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They look great, but do they fit on your weighbridge. 
 

I am half way through building my version, they a fantastic kit and well worth the money.  

16 hours ago, justy 46 said:

I personally think the shipping companies are riding it. Fair enough... The Suez was blocked for a few days.... But its all over now. Things should be back to normal. Maybe it's the cost off the barrel off oil soaring along with Covid. Steel has gone way up also in price. It all has knock on effects. 

 

 

It’s more of a shipping container issue, as a function of COVID standard shipping routes have been completely disrupted and changed.   Plus places like China are requiring quarantine of Cargos and ship personnel, so a lot of capacity was sucked out the system.  Things were beginning to get better before the suez issue hit.  
Increased bunker rates have an impact as well. 

3 hours ago, Stabliofarmer said:

Solartex is a plastic fabric used by RC Aeroplane people to wrap planes in. It makes really effective roll 8ver sheets as it cuts cleanly and rolls nicely holding shape. It's pricey though, I think last time I bought it it was £19 a meter. I use 3.8oz Waterproof fabric for roll over sheets these days, takes abit of care to cut without freying but looks the part when done. 

thanks for the info, I will have to see what I can source in Hong Kong. 

On 6/2/2021 at 1:12 AM, The Tractor Twitcher said:

Great work Chris. That looks very smart. 🙂

Thanks

On 6/2/2021 at 2:55 AM, mike whiting said:

Looks good Chris, any thoughts on Solartex for the roll over sheet?

What is Solartex.  I am waiting for my trailer from Stablio Farmer to see how he does his, then I might have a crack.  

3 hours ago, Pete132 said:

Looks great 👍🏻 👍🏻

Thanks 

3 minutes ago, Stabliofarmer said:

Really like that Chris, great conversion!

It is just waiting for one of your trailers.  I will need to get it built before harvest, ha.  

Manged to get the chaser painted over the last few days, now just the final details and decals to be added.  

13 minutes ago, JEP said:

That is excellent.

So much work involved to get all that movement/functionality into the model.

Well done.👍

 

Thanks very much.  

21 hours ago, limegreen said:

And what red colourmatch did you find .u like to now i have the same thing in mind

I used this paint, challenge is most of the Humbrol paints that others use are not available where I live.  

There is a topic on the forum that discusses colour matches, there might be a Case IH red reference on there.  

Put the house together today, came together quite nicely.  Will need a few tweaks though. 

I decided to let my twin 3 year old boys to help, they did a pretty good job painting the windows, but maybe wasn't my best idea to get them involved with the hot glue gun.  No injuries, but didn't give the cleanest of glue lines, ha.  

I also picked up these metal 1/35 Maintenance Steps and ladders.   They were more easily put together than I expected.  

Managed to find a 1/30 House Kit on TaoBao for about £10.  At that price I thought it worth a go for the model Farm. 

20 hours ago, The Tractor Twitcher said:

Very smart work Chris. 🙂

Thanks, the hardest thing was finding a Case red colour match.  

I started this conversion of the Case Precsion about 15yrs ago, finally it is starting to look like a Quadtrac.   Few more tweaks to go, but nearly there.  

Not posted for quite a while in here, I thought I was moving house so I dismantled everything.  In the end we didn't move and I have only recently been able to put the Farm back together, with a few adjustments.  

A replacement has made its way to the Lantau Farm's, we have replaced the Claas Tucano and Claas Lexion 760 with one Claas 8900TT.  We plan to keep the 12m existing Claas header for the fields which have been switched to 12m CTF.  

Just finished up the last check over of the Lexion 760 in the workshop before it is shipped of.  

After spending nearly two months in Hong Kong Airport, this finally got delivered today.  I understand the price now, everything is metal and painted, even the header.  An outstanding model from Marge.  

5 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Im just interested in how much effort im going to have to put in to make the 8R look right😄

Britains/Ertl will release a wheeled version, if it is of as high a quality as the 8RX you might not need to do much.  

3 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Does it show a picture of the finished version of the JD 8R or just a poorly detailed prototype?

I think that is the siku version.  

Made some good progress today, in the home stretch of this build now.  Just have to work out how the draw bar and hitch work.  Plus add rams and a few other details.  

Only problem with having an 18.3m pair of rolls, is finding the space for them, ha.  

Final few steps to go.  Getting the mud guards to fit was a bit of a mission.  

On 4/2/2021 at 4:22 PM, Stabliofarmer said:

An impressive bit of kit Chris, enjoying seeing it progress. 

Thanks, it should fit we'll with one of your trailer kits.