My Collection

[844john]

A few more recent ones, a rather well used 10’ Ifor Williams stock trailer (just needs its rear gates adding), a small farm-built dump trailer and a Ford 6600 stockman’s tractor, again rather well used!

[CallumC]

Very nice 👌

[844john]

A few comings and goings👍

[Paul Palmer]

Hard to tell from the real deal John and great photography

[Ferret90]

Blimey even the different coloured side panels that is awesome John very realistic

[Jack390]

Never cease to a amaze with your work John , how did you make those straw bales if you don’t mind me asking, they’re spectacular 

[844john]

2 hours ago, Paul Palmer said:

Hard to tell from the real deal John and great photography

Thank you Paul, natural light makes all the difference 👍

[844john]

1 hour ago, Ferret90 said:

Blimey even the different coloured side panels that is awesome John very realistic

Thanks Ted, typical of a few tractors round our way to be fair👍

[844john]

1 hour ago, Jack390 said:

Never cease to a amaze with your work John , how did you make those straw bales if you don’t mind me asking, they’re spectacular 

Thanks Jack, I can’t take the credit for those, I used James’s method as a basis to do them(Stabilofarmer) 👍

[Jack390]

3 minutes ago, 844john said:

Thanks Jack, I can’t take the credit for those, I used James’s method as a basis to do them(Stabilofarmer) 👍

Ah yes I used the same method to make about 100 conventional bales…. Will have to try it with the bigger bales. 

[844john]

10 hours ago, Jack390 said:

Ah yes I used the same method to make about 100 conventional bales…. Will have to try it with the bigger bales. 

The only problem I found Jack is that I couldn’t get a good colour by dying the sisal (which might have been down to the particular type that I was using?). I ended up just chopping the sisal and baling it, then I gave each bale a light spray of yellow followed by an even lighter dusting of white. It seemed to give a good match to our real straw bales, plus it had the benefit of stiffening the sisal slightly so that it was less fluffy at the ends

[Jack390]

33 minutes ago, 844john said:

The only problem I found Jack is that I couldn’t get a good colour by dying the sisal (which might have been down to the particular type that I was using?). I ended up just chopping the sisal and baling it, then I gave each bale a light spray of yellow followed by an even lighter dusting of white. It seemed to give a good match to our real straw bales, plus it had the benefit of stiffening the sisal slightly so that it was less fluffy at the ends

Interesting, I’ll give that a try when I get round to doing some 👍

[justy 46]

Amazing realism John and beautiful models. 

[844john]

5 minutes ago, justy 46 said:

Amazing realism John and beautiful models. 

Thanks very much Justin 👍

[Valley Axe Man]

Wow John.... Every credit to you... Hard to tell in some of them photos if it's models or real deal... Stunning photos 👍

[Pete132]

mighty!

[844john]

12 hours ago, Valley Axe Man said:

Wow John.... Every credit to you... Hard to tell in some of them photos if it's models or real deal... Stunning photos 👍

Thanks very much Paul, you can’t beat natural light where possible👍

[844john]

10 hours ago, Pete132 said:

mighty!

Thank you Pete👍

[SirTainly]

that lightboard, held on at a jaunty angle by probably baler twine, coupled with the natural light - awesome realism, nice job!

[844john]

21 hours ago, SirTainly said:

that lightboard, held on at a jaunty angle by probably baler twine, coupled with the natural light - awesome realism, nice job!

Thank you Simon, I’ve never yet seen a lighting board that’s tied on sitting level🤣 It is actually baker twine that I’ve used, but just a single thread of it👍

[JEP]

Again, absolutely stunning 😲

Would love an hour or two walking around that yard, looking at all those classics!!

Keep them coming John.

 

[844john]

16 hours ago, JEP said:

Again, absolutely stunning 😲

Would love an hour or two walking around that yard, looking at all those classics!!

Keep them coming John.

 

Thanks very much John, I wouldn’t mind the real ones all in our yard😉

[844john]

Another hard frost and a flurry of snow last night shows up any weak batteries, a quick jump start needed before feeding round this morning 😉

[844john]

Fraser 1100 gallon slurry tanker, converted from the old Britains Alfa Laval 

[Jack390]

That’s come out really nice, often see conversions of the bigger nc2500, but I don’t think I’ve seen one of these before. Good job👍