Spitfire, Land Rovers and hedges - a typical day in the life of Woody!

A visit from that great modeller Mr. Beecham today. Always good to see him and have a chat and see his latest proliferation of models. Top of the bill is this 1/24th scale Airfix Spitfire.

At 1/24th scale it is a big model with lots of detail all brought out by the model making skills displayed here. It is certainly a different model to the earlier releases by Airfix in this scale and the removable panels almost feel like etched brass rather then plastic.

This Land Rover also is superbly built, painted and weathered. It is a 1/35th scale Hobby Boss kit and full of detail particularly with the armament.

Finally a project in the making. Apparently Mr. Beecham was given the figure of a lady 'with attitude', and he decided she needs a vehicle to match, hence the Italeri Hummer! He did say it will be painted black. My suggestion of pink did not seem to strike a chord! I will wait to see the final outcome.

Meanwhile, back in the mediocre World of my model making, I have been hedging my bets by continuing to try to finish off Chalkdon my 009 layout with, hedge making! 

As my duties include washing up Mrs. Woody has not noticed this scouring pad missing.

Scouring pads can make excellent model hedges and I cut off 3 strips about 1cm wide.

These were then coated with PVA glue.

With a coating of PVA the Woodlands Scenics Fine Turf was brought ut.

The fine turf was sprinkled on to the wet PVA.

Once finished and allowed to dry I had 3 strips looking hedge like!

They were then cut to length and glued around part of the thatched cottage garden.

I think it looks good!