JCB BLOKE

Just as a break from dry stone walling for my other project, I had a go at making this Matador timber tractor. It's worked from photographs from a friends actual tractor, which works around the Pickering, North Yorkshire area.

Barry, we were talking to Harold on Sunday, and he said that he was doing quite well from the Northern exhibitors but that he could do with a few more from the South. However he is doing well with the traders, but he didn't go into detail with their names. The more the merrier. If anybody on here can't find the details of it, then just look back a couple of pages and you'll find the contacts etc. We are really looking forward to it now, and wish Harold and Tim every success with this first Birmingham show.

Thanks for all your kind thoughts, they really do help This is such a lovely thought, and it is exactly what we keep telling the kids. Thanks again.

Last night we lost Nell, our big beautiful Rottie. It was so sudden. One minute she was fine, then the next she just went to bed and went to sleep. Tried to revive her but it was too late. We are all devasted. Words can't describe how lost we all feel. She was only two and a half years old. R.I.P. our darling girl , sleep tight xx

Damian that is massive, a 100t one must me colossal!!! What type of rock is it? Its sandstone block Tris, and it goes for upto £70 per tonne if its any good!

Well you could do Mark 'cos I need something to dig the tracks out with !

no bill , when the quarry was in full swing we had one at 100 ton . it took a 75 ton komatsu pulling and 2 330's pushing . we know it was 100 ton because we drilled and popped it in to 4 and weighed each piece

not yet sean we need to pop it and it might go for cutting in to heads and sills because its worth more that way

yes nigel too heavy so drag it back out of the hole on to the top drill and pop it in to a smaller piece

Digging around for a bit of block stone today and found this little pebble ! At around the 20 tonne mark it might just take a little bit of nibbling away at to get it down to my modelling size ! But this is how my 5mm x 3mm ish bits start out in life !

Thanks for all the comments folks - they are appreciated...

Well its a bit technical... you get the two Rottweillers to get off their bed then cut a square out of it and it was just right !! Seriously though it is a bit of their bed that is just an old duvet cover - Tasmanian Devil actually. If you want a piece sending you are more than welcome - just pm me your address and hope you never meet the dogs !

This is a ScaleDown kit that I thought I would have a bash at making, but with the addition of a Winsam cab. The kit wasn't too much of a challenge as I have been making them for some years, but the cab was going to have to be scratch built. I had four pictures of Winsam cabs to work from, but unfortunately I couldn't get a complete 360 degree view of the cab, so much of the work had to be done from guess work and 'guestimation'.

There is to be a new show in May Harold Powlton, of Rheged show fame, has confirmed that he will be staging a new show on 23rd May 2010. Harold, along with Tim Bolton, who runs 'Model Tractor Magazine', have secured the Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham on the M42 for the show which will be called 'The Model Tractor Show' . As per my earlier topic on a possible new show, there will be traders and displays, but as yet I haven't got a definite list of either. Going by the standard of the Rheged show, it should be a good day. If anybody would like further details, please pm me and I will give you Harolds contact number.

OK will do !

I appreciate that it is the following month to Spalding, but it is 6 weeks later! Does anybody know of any other shows it's close to or clashes with ? Marky - are you sure you won't need any tissues to go to Brum!?

We have been asked by Harold Powlton to run this by everyone..... He is thinking of possibly putting on a show in the Birmingham area around 23rd May 2010. It would be on the same lines as his Rheged show - farm, construction & possibly haulage. Set up would be on the Saturday from 6pm onwards, then the show being open to the public on the Sunday. The site he is proposing to use, which will possibly have 2 halls, is within easy access of the M42 near the N.E.C. The question he is asking is.......Is anybody interested in displaying, trading, visiting etc? If anybody wants to know any more information then please pm me and I will pass on Harolds phone number to you. Going by Rhegeds standards, it could be another good show, and a bit easier for the southern enthusiasts to get to.

Up ere lad you just stick some insulating tape on it n crack ont wi job like. Dont need time off work for a coupla scratches eh. But suppose its different for you southern lot hahaha !

Well there I was changing the screens in the screen, two of us pulling and one pushing, when it gave and my finger tips got sliced. Just the fleshy bit where they take the fingerprints. Not too bad 'cos I managed to push the skin back on an tape them up til I got home. Good job the wife is a 1st aider! Throbbing a bit now though!

Ouch !!! Looks like no modelling for me for a couple of days!

Roger & Val (Dads Tractors) , Dave Towse, Colin & his wife from up Cumbria way, Japonica Press, Ian Hopper with Britains & liturature, and another 2 or 3 selling Britains etc. All in all a good show for Phil !! Well Done Lad !

And lastly a general view from the end of the hall.

Mike's (Sparrowlegs) piggery was looking excellent. "PROPA JOB" Demolition by Ant & Tris from Thorgumbald

Just a few of the pics I took of 4C's display - a lot going on here!

This model farm diorama was by Dave and Danial Arthur from Shrewsbury. It was nice to seem something a little bit different, with the drainage, and a couple of nice lads as well.