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A few more...

Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a while, but here are some pictures from my phone on things i've been playing with. Still don't know where to put everything, so buildings move around a bit!!

Wow! This is definitely one of my favourite farms on the forum!

Thanks for the comments!

In terms of whats next: I'm either going to build some buildings, or do some alterations to the Britains buildings to make them a bit less 'IM A PLASTIC TOY BUILDING', if you catch my drift.  I'm also starting to make some mock ups in cardboard for a cubical house, as not sure I can keep my herd outside forever! Need to set up a new board ajoining this one as not enough room for everything i've got planned.  I've just put an order in with HLT with my xmas money for some bits and bobs, so hopefully I can get going with a bit more very soon!

Happy New Year!!

Ohh, sorry my pics always turn out massive.  I upload them from my iphone and don't know how to change the dimensions before hand.

Little by little.  Not a great deal to show as it's a very slow work in progress I'm afraid.  Here's a little taster of some goings on. 

Hiya!  A couple more snaps of my progression!  Gate up, fencing done, concrete down, and even some stock arriving!

I'm painting my cows to mimmick cows i've worked with, but just done the 4 so far. I'm pretty pleased with them!

Building my silage clamp next and gonna order some trees from Mandy after next pay day. 

Hi Mandy!

As you can see i've been making good use of the supplies I got from you!

The grass (field) is just a mixture of matting, scatter, static and paint, and the grass in the walls is just scatter.  Kept sprinkling it on when building the wall (yes, it did take blimmin ages!!), whilst the glue was still wet.

I'm having great fun so far!

Anyway, time for me to go off for real life afternoon milking. 

Another one of the drive, nearly done!  Ignore the make shift back ground 

Ohhh the picture turned out massive.  Sorry!

Hi everyone!  I've just started doing some more to my layout as have had a little time spare.  I've just got one picture to show you.  The drive!  It's not finished yet, but I was being all impatient and felt proud so far and couldn't wait to show everyone to see what you all thought!  So here it is!

More to come very soon!

I should think the fence will look good once done as well, I take it the electricity company called by with some old poles to get rid of? Ideal for cattle fencing

I was worried they looked too big, but you've given me a perfect excuse now.  The Electric Company, of course!! 

I've got a few more bits and pieces delivered from this mysterious 'Mandy' you all speak of  Shall be doing a bit more very soon!

Yes agree that models from the 60s and 70s are nicer with more detail. Especially the animals. I was very disappointed by the latest cow models when I saw them . I had 60s and 70s hand downs as a child, so it's nice to see them still kicking about on eBay.

I assume he was carrying something once upon a time, anyone know what it was exactly?

HAHAHA! No, I entirely agree with you.  Me and my other half were laughing at him too.  Think he'll be appearing in quite a few photos playing the part of the stressy farm labourer! And the loose pig too! 

Hi guys and gals!  I'm a newbie to the forum as some of you may have read already in the introduction thread.  I'm back collecting after many years and have just started building my layout.  So I thought I'd better start a 'build thread'.  Here is the first batch of pictures to show my progress so far.  I am loosely mirroring my day to day work, so Horseshoe Farm will mainly be a dairy unit, but with a few sheep too.  More stock being delivered soon!

Basic Britains buildings purchased and built untill I've managed to build some from scratch myself!

Painting the base started.

Nice clean concrete in the tractor shed and workshop!

Roughing up the grass a bit.

Building some walls!

Need to sort out a background asap!

Wow!  What a lovely bunch you all seem!  I think i'm going to enjoy it here!  Just about to start a thread to show the start of my model, sorry, TOY  set up.

Thank you for such a warm and friendly welcome 

Hello!  I've found this forum and am very excited about it.  I didn't know there was so many into model farms!  I used to collect Britains toys as a child, but then grew up and had to do real life farming    But now I see no reason why i can't do both, so I have just started collecting again with a view to having a huge lifetime work in progress set up.

Really enjoying looking at the forum and seeing some fab farms and models.