powerrabbit Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Anyone done any rotospreader coversions? Heres a couple that I did last winter. Green one is a Fraser. Two Britain's chopped and joined together. and another just re-liveried and slightly altered into a Kidd. The wooden lip used to be an ice lolly stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gromittigger Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Nothing special just paint convo's really in my early days - bit dusty now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGU Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Look darn good to me! You can't see the join! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 11, 2007 Author Share Posted March 11, 2007 Look darn good to me! You can't see the join! As said, pretty run-of-the-mill really. Looks like the second pic of the Kidd did'nt come through, I'll try it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Like the Kidd PR, I have done one as well but she needs decals. I wanted the later decals where it said 'sideflinger' along the lip underneath the wooden strip. Yours looks dandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSheetAndYellowRims Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 looking good,love the kidd one thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGU Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 As said, pretty run-of-the-mill really. Looks like the second pic of the Kidd did'nt come through, I'll try it again. No I really ment it you can't see the join, it's a good job! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 Like the Kidd PR, I have done one as well but she needs decals. I wanted the later decals where it said 'sideflinger' along the lip underneath the wooden strip. Yours looks dandy That's the main problem, decals, What I do is find old colour brochures on implements/machinery with a good clear straight-on pic of the real decaling and scan them in, send them or copy to another programme to fiddle about to enhance, resize and generaly play about with and print the finishsd article off on shiny-ish label paper, takes a bit of experimenting to get them the right size but once you've got them right, save the end product to disc and hey presto, job done. Another way I do it is to visit manufacturers web-sites and look at the stuff there, sometimes you can create some good decals from there by saving the pics and then going through previous mentioned process. The larger (within reason) and clearer the original you are scanning, the better quality you end up with. If it comes out ok, heres an example:- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scamp Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Anyone done any rotospreader coversions? Heres a couple that I did last winter. Green one is a Fraser. Two Britain's chopped and joined together. and another just re-liveried and slightly altered into a Kidd. The wooden lip used to be an ice lolly stick. Hi powerrabbit how did you manage to join the two spreaders together?What type of glue did you use as i can't find the right one to use can you help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Hi Scamp. Glue the joints with a good strong industrial strength superglue. You get a stronger model if you can stagger the joints, when set rub down the surfaces and fill any noticeable grooves with putty filler which you can get from any motor parts shop in a tin which is used to fill and smooth digs and scratches on car panels and rub down to a even smooth finish, this filler helps when you paint the model as some paints react with the glue and will show up the joint again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEBRITFARMER Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 How did I miss this post Very nice powerrabbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 As said, pretty run-of-the-mill really. Looks like the second pic of the Kidd did'nt come through, I'll try it again. nice mate, what colour blue have you used for that?? and where did the decals come from as for the fraser, i have seenthose for sale befoe at toytrac, last couple of years, look identical, the same guy also did marshal versions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Tractorman810. The blue for the Kidd spreader I mixed myself to the right shade from Humbrol paint small tins and hand-painted with a soft artists brush, you don't get any brush marks then providing you don't put the paint on too thick, I hand-paint all my projects. The decals are taken from period brochures that I have collected over the years, I knew they would be usefull one day, scan the relevent picture of the decal in the brochure and put it through a picture editing prog on the computer and re-sise to requirement and print off on shiny-ish label paper, cut it out, apply to model, job done. As regards the Fraser, I know that there have been some done by professionals although I have never seen any down this way, I was told that there was one at Farmer Gile's a few years ago for ?65, that's why I built mine. If you are looking for specific decals, look through the farming mags, advertising brochures etc, it's surprising what you can find. If I can find it, I will post a Kidd 'decal' here later on, you will probably be able to extract it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwain Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 looking good mate i like the fraser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 cheers mate, tris wil prob be after that to,for his kidd spreader he did a while back, as for the marshals ect, they were at toytrac, but deff not 65 quid, from memory they wanted 40 for the marshal ones i saw,they had there own boxes ect to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjd8530 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 i would suggest that the seller of the fraser and marshall spreaders was probably S.D. Frater, who also makes fraser, west and marshall trailers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 i would suggest that the seller of the fraser and marshall spreaders was probably S.D. Frater, who also makes fraser, west and marshall trailers. no wasnt him mate, s d fratter was on the other side of the hall on the same table as g&m, he always si, and it wasnt marked as his work either, just had a lable on the box stating what it was, and i think the seller/makers name to, but for the life of me cant remember who, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjd8530 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 dunno then. i no my bro was makin all manner of them, but never did any shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 oh well ,that will teach me to take notice next time, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 cheers mate, tris wil prob be after that to,for his kidd spreader he did a while back, as for the marshals ect, they were at toytrac, but deff not 65 quid, from memory they wanted 40 for the marshal ones i saw,they had there own boxes ect to Here is the created Kidd decal(s) if you can extract it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Nice one I will have to have a go at this on the newer ones. Here PR, do you have nay brochures for Kidd machinery? I am not after collecting them but some good images of the later sidefligers would be great if you had them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Nice one I will have to have a go at this on the newer ones. Here PR, do you have nay brochures for Kidd machinery? I am not after collecting them but some good images of the later sidefligers would be great if you had them. Sorry mate, still looking myself. That one came from the roller brochure, I put it through my computer prog and added 'sideflinger' in text to the blue background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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