For the bridge I painted most of the exposed laser cut sides and put white/red stripes on the traffic poles. For the cafe I did the roofing riles and painted the laser cut sides. My next step is to get them based. The cafe will be easy ... but I have an elaborate plan for the bridge and river ... which I'll be starting next week.
I really have to call out the guys at 4Ground here ... I screwed up not once ... but twice on the bridge construction (my fault --- trying to do too much in one day ... tired from work ... and so on) ... and when I reached out to them they promptly got me the parts I needed to fix my mistakes. I really can't say enough about how top notch the customer service is at 4Ground ... just outstanding ... especially for the miniature/hobby industry.
Pictures are below of the bridge and cafe.
Still more to come ... two games of Bolt Action happening tomorrow! To all my friends in the US --- happy 4th of July ... and to my Canadian family/friends ... belated happy Canada Day ... eh!
Outstanding as always Jay! Can I ask where you made your mistakes? I made a meal of the top of where you put your sand in to weigh down the bridge when upright. I put that top piece on backwards so the hole was somewhat covered by the crossbeams. Took a little bit of creative cutting to cover the hole!
ReplyDeleteHello Ivor ... yes of course. I made two mistakes. The first was the section that sits between the two east bank irons (the room that sits in front of the counter-weight). I was dumb and started putting the bottom parts on the top (being used to starting on the top). By the time I realized my mistake it was too late. The second mistake was the counter-weight itself ... I inserted it the wrong way ... and because I use super glue ... again, by the time I realized my mistake it was too late ... I destroyed the section getting it out of the structure ... had to rebuild the entire upper part. Really two things I should know better about than by now considering how much 4Ground I've assembled ... but I just pulled a stupid.
DeleteThanks for the reply Jay! Interesting that your mistakes were exactly where I made my mistakes too! And I use super glue too! I was trying to look closely at your photos to see if that room in front of the counter weight was glued down. That is another head scratching part for me - I don't have it glued, but it seems like it should be.
DeleteInteresting indeed! That part stays loose ... it moves to the back when the bridge is raised (there are stoppers on the rails ... it goes fully forward when the bridge is down, fully back when the bridge is raised). Note that you have to move it manually back ... the bridge getting raised will not move it properly for you.
DeleteLooking great!
ReplyDeleteWith their regular WWII buildings I found the work of putting all those walls together was not worth the pre-paint, since it took ages and will still need covering up along the cut edges. But with this one I am a bit miffed I went with the Sarrissa version when Warlord released that. With all those small handrails and other parts that might be hard to reach from some angles, I would have preferred the 4Ground version.
Again, lovely work on your part here!
Thanks! Yes, the pre-paint here makes all the difference ... it was hard enough getting all the angles/cuts covered on this ... if I had to do the whole thing I'd be on the edge of sanity. But ... either kit you could paint/fix before assembling the various "chunks" ... that would have made it a lot easier ... although the complexity of both kits is high so it would increase the chance of making an irreversible mistake.
DeleteBeautiful! The crispness of the details is really something else, very impressive all round :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you --- the guys at 4Ground nailed all the details on this one!
DeleteThose really are some astonishing models indeed! That bridge is truly massive. And I really have to agree with you on 4Ground's customer service. One of the best if not the best in the whole wargaming business
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yup ... just a couple of inches short of 4 feet long :-)
DeleteExellent work Jay!!!!
ReplyDeleteLots of inspiration from your blog, almost tippning me over to start a. WW2 project, just have to find the swedish angle of that...
lol!!! Thank you!!! There **has** to be a Swedish angle you can find for WW2 ;-)
DeleteWonderful Jay!
ReplyDeleteIt'll take ages until I've finished mine...
Thanks! I did sections independently when I painted it ... did some other building/painting in between to break up the "greyness" ... :-)
DeleteLooks great. Keep 'em coming! Cheers Des
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