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farmroad38 · Posted: Sun 31 May 2009 20:56 pm Post subject:

Who is this farmhouse bloke? Am I being renamed by popular vote?

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Richard M · Posted: Sun 31 May 2009 20:59 pm Post subject:

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farmroad38 · Posted: Sun 31 May 2009 21:05 pm Post subject:

Anyway, here are the current kits that the artist formerly known as farmroad38 is considering building for Telford 09.

1/144 F20 Tigershark - on the grounds that it's unusual, was released in the 90s, and we're going to have trouble scraping together many kits for that decade.

Star Wars AT-AT - bought this at Hendon today. Thought it would look pretty cool in a little diorama.
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Richard M · Posted: Sun 31 May 2009 21:15 pm Post subject:

Love to see the AT-AT, how big is the actual kit?
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farmroad38 · Posted: Sun 31 May 2009 21:22 pm Post subject:

According to the box, 200mm tall. Legs are about 120mm long, body about 150mm long.

Should look pretty good when it's built up - comes with little snowspeeders and laser-cannon towers, hence the idea of doing a dio.

The history reckons it's 1/75th scale, but based on the size of the speeders, I would seriously doubt that - probably nearer something like 1/100-1/144 maybe?

My brother and I had a number of the Airfix (or MPC) Star Wars kits, but not this one. Really looking forward to making it.

Edit: Doing a little research on the AT-AT, various geeky sites (pot-kettle-black) list it as either 15 or 22.5 metres high. Taking the smaller size would make it 1/75, whilst the larger would give 1/112.5 - I'd go for the latter.
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farmroad38 · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009 14:01 pm Post subject:

Furtling around in my stash, I realised I'd got this:

1/32 M3 Grant Tank.

Should I give that a bash too?
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farmroad38 · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009 19:48 pm Post subject:

Started on the AT-AT tonight.

Box top.

Few of the sprues, showing the snow speeders, body parts and legs.

And after half an hour of gluing, starting to take shape!

First impressions are: Wow! This is big! I'd say the dimensions on the box are a bit of an underestimate. Fit is okay, but some of the sections which are in two parts don't match up that well. Going to need to whip out the needle files to tidy it up. Should be very impressive when it's finished though.
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feanor · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009 20:34 pm Post subject:

Ayup Adrian...

Looking Good.

Now i don't have to build mine... LOL.

The Sprue gates look hefty on those speeders though... did they take careful snipping off or not ?
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farmroad38 · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009 20:40 pm Post subject:

The speeders are quite nicely moulded, although the two halves don't actually fit together that well. Sprues are relatively chunky on all the parts, so do need careful cutting.
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Owen · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009 21:07 pm Post subject:

Looking pretty neat

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farmroad38 · Posted: Fri 06 Nov 2009 09:19 am Post subject:

Oh dear, not many updates in here are there?

However, I can report that I have been working on these this week, and both the F20 and AT-AT will be coming with me to Telford! Both still need a little final furtling, but I can do that when I'm there

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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Fri 06 Nov 2009 16:29 pm Post subject:

Wish I'd seen this thread sooner.....I have some great reference materiel for that Airfix 1/32 Grant that you have stashed.

It's a wonderful kit and uniquely Airfix, so it should be an option for a future display.....I'm a bit jealous TBH!

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