Uutisvirta

Alex K
Oh my... Here he goes again! 🙂 👍

Daniel Klink
I, I follow.. i follow you, scratched things gorby...👍

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
I feel an itch for this scratch... Following!

gorby
Glad to have you all along for the ride (not that I'm convinced that this thing would ever have been able to move an inch). 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Another one, yay! 👍 Welcome to 72!😉

Spanjaard
insane... i would not miss it for the world. scratchbuild to its finest again 🙂

David Taylor
O)h Gawd here we go.

gorby
No pressure then (gulp). 😳
Climb aboard – there's plenty of room inside. 🙂

gorby
The Roller Beast rides again! The next update is available here:
brexitmodeller.com/f..nt&comment=68500

And I'm starting to get the hang of the 'short post' concept.

Alec K
Short posts!?! BORING! I am in, of course 👍

gorby
😄 😄 😄

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
The result of the rollers is really quite nice. Kudos!

gorby
Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂 👍

wilky
Another big oddity

Dave Flitton
Awesome! Another Gorby scratches his What's It

gorby
Thanks for tagging along matiepoos. 👍

Roll up roll up, get your two free posts for the price of one!
I may have failed to understand the economics of why two free items are better than one free item twice. Don't ask such awkward questions!

brexitmodeller.com/f..nt&comment=69094

brexitmodeller.com/f..nt&comment=69631

Alec K
This thing is, well... crazy. Great progress Gorb 👍

gorby
Thanks Alec. 👍
It is slightly reassuring that even I know it's crazy.😉

bughunter
What a crazy tank! This was only existing on paper as drawings I guess? Your scratch work is the opposite 👍

gorby
Yes frank, this thing only existed as a very poorly thought out patent. I've been looking through Google patents and it's amazing how many other misguided monstrosities are buried in there.

bughunter
Oh yes, Google patents is cool! Find also interesting things about our beloved WWI biplanes 👍

gorby
Yet another double trouble update for anyone with the stamina to last the course. Don't worry, not long to go now (just DON'T ask about the dio unless you want to see a grown man cry).

brexitmodeller.com/f..nt&comment=71652

brexitmodeller.com/f..nt&comment=73190

Brandon H
What in tarnation?!
Very cool build

gorby
Thanks Brandon - glad to have you following. 🙂

Rui S
I was following, now I'm in for this crazy patent. Great scracth as always 👍

gorby
Thanks very much Rui mate. 👍
I just wish I could paint and weather as well as you can - that's usually when it goes down-hill for me.😉

Pierre Pierre
that looks very impressive, can you make some size comparison picture of your model ?

gorby
Thanks Pierre.
Good point. I'll sort that for the next update. 👍

Daniel Klink
Why do i think of those guys while watching your progress👍
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Rui S
Thank you too for that, Gorbygould. Very pleasant to read, but I think your work don't have down-hills, even in painting or weathering.

gorby
Daniel: 😄 😄 😄 What a fabulous contraption - I'm half tempted to build it.

You're too kind Rui, but I know that I'm not good at painting because I don't enjoy it, so I usually rush it to get it over with. I just enjoy putting the bits together – perhaps I'm channelling my inner toddler with the Lego I used to love playing with.😉

David Taylor
Im the same Gorby,prefer the modelling aspect rather than the painting.

Rui S
Well, i've to say that I also, prefer the construction part, even if it's a dio, but without paint it dosen't work. I even avoid painting subassemblies 🤔 but because I like dios, I've to handle figure painting. They are too difficult and take a lot of time, AHRRR 🙁

gorby
Tell me about it – I've just painted 51 1/72 figures for the dio for this monstrosity, although admittedly I stop short of following your lead and didn't paint their nails.😉

Rui S
Did you notice that? 😄
51? Where are you going to locate all that troop?

gorby
Yes I did notice that - you must be bloody mad. 😄
At the moment I have no idea if all 51 are going to fit on the dio - perhaps I need some sort of plan? 😄

gorby
ALL DONE!!!!!
Erm… well, sort of:

brexitmodeller.com/f..nt&comment=74484

gorby
😄 😄 😄

bughunter
What a chunk! I don't want to stand in front of it when it rolls towards me! 😮
With paint it looks scary real 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Bloody ridiculous indeed 👍 Lovely scratchbuilding, I admire it 👍

gorby
Thanks mates. I've still the dio to do - currently about two thirds done. At the moment I'm making hundreds of tiny sandbags - remind me, this is supposed to be fun isn't it?😉

Michael Valentan
And again a real cool project...just getting in now, but what i see is fantastic...i really love your Scratchwork! Which Side is front?? The big roller i think, that would mean the cannons look backwards...absolute crazy!

Hope you build all the other crazy vehicles shown on that site you posted earlier...

Spanjaard
amazing job!! i wonder what will be your next crazy idea... and i will certainly not miss it 🙂

gorby
Thanks very much mates. You will be seeing this monstrosity again when the diorama is complete. 👍
I'm sorry to disappoint you – my next project is to reduce my ludicrously excessive stash of ELEVEN kits! What on earth possessed me to buy so many?😉
Scratching the ridiculously is very addictive, so I'm sure I won't be able to stay away for long.

Michael: Yes the giant roller is at the front. It does take some brain readjustment to understand why ALL the main guns are pointing towards their own troops. What was Jehlik thinking! 😄

Alex Rodionov
Wow. It's fantastic. Nice weathering.

Torsten
Absolutely😎, awesome build

Michael Valentan
Only 11 kits in stock?? Oh my god, that explains why you do that much scratching...i have 10 times of you in stock and always find something to build...from scratch...and every time i made a scratchmodel it comes out as a plastic-kit from a large manufacturer in the next year...last thing to build was a "Boarhound"...should be on display in Vienna in last June (GO Modelling)....will sadly never happen again due to Corona and austrian officials....

And i still wonder if the tank of jehlik was for America in the first line or for export to some "not so heroic" country...to shoot at fleeing soldiers was very popular in former times...

Daniel Klink
Whoaa!!! Very cool and with paint and weathering absolutely stunning !!!

Alec K
Really looking great Gorb. Very addicting indeed, for all of us hooked on your journeys. Looking forward to the dio 👍

Daniel Klink
That would be an absolute unique and spectacular Robo Vac

gorby
😄 😄 😄 – Oh yeh! Robo vac with attitude. 😄

Thanks very much matiepoos I'm pleased it meets with your approval. Not sure about the weathering myself, I sort of closed my eyes and threw mud at it.

Yes 11 kits Michael – but they seem to be 11 eternal kits. It seems that even if I build a kit, I count the stash afterwards and it's STILL 11 bloody kits – how does that happen? I even took one shoe and sock off last time I counted them.😉

Annnyyyway – more bloody sandbags to make. 🙁

Rui S
Very Nice paintjob.👍 Looking forward to see this Monster in a dio😎

gorby
Thanks very much matie. 🙂 👍

gorby
Good grief, won't I ever go away?*
It's Roller-Beast dio time:

brexitmodeller.com/f..-again-its-dio-time/

(* Probably not. You could try ignoring me, although I'm likely to be like an annoying puppy, constantly yapping, yap yap yap until you look. I'll probably just pee on your leg for ignoring me in the first place).

Rui S
Hahaha ok. I do not ignore you, and surely don't mind look at your work 👍. Don't quite understand, why you didn't paint their nails, hehehe.😄 Looking forward to see the dio here😎

gorby
Of course I painted the fingernails Rui, you're just not looking closely enough.😉
I stopped short of painting the whites of their eyes because people start shooting when they see the whites of their eyes and that seems downright antisocial to me.

gorby
The end is nigh!!! The final diorama update!
(There's a few more updates as well, so you might need to get yourself a drink and a couple of tranquillisers and settle in for the evening).

brexitmodeller.com/f..mments#comment-75938

Rui S
What a great work. The dio also turn out Great. Impressive work on this small scale. Very well done Mate 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, pic #23 looks like a real thing, oh wait..😉 👍
Nice wire, how did you get it? OK, found the instructions in the provided forum topic, cool idea 👍

Brandon H
Awesome dio!

jhull123
Another gift! Unstoppable!!

gorby
Thanks very much mates. 🙂
I'll try and get the final photos sorted out in the next week or so. 👍

Spanjaard
impressive!!!

Alec K
Man, that dio will give that monstrosity an undeserved air of legitimacy....😄 😄 😄

gorby
Thanks Spanjaard & Alec.
😄 😄 😄
It's almost as if you think Jehlik wasn't a genius! 😮
(exit stage left, shaking head with dismay, sobbing gently.) 😭

Torsten
Awesome😎

Lochsa River
Outrageous...

gorby
Thanks mates. 🙂

Michael Valentan
That´s a hell of a road roller...it even makes it´s own road...really imperssive, great dio!

gorby
😄 😄
Thanks Michael. 👍

Simon Nagorsnik
thats a crazy project 😃- fantstic idea- like it!

gorby
Thanks very much Simon. 🙂
You've probably realised that I like weird stuff. 😄

Mark
Wow!

Guy Rump
Outrageously brilliant! 👍

Simon Nagorsnik
@gorby: it´s always a good thing to create models/ topics away from the mainstream, i just have to finish some of my old projects, then I will certainly do something similar! 😁
#watching for input 😉

Robin (WhiteGlint)
This is just crazy and cool! 👍

gorby
Thanks everyone for your comments. 🙂
Simon: I would certainly recommend it, I very much enjoyed this project.

Behemonth Magnus
simply....stunning!!

gorby
Thank you very much. 🙂

Michael Kohl
Oh boy! I thought you just took a lint roller and painted it green, but you were really serious about that one. Still haven't made up my mind what's more incredible: the build or the story you fabricated. Be it as it may, I enjoyed both a lot.

gorby
Thanks Michael.
I still can't believe that I spend so much time and effort building something so utterly silly. It's like I've got nothing better to do with my time......oh, apparently I haven't. 😄

Neuling
Looks like my robot vacuum cleaner .......... 🙂

Alexander Grivonev
Hats off to the dedication, most impressive scratch building, simply stellar work! 👍👍

gorby
Perhaps Jehlik had a vision of the future and rather than invent the robotic vacuum he got the scale a bit wrong. 😉
Thanks very much for the comments mates. 👍

Neuling
👍

Pietro De Angelis
Impressive!

Guy Rump
Very nice! 👍

Andy WW1
That's ridiculous! I love it 😄

gorby
Thank you to everyone who has left a nice comment and everyone who has clicked 'like'.
As you're probably bored with seeing this go to the top of the feed, if anyone comments from now on I'll thank you now. 👍

Rui S
Hi Gorby,
It never bothers me to see Great Different Interesting works, that for sure also deserve to be shown and seen by the most recent mates.
One thing his not responding to the new likes, another it's not responding to the deserved Recognition comments. Just my two cent 🤔

Doubtingmango
That is awe inspiring on so many levels

Mick Burdett
A maze ing !!

Finn
Cool!

gorby
Thanks very much for your comments. 🙂

CaptGPF
One question - where's the blood spattering on the roller? 😱. J/K - I love it!

gorby
😄 😄 😄
There isn't any blood because I suspect they'd be able crawl away faster than it would be able to move. 😉

CaptGPF
ROFL!

Andy Dallibar
I feel guilty not putting a like on all your items....take it as a given.

Aleš Štika
Great work!

Dave Flitton
Awesome presentation, loved the description for each picture.

Juergen Klinglhuber
I have to concor to Ales statement - realy GREAT work.

Neuling
Sehr schöne Bilder. The black and white look gives a nostalgic touch.

Alec K
Great pictures and narrative 👍

JD
That looks amazing, no excuse needed to post your work sir...

Łukasz Gliński
Reading it in the evening is a pure pleasure

Spanjaard
looks really good. would love to have a closer look at the 262 and the stuka 🙂

gorby
Thanks for all the nice comments mates. 🙂
I'm not worthy (plainly a load of tosh, but I need to keep up the pretence of looking humble). 😄
Spanjaard: The Stuka is in my Albums and the 262 is too shy to show it's face in public, so I'm afraid I can't show any more photos of it. 😉

Spanjaard
yes, i have seen again the album of the stuka, very nice indeed. i will have a look at gain, when i do mine one day

CaptGPF
Thank you for posting these lovely Dio shots! I loved the compositions and the narratives!

gorby
Thanks Capt. I enjoyed having a play around with it (it certainly beats working for a living. 🙂 )

JW
The photo captions are classic. Thanks for sharing.

gorby
Thanks very much JW. 🙂

Andy Dallibar
Great stuff, looks splendid in B/W.

gorby
Amazing painting!

Mark Broughton
Cheers Gorby.

Curatorm
Well done! The finish is quite unique.

Djordje Nikolic
That is why I did it, always trying to do something different. Thank you

gorby
Lovely work!
Good grief, model 19! I've on my fourth one so far. 😄

Djordje Nikolic
Thanks Gorby! Well we need to have a serious conversation about your output! 🙂 What helps me is having regular video build sessions over Facebook messanger with about 6 or so model buddies, it forms a cadence and then you are used to doing it a set number of hours per week.

Ben M
Looks really good and an interesting subject!

Robert Podkoński
Great work!

Djordje Nikolic
Thank you Ben and Robert! Yes, indeed interesting subject. I saw the fuselage at NASM about 6 or 7 years ago, I hope they restore it.

Łukasz Gliński
True eyecatcher 👍

Nagy-Meszler Csaba
The cockpit is very puritanical, but unfortunately there is not enough documentation on it. The fit of the parts is very poor and needs a lot of filling and sanding.

komoras
My biggest issue was fitting the seat and the mid portion of the wheel bay, had to add 1 mm plastic card on both sides. Looking forward seeing it done! 👍

Nicolas
Following.

Nagy-Meszler Csaba
komoras, I encountered the same problem: the landing gear bay cannot be fitted where it is intended. I used a milling head to remove enough of it to fit.

gorby
Interesting aircraft, interesting build.
Incidentally, I would suggest 'Spartan' as a better way to describe the cockpit rather than 'puritanical'. 👍

Spanjaard
beautiful

Andy Dallibar
Thanks Spanjaard, coming from you that is high praise.

gorby
Excellent result! The weathering is great.

Steven Van Dyck
The project starts with a horror movie where one figure was shot in the back and had to receive a graft. Part of a Trumpeter deformity was transplanted and now he is recovering from his ordeal. The surgeon had to slash the inside with a bayonet and use a syringe full of acid to be able to beat the torso in a comfortable shape.

Steven Van Dyck
The RSO engine appears to be very fiddly, I can't seem to get it lined out straight in the frame. Today I was able to attach the tracklink supports and cut the wood for the dio base.

Rui S
Interesting 👍

Sy Bar
🍿👀 I've pulled up my seat

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks for the attention. I ordered a metal barrel, but too late I noticed it's 1/72. I immediately sent a mail to the store to switch this to 1/35, they still got a middle type. But I think the order was already dispatched.

Steven Van Dyck
The interior of the cabin is upgraded with some Eduard PE and the cabin doors are also improved. This DML kit has the correct seats on the new sprue H, in stead of the M113 seats with the older Dragon RSO kits. The engine will be clearly visible. The Friulmodel tracklinks are drilled through to fit the track pins. The set also contains beautiful sprockets and idlers and even the axles to connect these to the undercarriage.

Steven Van Dyck
My typical approach to Friulmodel track assembly, with a calibrated cutting device able to cut multiple threads at once. In comparison with the Dragon tracklinks these are hollowed out deeper and have a product code inscription. The downside to the easy cutting pins is that they all need a white metal plug on the bore hole.

Ben M
👀

gorby
Wow, another project! I'll join the audience. 🙂

DerMattes
The Vigilante is rarely seen here, really like your build! 👍

John Kauck
Thanks If you notice I did 2 of them, both of those in the b&w ref photo. I bought 2 from eBay intent to get one good model out of it, but both came complete, so I built those 2 since they are the same squadron but have different paint schemes. Thanks again.

Łukasz Gliński
Good to see a neatly build Vigilante 👍
Have you rescribed it?

Mark Sherwood
Liking the cockpit Vincent, great detail and finish.

Vincent
Thanks mark! The details in this kit are indeed great.

gorby
The cockpit looks amazing!