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This one really is starting to look dusty. After over a year of inactivity, due mainly to a lack of time I've finally been able to get back to this one. I am currently working on getting the old french "breton" 70's style farmyard up. It shall consist of two mud-walled buildings for the cattle, and a haybarn. I am going to try and pack as many details in as I can think of, and a fair bit of weathering should be involved . Here are a few snaps of the first building, where the calfs used to be kept; I haven't decided yet wether to cover it with corrugated iron or slates ? One of the A frames, with a future birds nest : The beginning of the floor : The start of the weathering process of one of the side doors : Awindow wich shall be barred up with an old (soon splintered) door and straw : And just because I liked the picture, one of the future tractors (it's weathering has also started) : I'll post some larger views as soon as I get a bit of sunshine

No, it's sisal string that I cut to a certain length, glue it on with wood glue and then paint it. It takes quite a long time to do but I like the look of it once it's finished.

Thanks,

I've been back at work on this project for a few weeks now, so here is what I have been up to : If you want any other specific views, just ask

I used the valtra C120 chassie from uh. I think it will be a tl90, I quite like them.

This is what has been occupying my spare time lately. The paint isn't very good because dust fell on it (why does it always have to fall on wet paint??? ) in fact i'd be interested to know how you (where?) paint your models. It is of course not finished, the main difficulty of geting that horrible britains cabin to resemble something like the real one is still to be done. A part from that the exhaust and lights have to go on and I am not sure yet wether it will have a loader or a front linkage (or both?) or what I will badge it as.

Well, it's been a while, so I thought I would give you a bit of an update... MF 8280 + krone baler in hay : More pics to come sometime soon of the new additions to the yard.

I also have one, and I have got all the measurements (at least I think I have... ) because I also want to make one...

If you can still access your account on the old forum, there is a topic to say whatever problems you have, post there, otherwise send a mail to GTP (or pm). Actually I also have a problem, I recieved the e-mail but not the link....And I can't connect myself to the old forum because the password has been changed....

You have to click "J'ai oublié mon mot de passe" and then logg-in using the new password you recieve in your e-mails.

The changeover should be complete on sunday at the earlyest or otherwise during next week. All the old posts will still be available. Anybody that has an account on there must save his Pm's, and to connect yourself after the changeover, you must click "I have forgotten my password" and a new one will be sent which you can change afterwards.

Here are some detail pics :

This afternoon I will build the lean-to at the end were there is a concrete square left were the calf's will be.

The feed barriers will be along the 2nd posts coming in from the silo.

Well, it's been a long time since I posted any pics of the farm, so here goes. I didn't like my old cow shed (the dairy one)so I decided it was more than time for demolition A new metallic frame building (garret style) has been put up, the tiles for the milking parlour have been mostly put down (I first tried with the glue gun as it said on the packet and made a real mess of it, all those need re gluing, so then I spread some pva over the base and it was near perfection ) The wall that supports the frames has had all the bricks carved on it one by one. I have layed a bit of mud in the field next to it and the slurry tank is under way. So here is just a taster pic (all the others I took are rubbish because of the poor light up there) : I'll try and take some other more detailed ones (it doesn't help that I'm always shaking when I take the pics, because of the funny positions I get into to take them...)

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I'mnot a pro, but i'm making a machine that will make roofing sheets. It should be finished by the weekend. I will make them for anybody that wants them. I should be able to do the plastic transparent ones aswell as the metal ones.

What make did you get? What model? Do you run it on a compressor or on cans? I run mine on an air tank that I fill with the compressor.

Just in case you're in lack of inspiration : crashed rusty cars My advice would be to bash it about a bit on the side and front with a hammer and rounded end punch (or body workers hammer) scratch it a bit, stick it in a bag with oxygen and air, if you're lucky it will rust otherwise you'll have to use "mig pigments" or paint.

thanks everybody, I will be using it on my converted mc 115 with a loader on the front and that on th back (the tractor now has a nearly finished scratch built 3 point linkage)

If anybody is made of money, here are some more than descent looking trees : model trees

Have a look here : discs

I would say nails. I would leave a bit of round nail and then file the rest of the nail down to look like "tines" (square....ish).

I love doing that, they look so nice and realistic afterwoods. I haven't yet done anything quite as mucky as he has as I don't yet own any models of old tractors but in the future (after xmas) i wil have a fendt 515c and a ford 5000 that will become a ford 4000 as victims...let the rust grow I've been thinking of doing a silage field in which a tractor would be bogged with loads of mud everywhere. In that link astoneshingly he does not speek of drybrush or of "lavis" (french term which I do not know the translation) that are pretty common in military modelling.

I've never seen any green string, but it might exist and even if it doesn't it's easy enough to dye the normal stuff the color you want. I also use it as static grass.