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No. 4 AMRU Mayshale Bank
Topic Started: Dec 3 2013, 03:56 PM (438 Views)
DLG Dave
Lt Dave 'Wraith' Carter
'Tis secret!!..... Been working on this one for months and now it's just beginning to take shape. Not going into the story behind it yet....

As per 'Jumpers for Goalposts' a few months back (from which this diorama was originated) 1:87 scale - hence 20p piece to give sizing.

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Mark M
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Hawk T1
Thats a bit :cool
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LCDR Tony `Banana's` Clay
Your planning a Bank job aren`t you Dave..??? :laugh:
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Something completely different, reminds me of my first school back in the Dark Ages.
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Looking good. :cool
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DLG Dave
Lt Dave 'Wraith' Carter
Bit more progress. There's a lot to do....

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Lt. Ken 'Albatros' Jeffrey
:cool
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Magical..........
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LCDR Tony `Banana's` Clay
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Absolutely stunning work. :clap:
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DLG Dave
Lt Dave 'Wraith' Carter
Forgotten, but not gone....

Nearly finished. There's a story to append for later, but for now, No. 4 Admiralty Medical Research Unit is a crumbling sea fort off the north west coast of Scotland. The year is 1955 and there have been funny comings and goings noted there.

Just have to add colour to the plaster of the sandbanks and then the diorama is done. It's about thirty inches wide and eighteen deep, to give the approximate size.

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OMG!!!!!
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Oh my.....................words fail me (now there's a first) but why is that poor chappie lying on his front, did he jump off?
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brilliant work!

some great scratching going on there, and the paintwork/weathering is awesome
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DLG Dave
Lt Dave 'Wraith' Carter
Just back-adding some detail stages for this model. Sorry I've not kept it updated but I've been at a new job in recent months which precludes doing much writing.

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This is a pressure control room and the yellow cladding might look horrible but this is fairly typical 1950s styling.

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The inside of the control room used some parts from the old Revell cutaway nuclear submarines and from Railway accessories.

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In some dioramas I've been cheating and using the good ol' printer for some backgrounds.

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I used some photos of some old local bastions where I walked the dogs and printed off several scaled sheets, and then transferred them to card.

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The back internal walls of this little gun emplacement are just little more than local walls with a little photoshoppery.

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...add a few three dimensional bits and it takes shape quite nicely.


So what is it?

Elsewhere, Mark's thread of (something like) why do you do what you do? is relevant.

Many years ago, I ran my own little resincasting model concern and local to me was a chap who created and cast the white metal accessories which went with them. Going past a particularly large and intricate electricity pylon we started talking about the nature of modellers - that when we see something, sub-consciously we begin to go through the mental process of how that something might be miniaturised in model form.

Most people get the modelling inspiration from their young days. If you grew up close to a railway siding, or with the local squadron flying overhead, or near a fishing port, in general, you take inspiration from that. Growing up me and my brother used to find ourselves deep inside crumbling forts and gun emplacements far beyond the failing perimeter fencing. Plus our cinema going embedded that. Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare and whatever. For reasons of detail intricacy, we begin to defer to places which are lined with gantries and catwalks and untold numbers of doorways and crannies. This was my particular diorama to get all that out of my system and is the end of the eccentric dioramas I built over the past three years:-

Long Watch -

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...and 96 Missing.

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No. 4 Admiralty Medical Research Unit started life as a Martello tower west of Scotland to warn against incursions by French Warships into the Irish Sea from the North. In the diorama, the original tower can be seen displaced and outside the main perimeter. At the time of Palmerston, the Fort was created and a Moncrieff 'disappearing gun' -

http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/moncrieff.htm

was to have been fitted but the Fort was never armed, nor properly manned. It was then used for an experiment fitted with an electrical semaphore system, then beacon system of communication. During WWI a Gas tower was fitted since it was surmised it could be used as a replenishment base for Royal Navy Airships patrolling the northern approaches against U-Boats. Eventually manned in WWII by Royal Observer Corps volunteers reporting on Bombers approaching Belfast.

In the early 1950s the Fort was reactivated by the MoD and the rumour had it that Royal Navy divers were volunteering to be exposed to pressurised gases so as to be able to swim underwater for extended periods without breathing. It seems the experiment went disastrously wrong and suddenly no communications were received from the base. A well-known Government Rocket Scientist - Professor Bernard Quatermass - was sent immediately to survey the fort and he and his assistant found the Scientists all dead - badly beaten. But no sign of the Royal Navy divers.....?....


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Lt Paddy 'Chancer' Boyle
This is amazing. I hadn't seen it before. :clap:
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