Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat! (and I agree that Earl Grey is not a tea... once I knew a girl, who drunk Earl Grey with milk... 😛 )

gorby Author
Earl Grey WITH MILK! 😮
I assume that's when you realised she wasn't for you? 😉

bughunter
Yay, gorby has a new project - I'm in! But so much more 👍
And the funny comments below the progress pics, or un-progress in case of moss🙂
gorby, if you lure her outside in the fall, you should be able to see if she is really breathing through her ears.

Robert Podkoński
You've guessed right, Gorby 😄 😄 😄

Alec K
All aboard! Sorry to hear that you are failing to keep Mrs. Gorby happy (why else all this negative talk…). Maybe she needs Earl Grey with milk?!!

Rui S
😄 😄 😄 the show it's on and I'm in for some good laughs too 👍

Mark Sherwood
Earl Grey with milk, bloody heresy. Mind you I prefer Yorkshire Tea so strong it stains me teeth Rosy red. I'm in, another saga of scratch building, sage words (paxo) humorous outpourings and a model/diorama at the end of it. No selfies without warning though. 🤟😅🤘🥸👍

Alex K
Viewer's gallery already crowded but I wouldn't miss this for the world...

John Hughes
{Adjusts uniform tunic} "Tea, Earl Grey, hot". Takes seat.

gorby Author
Wow the auditorium is filling up faster than I envisaged! 😮
Welcome to the show matiepoos and thanks for all your very amusing comments, even at 6 in the morning they gave me a good laugh 🙂 . Mrs Gorby is probably less amused as she doesn't believe in the concept of 6am, let alone laughing at such a time.
I am further into the build than that update would suggest as I started early April, just haven't had the time to write the WIP. Due to the interference of this annoying 'having to pretend to be a responsible adult' business, the build is going even slower than normal. 🙁

Please note: No Earl Grey will be served at this event.

Mark Sherwood
The names Bond, Jame'sch Bond. Tea, hot, sugared and stirred.

Tony May
gorby, you must be a professional comedian - this album had me laughing to tears!

Desert Marlin
Aye... Tea.

Jay Dubya
Ahh Mr Gorby, you literially make watching grass grow a hoot (albeit after committing moss murder). Interested in seeing how the blind man goes with the live eel spatula filling the swiss cheese army men and those teletubbies thingies.

gorby Author
😄 😄 😄
I'm a professional nothing Tony, although many time I've been told I should write a book but that sounds like I'd have to concentrate for more than five minutes on something. 😮
Jay: Fortunately I'm not sure Teletubbies were involved in serving tea, so I won't need the eel for this job. 😄
Thanks for all your comments and likes. 🙂

gorby Author
Life has been manic in Gorbyland. Modelling features high in my list of priorities but apparently not everyone agrees, which is why 'Useful work' has become a blight on the once sunny landscape.
Retirement is a sacred state and 'Useful work' is against my strongly held principles, as strongly held as my belief that chocolate is a basic human right. Shockingly I've not been able to observe my holy day of rest, which is Monday….Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday Fridaysaturdaysunday, or bloody well should be!
It's sacrilege I tell you. 🙁
Even when I have a day off I've been so zonked my brain has the cognitive ability of the dial tone. Which had the effect of modelling - possible, writing drivel about it – no way.

Rui S
Incredible clockwork. Unbelievable 👍

bughunter
Bouncing pigeons 🙂 You made may day 👍
The details are cute as always!

Jan Peters
Now how on earth did I miss this?
Following from now on 🙂

coporado
Stunning Details!

Dave
Wow

Spanjaard
love the interior you are building, amazing details

Tony May
I'm having a lot of fun watching this build & reading your commentary. It's a good distraction from backing up all my files, bookmarks & passwords on this PC that could short out at any moment. I'm calling her "sparky" because occasionally she'll power down. Then you have to jimmy with the power cable by the plug at the back of the PC to get it to come back to life; All the while you're wiggling that plug (oh, shut up,) it's making a lot of crackling & sparking sounds. If eBay is to be trusted a replacement PC should be here on Monday. It should be a modest step up from this machine but we shall see. I cut back from 2 TB HDD to 1 TB SSD; Who on Earth needs 2 TB anyway?! (If you need more space get yourself a thumb drive!) I'd have rather have spent that cash on buying the oodles of stuff I've been meaning to get from LF Models/Kora Models or Brengun. -_-;

Sy Bar
What can I say but 🍿 ready 😎

gorby Author
Thanks very much for the comments mates. 🙂

Tony: My first laptop had a 20 megabyte hard-drive. If I needed to use the spreadsheet I had to uninstall the word processor and install the spreadsheet using a dozen floppy disks. I think you'll manage with a terabyte 😄

Mark Sherwood
Superlatives cannot describe your skills Gorby. Black tea! Were you a Soviet sleeper who missed the alarm call? Milk so it has that rosy tint (because it's that strong) sugar, hot sweet tea the best reviver. Bouncing pigeon's, Barnes-Wallis first set back till he used spheroid objects.

gorby Author
Thanks Mark.
Tea, no milk, no sugar, loooooovely! Maybe I'll cut out the water next and just chew the tea leaves. 😄

Jan Peters
That would leave you with black teeth instead of black tea Gorby

gorby Author
😄 😄 😄 I suspect I might be quite thirsty as well.
Youtube Video

Jan Peters
😂😂

Bernhard Schrock
Picture 20: great! 🙂

Desert Marlin
Fantastic work!!!

gorby Author
Thanks Bernhard & DM.
I thought I replied to Bernhard yesterday but it looks like it was too much effort for me to press 'Add Comment'. 😄
As is often the case, I'm much further behind with report than I am with the build, so the interior is now complete on my workbench, although it may take some time for the report to catch up. As Shakespeare said "You ain't seen nuffun yet!" (actually that probably wasn't Shakespeare was it? It was Bachman Turner Overdrive wasn't it? I always get those two mixed up. 😳 )

Robert Podkoński
lmao 😉

Mark Sherwood
At the moment me and thee Wife are cruising the backwaters of the Adriatic, so notifications are intermittent. So, Gorby you could always snort lines (hem, hem) of lapsang suchang. Are you doing the tin mug with blue enamel edge and the chain that's secured to the counter?

gorby Author
😄 😄 😄

Greg Baker
Awesome!

gorby Author
Thanks Greg. 🙂

gorby Author
I have to apologise as this is a bit of a boring update this time I'm afraid. Build reports aren't all fun, fun, fun you know.
I'll have serious word with myself and try to do better next time.
Not sure why I'm apologising. Probably because I'm the sort of person who even apologizes to inanimate objects. Not that I'm calling you an inanimate object, although come to think of it I've never seen any of you move….
Last night I pressed the button which turns the alarm off and playing with the word 'Off' I said 'Oaf', so I said sorry to the alarm clock as I didn't mean to hurt it's feelings (not my greatest hour 😳 ). You can never be too careful because when the machines rise up against us, you might need one of them to put a good word for you.
I'm pretty sure I can rely on the toaster.

Jan Peters
Came back after a days work in the near tropical heat, continental heat that is, not the 15 degrees centigrade with liquid sunshine you call summer in good old Britain, and read your build report, just made my day again 😄
Oh, and the toaster isn't to be trusted...

Tony May
You're absolutely right, Jan. You can set the thing to provide you with the perfect amount of toasting but then a handful of days later it'll completely ignore your instructions & produce something more readily appetizing to the pot bellied stove or a smithy than to your palate.

Spanjaard
beautiful tile work gorby!

gorby Author
You think? I thought it was a mild mannered toaster which always seems eager to see me every morning. Maybe rather than timid and happy-to-help, it has a deep, festering resentment of it's lowly position in the natural order of kitchen appliances. Enviously watching the airfryer as it suffers the endless drudgery of the same boring job day after day.
Perhaps I should be nicer to it…
Perhaps I should have cereal tomorrow. 😮

Thanks for your comments mates. 🙂

Spanjaard
maybe a bit too big tiles for the scale?

gorby Author
Maybe. I didn't have a look at how big they should be, I just did them (scaled up) 1 foot square. 🙂

Mark Sherwood
Toasters, that's why I use a toasting fork to beat my bread into submission. . . . . . . . . . There was a lot of spark's from the toaster this morning. 🤔

Tony May
Still loving this build, gorby. It makes me want to tackle more support vehicles for the aircraft on the shelf! I haven't attempted crew members yet so it seems eerily deserted. Something like that build would really bring a barracks scene to life. Do you have any of these on your shelves or do you stick with stock kits without all the other fluff?

As for the toaster, perhaps that's why mine is such a turncoat? I rarely indulge in morning toast with a smear of butter (read that as margarine) & marmalade anymore. That or a hard boiled egg sandwich on toast used to be my go-to breakfast selections.

Earlier this year I was essentially forced into imbibing "medicinal bran" for breakfast each morning lest I find myself in a seated position veritably bursting a vein in my head later in the day. The alternative was drinking this foul concoction that turned a perfectly pleasant glass of water into a devilish, tasteless, brew with the consistency of thick saliva. Isn't growing more wizened ... grand? My breakfast troubles aside & back to my appliance issues; Perhaps my toaster is simply jealous of the attention the refrigerator gets when I'm fetching the milk?

gorby Author
Thanks for the comments mates:
Mark: Obviously I don't condone cruelty to baked products as I believe bread deserves kindness...before you attack it with knives, burn it within an inch of it's life and then cram it into your face. On second thoughts, beating it to death with a fork sounds more humane. 😮

Tony: I think the way the world is at the moment is making me want to build stuff which doesn't go BANG! At least the square foot of my workbench is pacifist (most of the time). 🙂
There will be figures for this build although I'm not great at painting them which is why I rarely add figures (plus, they cost money! Who knew?).
My dad always used to say "It's no fun getting old" which of course I totally ignored until it started happening. A tip for making medical bran more palatable: eat the box instead. 😉
My toaster was confident in my patronage until the air-fryer arrived and lured me away with promises of croissants in four minutes.
I should have stayed loyal.

gorby Author
This update will be a biggie, so grab yourself a cuppa and be ready to seek help from a psychiatric professional.
I've started with a feeble excuse for a tasty teaser to grab your attention. I'm not above using underhand methods to pull in the punters. 🙂
Don't forget, this is a pay per view album so remember to put a coin in the meter. I'll be checking for washers and useless old francs so don't even think about it!

coporado
Speechless! Love that details,, fantastic work!

bughunter
gorby, you doing bad things here! My wife noticed your teaser and asked me: So sweet! Can you build some like that for me? Always such pressure!

bughunter
A technical thing regarding the decals as you wrote "colours run faster": Did you protect the colors with a waterproof clear coat after printing?
On the little manual for my decal paper they recommend the clear coat from Gunze Mr. Metal Primer. It should be used with airbrush or the spray can, because in my experience it is easy to destroy the print with a brush due to the solvents in the clear coat. But once dry the decal is protected and more robust due to the additional layer.

Alec K
Entertaining as usual 👍👍👍

Jan Peters
Stirring my coffee 😁 I have enjoyed your update once again Gorby!

I like the small details you have added all over, that is excellent modelling all 'round 👍🏻
As for the grass, I would like to quote an evergreen (pun intended) song on that, which you probably like very much, can't remember the title, but it is about the green green grass of home 😅

Ben M
👁️👁️

Desert Marlin
Sooo fun to watch this one come along!!!

Rui S
Excellent clock work on that showcase 👍

Spanjaard
amazing details in that interior!! I love those tiny details!!!
do not worry about me trying to push you even closer to the edge of reason than you are, the job is done to perfection already, I can not improve it 😄 😄

S M
😄 This is a proper introduction to British tea culture! Following!

gorby Author
Thanks very much mates I'm pleased you're enjoying the progress on this build. It's very nice to read all your comments. 🙂
Frank: Go for it. Should be dead eaaaaaasy in 1/48. 😉
I used Microscale Liquid decal film to seal the decal Frank, so yes, it really was crap decal paper. Now filed away safely in the wheelie bin. 🙂

Jan: you're bloody doing it again aren't you?!! I may have to retaliate with, Aaaaagado do do do……
Aaaaargh got that in my head now!

Jan Peters
Taking cover! 😂

Tony May
Truly amazing; I was so astonished by this stage of the project I had to call the missus, whom builds the 1/700 ships in the house, as well as my son, who builds 1/35 AFVs & sometimes 1/72 planes, over to take a look at this remarkable level of detail in something smaller than The One True Scale.

(Awaits the booing & throwing of rotten produce from the peanut gallery.)

We're all positively in awe of your fine work here, gorby, we're loving it! Do you plan to enter this praiseworthy piece of miniature modeling work at contests?

I've been building in 1/72 (and letting 1/76 pass as 1/72) my entire life. I never once considered making a packs of cigs or putting up posters/art in my works; Let alone food! Roughly painted maps on a bomber's navigator table is about as far as I've gone! Genuinely ashamed of myself now as I had been proud of my improving detailed work. As you would say, bollocks, I've not even close to this level of talent, skill or inspiration. That has got to change... No amount of Eduard, Quickboost, Masks or new model kits will suffice either. Time to get more back to my roots, I think?

How does one even go about scaling period posters or labels for products for printing? I've never quite figured out how you all do this. To be frank, I've never made my own decals, not even once. All because I know nothing about how to scale it properly or what software to use. Windows Paint is about as sophisticated as it goes for me...

You're a true inspiration, gorby, keep at it!

gorby Author
Wow, thanks for that Tony. 😳
I have never taken my models to shows or entered them into contests as I'm not really interested in competing. Showing them online is all the satisfaction I need. I really love scratch-building and pushing myself to see what I can achieve. I have limited feeling in my fingers so I do this stuff as therapy to help me to be able to become more dextrous. I realise that not everyone is amused with creating such ridiculous levels of detail so there is no reason to feel ashamed. Each to their own, if you get enjoyment from the modelling you do that's all you need. 🙂

I search online for suitable images then clean them up in a graphics package called 'GIMP', then I used 'Inkscape' to size and group all the images to print. Both packages are free to use but both require quite a bit of time to learn how to use. I've playing around with computer graphics and photo editing since the early 90's so it's natural for me to try and add this interest into my models. I have no idea if it would be possible with 'Paint' as I haven't used it.
If you buy decal paper beware, as you've seen from this update not all decal paper is created equally. Go by recommendations if you can.

Thanks for your comment. 🙂

Spanjaard
if you want to print decals, my suggestion is using a laser printer, instead of inkjet printer. easier, and no issues with bleeding etc.

Tony May
Not a problem, gorby, these are my true & honest thoughts about your work. The missus & my son are newer to the hobby yet we were equally in awe of the work you've done so far; It's definitely an inspiration.

Just a moment ago I showed the missus an ACE 1/72 scale 1/2 ton 4x4 WC-18 labeled as an Ambulance. However, one of the paint schemes is for "Oak Ridge Public Library." Upon seeing it she stated that if she opted to get one of those she would want to fit it out like a "Book-Mobile," inspired by your project, with the back doors opened to reveal racks of books on canted shelving with additional crates of books. (She is a voracious reader so it would definitely be attuned to her tastes.)

Thank you for sharing the names of these free programs. I'll download them & try to figure them out. We used to have a free version of Paint Shop Pro in the late 90s I think & later Print Shop Pro but we had much better luck with the former; It had more features & functions. Still I'm confused as to how to properly scale the images. For example I cannot tell how big anything would come out when printed from Windows Paint, as there are no measurement tools, besides pixel counts. Do one or both of these programs have such measurements so I can scale images properly?

Also, are modern ink jet or laser printers capable of printing white markings on clear decal film? Any brand suggestions for decal film too, as you warned above?

bughunter
Regarding the software: That is not only a cost free software, that are open source programs - developed by a community.
GIMP is pixel oriented, Inkscape is a vector drawing program, ans yes, with a powerful measuring tool.

Print white on a clear film is not possible with the original printer setting, but for some color laser printer you can find white toner (will replace the black one). But that is not the cheapest solution. Some mates here have shown results on Scalemates, if I'm remember right

Tony May
Thanks, bughunter, I'll bear that in mind. Switching the toner isn't an option for me since I'll be paying to use the local public library's excellent laser printer; Provided that I can learn how to use the community developed software, of course. There is still a LOT that I can do without the white ink. If I really need it then there's always the option of creating masks & painting white where it will be needed. Learning that Inkscape has precision measuring tools is encouraging too!

... yes, I know I'm far behind the curve in learning all the skills of this hobby. I'll spend an entire lifetime in the pursuit of it & I like still will not know the half of it. 😉

John Hughes
Can you get white decal sheets? I would imagine you can.

Mr D
Looking really period n detailed 👋
Keep calm and smoke a pake of woodbine,s before breakfast 🤣
Very nice 👍

gorby Author
😄 Thanks Mr D. Don't forget, your doctor recommends "Smoke Woodbines for the healthiest cough". 😄
John: Yes you can get white decal paper although as I'll cover in the next update, printing white lettering isn't straightforward (complete pain in the arse in fact. 😉 ).
Tony: As Bugs said Inkscape has measuring tools which are very accurate - which is exactly what you need when you want stupidly silly tiny decals. 🙂
Also, BEWARE of ACE kits, they bite. 😮

Mark Sherwood
Again, I'm running out of superlatives for your work. GIMP? Really? I've got an image of a graphics package with zips and leather. . . . . But then I do have a feverish mind. Where's the bottle of Chop sauce then? 👍🥸👌

Tony May
gorby - I'm familiar with the difficulties of building ACE kits but oftentimes they're the only show in town. I wanted their GAZ-M1 Emka terribly (maybe 2) & now I'm just hoping that they come out with Stalin's 1937 Packard 12 Limo! In my humble opinion it's better to have something that has the basic shape of an object to start with than to have to do everything completely from scratch. (Like a KPL Models vac for example; I did a few of those.) Sometime this morning I'll be expecting a parcel on my doormat containing an ACE Models 54-K 85 mm AA gun, as a matter of fact! Hah!

It was just idle banter regarding the library van though I don't doubt she'd do that IF she chose to buy it though, you left quite the impression! Still, she's not looking to expand her repertoire of builds in that direction. There are some topics she's interested in expanding into but that could be dangerous to what space is available in our display cabinet!

It's bad enough that my son adores the "Land-Ship Tanks" like the Char 2C, T-100, T-28, T-35, Neubaufahrzeug, Vickers A1E1, Type 95 Heavy Tank, etc. He has the Neubaufahrzeug, T-28 & T-35 already. He was going to buy the T-100 this month but changed his mind just a day or two ago to purchase a new bookshelf for his room so he can collect more antique & novelty bottles.

I've already told him that I'm claiming his bottom shelf for some of the oversized books we reference; Though, honestly, our hard copy reference library is now dwarfed by our digital one. We have a couple thousand out of production & even collector level reference books among that cache. I avoid acquiring books for free if I know that they're still available at retail though. We've gotta support our reference book writers!

By the by, I forgot to ask about the matter of decreased sensitivity in your hands/fingers? Might I ask what's led to this problem? If you don't wish to discuss it that's fine of course. If you simply do not wish to discuss such things here, feel free to send a private message?

gorby Author
Mark: Thanks. You could always use the pinnacle of understated British praise, "Not bad, not bad at all". 😄
Didn't you see the sauce? It's on full view behind the curtains! I don't know, you spend hours and hours making something only for people not bothering to use their X-ray vision.

Tony: I'll send you a PM. 👍

Mark Sherwood
My dear sir , would you like the understatement delivered in A) Grudging admiration. B) Grudged appreciation. C) Stiff upper lipped admiring. I'm never, ever buying anything out of the back of a comic again, X-ray specs indeed. As ever your honourable servant sir. Long live the King.🧐🤟🥸🤘🧐👍

gorby Author
For the full Brit experience could I please have D) Unenthusiastic acknowledgement with a homeopathic level of enthusiasm, diluted so many times there's barely a molecule of interest remaining. A side of 'thousand yard stare' would fit the bill as well.
Cracking. 🙂

Mark Sherwood
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍😳

David Taylor
Back in.

John Hughes
Allow me, gorby: 's alright, I s'pose.

gorby Author
Glowing praise indeed John. 😄 😄

gorby Author
Oddly enough I don't have a suitable 1/76 NAAFI van tea-lady figure and equally strangely, when I search for 'NAAFI staff' on Scalemates it shows nothing! Can you believe it?
Well yes, I can as well.
Which means I'll have to conduct gender realignment surgery. Sorry mate, I'm sure you'll get used to it. Obviously well have to halve your pay, although when you get home you can put your feet up….after cooking dinner, doing the housework, looking after the kids, but think of the benefits, like….errrrm….I'll get back to you on that. 😳

Jan Peters
Gender changing operations on scalemates... What's next? Gardening tips on how to get the best out of your lawn? Oh, right eh, yes...
Great installment Gorby, really enjoyed it again 😄

gorby Author
😄 😄 😄
I always like to give hints and tips on aspects of life I have absolutely no idea about. Next time there will be practical advice on home brain surgery using kitchen utensils. 🙂

bughunter
Jan, you made my day 😄 😄 😄
gorby top work again 👍

Jan Peters
Looking forward to that Gorby!

gorby Author
Thanks Frank, Jan and all the likie bods. 🙂

Timmie
Just red the lot. Sometimes a frown a chuckle and a good laugh. And some fine moddeling on the side. 😁 made my day.

gorby Author
Thanks Timmie, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Gorbs, you hid this topic so well on scm that I only managed to dig it out by now 😄
No way I can't stop following and reading it again and again. 👍
What a cool concept and brilliant implementation it is!
I can feel my knowledge of British intensifying in the back of my brain 😉

gorby Author
Excellent Łukasz, I'm pleased you enjoyed it! 🙂

gorby Author
This is the last update in the tea van saga. Just got some critters to paint and then it's done.
I want to tell you a story….. Warning: Waffle ahead.
When I left school I went to work as an apprentice technical engraver. It wasn't my first choice of career, what I really wanted to be was to be retired, but apparently that option wasn't available to 16 year olds. When I started at the company it took the grand total of employees to three and the other two were my boss (I thought it was supposed to be lonely at the top not the bloody bottom! 🙁 ). The oldest one was in his seventies and an Olympic level miserable git. He instantly decided that I was a waste of good oxygen. Looking back, now that I'm a miserable old git I can see his point.
In an attempt to change his opinion, one day I decided to clean his filthy tea mug. Although the mug was supposed to be white, the inside was a thick crust of coagulated tea, lain down in strata-like deposits over many decades. Filthy bugger I thought, never washes his mug.
Fortunately there was no other work that day as the task took ages. At last it was spotless and was he pleased?
No he bloody wasn't, he'd nurturing that grime for years and never forgave me for "Ruining his tea". Quite right, what a little sod I was.
It probably didn't help that a newly-hatched monstrosity was trying to give a hygiene lecture to someone who looked like he was discovered by a palaeontologist.
I learned a valuable lesson that day…..never volunteer to do unnecessary work. 🙂

CaptGPF
I swear, Gorby, your ability to craft the tiniest things is just out of this world. A little late, but I'll be stalking the final legs of this build!

Alec K
Omg Gorb, a very funny story indeed. I worked with an old "git" when I was a wee lad myself, I guess it's the same everywhere (albeit I never cleaned his mug…). Maybe that's how we became modelers… 😅

gorby Author
Thanks very much Capt and Alec.
Alec: It's probably more likely how we became old gits ourselves. 😄
I hope to get the completed pics online at the weekend but as I only got a chance to throw some paint on the critters yesterday I haven't taken the photos yet.

Jan Peters
At least your old git drank tea, whereas the old git at my temp job in a brick factory drank two bottles of whiskey during the day, whilst driving a forklift across the factory 🙈

Kesa Tiho
Can't wait to see more of your DIY and modeling skill! Following 🙂

gorby Author
There have been people I've worked with who made feel like hitting the bottle.
I used to work with a very small old Irish bloke who went to the pub every lunchtime, ordered four beers and drank the first three before the fourth one was poured. Fortunately he only drove a broom around he floor. I never understood a single word he said. 😄

Jan Peters
Isn't that the bloke who ended up living with father Ted on craggy island Gorby?

DRINK!

George Williams
Must have been the good old days before beer cost a fiver a pint.

Pietro De Angelis
Fantastic work, Gorby,
i really think it's all the patience and craziness required to work on such small objects that brings out your humor!

gorby Author
😄 😄 😄

Thanks Kesa, Jan, George & Pietro. 🙂

Jan: Farther Jack is like a teetotaller in comparison. When he spoke to me I used to laugh and nod – not having the slightest clue what I was nodding about.

George: Oh it most definitely was. It was 1980 - the time you could go out with your mates, have ten pints, get a bag of chips on the way back and buy a terrace house for fiver. 😄

Pietro: I suspect it's my lack of patience which causes the crazed look. I can confirm the mental imbalance was firmly set in place long before I returned to modelling. 🙂

Timmie
Nice work on the base. Money saved on blue tack can now be spend on a fine pint. Ehhh you know i meant tea.. 😁

gorby Author
😄 😄 😄

Mark Sherwood
Tetley's? Tea, Imperial or bitter?

Desert Marlin
Is there any "awful" to be had?

gorby Author
Tetley's 👎
Imperial/bitter/mild/stout 👍
Larger (which I refer to as 'Kiddie beer') 👎

gorby Author
In my '1001 things I don't understand', up near the top, along with particle physics, women and why they put small explosive devices in cans of beer, is photography. There was a point in my life I thought I'd grasped the basic principle, but it appears I was only deluding myself. Now I use 'Intelligent auto'….I wonder if it can do my finances….?
I've pointed my camera in the general direction of my tea van and summoned enough brain cells to press a button. It seems that the camera isn't intelligent enough to choose the best shots so I I hope you like the ones I've chosen. Fortunately my camera can't talk as I suspect it would just berate me for not being a better human.
Why is every bloody thing intelligent? I don't want and can't understand the point of a smart toaster. When I go into my kitchen I don't want to feel like I've been out evolved by the fridge.

* 1001 is really and exaggeration. It should be more like 1,000,002 things I don't understand.

coporado
Outstanding work, considering the scale makes me speechless. Hope this one has an exclusive place in your showcase!

Robert Podkoński
Great job, Gorby! Chapeau bas!

Alex K
Each time a Gorby modelling project is completed, my first thought is "this must have been one of the most pleasurable projects we have been privileged to follow..." - and then Gorby goes on and surpasses himself every time... Magnificent job - again 👍 👍.
PS. On a personal note: I wish I had half of Gorby's modelling skills (and sense of humour) - I only have his (supposed) grumpiness, but this doesn't seem to improve my skills.

Mark Sherwood
Gorby, a masterpiece of static magnificence. That pigeon looks suspicious. 👍🥸👌

John Hughes
Another little triumph. Well, it's an Austin, but you know what I mean. Obviously, it's parked at the tank training school to provide refreshment for the crews when their Covenantors overheat (again).

gorby Author
Wow thanks for the very nice comments matiepoos! 🙂
I've pleased how this one turned out (even with the unpainted hinges on the rear doors 😳 ). I really enjoyed the build and also the comments from everyone who has followed the build.

Coporado: I haven't got a showcase – no room. It'll go in the non-display cupboard until the time I do have somewhere to display them. 🙂
Robert: Thanks Mate. 🙂
Alex: Throwing doubt on my grumpiness credentials?!?! Perhaps that isn't the part of your comment I should be focusing on. But it does show how grumpy I must be! 😄
Mark: Maybe the pigeon is a nazi spy. I'll have to wait unit I can see if it has Balkenkreuz or roundels on it's wings. 😮
John: Or it could be the SSS – the Special Sheep Service, training special forces sheep to do…….erm, something which involves keeping the lawns looking neat.

Ben M
Great build, great humor, great camaraderie. Thank you, Gorby.

Spanjaard
simply superb my friend. absolutely amazing.

gorby Author
Thanks you for your comments Ben and Spanjaard. I'm pleased you like it. 🙂

Ian Shaw
Absolutely wonderful. I shall await the word.

David Taylor
Brill as always.

gorby Author
Thanks Ian & David. 🙂

Mina Ro
Can I get some breakfast from that truck and some coffee instead? Sadly I do not think the trucks big enough to feed me or even my 6 cats. Nice build though! LOL I think its really neat that you took a classic and simple kit and turned it into something different and wonderful.

Łukasz Gliński
Fabulously British dio and what a huge amount of fun it has been to follow your build here 👍Wasn't in the heat in here, I'd have to celebrate it with a cup of tea 😁

bughunter
I'm speechless! Your wonderful little dios are getting better and better 👍

Mina Ro
I wonder if they used paper cups at a truck like this or the troops had to bring a canteen cup or if they used standard china and had to return the cups to the truck? I like the tiny little gas stove in there with 3 burners and all the other detail. For 1/72 its amazing.

S M
Amazing result! Great that the roof is removable so all the secrets of the kitchen can be seen. 👍👍👍👍👍

Greg Baker
What a great project. I have a deep appreciation for someone who decides to scratchbuild plenty of little details. Such nice work. Amazing!

Jay Dubya
As the pigeons would say, pulling off this dio Gorby, has been quite the coup !

Dave
Absolutely beautiful work. Have to admire the whole since with the little details.

Jan Peters
It was an absolute pleasure to follow this building log again Gorby.
Glad I've followed it, wouldn't want to meet the boys. Just one question? Why is it on a dirt road in Wales?
Onwards and upwards, to the next one 🙃

Neuling
My cup of tea for sure.

gorby Author
Such a boost to wake up to such nice comments, thanks all. 🙂

Mina: The troops would have either used their own mugs are the odds are the van would have have enamelled metal mugs, although I styled mine from a ceramic mug my granddad had in the RAF (shown in photo 14).
And it's actually 1/76, so slightly smaller than 1/72.
Łukasz: Always better to celebrate with tea, particularly when it's hot. My favorite summer tea is mango black tea. Wonderful. 🙂
Frank: Thanks mate that means a lot to me. 🙂
SM: After all the effort I put into it there was no way I was going to weld the lid on. 😄
Greg: I looooove scratching. I've found it's completely transformed my enjoyment of the hobby.
Jay: That made me laugh. The only problem with that joke is that I didn't come up with it. Damnit man I do the jokes round here! 😄
Jan: Obviously the dirt road is in Wales because that is where you get the bravest commando sheep, capable of containing and subduing even the most rabid of nazi lawns. 😄

Thanks again to everyone who has commented, it means a lot to me. 🙂

Alec K
Another commendable effort Gorby 👍

gorby Author
Thanks Alec. 🙂

Jay Dubya
So, so sorry to be the damp squab Mr Gorby ...
Your work is literally a celebration of personality over plastic - long may you keep scratching away, at our shared hobby, and with your irrepressible humour. Cheers 'mate!

gorby Author
Thanks very much Jay. Very nice of you to say. 🙂
(It appears I'm a poet now 🙂 )

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work Gorby. Very inspirational. @Neulings' remark is very apt.

gorby Author
Thank you very much Villiers, I'm glad you like it. 🙂