Global Scale Modeller

So my entry for this GB will be my first foray into an all-resin kit with this offering from Resicast


Stay tuned - I'll be back later with photos of parts!

Edit: As promised I'm back with the parts - there are no sprues as such and since all the small, loose parts had the carpet monster salivating I'm going to keep them bagged up for now and will show the individual parts when I come to each section of the build


As expected the detail on the resin is very sharp


The instruction booklet


This lists the parts and then has a series of photos showing them assembled


So we'll see how well this works in practice


There are no decals or paint instructions - just black & white photos of the finished item as it "should" look


As well as the Resicast driver I'm intending to use this box to create a small vignette


Unfortunately I've not been able to find a lot of information specifically about the Ford-T Vickers Gun Carrier so here's some general information regarding the use of the Model T in the First World War courtesy of curbsideclassic.com

From an automotive perspective, World War I was a major turning point; previously, in every war ever waged equipment and supplies were moved in and around the battle areas by some combination of horsepower or manpower. World War I saw the first widespread use of motorized vehicles in various supporting roles. Even during the first battles of the war in 1914, the Ford Model T was a major player as many privately owned Model T’s were commandeered for various military uses.

Knowing the tactical advantages provided by automotile use, both Great Britain and France approached the subject of acquiring Model T trucks for various military purposes early on in the war. Henry Ford, very much a proponent of the isolationist movement prevalent in the United States prior to its war entrance in 1917, was not exactly cooperative with the request. While Ford wanted nothing to do with the war effort during this time, he did authorize the sale of a modest number of Model T chassis to the British military strictly for ambulance use.
Upon the United States becoming involved in the war, Ford’s mood shifted to fully supporting the effort. His change of heart prompted his selling the United States military thousands of chassis for various uses. In an effort to fulfill orders, Ford even pulled units from routine stock out of circulation to more rapidly respond to the war effort.

It should also be noted the chassis most often supplied was the basic and ordinary Model T chassis (not the heavier duty Model TT) upon which any number of aftermarket bodies could be fitted. It is even suspected the first set of chassis sent to Europe were designed such that the shipping crate could be repurposed to construct the box body for the T. The United States military was a huge purchaser of the Model T, allowing the American Expeditionary Force to be the first truly motorized military operation in history. There was logic with that decision; all materiel had to be shipped to Europe and that was always a mulit-week endeavor. Sending horses meant some amount of acclimation time after arrival whereas a Model T was ready to go.

At its peak, the American Expeditionary Force would have 60,000 motorized vehicles of various varieties in the European Theatre; of those, approximately 15,000 were Model T’s. Even though the United States had the largest number of Model T’s in use, the total number used by the American Expeditionary Force is difficult to determine. The length of time the United States was involved in the war was relatively short. This created some anticipated needs to be eliminated, orders being filled just after the cease-fire, or cancelled entirely.

Early on Henry Ford, in his staunch opposition to the war before United States involvement, refused to do anything out of the ordinary for military purchases. This caused a vast number of deliveries to be of a chassis in standard black. It was not uncommon for GI’s to paint a Model T in olive drab upon delivery.

The Model T made a superb ambulance for the times and 5,340 were ordered for ambulance use by the United States Army.

France also saw the quality and potential of the Model T as an ambulance, ordering 2,400 for front line field use. According to information the Model T was the first choice of the French High Commission responsible for medical affairs as it had earned a superior rating for field use. Despite Ford’s initial reluctance to supply ambulances to European countries, the Model T still served the French and British Armies in both Europe and Africa.

Through some creative procurement via third parties and sheer industriousness, a Ford dealer in Paris was able to acquire chassis and assemble 11,000 Model T’s for use by the French Army. In turn, British forces were able to amass a fleet of Model T’s that numbered between 20,000 and 30,000.

The Jeep has certainly become associated with the Allied efforts of World War II. While one does not readily associate the Model T in a similar fashion to World War I, it was arguably just as durable while serving a number of similar roles. William Seabrook, an American who drove a Model T ambulance in France once wrote, “our Fords could go over shell-pitted roads and torn terrain” at 30 miles per hour. He further wrote “the ambulance driver works over, under and upon it. He paints it and oils it and knows every bolt and nut, its every whim and fancy.”
There have been countless different cars built over the years. Yet of those, how many have repeatedly demonstrated a pronounced aptitude for such a dizzying array of varied and diverse tasks? The Ford Model T, as passenger car, pickup, delivery truck, tractor, and stationary power plant at home as well as being ambulance, delivery truck, and artillery mover in war-torn Europe and Africa, was certainly a formidable mechanical soldier during the Great War.

The majority of the references I've found to the Model T as a gun carrier describe the light machine gun carrier used by the Australian forces in the desert theatres (as per Digger's kit) but this photo seems to depict a carrier kitted out for use in Europe so I'm hoping for the purposes of my vignette that some were used in France officially, or that a resourceful officer with the right connections requisitioned one for his personal use

Looks like a fun little build, but that could turn big as I have never built a full resin before.
Good luck.

Interesting build and no doubt where others got their idea of "technical s" from in recent conflicts i.e. sticking 50cal, 20/30mm, etc on pick ups

Tomcat this resin kit of yours is 1916 where as mine is 1917. The Australians did not have model T's until 1917 when the Daimler and Mercedes cars that they were first issued with died.

digger303 wrote: Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:46 pm Tomcat this resin kit of yours is 1916 where as mine is 1917. The Australians did not have model T's until 1917 when the Daimler and Mercedes cars that they were first issued with died.

Oooh - well spotted; I'd missed the difference in the years

In that case I'll definitely be painting mine khaki-greenish and plastering it in mud

Got some bench time in this afternoon and made a start in on this Resicast kit.

Here's the first page of the instructions


And the associated parts - nothing too complicated but a little cleaning up to do


Just a quick note on my approach to working with resin; rather than working directly on my bench/cutting mat I use a scruffy old tray with dampened kitchen towel sheets on top. These obviously get ripped up pretty quickly especially when sawing but do help to keep the dust trapped down.

So after cutting off the casting blocks, cleaning up and the application of some Deluxe Materials Rocket Max CA this came together pretty snugly


Onto page two and the two parts for the rear suspension and drive shaft


The kit also included the 0.75mm rod required for additional parts which were cut to length and fitted. The drive shaft was about 1mm short so I cut a shim from plastic rod and glued that in place to fill the gap (indicated by the arrow).


So that's all so far but at least it's under way - next up will be the front suspension which looks a little fiddly.

Thanks for stopping by

Looks a very good kit mate

Another quick update - I think this one is going to be small steps all the way through...

So tackling two pages worth of instructions in one go last night as they went together to setup the front suspension

Here's the first page - took me a while to track down part 49 which is just a triangular sliver of resin; and part 35 is labelled as 34 in the instructions


And page two - although the kit includes a length of .75mm rod there's not enough to do everything they ask you to so I've had to get some more, and the indicated block includes all four part 44s so some tiny fiddly stuff on the horizon


And after about an hour of fiddling about and swearing I had everything where it should be more or less. One place where I deviated from the instructions was with the small 5mm steering arm on page two, instead of adding parts 44 to the 5mm rod I added each one to its mounting point and then cut/sanded the rod to fit once they were in place.


And just to see how it was going I flipped it over and dry fitted the wheels (not cleaned up yet)


That's all for now - hopefully I'll get chance to move it along a little more this weekend.

Thanks for stopping by

Beating this one into shape and she is looking great.

pourquoi61 wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:37 pm Beating this one into shape and she is looking great.

Thanks mate

I've managed to get some more time at the bench over the evenings this week and moved this along nicely - I'm always surprised by how much time is taken up prepping Resin parts prior to sticking them to anything.

So here is the next build section to be tackled


A quick note on part labelling as I got confused when I stumbled over the wrong part C to start with - the C on the upper block is actually EC and that's wrong too more on that later


The exhaust was fitted to the underside without too much hassle


The rear mudguards were a little trickier as the mounting points are really small but just needed to hold them with some patience while the CA bonded


Leaving the requisite gap between the mudguard and the body


Finally the wheels were cleaned up - these will be glued in place later to make painting easier


Next evening we flipped over the page to find a variety of parts waiting for us...


The assembly in the bottom right of the page is for the horn, a couple of notes on this as Parts 52 & 23 are incorrectly labelled and I've not been able to find part 22 as yet - I'll have another look for it later but there is a suspicious mounting point on the block containing 21 & 23...


The "cab" details went in without too many problems although the individual pedals were a little fiddly and in hindsight I should have drilled out locating holes for them. There is a large bubble-hole to fill on the seat block though


Down the front the lamps and crank handle were added - I was a little disappointed to find there were no lenses included in the kit so I'll have to get hold of some AM lenses


Some of you may have noticed that the headlights aren't quite aligned... this is because butter-fingers here pinged the left side lamp bracked in a vaguely North-Easterly direction and couldn't find it So I grabbed a bit of PE fret scrap and cut & bent it to shape using the remaining example as a template - it may need a little fettling but I think it'll work


Over the page we go and it looks like the final parts for the build


The two cans on the running board were tidied up and added with no problems. The gun mount was assembled off the kit and then added when completed


The gun handles do merit a mention of their own as this part was covered in flash and then promptly broke in half so took a little fiddling and CA'd fingers to get it all where it should be


The folded tripod was assembled and casually chucked into the back of the flatbed - oh - remember part EC from earlier? It's actually Part EA... Anyway - the legs were fitted to the equally mislabelled part B which is actually part L... I can only assume this bit was manufactured after a long Friday lunch down a suitable hostelry serving Belgian beer


A quick flip over to the final pages of the instructions and we spot that there's a requirement for 8mm of rod to be added either side at the back


But hang on... closer inspection reveals an additional part has also snuck in here! I looked back through the instructions and the rear lamp wasn't mentioned anywhere previously


Here's the back end with the bits fitted


So aside from the horn section and a little fettling and tidying up I think that's the main build done so the wheels were stuck on with blobs of blu-tac to see how it looks


The gun is also dry-fitted so that can be removed for painting and there's the ammo case & belt as well as the assorted bits for the flatbed all to be added after main painting is done.

Next up will be the driver's figure and I think one from the masterbox set to see if what I have in mind will work.

Thanks as always for looking

Great build of a lovely looking kit. Nice work!

Coming together nicely mate

chief5437 wrote: Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:38 am Great build of a lovely looking kit. Nice work!

gaz45 wrote: Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:47 pm Coming together nicely mate

Thanks guys

It's been a couple of weeks and I've been pottering along with this one

Firstly I assembled the parts for the Resicast Ford T driver and as you can see he was obviously designed for a different Ford T to the one I'm building here


Not to worry - working on the assumption that this was definitely a period of bodging and improvisation I used some 0.75mm sheet cut to about 1mm to make some uprights with a 0.5mm slice for the top-rail and put this in place (I've also started in on filling some of the bubble holes)


Which I think works ok - as you can see I've also repositioned the right arm as I wasn't happy with the way it was sitting on the steering wheel


Whilst I was in a bodging mood I went looking for Part 22 again... no luck so I hacked off the top of a spare lamp and fashioned something for the horn assembly that will hopefully pass


I've also been building up the Masterbox figures over the evenings - as usual the "instructions" are limited to the picture on the back of the box


I've used Masterbox figures before and have to say this is the worst set I've come across in terms of seam lines, flash and pin marks so each figure probably took the best part of an hour to get together including clean up. There's still quite a bit of filling to be done in places but they're all together now - here are the troops blu-tacked to a GW Large oval base that I found in the spares box (weapons will be added later)


And the plan is for the officer to be standing in the back of the carrier


I may need to adjust the figures for the final composition but I think this will work


Next up will be filling and cleaning up on all the figures before starting in with paint; there are some additional parts to be sorted out for the Vickers gun (ammo box & belt) so I need to figure out how to work those in too as the belt will need bending into shape.

Thanks as always for looking

I think the composition looks very workable and believable

Wow some small parts and great thinking on your feet going on with this build.
I am looking forward to seeing some paint on this little beauty.

That set is great, perfect!

Tomcat64 wrote: Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:03 pm
And the plan is for the officer to be standing in the back of the carrier


I may need to adjust the figures for the final composition but I think this will work


Next up will be filling and cleaning up on all the figures before starting in with paint; there are some additional parts to be sorted out for the Vickers gun (ammo box & belt) so I need to figure out how to work those in too as the belt will need bending into shape.

I like the composition very much.

I hope you enjoy painting figures because paint 6 figures it's a lot of work.

digger303 wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:12 am I think the composition looks very workable and believable

pourquoi61 wrote: Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:47 pm Wow some small parts and great thinking on your feet going on with this build.
I am looking forward to seeing some paint on this little beauty.

chief5437 wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:50 am That set is great, perfect!

JoaquinGM wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2018 9:15 pm I like the composition very much.

I hope you enjoy painting figures because paint 6 figures it's a lot of work.

Thanks for the support guys

@JoaquinGM I just checked and actually six figures will be the lowest count for a 1/35 diorama for me I did one last year with thirteen but that was crazy There's no guarantee of the quality but they'll all have paint on them

Oh yes she's really coming along

I agree with the guys, it looks a very believeable composition. There were 1000 men to a regiment so only 994 to go...

Paul

Kevthemodeller wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:13 am Oh yes she's really coming along

Quax wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 1:55 pm I agree with the guys, it looks a very believeable composition. There were 1000 men to a regiment so only 994 to go...

Thanks guys I'm not so convinced about trying to tackle a full regiment just yet though

I've been struggling with bench & browsing time the last week or so but have still managed to get this moved along a bit.

In the cargo compartment I whipped out my trusty Sharpie and drew a rough line out for the area needed for the officer type


Then glued in the various accessories on the other side of the line


Finally added a cover using tissue wetted in with thin white glue to conform to the shapes underneath - thanks to @spock1701 for the original tipoff on this technique last year during the Winter build


Once that'd been left to thoroughly dry out the whole thing was given a coat of Ultimate Black primer followed by Vallejo ModelAir Dark Olive Drab and a final misting of ModelAIr US Olive Drab to add a little contrast


The decking was picked out in a Walnut base colour


And the front grille was given a black clay wash - there's some missing detail in the resin here so I need to go back and touch that up


Finally I grabbed a couple of hours on Sunday to paint up the driver - the uniform colour is a mix of Vallejo Model Colour "English Uniform" and olive drab as the Uniform colour seemed a little brown to my eye. The puttees are a mix of olive drab and green, the belt & shoes are leather brown and the flesh was Andrea's set. All washed down with a mix of black & brown to add more depth and bring it together


And here he is sitting in the wagon...


Next jobs are to add some grain to the wood, paint the covered cargo and start with general weathering. Will also try and get the next figure done as well.

Thanks as always for looking.

Woah I missed a ton here
Boom! the colour goes on and she comes to life!!
Great work with the extras, stowage and tarp

The tarp is awesome!

Your figure painting is looking good mate the tarpaulin and the decking look a treat

bfrd wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:39 pm The tarp is awesome!

I agree with that!

I don't know this technique until now.

You have got a little gem of a kit now that all the building trials are out of the way.

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:32 pm Woah I missed a ton here
Boom! the colour goes on and she comes to life!!
Great work with the extras, stowage and tarp

bfrd wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:39 pm The tarp is awesome!

Kevthemodeller wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:39 pm Your figure painting is looking good mate the tarpaulin and the decking look a treat

JoaquinGM wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 6:13 pm

bfrd wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:39 pm The tarp is awesome!

I agree with that!

I don't know this technique until now.

pourquoi61 wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:29 pm You have got a little gem of a kit now that all the building trials are out of the way.

Thanks for checking in guys

For anyone interested in how the tarp things works I went looking for the video I first used as a reference, I couldn't find that but I did find this one by our own Sharpie that shows how to put tarps on your kitchen implements

Not much progress this week due to work getting in the way but here's a little of the dabbling I have done.

I wanted to try something a little different for the wooden decking so I gave it a coat of clay washes - mainly dark dirt but with patches of brown & black for variation. Instead of wiping down as usual I used a damp stippling brush to try and get some streaking effects in the planks.

In this shot the front section is done and the back section just has the washes applied without any work done to them


It's not perfect woodwork but I think it'll do to give the impression of worn planking... here's the finished result.


The driver's seat was painted with a base-coat of dark grey, this was then carefully dry brushed with yellow rust to give a worn leather effect and finally given a couple of coats of thin, dark wash


And down the back the tarp was given a coat of Model Colour "Canvas" followed by a few coats of a similar thin, dark wash (mix of black & brown). It's still on the shiny side at the moment but should look ok when I've given it a coat of Ultra Matte


That's all for this update - thanks as always for checking in.

Thanks for the video!!

Just gone through your thread and wow that's one well detailed kit and you have done a cracking job on it so far top stuff

Tiger131 wrote: Mon Oct 29, 2018 4:41 pm Just gone through your thread and wow that's one well detailed kit and you have done a cracking job on it so far top stuff

Thanks Tiger

Still struggling to get time at the bench but have made a little more progress on this one in the last week or so.

The bodywork weathering was initiated by streaking various shades of Abteilung 502 oils using odourless enamel thinners


Then the underside and wheel arches were attacked with Mig pigments - mud and Europe dust stippled onto the aforementioned enamel thinners


The wheels & tyres were brush painted using Vallejo olive drab for the wheels & light rubber for the tyres


Initial dirtying was done with a dark dirt clay wash


Before CAing them to the chassis - the wheels aren't quite even so I'll have to balance that out on the base with some surreptitious mud/rocks


More pigments were added to the wheels & running boards - this still needs some finessing to tidy it up as it's a bit heavy handed at the moment


And finally for this update another dude has been painted up - there's probably a few details I'll fiddle with but he's mostly done bar some restrained weathering on the boots


Thanks as always for looking

Loving it! Just the right about of dirt!!

Tomcat64 wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:37 pm Still struggling to get time at the bench but have made a little more progress on this one in the last week or so.

The bodywork weathering was initiated by streaking various shades of Abteilung 502 oils using odourless enamel thinners


Then the underside and wheel arches were attacked with Mig pigments - mud and Europe dust stippled onto the aforementioned enamel thinners


The wheels & tyres were brush painted using Vallejo olive drab for the wheels & light rubber for the tyres


Initial dirtying was done with a dark dirt clay wash


Before CAing them to the chassis - the wheels aren't quite even so I'll have to balance that out on the base with some surreptitious mud/rocks


More pigments were added to the wheels & running boards - this still needs some finessing to tidy it up as it's a bit heavy handed at the moment


And finally for this update another dude has been painted up - there's probably a few details I'll fiddle with but he's mostly done bar some restrained weathering on the boots


Thanks as always for looking

I know just what you mean about bench time I left home at 6 this morning I'm still in the office, not too much longer now thankfully

She coming along great mate, the mud weathering looks spot on

alextheblue wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:50 pm Loving it! Just the right about of dirt!!

Kevthemodeller wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:51 pm I know just what you mean about bench time I left home at 6 this morning I'm still in the office, not too much longer now thankfully

She coming along great mate, the mud weathering looks spot on

Thanks guys

That's no fun Kev but I know how it feels - this week has been a bit easier so I've taken advantage of it as I know next week will be nuts again.

Two updates in the same week - will wonders never end!

Firstly I played about with the pigments (cotton bud & water as well as a stippling brush) to even them out a bit and then when I was happy I blasted the whole thing with a coat of AK Ultra Matte


Then painted up and dry-fitted the Vickers gun.


And finally dry fitted the two occupants to see how it all came together - and also to check if the driver's leg will foul the ammo belt if I decide to install it. It does look a little tight so I might just install the closed ammo box in the compartment next to the driver - more fiddling to be done


If I get chance this weekend I'll hopefully make a start on the base and the move the other four figures along as well.

Thanks as always for looking

Superb progress buddy, looking good so far

chief5437 wrote: Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:55 pm Superb progress buddy, looking good so far

Thanks Chief

So last week was even more bonkers than expected but I did get some time at the weekends to play with this.

I decided to have a crack at the base so used a combination of coffee stirrers and balsa wood to put a walkway together - I've added the extra supports on each "plank" to try and keep it level on the base


These should not be overly visible from the top once they're in place


This was all assembled with white glue and then added to the base along with another "beam" to act as a dam for the textured paint to build up against


Vallejo textured Earth was liberally slopped on and then the walkway was pressed into place while it was still wet


Left overnight to dry and then tested to make sure I'd left enough room for the vehicle


Just!


Base coated with Ultimate black and then random sprays of gelb to add a little variation


Randomly sprayed with various Vallejo ModelAir browns


Finally some mig pigments (Mud & Europe Dust) and a coat of AK Ultra Matte and I think we're just about done aside from some final fettling once everything's in place


Back on the Wagon and the gun cooler hose and oil pipe were added out of 0.2mm brass wire curved around the shaft of a paintbrush


And then painted up in a couple of shades of grey - I'll add some oil streaks around the pipe to finish that off


I've decided not to add the ammo belt as it will definitely tangle with the driver's legs so I'll add the ammo box and figures and that will be the vehicle done. I was toying with adding lenses to the various lights but one of the references I found said that service vehicles would most likely be de-brassed and de-glassed. So that just leaves the four figures for the base and I'm hoping to get them moving this week.

Thanks as always for looking.

Just a quick update as I've managed to get a little more time in the evenings this week.

Firstly I finished up the ammo box and installed it in the driver's compartment, added some AK engine oil around the oil pipe and mounted the figures. I did have a "clucking bell" moment when the officer fell out and broke his cane, but that's been retrieved from the carpet monster and CA'd back in place. Here it is on the base...


I then turned attention to the four remaining figures in the squad - I've added some extra straps from 1mm Aizu tape where the kit mouldings left a bit to be desired and then primed them all in Ultimate black. Hopefully this weekend I'll get some paint on them and will be in with a chance of getting this finished this side of Christmas


Thanks as always for looking

It's all coming together nicely mate

Kevthemodeller wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:33 pm It's all coming together nicely mate

Thanks Kev

I made a start on the four characters in the squad last weekend and have pottered away at them through the week.

My plan was to show you each stage as I painted... So here they are with the uniform colour painted up. As usual my approach is to start with the darkest shadow stage and gradually lighten up through the base colour to any highlights. This was done with Vallejo Model Color English Uniform


Then the leather jerkins followed the same process using Model Color leather as the base.


I then picked out the flesh with Andrea's flesh set and somehow screwed things up and left them looking like some kind of bizarre orange Trump tribute act...


After some appropriate swearage I then cracked on and basically forgot to take photos until this one And apologies for the quality of the photo too... not a good day there...


After some general washes and a bit of dry brushing with mud they were given a coat of Ultra Matte and installed into position on the base


And aside from some final fettling that's it done - over to the final reveal here to see how it all turned out.

Thanks as always to anyone who stopped by to take a look and especially to those who offered encouragement along the way.

Great result Neil,