Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread | More buildings for the Building God!

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**shrike**

dsteingass wrote:
I think just about EVERYONE has their hands full with RL stuff lately. I've experienced some myself. I think winter is driving everyone in the northern hemishpheres nuts.

I've not had any major RL stuff happen recently, and winter here is about the usual, with maybe a little more snow

**dsteingass**

Everyone EXCEPT Shrike...of course

**HAZZER**

shrike wrote:
dsteingass wrote:
I think just about EVERYONE has their hands full with RL stuff lately. I've experienced some myself. I think winter is driving everyone in the northern hemishpheres nuts.

I've not had any major RL stuff happen recently, and winter here is about the usual, with maybe a little more snow

Ha ha ha ha!!! Your sooo funny snow in the UK!!! Twice a year!!!!! I doubt that it will tbh It is only often around for a week once a year than thats it...

**dsteingass**

Perhaps these will get people talking..I dunno

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Hurry up and Dry!!

**monkeytroll**

Well, looks like the base for something.....

If the gangster is going with that furniture the my guess is either the cylon or something else you've been hiding from us.....

**Camkierhi**

No, it's a new base for Bilbo?!!!!!

**Dr H**

Looking at the spacing of those pegs I would say cylon.

**HAZZER**

YESSSS!!!! Progresss!

Looks good man!

**dsteingass**

Yes, Cylon base

**Viktor von Domm**

ups...looks like yon cylon has taken a leak

and shrike...i guess he has no RL

looking good to see you back in action again dave!

what´s the red and yello stripes influenced from? never saw the series...so...^^

**dsteingass**

Thanks Vik!
It's from the Flight Deck of the Battlestar Galactica of course!

**Viktor von Domm**

aha...er...and how often do you think adama would allow said cylon do a hospitable visit there ?

**dsteingass**

Not long Vik

..Not long.

Back to the Gangster Diorama...

**monkeytroll**

Nice...should look sweet when painted up...

**nerdfest09**

Wow Dave, I have to come back for a proper look soon but I couldn't log off without saying 'Holy Feth that all looks awesome!' I love the Gangster diorama! the details are perfect and the Cylon base is cool, especially as you based it on the image of the shuttle bay!

**dsteingass**

Thanks Monkey!- working on that now
@Nerd- thanks bud...I was hoping to find hazard stripes on the Galactica, but found these instead. I just needed something to put there

**shasolenzabi**

Cabin fever!@

**dsteingass**

You are right Shas!

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Brush clean-up

Needs curtains

**Rawson**

Radio really makes the scene! Another win from Dave

**SilverMK2**

Holy cow - the gangster's room looks amazing. The floor for the cylon looks great too.

**monkeytroll**

Looking great man

What it really needs is a street outside, with a couple of heavies climbing out of a sedan.....

**lone dirty dog**

Like the fact you used the ship bay for the cylon display base LOL nice job on the airbrushing work as well

The gangster base looks just brilliant

the way everything fits in is just tops, I could not believe it when I saw that you addd the brick work to the outside as well

Dave you are just getting better and better (i really wish you wouldn't though LOL) Great job mate really impressed and love the fact you posed him looking out the window as well.

Two thing though needs an ash tray (as mentioned by Vik I think ) and a bin, I hate an untidy room

**Dr H**

Hey wow, where did all that spring from...

Good job on both the Cylon base and the gangster dio'.

**Viktor von Domm**

if someone thinks this isn´t ace... then he is due for a kickin´...

awesome looking dio! the whole scene could be straight from the untouchables...where they tried to intimize the clerk of capone? remember that scene? connery shooting a dead mobster in the head to scare the clerk? lovley!!!

back to yon dio...the floor looks really well used but scrubbed too... and the wallpaper...brilliant idea... same goes for the windows...this one has it all!

**dsteingass**

THERE'S all my readers!

Thanks a lot guys..PLEASE don't tempt me with 1930's/1940's large, American automobiles with long, sweeping curves, two-tone roofs, spoked rims, bulbous windshields, and the sense of Individual freedom and vitality!

**Viktor von Domm**

er...well...what can we say... those were the days?

but your FO vehicle is still in need of finishing?

**HAZZER**

both the bae and diroma are lokking grate! For the diroama I'd add some bits of paper or letters on the shelf thing as that would add some more character to it as well!

**dsteingass**

Thanks Vik!- The ultimate Sexiness of the era is by far the 1950 Mercury IMHO

This is the Coupe

This is the more common 4-door sedan with suicide doors

My ex-father-in-law restored one of these, I've ridden in it, but never got a chance to drive it.- He painted his a red that was so dark, it looked black. It was beautiful!

But those curves are far beyond my plastic-bending abilities

And I can't find any die-cast, or plastic kits in either (die-cast common scale) 1:32, or this scale 1:35 (common military kit scale)

See, I don't think Europeans realize how much chicks dig cars

@Hazz- thanks man- I've been thinking about that too, but I'm afraid real paper would be too thick, I'd need to use a fine, crispy tissue paper methinks..

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Vik is right....

I have some unfinished business

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Something resembling springs/steering greeblies

It's not really going to be seen..

Look at the glue/putty bomb on the inside!

**Viktor von Domm**

ha! that is what we call welding

good looking axis! you still stick to the plan to make this a car wreck then?... you currently definatly show us what hobby ADHD LOL...

tissue paper for that job? ehat about tinfoil? that should be thinner still? and easier to manage and getting to do what you want it to do...

**LooT**

Having just got back from the Cavalier wargames show in Tonbridge, I dare say that I should begin a sci-fi thread with all the gubbins I bought.
Unfortunately, my 2 essays and my Geography questions for tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively seem to disagree... woe for the work-weary