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Just knew you wouldn’t disappoint Fuji !!!! Leonard ? Huh ? No—— not “SPOCK” —- surely ?
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together, you fall flat on your face—— dust yourself off—— start all over again ! That’s life!
When I get bogged down during the construction of a “CONCEPT” —- i usually switch off and do something totally different !
I really made progress with my “REACH FOR THE STARS”, concept——— even got over the ANGLE OF DANGLE before getting well and truly stumped on how the planetary system was going to work, so, since browsing through my brilliant birthday book,TWENTY SILVER GHOST ROLLS ROYCE’S.i wanted to try and make something a bit near the “actual” car.
First thing I did was to make up the wheels——- the real McCoy’s are two rims bolted together —- so I’ve done that.
Ten spokes ( out of solid) on the front, then fourteen on the back. Unfortunately if I do that the back wheels look flimsy and a bit untidy —— plus being a bit beyond my capabilities, so I settled for twelve spokes on the back wheels.
Been a week constructing four wheels and the axles, taking time out from the “reach” project, but I think I’ve come up with an answer to the planet problem ! Did take a week though!
Dont think I posted any piccies of the “reach” project , did I ? Here goes nothing!Attachment 458109Attachment 458110
It was always going to be a tad ambitious—- but , what the hell—- if it doesn’t make it, so what?
You know the old adage—- road to hell is paved with good intentions!
Man oh manno—- remember that damn Bear that I keep on about, :; Somedays you eat bear !!!!! Etc.
Today I had the old Teddy pleading for mercy——- only mercy I showed the bugger was to coat him in Honey before I threw him on the Barbie!
Have you ever had one of those “Stellar” days—- days when everything goes right—— Problems—- What problems—— a kinda “Midas Touch” day.
Today’s been one of those——- problems had been mounting up for a while——- I kept switching concepts because I was stumbling and quite frankly come to an “IMPASSE” —— took the bull by the horns and nailed the problem—— then did number two——- number three—— then four.
Come lunchtime—- I didn’t have a single problem—- that’s why I had BEAR for lunch !
Trying to find miniature hunting rifles (3/4” long) for the back of the maharajahs Silver Ghost that was lost long ago. Apparently, the rack could carry up to ten guns. If any of you old farts out there know of any that don’t cost a kings ransom, give me a bell.
Seeing as how there are no known copies of the PEARL OF THE EAST roller—— thought I might just fill the gap——- sometime in the future of course!!!!
Jackie, if search “miniature rifles” into E-B there is all sorts of tiepin sizes.. might be of interest.
Seen em all Phill —- best ones are in the USA—- made by dolls house ????Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
This is a guy from Cheltenham. Made in pewter let me know if you can’t find them I will send you an E-M ...I’m still too dumb to do pictures on here.��Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
those amazon rifles are 3 1/2'' long. are those too long for your needs jack, or? what length u need exactly?
Three inches is perfect (as the actress said to the archbishop) Fuji——- it’s me that’s the problem here—— I’ve got a million dollar imagination and a two dollar pocket.Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
There were two racks of rifles on the Pearl——- one with four pairs of matched PURDEYS—— I would have to research what make the second rack of weapons were.
Don’t quite know how long this ones going to take. What I do know, it’s the only one in the world—- and it’ll be bloody expensive !
Dolls house shooters are beautifully detailed but by the time I’ve bought a dozen, my cough will be a whole lot worse !
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Steering wheels and road wheels——— innocuous things really—— till you try to fernagle the pernickety little buggers! Five wheels and tyres take over a week to construct—— a solitary steering wheel and appendages about the same.
No matter how hard I try—— theres 5/6 weeks work in every roller!