The Tractor Twitcher

There was a prototype 1135 or 1155 model on Autodrome's stand at Zwolle in recent years. I'll try and find the photo I have of it.

Last year's Britains Fordson E27N release lined up with several Scaledown based variations.

Fantastic! Lovely to see one of these miniaturised. Great work. 

31 minutes ago, New Hollander said:

Nice T6. Tempting. For those who want one:

Limited Edition Russells New Holland T6.180 Model

To commemorate the centenary Russell's took inspiration from the iconic Ford 7810 Silver Jubilee and created a unique special edition New Holland T6.180 dynamic command tractor and matching limited edition model.

 

All proceeds from sale will be donated to Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

 

We only have a limited number of these models available so please pre-order to guarantee.

 

DUE TO EXCEPTIONAL DEMAND FOR THIS MODEL WE ARE EXPERIENCING DELAYS WITH DISPATCH. NEW ORDERS MAY TAKE AN EXTRA WEEK FROM THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE.

I think it's turned out really well. This is the photo displayed on the back of the box (albeit heavily cropped ) which I took as part of the tractor's first photo shoot following it's completion. 

1 hour ago, Tractorman810 said:

gonna need a big cabinet to get that planned display if you take the diamond shoot as a base mate ,best move your bed out to make space ready 😆😆

18 minutes ago, smithy said:

I like your plan David ,but like Sean has said your gonna need a bigger cabinet 😁. Myself and Goody have one of them T6.180 on order ,Goodys mate works for Russells so he is sorting them out .

The likelihood is i'll keep the display simple, and line them up together alongside each other on a shelf around 40cm deep lined with coir matting.......... only just downsized beds slightly, and I don't really fancy replacing it with anything smaller, or have to sleep in the garden shed.   

4 minutes ago, robbo said:

Some cracking pictures there David, I received notification that my models has been posted today but it will be staying in the box

Thanks ever so much Mike. That was a very enjoyable photo shoot to set up.  

28 minutes ago, jmd said:

some nice conversions you've got hold of there David👍

Thanks ever so much Jon. Absolutely chuffed to bits to have had the opportunity to acquire them.

Britains based Ford 9700 featuring Ertl and Autodrome parts.

Britains based Roadless 94T and a pair of 7000s. Another trio of models that were built around 20 years ago.

1 hour ago, mb86 said:

Hopefully an RS Turbo 😍

Very nice!  

Loving the Escorts! Is that an XR3i in the centre mate? 

4 hours ago, mb86 said:

Cracking recent additions David mate, but those autodrome beasts are especially👌💦 

Thanks ever so much mate, so chuffed to be given the chance to purchase the Autodromes from a fellow collector. Without doubt one of my favourite line ups in my collection now.  

Old school Britains based Ford 7610 conversion built over twenty years ago I bought recently. Needs a good clean and a minor spruce up, but still really nice, and from an era long before there was UH stuff to chop and change.

Scaledown County Sea Horse that joined my collection recently.

Scaledown Fordson E27N with Roadless half tracks from Martyn Reeve arrived today. 

Interesting, but hardly a revolution or a new concept. Gantry systems have been around for a long time but never seen any significant commercial success. Cotswold farmer David Dowler is probably the most well known designer of gantry tractors in the UK. He developed his first all the way back in the 1970s and a later version he built was taken up by the Silsoe Research Institute with little success. I do wonder if concepts like the gantry for certain applications were in fact way ahead of their time, and now we're entering the era of commercially available driver-less tractors that this type of configuration may actually suit that technology one day. Same with a tool carrier tractor i've just done a feature on for Classic Tractor which again was far from being a commercial success but in years to come could potentially be suited to the driver-less era.

4 minutes ago, WHITESNAKE01 said:

Hi all,

Well, i don't know whether it's allowed (still i think it is!), but on my workbench at the moment is a bulldozer, the Caterpillar D8H, scaled down to 1:25. There was this building kit in the '60's, but since a few years it re-appeared again, now being called "Construction Dozer", without the original Caterpillar'-logo on the box.

In the years before it re-appeared i was lucky to be able to take-over a half-built copy from an older man, who wasn't able to finish it because of an illness. His daughter, who came at the door, told me they really would like to sell the half-built-model to a real enthousiast. Well, they succeeded in that!!
On the Dutch model-builders-forum you might want to take a look at the building-process i'm going through, this is the link:

https://modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=54085

 

Allthough the text is written in Dutch, the pictures may also be telling the story.

When you prefer to only look at pictures, without a lot of text, than take a look at my own website:

https://modelbouwjan.jouwweb.nl/grondverzetmachines/caterpillar-d8h-bulldozer

 

My ultimate goal is to eventually build me two dozers: one being the D8H, for which i've also build a cabine, and the next project will be built out of the box of a new one, but being upgraded to the D8K-version.

When everything finally comes together as planned in my head, it will be amazing. But, the judgement is also up to you!

Just one picture of the state of the project so far:

 

 

Absolutely fantastic! Wonderful to see.

A pair of County 1474 conversions made by Roy Leetham.

9 minutes ago, 844john said:

Some lovely additions there David 👍

Thanks ever so much John.

Pair of Track Marshall 55 crawlers that joined my collection recently.

A pair of Perkins V8 powered Massey Fergusons converted by Roy Leetham 17 years ago.

1 hour ago, 844john said:

Is that the chap who used to have a table over the far side of the second room at Penrith David, he had a lot of nice American conversions of IH, Deere, Case etc that he’d built?

Correct, absolutely spot on John. I used to love catching up with him at Penrith, and always admired the one off conversions he came up with which he always improved upon year on year. Massively grateful I had the chance to buy some of them. I think he may have had an article written about his conversions in Classic Tractor about 16/17 years ago.