Richard de Florennes

thanks for the information, but the two Fords I got from UH do not have a slight grey-white but rather a light grey. I wonder if all other buyers of the modells are pleased with this colour? Or is it possible that I got two exceptional bad models of a bad production line?

Got two of the and both of them with cab roof, rear mud guards, wheel centres and front guard light grey instead of white. Is that correct? Fords white is white I think and not grey???

my short advice:

MF 590 - great model, good detail

MF 3080 - good detail but very fragile

Ford - ok, but wrong colour (grey?) on cab, wheels and front guard

here we go - it is done:

soon available via

"TOWSE TRADING" <britains@britains.karoo.co.uk>.

Soon available here:

"TOWSE TRADING" <britains@britains.karoo.co.uk>.

Interest and see mail/pm ...

Thanks for the comment.

As my attempt to create little winter coats for the two workers in right scale failed, at least I gave them longer sleeves and/or lang-sleeve underwear by brush stroke plus winter scarf made of real cotton wool using an old black T-shirt. Here are the results:

Just for comparison the corresponding harvesting scene also presumed to take place in the 1980s - harvesting carrots and topping the crops "in golden November weather" ...

Another Christmas present for me was the Ford 7000. Due to the snowy weather during the last weeks and having witnessed the loading of carrots in spite of snow and ice, the idea evolved of creating such a snowy carrot loading scene. Until the fitting UH Ford with frontloader ordered from Dave Towse will be in my hands (for the root bucket visible on one picture), I have used my rear digger for uncovering the clamp. The clamp conceives of the "carrots", plastic cover, soil cover and a layer of "snow". Here are some pics of the new scene ...

how old is that crane? i did'nt know you could get one.

how hold? What you mean? Regarding the real digger shown on the last picture, at least 20 years. The model is a conversion obtained from Ebay for 30 Euro; I think is is based on a SIKU 1:50 scale digger ().

Christmas brought me the UH Fendt with row crop wheels delivered from the factory in that state via WITOMO. Reason enough to create a new diorama to re-create an old dio. Here is the result, which is meant to show fertilazing and row cultivating of young bush bean plants:

Region Jülich, 2010-10-22: harvesting sugar beets with TIM / Zuckerrübenernte mit TIM ...

Region Jülich, 2010-10-21: harvesting sugar beet with two Holmer Terra Dos T3 on one field / Zuckerrübenernte mit zwei Holmer Terra Dos T3 auf einem Feld ...

same day, same region / gleicher Tag, gleiche Gegend: harvesting sugar beet / Zuckerrübenernte ...

Region Viersen, 2010-10-21: harvesting grain maize/Körnermais-Ernte ...

Tool carriers where very popular and common over here until the 1990s but are becoming more and more rare now and seem to be only used by the smaller and poorer farms ...

Region Krefeld, 2010-10-15: laoding sugar beet/Verladung von Zuckerrüben:

Region Aachen, 2010-10-21: cultivating after potato harvest and seeding wheet/Grubbern nach der Kartoffelernte und Weizensäen:

loading sugar beets:

while the ATLAS "farm helper" was very popular in Germany in the 1980s, similar diggers are still very common in Belgium for loading sugar beets:

a few minutes later: meeting old friends again and another big plough ...

a few minutes later: harvesting "real" sugar beets with another "Gilles" team ...

another field at early afternoon:

(the seed drill is the one from Nodet Gougis as you might know by the model of Replicagri)

As the picture shows, John Deere tractors and Nodet Gougis seed drills are very popular in that region - this is another combination shown at work ...

same day, same region: a lot of activity in connection with seeding wheat ...

early morning:

another field ad midday: John Deere with Gregoire Besson plough (as you might know via Universal Hobbies)