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Jens,
I do not love such modern stuff but your craftsmanship is fantastic! And the waethering technique is awesome.
Hope to see a full finished model in next time!
Cheers, Bernd
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Quote:Hope to see a full finished model in next time!
Well, the CAT's mast is waiting for paint. I tend to group models for spray painting.
And the MiJack won't be finished soon. I am working on several models at the same time and I am working slowly. Although some progress was made, I built the rear end. Since it features several curves it was not that easy, but I got it done in the first attempt.
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Quote:... I am working slowly.
What should I say to this? My bigger projects need two, three and five years until finishing - and I'm retired! And I work daily for a few hours however seldom with one project only.
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ALRIGHT, Jens ... Lookin' good! I have a vested interest in this one. I am subscribed to this thread ... I'm sure it will be stupendous!
I still marvel at the weathering on that yellow cab and chassis up near the beginning of the thread! I showed it to my daughter ... she was amazed! "Geez, Dad! You'd better get practicin'! You've got a ways to go to catch up to this guy! I thought it was a real one until I saw the green pliers holding it! Man, that looks nice!"
My daughter ... always encouraging ... and often in a sarcastic kind of way.
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P5se Camelback Wrote:I still marvel at the weathering on that yellow cab and chassis ....]
Oh, I think I got it now. You want to know how its done?
- first I sprayed the model with a heavily dilluted white to tone everything down.
- then I brush-painted the rusty chips on.
- brought on rust-colored pigments for the rusty areas and grey-colored pigments on all horizontal areas.
- fixed the pigments with dilluted matte varnish and moved them around a little bit while the matte varnish was still wet.
- overysprayed everything with a light coat of matte varnish.
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Awesome work...really great!
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SP1 this is a bit late for this one but if you had not found plans , for your info the hazmat placard on the backof the trailer is 12" square and the lights on the back of the trailer are 4" with these known sizes you can print the photo out sizing it till you get the right size for the know items and then use direcet measurements from the photo then.
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jim currie Wrote:.. for your info the hazmat placard on the backof the trailer is 12" square and the lights on the back of the trailer are 4" with these known sizes you can print the photo out sizing it till you get the right size for the know items and then use direcet measurements from the photo then.
No, no direct measurements. The photo is taken at an angle. Two angles to be specific.
The size of the whole trailer is known. I made a drawing upon the photo (corrected both angles, vertical and horizontal, the best I could) and was 5% to 10% off compared to the "official" drawing. I could live with that difference of course, but.... I still did not know how wide the piggypack loader is.
The wheels and the hydraulics are stand-ins of course.
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Hope they help
BTW - If you know the mag and issue, Brett at the Kalmbach Library can do you a photocopy
EDIT - Just found this - ignore the fact it says OO scale - Lima is HO scale 150534297018 on ebay
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Make it a scale 10-12 feet wide and it will look "right." I think 10 feet was right from my memory of the ones we had in the harbor when I worked there 30 years ago.
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Noticed this on Ebay.co.uk this morning, HO scale 310289165481 it might be useful
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Jens,
............and how far ......???
greeting from the blade city Solingen / gruß aus der Klingenstadt Solingen
Harry
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I am currently building the layout section which is above my workbench. I have removed all project from the bench to protect them from dirt and tools falling down. Be sure I will post any further progress - if made.
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any chance I can get the full mijack diagrams from someone please as I'd like to model one of these. TIA WC2scaledude <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=22&t=3885#">posting.php?mode=reply&f=22&t=3885#</a><!-- l -->
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FWIW you can get laser cut model of a container spreader from here, He also has a couple of straddle carrier kits
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