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Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 17th, 2017, 4:52 pm
by splash
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 17th, 2017, 5:25 pm
by ShaunW
I agree, Alan, this CDL turret conversion has great potential for a scratch build project and in fact would probably be a good basis for a first attempt at such. Yours is looking very promising
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 17th, 2017, 10:09 pm
by chrism
Hey.... this is the sort of small seed from which some enterprising souls end-up with a startup home business
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 17th, 2017, 11:35 pm
by splash
chrism wrote:Hey.... this is the sort of small seed from which some enterprising souls end-up with a startup home business
Dam you have just planted a seed in my tiny brain, anyone for a CDL conversion kit?
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 17th, 2017, 11:43 pm
by Dazzled
That looks great Alan
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 17th, 2017, 11:57 pm
by gnomemeansgnome
Great work so far, Alan. Nice! Odd looking thing, though.
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 18th, 2017, 11:30 am
by JamesPerrin
Interesting mini-project and great excuse to try new techniques and tools
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 18th, 2017, 2:44 pm
by Stuart
Great work thus far Alan - looking forward to seeing where this is going.
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 1:33 pm
by splash
It’s surprising what a difference just adding small detail does.
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 3:15 pm
by The Great Auk
You've got that right, Splash and those details look like they'll be quite an enhancement!
Weathered to match the other hatches and ports they'll take this build up past "11"!
The Great Auk
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 4:01 pm
by iggie
Great work Alan; a very smart bit of scratch building
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 4:18 pm
by PTB11
Excellent scratchbuilding skills, Splash.
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 4:51 pm
by splash
I’m pleased with how this is turning out.
I have removed the round hatches and replaced them with square plastic card and made the drivers periscopes slightly taller as the Airfix originals are a bit small.
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 5:11 pm
by 59North
That looks a very fine 'scratch' job, Splash. Well done!
I've always thought the Churchill looked prehistorically out of place for the period it was used, compared to its foe. I've also thought, that you as a modeller, are attracted to the more unusual subjects. This certainly makes your posts a favoured 'look-into'.
Again, a well done effort.
Re: Splash's workbench
Posted: December 23rd, 2017, 5:15 pm
by ShaunW
That is looking the business, Alan and I really like what you've achieved here. At this rate you will end up with a great model of a Churchill variant that I don't think is commercially available (cue someone proving me wrong
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