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Originally Posted by Alex Crawford
Hi John,
I saw either a photo or a drawing of hay being transported in a 7 plank wagon with a tarpualin cover. This cover didn't come down all the way and a good quarter of the hay was exposed. I though about doing something similar with my hay wagon..........
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What I'm thinking of doing for my "plastic bottle bales" is to create the basic shape using modelling clay such as Plastiroc, coat it with PVA glue and then cover it with a mixture of those coloured powders that they sell in the craft shops for greetings cards etc.
Could you do a similar thing for your hay bales but with suitably coloured scatter materials?
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Originally Posted by Alex Crawford
I'll letter all my wagons once I find suitable decals/transfers. I need 4-5mm sized letters, mainly E, F and R in red, yellow and white................
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I was a big fan of the Letraset rub-on letters for this sort of work but they seem to be very hard to obtain nowadays.
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Originally Posted by Alex Crawford
Also a photo of the level cossing keepers house and garden. The hut and greenhouse are Kestrel items. The aviary was scratch built the same way as you would make one in real life. Build the framework (.5mm x .5mm plastic strip) first then add each plank (1mm x .5mm) one at a time. Again I don't know how to replicate wire mesh in this scale, that's why there are no birds in the aviary at the moment, they all flew the coop.  |
Can't think of any way to replicate the very fine mesh used in aviarys either other than possibly very thin perspex lightly etched in a crisscross pattern using extremely fine grade wet/dry paper.