The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.

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Osgood

Osgood

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Sacred blue - look what’s just turned up on the 1/43 Mid Suffolk :)

A quick search for Hachette Berliet Locotracteur should net you one around £23, looks like it would motorise reasonably easily. Good drive chain detail underneath that if you don’t need to see it going round will do just fine.

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Osgood said:
Sacred blue - look what’s just turned up on the 1/43 Mid Suffolk :)

A quick search for Hachette Berliet Locotracteur should net you one around £23, looks like it would motorise reasonably easily. Good drive chain detail underneath that if you don’t need to see it going round will do just fine.

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Ahem.......cough.........£20.18 with voucher.......cough......
 
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John Bruce

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Forgive me for I too have ordered a Berliet Locotracteur just in case I can do something useful with it, I was going to build a similar sort of home-brewed Jobby based on one from The Wissington Railway but this might make a suitable alternative :).
We shall see.
 
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John Bruce said:
Forgive me for I too have ordered a Berliet Locotracteur just in case I can do something useful with it, I was going to build a similar sort of home-brewed Jobby based on one from The Wissington Railway but this might make a suitable alternative :).
We shall see.
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Hi John,

You are indeed forgiven. I have no idea what I'll do with mine but it was a case of "ooh...Nice...shiny....."

Rob
 
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Morning all,

Prep continues, readying Ewe for the next couple of weeks outings.

I've spent the weekend tinkering with something I said I wouldn't tinker with......the backscene. I've long been and continue to be an advocate of a simple plain backscene. However, as an experiment, I've tinkered. Ewe's backscene had acquired a few marks, so I decided that the simple solution was to paint it.

A suitable colour was identified ( snow flurries from B&Q as it happens ) and a tester pot sourced. Rollered on, it looked okay, but then the tinkering gene kicked in, and I thought about adding some clouds using a rattle can matt white..........yep.....I did....and I did.

Honestly, I'm not entirely satisfied, but with the clock ticking, they will have to do , and I can revisit at a later date.

Here are a couple images.........judge for yourselves as best you can.

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Rob
 
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MarkR said:
Very, very good! Far better than I could ever do! Well done!
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Captain Kernow said:
The results are so good, matey, that that's a bit like saying you're not satisfied with the real sky!!

Really, they look just like real clouds!
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Thanks both. Very kind.

There are however, a few rough bits that I need to attend to and one area in particular that needs amending due to 'over tweaking' after I took those photos yesterday.
I broke my own rule. "If it looks right, it probably is. So leave it until you've looked at it in the morning"......etc, etc.

But it is encouraging.

Rob
 
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