richie

Now thats what I call a conversion, Great job it looks the biss.

Wow :of !!!!!! just caught up with this topic bloody fantastic JCB Bloke absolutely, A real credit to you, Dam shame I cant see it in the flesh.

Well its happened on the 121 day we have had rain 33mm, Fantastic mind it came down in buckets only half an hours worth and with thunder, lighting and winds, So I can turn the sprinklers off for a while, Might have a odd shower tomorrow, Fingers crossed.

Thanks for the compliments everyone, One or two questions to answer, The road Leakeyvale is only water based lightish gray undercoat then I keep mixing a bit of black paint till I get the right colour, Theres one a two layers on mind its just trail and error, The grain fields Sandy are done by getting the good old door mat for the standing grain, Then a coat of light tan paint where the stubble is going to be then you get some wheat stubble scatter, The stuff I use is made by Hornby code R8034 just sprggle it down, The rows of straw are just the standing grain cut with a good pair of sissors,Thats the hard bit it takes a while to get enough to do a large field. Hope that helps Any more questions I'll try to answer, Thanks again

Last two.

There is a model show here in Western Australia on the 23 May, After been to last years I thought I would put a bit of my input into it this year, There was not one bit of a sniff of agriculture in the show, Cars, Trucks and military, So I thought I would try and educate them a bit. So I have built a scene of an British countryside in the middle of harvest time and a quarry just to keep them interested, We have a large Caterpillar factory here in Perth and the most mine sites in Australia. Everything in the quarry apart from the range rover is built from a kit. The layout is 1;87 scale on two boards 400x300 each, If there's room Iam going to take some of my 1;32 UH models. Will be interesting to see if there is any interest.

Well you can tell Autumn is round the corner a bit cold on the old legs this morning got down to 14 over night but turned out to be just nice working weather by this afternoon got to 28 at 2.45, perfect.

It was a warm night last night, only got down to 28 at 6.00 this morning and the day just got hotter and hotter it reached 41 by 2.30, By then the boss told us to go home, So picked the daughter up from school and down to the beach for a paddle and swim.Last of the hot days says the weatherman, only 30 tomorrow. Nice.

Hot one today got to 38 degress, Drank some water today.

Sunny and hot today it reached 34 at 3.40 this afternoon, Hotter tomorrow.

Still no sign of rain sunny 32 today and getting warmer by friday expecting to get to 37, roll on the winter,

A nice sunny day just right for working outside, Sea breeze came in early topped at 29 degress at 11 this morning, Lovely day.

We have only had 1mm of rain in about 90 days and things are so dry here and the hottest summer on record average temp was 33.1 thats including nights as well, thank goodness for air con. We have five helitankers in Western Australia this is the biggest one , a good old sea king fueling up

Another hot one today, got to 39 at 3.30pm luckly its a bank holiday here today so all the family was at the beach, Its a hard life. When we got home our estate was covered in smoke there was a bush fire just south of us, We have a what I would call a large pond at the bottom of the road and the helitankers were taken water from it. It was amazing to see them hovering about 10 feet above the water, Took some photos. They used the footie field next to the pond to fill up with fuel.

My first universal hobbies model since we moved over to Australia a year ago, Lemken press for the massy 8690.

Beach weather today, way to hot to work, Got to 41.5 decress (110f about in old money) Had to cut down a 20ft pine tree down in sections with sun cream on and the sweat all the shavings stuck to me need to vacum the ute out this weekend.

Thanks for that Jez, Sorry I haven't replyed earlier for some reason my computer wouldn't let me onto farmtoyforum website something to do with cookies, Its just taken my brother in law 4 weeks to come and sort it out. Yes there is some great stuff on there.

Another hot one today it got to 37 cooling down a bit for the next 2 days thank god so far this week we've had 40 Saturday and sunday and 36 yesterday, 30 tomorrow and into our 48th day without rain The lawns not doing so good even with the sprinklers on twice a week. Oh well down to the beach this weekend again.

Now yes thats the baby, Do you know who's it made by Jez?????. Thanks for that. Got this yesterday in a kit form made by Dapol British firm in the UK. Tried to get the JCB yellow right and give it a bit of age ot it. Just the job for digging a few ditches around the place Yep its a strain on the old eyes at times.

99% finisned the deisel bowser, Just need the pto as well.

Got my harrow painted at last. Just trying to find the right size tubing for a pto shaft.

Yep the unimog looks not to bad, I've got a stack of big square silage bales to try and squeeze in there somewhere

A day at the beach tomorrow the weather man tells us that its the best place to be because we are expecting to reach 40 degress. I'll just have to take his advice I think.