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That was my thought, I have mine.

Great photos Paul. I was hoping to try and get across, but it was always going to be a bit of a struggle, just got too much on at the moment. Looks like it was a great show again.

Looks a good day out Paul. Not been there for many years, need to try and get there again.

Certainly a good showing of the Nuffield and Leland brands! I’m interested to know if the David Brown 1800 is a factory build or a custom? It also had Matbro badging and was clearly based on a Mastif….I’ve never heard of it before.

Managed to get up to Tractor Fest at Newby Hall today, never managed to get there in the past for various reasons which is a bit poor when it's only 20 miles away. Great show and the weather was brilliant. Met Paul and Gemma and later John (jmd) both with great model displays, great to be able to put faces to the names. Took a lot of photos, random selection below.

That's incredible work. Stunning realism.

Further on than mine is!!

Good update Martin, some nice models there. I picked up the County from Ian too!

Those trailers are looking good John. I seem to have been flat out the past month, with work and some big jobs at home, so not been able to do much else. I did get half an hour the other night to do a little more on the Chamberlain.

Some fantastic builds there Joe. Particularly like the tracked MF, was always intending to build one of those myself.

Wow John, some stunning builds there. Great collection.

I echo all the comments above.....brilliant work John.

Sorry, re-reading that, I may have caused some confusion, these are two different builds.........this is the Australian build....

We got in a discussion about Grasshopper mowers, and then Martin kindly scanned a Locust brochure for me.....looking at the Locust mower as a first attempt scratch build over winter, inspired by all the great builds on here. I hadn’t realised it used the 1905. If it doesn’t work, there may still be another 1905 build on here! Martin takes all the credit / blame (delete as appropriate!) for this one and I might regret it!!!

Thanks John, I’m pleased with it, but I certainly wouldn’t claim to have mastered the airbrush just yet...... Red and white would be good , but at the moment, I think it may be Australian first! I bought the ES NH 1905 forager on the back of your build and have plans for a slightly different build of that later in the year, following chats with Martin (mb86) !

Finished the Scaledown Matbro today.... I've really enjoyed building this, and first time using an airbrush to paint. Have to decide what to build next, but I fancy a change from blue! Pictured alongside the UH Ford 5000 to give an idea of size.

Making good progress with the Scaledown Matbro, enjoying building this one.

That looks interesting Joe, never seen that before. I would probably have given that a go over an airbrush! But now I'm a convert.....at least for Scaledown enamels. I don't for one second think I'm going to get the same results with acrylic's on a car kit.....yet!!

I'd been wanting to complete the Matbro for a while but did not have an aerosol of the correct blue, my first choice, only Nigel's tinlets. Had the afternoon free, so thought, plenty of time, no rush give it a go. As I said, first hour trying to find airbrush and connect to compressor, which all went nowhere! I used a very cheap (free with a magazine subscription) draper airbrush and a can of propellant. Dumped a new ( well stirred) tinlet of paint into the spray bottle and just pored in again the same amount of enamel thinners. I had no control on air pressure. I had several assemblies so lightly sprayed the first one, moved on ,etc and then back to the first one for another light coat, kept doing this until I had the paint all over and a uniform colour. Certainly on the linkages, it was way easier to control than an aerosol. I did go a little heavy on the bonnet, but "wicked" a few heavy areas off with the corner of a paper towel, left a few minutes and oversprayed again. Overall way more controllable than an aerosol. To be fair clean up was pretty easy too, used white spirit and sprayed through into a jam jar and then a wipe down. I make no pretense, I just bodged my way through it, but it's a better finish than I've had with an aerosol. Takes a long time to dry though (days), probably due to the amount of thinners used.

I’ll be honest, it was always the faff of setting up and cleaning everything afterwards that put me off. I asked a question a while ago about whether Scaledown enamels were easy to airbrush and got the reply that they were very good. The results this morning would back that up, the finish is way smoother, even and shinier than I’ve had before, and I’ve used about 1/2 a tinlet for the full model......I may well be a convert! Next would be to try acrylics, which should be an easier clean up, but I think less forgiving on mixture and air pressure.

Some years ago I bought an airbrush and a small compressor for modelling, but I’ve never got round to using it, preferring to stay with rattle cans. I’ve been building the Scaledown Matteo, and without a suitable aerosol of Empire blue, thought I’d finally try it out. Ok, can’t find the airbrush! But did have a small draper one that came free with something. Let’s at least try that. Different fitting on the compressor! But did have a can of airbrush propellant in the shed...... bought before the compressor. Everything written says these cans are a nightmare to use. Anyway, might as well try it now. Scaledown Empire blue thinned down ( very approximately!!) and off we go........ First time using an airbrush and I’m quite pleased with the results. Let’s see what it looks like tomorrow.......

Brilliant Mike, many thanks, I was getting totally lost! I have the original FM Model versions, so can give the Shuco ones a miss. I have some of the PowerTrac ones on order. Will have to take a look at the Modelagrisystems ones and see what the ROS look like.

Mike, I'm loosing touch with what SAME / Lamborghini / Hurlimann models are planned or due.......... Any chance of a summary?

Both of those sound great ideas, particularly the plans and a wheel set......I’d definitely go for one of those!

Great background on what it takes to design and make a quality model. I’m sure a lot of people don’t understand what it actually takes to do this and the costs involved, before you even add your time into the equation. Wish I’d ordered one of these at the time, great trailers!