Britains farming German style

[BGU]

What a good idea - displaying them with the backgorunds.

[GreenSheetAndYellowRims]

nice looking collection sascha.and a good way to display the britains stuff

[Richard de Florennes]

It's time to bring the beans into the earth.

First the seedbed has to be prepared - however due to lack of a sedbed combination on the 1:32 marked I have to rely on this heavy grubber ...

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Then, after two or three passes of the tillage equipment, this primitive mechanic old-style precision drill somes into action (looking at the pictures, this item defenitely need some kind of further conversion/imrovement to look more realistic - any suggestions?)

[FB]

Is that one of DT's???, looks ok to me?? \ :)

[Richard de Florennes]

yes it's from towse and I'm not complaining and it's well worth the money (and at least Britains detail standard, just the main wheels are a little bit steep), but maybe the caps of the seed canisters might get another colour or the frames for the canister/roller segments could be re-painted. Some decals (which maker? Monosem?) or even a full colour change? (MF red or Ford Blue?)

[FB]

yeah i see what you mean  :)

[Richard de Florennes]

With just two weeks expected until the beginning of the barley harvest here in our area, it was time to prepare my farm dioramas for the season. Here is a first one:

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another view (can I use the Marston silage trailer also for barley in real live or is this unrealistic?):

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and a final one:

[smallclaas]

another view (can I use the Marston silage trailer also for barley in real live or is this unrealistic?):

Of course you can, but the police might do you for overloading. Down cork way they use their Kane silage trailers for hauling wheat grains.

[TS135A DRIVER]

Of course you can, but the police might do you for overloading. Down cork way they use their Kane silage trailers for hauling wheat grains.

Hope they change the silage tail doors for a more grain tight one or there will be a trail of grain running out the back of it from the field to the store and a near empty cart by the time they get to shed 

[Richard de Florennes]

So which trailer of the current Britains selection (or Siku) would you recommend for this scene (as you may have discovered, I like the colours of Tractors and implements to be fitting, although probably no real farmer will choose an implement because of the coulour fits to the tractor, does anyone?)

Hope they change the silage tail doors for a more grain tight one or there will be a trail of grain running out the back of it from the field to the store and a near empty cart by the time they get to shed   

[Richard de Florennes]

unfortunately, out of 20 contributions me and my dioramas did not even make it under the best three (www.witomo.com).

:'( :'( :'(

Thanks for your support anyway ...

So we just add our email address and display numbers??

http://witomo.com/tinc?key=oyrdlfZT&formname=Farm_Diorama_2007

[FB]

shame  :(

dont give up though, keep posting up for us! ;D

[Richard de Florennes]

Have purchased some "new" modells in the last few weeks, which allowed for minor changes of my six current dioramas, what do you think?

[FB]

very nice again!, have you thought about expanding to a room??, you could have so much fun!

[Richard de Florennes]

very nice again!, have you thought about expanding to a room??, you could have so much fun!

Yeah, I am thinking of making a 2 x 1,5 meters diorama in our bed-room, which could be pushed under the bed in case the room is needed for other activities ... ;-)

There is also a very large carpet in our living room, which is used for carpet farming by my son (and by me, unofficially, of course ...)

However, due to lack of space, my hobby remains restricted to dioramas of this size:

[Richard de Florennes]

here some final two pictures, just to find an end for this (unintended) record-breaking posting day ;-)

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and

[Deere-est]

Fantastic Richard, you show very well how the size of a diorama isn't strictly important, it is the quality in the way it is shown. Very nice work.

What have you used for the stubble in the MF Cerea diorama?

[Richard de Florennes]

the stubble field is available in train modell shops; it is a 1:87 (HO) "corn field" modell carpet making up perfectly for 1:32 stubbles! I can anly recommend visiting any train modell shop in your vincity, as they offer some very interesting products which can be used as background and so on for our farm modells!

Certain real live experiences lead to the idea of creating a "currant harvesting scenes" (see farm talk/implements/experience with mixed feeling in this forum) and to make use of the (in my eyes) otherwise almost useless new Britains Ford tractor (which looks, I must admit very nice in this scenery)

Here are some first results - what do you think:

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For comparison - here is the real scene (I am not a Fendt fan however; so I prefered replacing it by an old Ford):

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back to the modell world:

(for information regarding the real machine, have a look at: http://www.scharfenberger.de/de/produkte/traubenerntemaschinen/)

[smallclaas]

Great Pics