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Here is my scratch build pottinger, just a few hours to put it together :/ ha ha! hope you like, lot of work went into it as seen by pictures.

Hello guys!

I´ll show you my new conversion. A John Deere 6930 standar, based on the wiking 6930, who has changed the bonnet from a siku 6920.

I´ll hope that it like you.

Best regards from Spain.

Ballycregagh Farm Contracts run a silage and slurry contracting business alongside their potato growing and contracting operations. 

This is a commissioned model of an actual tractor and hedgecutter. The real TW30 lost it's transfer case and driveshaft as a result of free-wheeling down a road, and was converted to 2wd but still retained the 4wd front axle. This was an opportunity to fit a Hydrocut Giraffe hedgecutter since the transfer case no longer fouled the fitting beneath the tractor. The outfit was used for heavy hedge work despite not being fully completed, so this model will be finished as the real outfit was intended to be. Starting out with a Britains TW30, I binned the front axle in favour of a scratch built replacement. Driveshaft removed and weights chopped from skid unit. Front wheel centres scratch built with appropriate hubs and ten stud dish.

Commissioned Roadless 98 with Duncan cab, this will be converted from a Britains 7600 (pre Q cab) model.

Commissioned for a friend's upcoming 40th birthday, a model of his 1970 Hymac 270 digger. Based on a Britains Ford 5000 skid unit and rear wheels, front wheels salvaged from a Britains JCB Loadall. Everything else will be scratch built, work in progress!

Having recently made my second 6480 tier 3  I just wasn't happy with how it looked,  I hadn't realized that the large frame MF64/7400s had a different rear fender design from the smaller 64/7400s........... That's because the larger tractors need to be able to fit R42 radius wheel rims, whereas the smaller tractors max out with R38 rims........... And because I had used a donor cab and fenders from a 7499 on my 6480 it just looked odd at the back end...........So I have gone back to the drawing board with even more expense!!   

Looking at my old 5480 model its clear that the rear fenders are the donor ones I should have used,  but that was a black chassis version with the lighter shade of red paint.   Luckily I managed to source a grey chassis brighter red 5480 which matches the 6480 model.

And having half finished it, its obviously the right donor for the 6480 project...................Ive put my recent 6480 back to back with its replacement for comparison and the difference is obvious I think
 

Oakley Estate Farms is a 5500 acre arable farm based in Somerset. Cropping consists of 300 acres of potatoes - 250 acres maincrop and 50 acres salads, oil seed rape, winter wheat, and Spring Beans, 400 acres of woodland, lakes and parkland. The farm rent 50 acres in nearby Hinton Park (about 5 miles away) for growing salad potatoes and also rents 400 acres called Bondip at Ilchester (18 miles away) for growing rape and wheat. Approx 3500 acres is owned by the home farm and the other 1600 acres is tied up in contract farming agreements with local farmers. Aswell as its own farm the estate also owns 3 other farms, 500 acre arable farm, and 400 acre dairy milking 300 cows, and a 120 acre dairy milking 180 cows, all of which are tennanted out. The farm employs a farm manager and 5 full time workers, Joe (under manager) Steve (head tractor driver) Mark, Maurice and Tim, and harvest students and casual labour in the summer for grain hauling and potato grading. Rotation on the home farm consists of Rape, spuds, wheat, rape, spring beans, wheat then returns to the start of the cycle allowing spuds in the same fields every 1 in 6 years, on rented land it mainly consists of wheat and rape. Oakley Farms is a complete agri business on the Oakley Estate based upon light silty loam soil. The manager is passionate about all things arable, attention to detail, 21st century farming, soil compaction, GPS RTK auto steering systems, a clean and tidy company image that spreads across the whole farm from buildings to machinery, increasing efficiency and profitability. Investing in the best kit on the market and keeping it regularly maintained and replaced combined with taking on some of the best employees in the industry delivers the best results. Oakley hall sits in the middle of the estate with ancient parkland surrounding it, this is the land owners residence, two business parks are also situated in the estate called Eaglewood and Ashwell along with Putcombe Sawmills conserving the estates woodlands and supping timber, fencing stakes etc and Christmas trees to the local churches, schools and villages.

Filling gaps in collections with my latest model release at the ACA show in Chartres France is the 1/32 scale Allis Chalmers 7080 MK 2 with 210 horse power under the bonnet from AC own 7 litre 6 cylinder engine made from 1975 -1981 model is made from resin and white metal with diecast bonnet. 

Thought I'd share my collection so far!

- UH - Valtra Valmet Mezzo Hi-Tech 6850 (Just arrived yesterday)
- Schuco - Deutz Fahr DX 8.30 with a Britains vicon acrobat rake attached
- Wiking - Claas Axion 950
- Weise - Deutz Fahr D 130 06
- Replicagri - Renault 1181-4S
- Replicagri - New Holland 110-90 with bucket
- Weise - Landini 10000s mkII with Replicagri bucket attached
- Replicagri - Fiat 1180DT
- UH - Massey Ferguson 1080 
- ROS - Agrifull 160 Turbo
- UH - Volvo BM Valmet 705 with UH Amazone fertilizer spreader attached
- UH - Ford 6810 gen III
- Schuco - IHC 1455 Comfort Cab 2000
- UH - Massey Ferguson TE-A
- UH - Kirovets K3180 ATM
- UH - Joskin Trans EX 5T tipping trailer with homemade haybale (First item I tried to make)
- Marge - Ford 7610 2WD gen I with UH Taarup DM 1350
- Britains trailer and SIKU manure spreader
- Britains Smallford potato harvester and planter
- Various Britains and one SIKU model
- Various Britains attachments
- Some of my old models/toys that I had when I was a child.

I also have a few others (SIKU and ERTL), but I ended up donating them to my son. Even though he's only a year old at the moment, the interest is catching on and he's treating them nicely  The plan is to give him the rest of these models when he grows older, with the exception of some of the vintage Britains equipment. I'm really more interested in the "high end" stuff anyways now. 

Have a look and tell me what you think  

Thought I'd have a go at creating a tractor that I have memories of looking over the garden fence at as a kid!! I guess it's a model that will never be made

I have a feeling it wasn't quite original, and may have been a rebuilt later bonnet model as its on a T plate, and I'm fairly sure 4wd wasn't available on the horseshoe bonnet tractors, comments welcomed on that front.

anyway, here is the machine in question... And the subject of my conversion


so I've taken a schuco 3130 and commenced some serious surgery. The engine block had to loose 2 cylinders, chassis had to be shortened, bonnet needed shortening and also it profile lowering. Quite time consipuming so far!! Below is work so far don't look to closely! just temporarily glued up to check dimensions. Will dunk in nitromors then bond and fill correctly before paint.



bonnet lowered


Duncan cab sourced, need to build the wings though, anyone got any suggestions what is best to use?


also anyone please have any thoughts on suggestions for wheel equipment? and a front axle, want to have proper steering!!