new holland 4 ever

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.

I dont know where you can get the string, you could try farming shops : -\ I've got a box full of rolls of string that my dad bought ages ago.

thanks,

Here is the link to the topic for the bales :

http://forum.aceboard.net/7381-912-34763-0-artisanal-balle-haute-densite.htm

The bales are made from sisal string cut up and bailed in m homemade bailer. I used the method that "ptigris" posted on the grostracteurspassion.com forum. I would have given you the link but the server of that forum is playing up so it's impossible to access at the moment.

Next up the deere comes to power harrow after the contractor had previously ploughed and cultivated :

It's funny how everybody stares at you when you're in the midle of a field taking toy tractor fotos A car even stopped to stare

next up, the deere is out spreading lime :

Then the local contractor turned up to spread some manure :

Now these work...

right, the farm is gettin busy at the moment.

First up, the farm still has to get a few bales in, so the mc 115 is at it with bale prong and loader stacking them to come and get them later with the trailer.

How about wood glue or pva ?

I reckon that you should paint the pond  base a mix of brown and green, lightening as you move outwards to give it a sensation of depth, then put some rocks, plants, an old boot... anything is possible. You then pour the pva on. Once that is dry, you could make some cracks and drybrush a tiny bit of white paint around them.

I made some for my display with plaster over wich you roll a pair of old wheels (you dip them in water first so that they don't stick) Once i'ts set you can paint it, add grass, gravel... You could do the same for cow marks around a drinker in the field, would look good.

heres a link to the ones on my farm, if anybody is interested i would be more than happy to make a tutorial.

http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=17652.15

Here is my bale prong, all made of steel.

I'll take some better pics some time, when the weather is better.

Hello everybody

First, here is an update on my model farm in the 80's :

I have done the loft and the walls have had some fine sand glued to them to get that mud wall roughness, but the photos of the walls will come later (battery is charging on my rubbishy camera )

Next up the modern farm beef cattle yard :

They tow trailers, bailers, tankers like the "normal" ones. You can move it down thow, the pins comme out and you can slot them in the lower holes, i'ts usually used for implements on wich you cannot change the height of the hitch. 

Nice pics Why do you find that trailer hitch funny? all tractors this side of the pond have them on, don't they in england then?

Ford 4000 with "mailleux" loader

Ransomes mg5 crawler

That's all... for now (should eventually have a 4WD tractor, probably someca)

Thanks, Simon you have a good eye, that is plaster scrim tape it isn't perfect but i'tll do for now until I have the time to do some better ones.

Thanks everybody, the tracks in my farm (as i've said before...) are plaster wich i rolled a pair of old wheels in to make the marks and then are painted brown and foliage is added.

Thanks everybody

I took these today

edit : I don't know how the baler is working?!...

that's all for now

I've had mine for as long as i can remember, i got it new when i was small so i can't help you.

You can use a new ray combine, they are pretty close.

So here is an update, I live on an old farm and I thought I would make it wille it was running in the 70's. The head (and only) tractor will be a ford 4000 with a "mailleux" loader.

The first building is the calf barn wich can hold 20 calves.

i explained how i made mine in here http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8494.15

here is a skyblog with some suberbe bales (all for sale) http://minipaille86.skyrock.com/

silage 2008 - hoxham wood farm - ttfh - 2006

it's silage time again so hoxham wood farm has got it's silage equipment out aswell as the local contractors massey ferguson 8280 to "harvest " approximately 10 hectares of english ray grass.

The case mxu 125 cutting with kuhn mower :

the massey ferguson 4270 loading the mc115 with claas trailer :

the massey ferguson 8280 stacking the silage in the clamp :

today it was maize sewing :

wonce back at the farm, super mario hosed the seed drill of :

thanks, for the bales i used agricultural string (the old stuff).