Looks great DE!
What about a swimming hole with a tree and a tire-swing?
What about a swimming hole with a tree and a tire-swing?
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I've embarked on another anti-shackwhacky project - wanna see?
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Not coming up with a place to put something like that, but I'll keep it in mind for the next expansion...
Just need a nice-ish day to paint it.
Cute as a bug’s ear DE!
All done, other than I might paint the bats on the reel brown. On the actual machine, they're wooden and one trip through the wheat field usually polishes all the paint off them.
Very nice DE!
Have you seen Peytonville?
Looks like you have fellow modelers.
https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/38031
Looks like you have fellow modelers.
https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/38031
Given the space and the money, I could see myself doing something like that...
OMG, that's huge!
I'd like to have about 10% of the money that represents!
Thanks to the lovely weather (near white-out snow squalls earlier today) I'm spending a little more time on the diorama.
I built a shed to store the combine in and have slowly been detailing around it. The idea well was running pretty dry so I posted on a farming/tractor site about needing ideas for "stuff" to put around the shed.
Got a lot of goods ones, many of which I'll act on but the best was to add some weathered signs to the building.
Original shed
Shed with signs. I snagged the images off the internet, tweaked them to suit and printed them on decal paper. Wasn't sure decals would adhere to wood, but they seem to be fine. Makes a huge difference IMHO.
I built a shed to store the combine in and have slowly been detailing around it. The idea well was running pretty dry so I posted on a farming/tractor site about needing ideas for "stuff" to put around the shed.
Got a lot of goods ones, many of which I'll act on but the best was to add some weathered signs to the building.
Original shed
Shed with signs. I snagged the images off the internet, tweaked them to suit and printed them on decal paper. Wasn't sure decals would adhere to wood, but they seem to be fine. Makes a huge difference IMHO.
Sweet
Um tractor looks like a city fella's machine. Needs a little dirt.
Um tractor looks like a city fella's machine. Needs a little dirt.
This looks a bit to clean also.
Farmer Paul's newest acquisitions. They'll stay pretty until the first harvest...
I've got a really cheesy "model" of a John Deere Waterloo Boy ($4.95 Ertl toy from the dealer) that I'm going to give the crusty-rusty treatment and plant about half buried behind the shed. It's soaking in a jar of brake fluid now to strip the paint.
I've got a really cheesy "model" of a John Deere Waterloo Boy ($4.95 Ertl toy from the dealer) that I'm going to give the crusty-rusty treatment and plant about half buried behind the shed. It's soaking in a jar of brake fluid now to strip the paint.
Tire swing in the tree?
Outdoor BBQ pit?
Outdoor BBQ pit?
Ummm, grasping at straws here.
My uncle had elevated fuel storage tanks on the dairy farm.
Mr. Haney's truck, with its pull-down windowshade advertising?
I also recall that some farmers could get extra revenue or a free paint job if they let someone paint advertising on the barn, or the roof...
My uncle had elevated fuel storage tanks on the dairy farm.
Mr. Haney's truck, with its pull-down windowshade advertising?
I also recall that some farmers could get extra revenue or a free paint job if they let someone paint advertising on the barn, or the roof...
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Back to working on the diorama.
Top pic is a scratch-built model of a Gehl SP-135 self-propelled harvester with a corn chopping head on it. Like the thresher, it was suggested by a guy on the 1:1 tractor board I frequent and he provided pictures and measurements. I was a little over a year working with it in dribs and drabs. Design, print, eyeball, tweak, re-print, eyeball, rinse, repeat.
The second pic shows the grain body and hoist I made for an existing truck and the gas pump I printed out.
Have two large-ish projects underway - a grain-handling system for my bins and dryer and running 3 phase power to the shop. I have the poles, cross-arms and transformers all done and the poles planted on the layout, just taking my time stringing the "wire" as I want to make sure each step is cured before proceeding. Pix when it's finished.
Ditto with the grain handling system. Major parts designed and printed out, waiting on glue to cure and then clean and paint.
I love this - looks great DE!
