TeeELLs kitchen crafting kit creations

[59North]

Nice chopper. Us kids can never have enough tools n toy's.

[TeeELL]

Indeed, 59 North, looking forward to playing with my chopper in the New Year.

[celt]

[iggie]

It's not everyone who gets a new chopper for Christmas

[TeeELL]

Nadolig Llawen Celt and blewthin neweth ah ( bit rusty on spelling, my son will be most unimpressed).

[celt]

Nadolig Llawen Celt and blewthin neweth ah ( bit rusty on spelling, my son will be most unimpressed).

Da iwan(very good),TeeELL and a merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and all your family.

[TeeELL]

There was some interesting Airfix models available in my local TK Maxx this morning. Nothing of interest to me unfortunately: Rommels Half track, some Gulf War vehicles, RAF Ground crew and 'B Type' bus.

[TeeELL]

It feels a little bit like cheating but, as soon as the Scammell is completed, I will be doing a demo build on the Airfix 1916/1917 Great War tank showing the corrections necessary to make it right, certainly as a Mk1 but also as a MkII. The demo is on another, closely allied, forum but I will post some of the main parts of the conversion here - afterall it is still my kitchen crafting!

[celt]

Look forward to it.

[ShaunW]

Happy New Year Tony. I will follow your Mark I/II build with interest. Is my recollection correct in that Airfix based their kit on a museum piece that was itself an amalgam of parts from different vehicles? I know the kit has well documented faults in so far as its accuracy is concerned but I can't remember exactly what those faults are now.

[TeeELL]

Shaun,
Without searching my references (which I cannot as I am not at home until tomorrow) the tale of the Airfix Great War tank goes something like this:

When Airfix decided to craft the Mk1, the reference was available at Bovington - trouble was that, at the time, Bovington did not have a true Mk1 but had cobbled together a MkII Supply tank with the steering tail and mechanism of a Mk1.

Whilst that can, perhaps, be forgiven, I am at a loss as to why the 'tiller wheels steering' is so wrong!

Going through the various options available to the modeller will be part of the build.

What is now so incredibly difficult is that the Bovington Mk1 is now part of a diorama, making photography a challenge and measurment impossible (at least on a casual basis). The replica 'grenade canopy' is a travesty - the real deal could support crew members fitting the tarpaulin.

[ShaunW]

Interesting stuff Tony and I look forward to seeing your build as it is worth knowing how to put this classic kit right.

[TeeELL]

Shaun (and anyone else who is interested), the build will also include how to create a 'combat' MkII (Male and Female) and a Supply MkII. Whilst it is also, just about, possible to craft a MkIII Male (the female had machine gun sponsons that were more like those of the MkIV), as these were only ever UK based training tanks I will not go down that road.

[celt]

Interesting stuff Tony and I look forward to seeing your build as it is worth knowing how to put this classic kit right.

Ditto from me too.

[TeeELL]

OK people, here is the rub! I am a in a quandry, do I repeat my build(s) on here or simply paste the thread from the other forum, for you to follow?