Take three tanks, coffee stirrers, twigs, a door, polystyrene and some filler. Gently stir...

[spanner570]

Time for a bit of cold.

Here are the players.
Great value, two in a box, Soviet 1/72 tanks from Pegasus. Excellent fun when one is not bothered about accuracy and isn't concerned in the slightest about this and that being wrong. Each to his or her own though.
What you see is what you get, so any rivet counters please try and ignore any inaccuracies. One's in this lark just for fun. One thanks you...

All brush painted with Vallejo Model Air acrylics.

This one's been very roughly whitewashed.





This one's white paint is wearing off! For a bit of variation, I've added a few scratched items to the tank.






The coffee stirrer bridge. I cut the stirrers down the middle for the planks. All uneven and different widths. I prefer this rather than all the same and uniform. Puts a bit more life into the structure. it's a lot easier to do too. Wobble wobble!


Uncut stirrers for the two long thingies.


Vallejo paints again for the mucking up.





As the actress said to the Bishop "We're off!"

Keep your powder dry boys!

Ron

 

[papa 695]

Nice one Ron, looking forward to seeing what you do with this one. ( or should I say 2 )

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
He's at it again. Cheap kit, household junk, a cunning plan and a bucket full of talent.
Looks good already.
Jim

 

[minitnkr]

These will warm JR's cockles. Looking very used. More pics on buildings please. They look awesome in the teaser peek. PaulE

 

[Deleted member 7181]

Great start, settling in to watch how this goes.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Wheres the rust and water!!??

Only joking mate, looking very good, especially considering the braille scale.

 

[scottie3158]

Ron,
Looking good as always mate.

 

[Steven000]

Very nice Ron

 

[spanner570]

Thanks folks. Nice to have someone along for yet another trip into the unknown......

Specially for PaulE. A few shots of the 1/72 Russian Farm house which I originally made for a diorama a while back on here. It's made from a polystyrene pizza base. Hard to find now, so I use foam board these days. String for the thatch, baking foil for the tin roof, coffee stirrers for the timber work and some thin card to support the thatch. Then I just 'squished' it with my fingers and added some rubble.









Thanks Paul.


A small update.
Polystyrene blocks cut for the river bank and glued to an old cupboard door.

There you go Bob, water added!


Cheers all.
Ron

 

[minitnkr]

Astounding. They look so real. PaulE

 

[SimonT]

Hi Ron - this page opened up on that top picture of your post above and I genuinely thought it was a real life reference shot of dilapidated farm buildings until I looked closer and saw the poster, and then read the text of course

 

[Mr Bowcat]

There you go Bob, water added!
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Cheers all.
Ron

And the rust????

 

[spanner570]

And the rust????

Ah, well see Bob. The water was only added a couple of hours ago and hasn't had time to attack any metalwork......

Thanks too to Simon and Paul for your excellent posts.

Onwards we go into the bleak and forbidding wilderness....

I had intended to wreck the bridge, but in a radical change of course have come up with a 'Spiffing Wheeze'
Here's the bridge fixed and intact. I've used four small wooden dowels for the bridge supports, that's it. I could have added some bracing, but I'm happy keeping the structure nice and simple and somehow stark looking.








Bl***y cold in the garage, so I've scuttled back into my den.

Thanks for looking in.
Ron

 

[Steven000]

Nice progress Ron, looking forward to the next part

 

[spanner570]

Bob and Steven - Thanks for your 'Likes' regarding my bridge. I appreciate your input.

I've added a bit of railing to the bridge and started work on the mud.















Cheers.
Ron

 

[scottie3158]

Ron,
Cracking work as always mate.

 

[Peej]

Don't know how you do it Ron. Such a talent.

 

[colin m]

Well it worked on me. Looking at that water, with the snow, made me feel cold. Or am I to tight to turn the heating up ?

 

[Ian M]

Taking shape quite nicely.

 

[BigGreg]

DAAAAAMMMMMN... that is a very nicely done recipe....