Geoffrey

My new project, FINALY not a Veenhuis ( it was about time ) There is a contractor near by that runs a couple of Big A's, I was at a model fair a moths ago someone sold me 3 brochures of Big A equipment. So i started the build of the biggest one. the 4500 yesterday. The cab is a bit of a problem. is has some round shapes in it that are pretty hard to build out of poly. I used some poly piping, but it's still not how i want it to be. Anyway, the photos A photo of the real machine. and the 1:32 scale model 4 wheel steering and a hand build V8 engine.

wow. looks awesome mate !

Thanks for all the positive comments guys!! I need to do some detailing on the model. A little paint here and there, and some extra worklights and decals, that sort of stuff. This is the best paint job to date i have on my models. It just turned out great. I sand my model with 600 grid sanding paper be for spraying primer. 1 coat of filler, that 2 coats of primer and than sand it again with 1000 grid. Than a nother 2 or 3 layers of paint. if there is some dust under the paint, IL sand he bad spots again with 1000 grid and gif it a nother layer. The sanding with 600 and 1000 grid takes a while, but you can just see the difference in he finished paint job.

she's getting there

That really looks great Thomas ! Well done

Did some more work today :

Look great Thomas ! Can't wait to see it fitted to the Lexion ! Sow a Youtube movie the other day of a same outfit. only with a MF baler like the one in your first post. Really smart solution.

I don't know that. The machine was just to big for the small Dutch fields at the the time. No one i spoke knows what happend to this machine after it left the VVT factory. It could well be that VVT saw the problems with the (to) big VVT 600 and made it into a VVT 300 and sold again as a "new" machine. but thank again, it could all so ended up at a scrap heap and stripped for its parts. The only thing i know is that's its a killer machine the smaller, 3 wheeled VVT 300:

To bad i didn't Blue man. Would love to see this machine in action The tank hold about 20.000L

Thanks Tris I don't know about a diorama. No doubt, it looks awesome together with self build models. But i just don't have the time and space to build a diorama. I rather spend my time building models than a diorama. Maybe sothing for the future Need to build a new oil cooler behind the steps to. This one is way to small, i hate doing stuff twice

Todays update. She's getting there.

Did some work today on the VVT 600. Build a new stairs to the cab. I think these look a lot better than the first try. Also build the oil cooler and the fuel tank.

Hi Catkom3 I know about those PMA tires. That PMA tire is the newer style 1050 tire. this machine was build in the 90's. the robert peters tires looks a bit meer like the ones on the photo i gues. What does the rest think about it? PMA ore Robert Peters tires

These wheels are just under the model for the photo Tris. I'm looking at using the big fat wheels from the Ropa Eurotiger from Siku

There you go Tris. A photo with the VVT 600 next to a Fiat 160-90 from ROS, its a real beast And a little update of today's work.

I will make a photo later today for you

Finlay i got some time to do some model building. it's getting pretty busy again at work now the weather is getting a lot better. I started up a new project Monday, yes why not? A nother Veenhuis This is a very rare model Veenhuis. There was only one build back in the 90'ies, Nobody knows if the machine is still running ore if it ended up someware on a junkyard. Its a 5 wheel "trike" style self propelled slurry tanker. It has a capacity of 19.000L a photo of the real machine, what a beast : And this is 4 days of work: Like all my models the model will be build out of PVC and poly. The cab is from the VVT 400-4. only on there for the photo. Need to make some new stairs to the cab. These are a bit to big.

No it's not mine. But from a mate. I took some photos at the modelfair last February

And a nother one of my latest hand build models, And a nother 90ies tanker. I really like this model of tanker. Fits well wit he VVT 400-4

Time for a little update. I build this VVT 400-4 self propelled slurry tanker. Its a real 90ies machine here in Holland

Those row crop duals look good on that 515C !

I'm allready member for quite some time but never intreduced myself (sorry about that [ ) I'm Geoffrey Hoving and like some other member here, I'm from Holland. I live in a small village called Borger, Its in the nother part of Holland close to the German border. I work as a full time excavator operator at a contractor. I'm sitting at home at the moment. We have some pretty bad wether here in Holland at the moment. so theres not much work to do. So i spend my days modelbuilding insted until the wether gets better. If been modelbuilding since i was a small kid. First from Lego. than from wood an metal, I stopped for a couple of years and picked it up about 3 years ago. I have a small collection of models, around 75 pieces. there pretty much all special models. Some scratch builds by myself and bought scratch build models, ands some limited edition models. It mostly John Deere, New Holland and Case tractors in my collection. I don't have a lot of UH, Sikh ore Britains models any more. Sold the a couple of years ago. that would be about it. If you got any question. feel free to ask

Did some work on the filling arm and chassis today: It's not a very large tanker. Put the Fiat 160-90 in front of it. looks pretty good i think

I took a look at the link you posted in your first post. But it really looks like a clever system ! Nice building work to, Just like Tris said, you put a lot of work in the small details. Can't wait to see the finished model

After some more hours detailing its finished. It really turned out to be a awesome model. I'm really pleased with the end result. Crab mode works like the real thing: