47lincsled
Rifleman
Hi Folks, I was told by a member at another sight that you guys might be a little more interested in some of my projects then the other sight, they are more concerned with dressing up dolls, but to me they are background material for my projects!
My wife and I live in extreme northern Arizona, in a super tiny town called Fredonia, 1500 people, I have four grown daughters, and besides 1/6th scale I also collect full size WW2 equipment, I just recently sold my M2A1 White half-track, but I have a small museum of smaller stuff.
I started collection 1/6th about 10 years ago when I bought one of those off scale half-tracks, but it came with some Dragon soldiers and once I saw them I was hooked, I sold off my life time collection of HO scale train stuff and started building up my 1/6th collection.
I found out very quickly that it takes a lot more space, my original man cave was a 10X50 mobile home I drug down to our property, then I added a 12X12 addition onto the backside but that filled up as well, a friend in town had a 14X70 single wide that had a fire in the center section that they needed to have hauled off, so I drug it down, I ended up cutting 16 feet out of the center and pushing the ends together then I pulled it out behind the first trailer, that was good for a while but the first trailer was old and the roof leaked no matter what I did, then a couple years afterward the same friend gave me another 14X70 trailer, this one they were living in but they wanted to start building a house were it sat, so the old trailer came out and the second big one went in, but then I came to my current project and I realized once again I was running out of space, another friend runs a trailer court in town and they had to evict someone so he broke out all the windows of a 12X60 and since it's too old to move anyplace in town they said I could have it as well, it's down here but not set up yet,I have to finish my current project.
My current project is a two story home, it has a small foot print since it had to be movable which is why I made it 2 stories, it is built to building codes of 75 years ago, all 2X4 construction with clapboard siding on the ground floor and board and batten upstairs, it is based on a real house in the black forest of Germany, just much compressed! This is a picture from a couple of weeks ago, it was the first time it was stacked, it is fully trimmed and painted now with just a few details left to finish.
I'll start another thread with some of my other large projects. Bob.
My wife and I live in extreme northern Arizona, in a super tiny town called Fredonia, 1500 people, I have four grown daughters, and besides 1/6th scale I also collect full size WW2 equipment, I just recently sold my M2A1 White half-track, but I have a small museum of smaller stuff.
I started collection 1/6th about 10 years ago when I bought one of those off scale half-tracks, but it came with some Dragon soldiers and once I saw them I was hooked, I sold off my life time collection of HO scale train stuff and started building up my 1/6th collection.
I found out very quickly that it takes a lot more space, my original man cave was a 10X50 mobile home I drug down to our property, then I added a 12X12 addition onto the backside but that filled up as well, a friend in town had a 14X70 single wide that had a fire in the center section that they needed to have hauled off, so I drug it down, I ended up cutting 16 feet out of the center and pushing the ends together then I pulled it out behind the first trailer, that was good for a while but the first trailer was old and the roof leaked no matter what I did, then a couple years afterward the same friend gave me another 14X70 trailer, this one they were living in but they wanted to start building a house were it sat, so the old trailer came out and the second big one went in, but then I came to my current project and I realized once again I was running out of space, another friend runs a trailer court in town and they had to evict someone so he broke out all the windows of a 12X60 and since it's too old to move anyplace in town they said I could have it as well, it's down here but not set up yet,I have to finish my current project.
My current project is a two story home, it has a small foot print since it had to be movable which is why I made it 2 stories, it is built to building codes of 75 years ago, all 2X4 construction with clapboard siding on the ground floor and board and batten upstairs, it is based on a real house in the black forest of Germany, just much compressed! This is a picture from a couple of weeks ago, it was the first time it was stacked, it is fully trimmed and painted now with just a few details left to finish.
I'll start another thread with some of my other large projects. Bob.
