Angst Lesspork

[Hugh Norwood]

Thank you!
:)

[Hugh Norwood]

I have now finished the Landaulet; quite a difficult build, as some of the parts were mis-shapen, but it looks fine from the normal viewing distances.

[Hugh Norwood]

The next vehicle is the horse-drawn omnibus from Langley. Quite a kit - there are over 40 parts..

[Hugh Norwood]

I built the body and roof as two sub-assemblies; the interior has to be painted and glazed followed by the addition of passengers before the roof is attached.

[Hugh Norwood]

The panels were made up using PaintShop Pro and printed onto self-adhesive labels.

There is a problem - the whole thing is fractionally too tall to fit into my standard stock boxes.

[Frank]

That looks really good Hugh.  The adverts etc. really bring it to life.

Frank

[Hugh Norwood]

Well, It's just reminded me I've not posted for at least 120 days! (so what?)

This arrived yesterday:




I found the STL files (don't ask - it's black magic!) and Tom Alexander kindly printed them for me.

[Hugh Norwood]

Great A'Tuin is big:



I shall have to do some research in how to paint it realistically (what am I saying?)  That will now have to wait until after the festivities.
I am really pleased with it!

[Hugh Norwood]

 A little update...

I noticed that the elephants were tuskless.



So I dug out my Fimo (no mean task given my modelling stuff has been put away for the Festive period!) and made a few. I made more than required just in case I broke one - as it is I've lost one somewhere on the carpet...

[Hugh Norwood]

Trimmed to length and fit, I drilled a .5mm hole in the blunt end of each task and .5mm holes in the elephants' cheeks. 0.45mm brass handrail wire keeps everything together...



I have also removed a lot of the "whiskers" - side effect of the printing process and corrected the Circle Sea feature (it wasn't a circle)

[Graeme Dunbar]

Looking good!

Hmm, just pondering. Given the fate of the 5th elephant could there indeed be an Ivory Coast somewhere on Discworld?   ;D

[Jeff Schumaker]

Ah, the Carpet of the Lost Parts. I have one here.

Jeff S.

[paul ludlow]

Carpet of lost parts? I've got tongue in groove wooden flooring & still manage to lose vital small parts that escape from the tweezers!! Many a frustrating period scouring around on all fours following the direction of the ping it made as it bounced away 😫

[Hugh Norwood]

I have been busy fitting out a box with a Frizinghall Models turntable motorising kit to make the Disc revolve on the back of the elephants. Here is a video to show it working....

Now to complete the painting.

And, of course, to tart up the box a bit and possibly add a clear cover...

https://youtu.be/n_zc6Jonf3w

[Jeff Schumaker]

Very nice, Hugh.

Jeff S.