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Albatros diorama in 1/16th scale.

I was going to say that the frame on the yellow one didn't quite match the lines on the picture.

The picture appears to have a tubular or channel frame which is straight tube or channel and then had the suspension afixed to the bottom of the straight frame.

The yellow frame has too much curve to it in with my eye.

Still a great job and I'm envious as hell over your talent.
 
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CAM Pics in photobucket.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> <hr style="color: rgb(133, 130, 101); background-color: rgb(133, 130, 101);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> <!-- google_ad_section_start -->For those who may be interested I have opened a new album in my photobucket called CAM, for pictures that I took at the Canada Aviation Museum prior to their latest rearrangement of the displays last summer.
 
I took some styrene sheet and fitted some end plates to the tank.The pill bottle was sanded down and burnt umber gesso applied .The visible line around one end will be covered with a strap.The tires were worn down with a belt sander and just now need to be weathered sometime in the future.
This could be a horse drawn wagon by adding seats over the front wheels but I think that I will leave it as a trailer-type wagon as shown in the pics.
Does anyone know what that is at the front of the tank that looks like a bunch of wheel cranks welded together?
I added the straps,filler neck,drain pipe and water drain spigot under the tank.
 
That fuel wagon looks a lot like the one at the USAF museum in Dayton. While they, the objects in front of the tank, look like a bunch of welded tire irons, they also look like a light weight version of the wheel chocks that I've seen used with Harvard aircraft at BCATP airfields. Since the wagon was probably used at grass fields, these would make more sense than wood blocks.
 
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Fuel ,water or oil ?<!-- google_ad_section_end --> <hr style="color: rgb(133, 130, 101); background-color: rgb(133, 130, 101);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> <!-- google_ad_section_start -->Until I can find more research material on this as a fuel wagon,I think that I shall just call it a tanker wagon of some sort ,as it could have been used also for oil ,water or other liquid.
The problem I have with it as a fuel wagon is that I don't know how or where a pump and hose would be connected.If used for water gravity feed would be enough provided by the tap at the rear of the tank but if used for fuel a hand operated wobble pump of some kind would have to be installed but where?Then there is the hose to consider, where and how would it be properly stowed?
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This same wagon could be built in any scale,horse drawn or whatever.Just find a nice set of wheels,chassis and springs and use your imagination from there.A lot of this ground equipment was actually built this way.A car maker would supply the chassis or a beefed up version thereof, and the rest would be constructed as need be.Even on military fields I have seen a wide variety of stuff that was adapted for "in the field" use.For a semi-scratchbuilder like me that suits me just fine and is one of the big reasons that I do WW1 dioramas, as it gives me lots of room for artistic license.
 
Every once in a while, I get the urge to start model building again, but when that strikes, I just come to this thread, and it cures me of that desire.
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Great work!

Brian
 
AckAck said:
Every once in a while, I get the urge to start model building again, but when that strikes, I just come to this thread, and it cures me of that desire.
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Great work!

Brian
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Hi Brian! I hope that you are only kidding as I would like my dioramas to have the opposite effect.It is all a learning curve.Please start again!Cheers.John.:ernae:
 
JohnReid said:
Hi Brian! I hope that you are only kidding as I would like my dioramas to have the opposite effect.It is all a learning curve.Please start again!Cheers.John.:ernae:
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It has the opposite effect with me.

I used to be a pretty fair sprue strecher but scratch building... I have neither the time nor skill for it so I am living vicariously through you.

Thanks! :ernae:
 
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Another wheelbarrow.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> <hr style="color: rgb(133, 130, 101); background-color: rgb(133, 130, 101);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> <!-- google_ad_section_start -->I would like to build another wheelbarrow that I will casually prop up against one of the hangars doors ,holding it in the open position.The first one shown here is in the Jenny diorama.
This is a nice little project for those not used to working with wood and would be a nice warm up piece if you would like to do something more complicated like the tanker.
All you require is a few lengths of basswood obtainable from any hobby store especially those that carry RR stuff and a few coffee stir sticks.Most modelers would probably have an old wheel or two laying around from some past project or you could simply use a round piece of wood cut from a dowel.A piece or rod or tube for the axle and that it about it.
As far as tools are concerned I use a Xacto knife with a #18 blade and a small hobby saw and miter for most of my work.Although I do have power saws etc..I find that none are really necessary for this type of model work.(I also have a fancy airbrush that I hardly ever use)My advice to beginners would be to learn to do all this by hand and then if you want to you can buy the fancy stuff later.For sanding just take some various size sticks and dowels and glue some cloth backed, belt sander type sandpaper to them.Buy several grits mostly the finer stuff.
The wood sizes required will depend upon the scale you are building in.In this case you could measure your own wheelbarrow and reduce it to the scale you require.Have someone hold the wheelbarrow and take a pic or use
a scale figure as a guide.Anyway wheelbarrows come in lots of sizes so no need to be too accurate here.Where you have to be careful is with the grip on the handle,don't make it too big.I have sets of scale hands for this.
Water based flat acrylics are recommended for painting and caulk pastels for shading.That is about it.
 
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