ratholderen Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 great pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 thanks for your positive feedback - but I am not satisfied with the "realism" of coffee-powder as "soil". Therefore, I began working with real soil recently and here are some first results: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nick henton Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Looking very good its nice to see models in an environment that does them justice where do you get all your coffee "soil" from? and do you have to do anything to it before you put it on your displays? Regards Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Looking very good its nice to see models in an environment that does them justice where do you get all your coffee "soil" from? and do you have to do anything to it before you put it on your displays? Regards Nick regarding the coffee powder - just drink and collect. Then in the oven and drying at 50° Celsius ... regarding the real soil - go to a real field just after plowing/harrowing (in the winter after frost - then there are no small animals in the upper soil) and collect some clods of rather clean, homogen soil. Breaking the soil in smaller pieces and have a look that there are no living things in the soil at home and in the oven, drying at 200° Celsius to make sure that no bacteria, microscopic animals and so on can live in the soil. Then webbing the soil and take apart different sizes of little soild clods. And then rins the soil on the diorama ecactly in the right size according to what is happening on the diorama. Finally spraying some brown colour on the areas which have to look like soil which has just been worked on (looking darker due to moisture). That's it. Coffee powder dioramas take around one hour to create, real soil dioramas a whole long winter evening ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick henton Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thanks mate farmers in the lincs fens better look out i think their fields are going to get slightly lower ;D as for the coffee you must drink quite a lot Regards Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 I found most British drink instant coffee so there's a slight problem there . In most tractor workshops/sheds there's always plenty of dusty light soil to be found. Or on top of a power harrow or drill for instance. Easy to collect and doesn't need to go in the oven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 i use a mix of old dried starbucks coffee and a sived compost from the garden on ash tree now, the soil gives some structure in ridges from the plough ect ,whilst the coffee allows tyre marks ect from the field onto tracks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Good looking heavy soil you've made,it'll keep your power harrows busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Looks fantastic Sasha well worth the time and effort 8) Perfect even further by adding tyre tread impressions, perhaps some weathered machinery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 As Sean said, coffee is great, i've seen bags of used coffee at a local starbucks ;D ;D , they gave it away free for composting. If you ask they may still do it or keep it behind for you to collect?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 how old is that crane? i did'nt know you could get one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted December 27, 2010 Author Share Posted December 27, 2010 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 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 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jordantaylor Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 it looks superb, i bet those workers are cold with rolled up sleaves in that weather keep the photos coming, great work as usual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 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" ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 that looks better i love the range of scenes you have got as most people stick to simple crops such as wheat but you go for everything and get them spot on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 WOW WOW WOW.. those carrot scenes are simply superb RDF... thanks for sharing. I am going to take some pictures of this to my carrot grower at work - he will love looking at these I am sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janval Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Amazing work here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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