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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #30 on: July 24, 2025, 07:00:26 PM »
Brilliant idea to produce the camels in this manner. The airfryer? Really?

I guess it must have raised and eyebrow with the wife...

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #31 on: July 24, 2025, 08:21:50 PM »
Some very creative work going on here and nice to see plenty of old fashioned modelling skills as well
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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #32 on: July 24, 2025, 10:37:14 PM »
Great work Alan. I wondered what air fryers were for, now I know! ;D

There will be a few Arab Rebels on foot in the diorama, I don't want to have them there without giving an incling of how they got there or the impression that they happened to have just come out of a nearby pub.
This brought Ali-Baba's Camel by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band to mind. I don't know if you're old enough to remember them......?

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #33 on: July 24, 2025, 11:36:43 PM »
Cheers Paul.

Hello Willem, the wife doesn't know about it, nor about me putting glue, bleach and toilet paper in the liquidiser to make Papier Mache.

Hello Nigel, I do remember the Bonzo Dog Doo Dash Band but I don't know about Ali Baba's Camel song, I will have to Google it. The Monster Mash is what pops into my head when I think of them.

I have put most of the RE.8 together now and need to do a huge amount of cleaning up. The enormous amount of handling I did while rigging it has taken its toll on the paintwork.

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #34 on: July 27, 2025, 05:21:21 AM »
After a mostly productive day I have almost finished the RE.8 and now feel that I have turned a corner in this. The RE.8 has taken the most time on this build, it would have been quicker to have started a new kit from scratch rather than refurbish a badly built one that's about 30 years old. Just a couple of things marred what would have been an excellent day. While building a track marker out of wood my knife holding hand skimmed off the TM and hit the RE.8. the damage was repaired which was mostly dislodged wires but afterwards I noticed the top wing was no longer aligned. It was about 1.5mm out, I may just leave it at that as it is supposed to be a crash landed plane after all though AMS may take over me at some stage and force me to put it in the jig again. When I resumed making the TM I sliced thru my finger so at that point I left everything for the next session. Only things left on the RE.8 are the Lewis gun mount, the prop and the wing tip damage all of which will be put on when it goes on the base. Still a little bit of tidying up but again no point in doing that until it is fixed on the base. The purpose built damage on this crash landed plane that I have finished is the undercarriage and the lower wing root. The undercarriage was supposed to be smashed on one side but while making it I noticed too much of the wing would have ended up busted so I just removed a wheel, this now leaves the wing tip just touching the ground which is perfect. The broken wheel is supposed to have hit the wing root. I have done this by chopping out a section of the wing and putting in plastic card ribs covered in glue soaked cigarette paper. Rigging on the top wing is zinc coated copper wire and between the wings I used monofilament mostly with some wire. The control wires are EZ line so I don't end up incessantly breaking them. The exhaust pipes are carved sprue.

Thanks for looking in, Alan.

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #35 on: July 28, 2025, 07:36:26 PM »
I like  your approach to the intentional damage Alan, it looks good. As for the unintentional damage, that's a hazard of the hobby....!

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2025, 01:21:09 AM »
Nigel, now all of the unintentional damage is fixed including the missing alignment of the wing. I stuck it in a jig last night, luckily I took it out the jig before mucking about with it and miraculously the wings stayed aligned.

I made a track marker because I wanted to show the plane's journey into the bank, plus I think it would have left some marks on the ground anyway. There are three points of contact on the ground (excluding the wing tip hitting it). The track marks from a biplane would be very different to those of a three wheeler like a Morgan because the tail skid would work it's way outside of the wheel tracks on a turn (and it would do a turn if it lost a wheel). I cannot have two goes at this, from experience when you mess around with painted insulation foam any marks you put in it for the first time remain there forever. If you go over the same thing twice the skin that has been created on the foam by painting it can break off in chunks. Hence I made this highly sophisticated aperatus, as you can see every expense has been spared in its making. It did it's job, if it didn't I would probably have to make another diorama base.

Thanks for looking in, Alan.

Edit: Ironically only half the track marks of the tail skid can be seen on the photo but I promise you they are there.
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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #37 on: July 30, 2025, 11:41:51 PM »
All the he bits are on the RE.8 now including the broken propeller from my spares box and a scarf ring made from copper wire. It is now fixed to it's base where I hope it will stay. I just need to add the figures now.

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #38 on: July 31, 2025, 02:40:58 AM »
Wow, that's a lot of work to make some tyre marks! Very effective though. The RE8 looks great, very nice work on that.

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #39 on: August 04, 2025, 11:45:33 PM »
Cheers Nigel.

Hopefully this is the last update because the last actual thing I need to build is a mounted machine gun. The Strelets figures came with a machine gun on a tripod but I think this is some sort of generic gun rather than a Vickers or Spandau. I looks most like a German MG 08 so I  tried to make it resemble that. A sight was added using copper wire and again copper was used for the tripod and rear handles. I took a disc of paper from an office hole puncher, painted it black and put it on the rear leg as a seat. 2 copper rings were added to the jacket around the barrel at each end and painted in-between (Google image shows some of these covered with linen or canvas). I ignored the water cooler because one of the rebels appears to be carrying something that looks like one so I put him next to the gun. The amo box is made from folded paper and painted. I initially started making an amo belt by cutting loads of really short bits of copper wire and gluing them on a painted strip of masking tape but this got so tedious I took a short cut and using a semi blunt scalpel I put loads of marks in it. I then put a wash of gunmetal over it and voil? it's good enough for me to resemble a 1/72 amo belt.

All the figures are in place now, I hoped to finish it today but putting on reigns for the camels just took most of the morning and I quite frankly need a break from it even though I am only halfway through that. There is a lot of repair work and cleaning up to do too. Dust and bits seem to love it and dried paint now brittle pops off the soft plastic figures every time I move one. Fingers crossed next weekend I will be there.

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #40 on: August 05, 2025, 12:43:53 PM »
Love how the damaged wings turned out !


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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #41 on: August 05, 2025, 06:06:57 PM »
Nearly there...... The ammo belts look fine, your approach worked well for 1/72.

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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #42 on: August 11, 2025, 01:51:06 AM »
Cheers Nigel and Alexis.
Despite there being another rebel currently held hostage by the carpet monster I am wrapping this up. Below are bench pictures, I took it out in the garden so I could get good natural shadows for the completed model section but I am unable to post them. I am using the image hosting site, clicking on the picture icon, putting the URL link in-between the two (IMG) things like I have done in the past and nothing happens. Bizarrely the photo compressor app I use compresses half the images upside down. I have spent ages going through image sites and ended up getting the same result, what's more is I have tried rotating the images before and after compressing them. If I do it before they still end up upside down and if I do it after it ramps up the KB's and I can't post it. When I calm down after being properly wound up I will try again to post URL images on the completed model section.
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Re: Shelf Queen 2025 Group Build - Camel Ambulance 1/72
« Reply #43 on: August 11, 2025, 01:51:59 AM »
P.S.
See if you can see where the RE.8's broken off wheel and propeller blades are.

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