the gunshield down to the roof of the driver's compartment of the halftrack, sort of halfway between stowed and deployed, so that they could move about and still be less visible from the front when taking up a hasty hull-down firing position. (Doctrine called for the net to be rolled-up for movement, then fully deployed on poles once in a firing position.)

None of the pics I've posted so far really show that particular model to good effect.

It's the third track from the left, in the second platoon. Notice how much the netting has obscured the detail from gunshield to hood. Maybe I'll try to get a close-up or two this weekend. To my eye it came out pretty well. With a little care, you can shave the foam pretty thin. But it doesn't "sag" like a deployed net should unless you hit it with some super-glue, at which point it starts to get mushy. So I would suggest it as a technique only for netting over small areas. Haven't yet figured out how to make it work over an artillery pit, for example.

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:28 pm

I've recently become interested in various "Gun Trucks" being used in Iraq. While I have many good pictures of Humvees that have been converted I don't have anything larger. Does anyone have good pictures, or links to good pictures for any larger trucks like the 5 ton being used as gun trucks?

Paul

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:37 pm

Hi Paul,

there is a paperback (Tankograd Special series) dealing with those gun trucks.
I have got it, in my opinion it is an excellent source!

Cheers Ben

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:58 pm

Ben wrote:Hi Paul,

there is a paperback (Tankograd Special series) dealing with those gun trucks.
I have got it, in my opinion it is an excellent source!

Cheers Ben

Ben,
I think I've seen it in my Google searches - is it Iraq or Vietnam? I couldn't tell from the tiny pictures that came up.

Paul

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:50 pm

Does anyone have much familiarity with Evergreen Plastics? I need to make some complex curves and was wondering how they react to being heated. Does it melt easily or will it become pliable while warm but retain its new shape when cooled? I've seen references to using the sheet stock for vacuum formed items so I guess they have some ability to be molded under heat but I was wondering more about the tubes and strips and I-beam type things.

Paul

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:06 pm

Hi Paul,

it is showing vehicles recently used in Iraq.
You will find lots of different stuff in it, ranging from the well-known HMMWVs with diverse types of armour fitted to M-1070 Tractors with armour...

In my opinion it is a nice deal to get a copy of this fine "book".

Cheers Ben

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:22 pm

Ben,

Any idea where I can get it? It doesn't come up on Amazon.com. I'm also looking for the Fahrzeug Profile series for Bundeswehr forces.

Paul

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:51 pm

Mk 1 wrote:
av8rmongo wrote:Has anyone tried to make camouflage netting in this scale? ...
I had some interesting results with sliced foam. I found I was able to slice it thin enough to be semi-transperant. Painting with diluted acrylic did not clog the mesh up too much. ...

None of the pics I've posted so far really show that particular model to good effect. ...

Maybe I'll try to get a close-up or two this weekend.

I did manage to get a few pics in today.

So here is a better look at the sliced-foam camo nets, in several configurations. Sorry if some of you guys are tiring of seeing this same unit over and over ... not quite up to JB or Ritter (or Cama) levels, but its one of the better units I've done so far, and here I'm really just trying to demonstrate the camo netting.

Start with stowed nets. The front track has the netting stowed in proper form, rolled-up on the back ledge of the open troop compartment. The second track has it stowed in the manner that many TD crews preferred -- on the top of the gun shield. This allowed for more rapid "hastey deployment" of the netting over the front of the track when taking up a firing position.

This picture shows two alternatives for the netting in a hastey firing position. On the left track they have unfurled a bit of the net and draped it over the gunshield. The bulk of the net is still resting on the top of the shield. On the right hand track they have spread the netting over the front of the gunshield, draping it around the gun and covering the driver's compartment as well.

Here we see side-views showing the netting stowed on the top of the gunshield, deployed over the front of the track, and stowed on the back of the troop compartment. This one gives perhaps the best view of how the sliced foam can be used. Note that in most cases you can still see through the mesh of the foam.

I find this approach to be reasonably flexible for the application of nets to vehicles. As stated, I don't yet know how I might apply it as a net on poles over a vehicle or gun position.

Hope that helps.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:17 pm

Hi,

Mk.1 cool camo netting!

Paul try it here:
http://www.zinnfigur.com/

Cheers Ben

sfcgreg29er · Post by **sfcgreg29er** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:51 am

Here's a bridge I scratch built using Evergreen brand styrene products. The tank crossing the bridge is a GHQ M24 Chaffee. Scratch built houses in the background.