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I just looked up images of that Shigeyuki Mizuno fella (or is it a company/group of bloody skilled artists?) WOW. So many cool models. My dream would be to combine model talents like that with model trains to maximum effect. Imagine a big model train setup , the likes of the Pendon museum etc, with trains rolling through scenes like what the above mentioned has created! My nerdy video of pendon model railway (OMG! How fucking popular has my video been- its had 198 views in less than 2 years .... eat that fucking project blinky! )

I looks sweet Pete. Really tidy. However.... I think it might roll a bit better with round wheels. But the oldschool wood rims do look funky.

what he ^ said. Looks bloody great!

You've got lovely boobs. Not sure I like your girlfriends hairy chest though.

When I looked into a car that was of the system i was 'advised, nudge nudge wink wink' by a fella at vtnz to 'find' some old photos of the vehicle wearing the plates ie make some up and create a bit of history. That's all they want really. Apparently

Cool. Yep me too looking forward to following your next journey! So is this a similar base to the multipla? I wish I could have saved this multipla that was parked at my old work place but the owner is a bit of a hoarder...

Can you use sharper scissors? The edges might be a bit fluffy. When I post my cad designs to the cutting service I also pay lots of attention to where I fold the design. Like don't fold the cardboard up through holes etc - they hate that.

for the meanest brapping you'll want the lumpiest port you can get....

Yes- I agree with Bart on this one. It just makes sooooo much sense to ditch the Austin/Merc engine and fit a beer keg.

What you need to stop fuel sticking is some of this...

Had a design in mind for the wall up to the lounge from very early on. Was gonna take a bit of time but I thought it would be well worth it. Cut and planed lots of batons from Rimu off cuts Its not a techy thing. They went up along the wall and are spaced just so that as you enter from what will be a hallway it sort of looks like a solid wood wall. Then as you walk in and past you can see the orange paint through the gaps... Neato. Much neater. I like the effect. But I also had this planned... and all the colours in between Today we went to the big smoke (Nelson..) and met up with @CPR Sierra who gifted us loads more leftover timber plus loads of insulation from a house build. Top fella- thanks so much Morris! This is just what we need to now continue on with the kitchen smoko room and bedroom sickbay build.

Cheers! Its super fun building it, especially now all the tricky bits are done. Didn't really fancy dropping any of those windows as we placed them from the inside, reaching out awkwardly. Just so looking forward to moving in.

WINDOWS UPDATE Yep- more windows. Yay for more light and some extra views. But before that happened we made the mezzanine a safer place to be by finally making some bannisters and removing the chance of plummeting 2.4 metres onto very hard concrete (or worse- a rusty car?). I had a particular style in mind from the very beginning of the build to tie in with the minimalist steel/wood thing going on. Started like this. We made a variety of steel uprights to suit... Ripped down a selection of nice Rimu timber, planed it, sanded it... Bolted up in place and we instantly felt safer... Next up was the stairway. Really didn't want to add too much here because I'm trying to keep it looking really clean and simple. But had to have something- especially for those nights when local friends are here and our brains are a bit addled... It was super fun going through the Rimu timber selection and picking out bits with nice grain to make rails from. Then the lower hand rail that had to be curved quite a lot to follow the stairs. Ripped down some 5mm thin strips of Rimu and laminated them, clamped to a jig welded in place on the big steel bench... Woke up the next morning and had a very strong curved rail to plane and sand down... Then mounted in place and given a lick of varnish... Really happy with it! We have decided against adding any extra steel work for now- its a nice strong rail that doesn't clutter up the stairway. Next thing was some more windows. One for the kitchen and one for the bedroom. These we chose from a pile of second hand windows from the local aluminium window place and they made new frames to suit our shed walls. Cheap way to do it. Cut a hole... New view... Stoked! Its really going to make the kitchen a nice light place to be (for when I make my super fine selection of cheese on toast creations... yep, I'm a bit of a chef like that..) View this evening looking down the space with new windows fitted... Here's a look at how the lounge is now set up. Scored some bloody nice Italian leather sofas cheap from a fella in Nelson. Totally the simple clean style (in elastoplast beige to boot) that we wanted. Wont be going back to cloth sofas when we own a very fluffy white cat. The sofas fit beside each other so you can sit 5 across in real comfort for movie nights (more can sit on bean bags etc in front). The sofas are light enough to very easily shift downstairs into the studio area if need be too. There will be some super plush carpet added in the lounge (oatmeal in colour because ginger/white cat...) and a couple of floor standing reading lights etc but otherwise keep it simple. More soon. Looking forward to the kitchen/bedroom build next.. its so fun!

I second mr pogs comment. I hope your brother @Unclejake is going to keep the cab as is and just cruise around looking the boss. Damn I'd love to see a build thread on that!

No probs- glad you've enjoyed my ramblings

Crikey its been a while since I updated this thread. Quite a bit has been built since the last update, in between customers jobs, mucking about buying old Bedfords, playing with bicycle builds and general enjoying summer stuff. Now that its 'late summer' here in the Tasman region and its starting to get a little bit chillier in the evenings we have been cracking into the build so we can hopefully move out of the cabin before spring Autumn arrives. Our bay seems to have a bit of a micro climate and ignores winter here, going straight from autumn to spring and frankly its more nicerer that way I still want to be living in the shed though- its gonna be nicer all round and I might actually then do more work on the Imp 911! So last time I posted we had sort of started the building of some walls upstairs. We got sick of the mess and clutter downstairs and once we had the wall up in the lounge we carted all the boxes of car/bike/workshop related stuff upstairs and stacked them in the lounge. Then we took down the old shelves that all that stuff had been on. Moved the washing machine, folder, guillotine out of the way, put more burly posts up and built the store room. I didn't really take any photos of the process but you can see it in this photo... Its about 1.6m wide and spans half the workshop. Really good amount of space to store lots of boxes on some shelves we built up there. With all the stuff shifted up off the workshop floor we could now make the most of the extra space. We shuffled things around, measured, schemed, planned, deliberated and pondered the layout. Still wanted some shelves but not as big. We ended up with it looking like this... Much better. Really happy with that. Those shelves will soon get cluttered up with a variety of Nissan micra bits as we do that planned swapsies game. Now back to work upstairs. Speaking of stairs...we got sick of clambering up and down from the lounge area using a step stool so we made these... I built them to replicate the main stairway. We picked through the largest bits of pine we had and created some sweet steps. Really stoked with how they came up once varnished. There will be a handrail on the wall side to add in the future. We bought some things. We've never had a new mattress. Time to splash out and get a decent one... (another reason for wanting to shift outta the cabin asap- the cabin only has a double bed and it gets crampped when we have to share it with a big fluffy cat) Also started hunting for chest of drawers etc. Found these slightly art deco styled ones cheap at the recycling centre - $40. Nicely built from solid Rimu. Hannah sanded them and varnished them... We kept plodding away at the build. Annoying when we had to stop to do customers jobs but hey that's life. Walls and ceilings went up. Some free insulation from local friends. Hannah painted some of the walls. Yet to decide on other colours to be used. Bought a nice second hand full HD projector and a new 130" motorised screen. We had deliberated about going the projector route or just get a large telly. Projector won and its amazing! Installed the lovely large 'fill the room with deep smooth base' speakers we had been gifted. Made some burly speaker stands that replicate the posts holding the mezz up. Screwed them to the floor because earthquakes.. but also make sure nothing moves but the speaker cones. Gawddamn its a mighty nice setup to watch movies in now- exactly what I have dreamed about. When I spot a 65" etc TV in the shops now they seem so tiny. Viewing a movie on a projector screen also seems much easier on my eyes than looking at a telly screen. I added more circuits to the breaker box and ran out all the wiring before the walls went up. Always so fun to turn new lights on and have wall sockets to use rather then trailing extension cords. I have a local sparky mate who will be checking/signing it off etc when finished. Get all our bits at trade from him too- LOL at the markup on electrical stuff !!! Pics... Spot the vent added in the top- without windows it was a bit hot up there. Vent works well! Need to make a pretty porthole window to cover it. Some nice carpet will be laid on the lounge floor (oatmeal/Kevin coloured - bloody fluffy cats....) I had posted up some pics in the shed thread of this happening a few days ago... Wow- I wish we had done that earlier on. We've had a window to fit in this spot for ages... My brother had spotted it at the Blenheim recycling centre. $50!!! All cedar sashes and lovely Rimu frame, solid brass mechanisms. Couldn't believe our luck. Hannah cleaned it up and painted the outside in dark 'Karaka' green to match the other windows/doors on the shed. Here in primer... We needed flashings. I didn't want to deal with the main Nelson crowd that we'd used and been mucked about with before. We had a load of brand new gutters that had been left in the bush by the previous land owner, still in the plastic wrap and in the exact same Karaka green we needed. So I decided to use them as material to make our own flashings. We needed a folder. So I built one... It folds 2.4 metres. No good for heavy steel but fine for shed steel, car steel. It will be a handy thing to have for future jobs so it made sense to but a little time/money into making one. It fits neatly onto a large mobile steel bench. Made flashings and fitted windows. Then had coffee looking out into the bush... We will be chopping down heaps of the Kanuka trees we now look at- the block the evening sun that comes through the window and there lots of really nice ferns that we'd rather see come up. So that's firewood sorted for another few years In the last few days we've been adding trim, making another bookshelf to mimic the one we'd made earlier on the other side of the lounge. Wanted some nice timber and found a large plank of what we thought to be old pine. Turns out it was Macrocarpa so that was a nice surprise... Finished that book shelf last night and Hannah varnished it this morning... We uncovered the remaining Rimu stacked outside and brought it up to the shed to process... Quite a large amount left. Most of it cleaned up nice... Now we are machining it down to a variety of shapes for trim, skirting boards, corner cappings, railings. We really need to make the bannisters before someone falls 2.4 metres to the concrete floor below. Wow. Wall of text. I'll try to post up more often so its not such a mission to write/read. Really looking forward to fitting the kitchen/bedroom windows soon and then start building the respective rooms. Then we can move in. Then I can tinker with flat sixes till late and know my bed is only a flight of stairs away - not a cold walk up to a cabin. Alex

So when does the stretch begin ? (you need two extra seats for the kitty cats...)

Fuck that. I'll find out what it is one day when it sends a rod through the case after I try to pass a nissan tiida (insert any other typically slowly driven modern car) on a slight downhill using gravity to aid punching the Bedford beyond its normal safe working speed.

Goddammit- wtf!???? So its not in the name...? Anyway- our 'silvertoppedblacktop' has the vac pump on the back of the alternator. Riddlemethatbarryboy.

I'll have another look and get back to you. But I've been told that silver tops had twin filters when used in commercials

Yeah I've done all of the various tricks etc and it still struggles at really low settings. Plus its hard to get it to stay at the chosen low amps. After speaking to the importer plus a few other owners of the same machine it is a problem. I very rarely use the full grunt of the machine either but it's handy when I need it and it works great for alloy tig.

I too need to get another tig. My ac/dc machine is fantastic for most welding but not very smooth on really light settings to weld thin steel/stainless - its just not designed for that. I fancy a small dc tig with a nice lightweight compact torch and shall invest soon. Those strata welders are also specced and imported by Proline I think.

That is a fucking good price. I've a weldtech mig- not quite so flash as that (not blingy lcd screen- just two knobs) Same as what @ThePog has (the welder that is - not the fact Dylan only has two knobs...in fact I believe he only has one and its not that impressive - or at least that's what @sidewaysickness mum said) Its been great and has done a huge amount of work for our business. Fantastic on car panels- very smooth (even with poverty spec co2) Greg at proline welding in Nelson is the owner/importer of weldtech. Good dude has great back up service.

Cheers- I'll get to know more about the condition of the engine once we clock up some miles on it. I was just wondering if there was any tell tale signs to look for but its all internal so not much to look at eh. Our engine has two filters (115 and a 416) is that usual for the silver tops out of safaris or more of a commercial thing?

Other than stripping a pump down is there any way that one can check the condition of a pump while still attached to the engine? Our td42 seems fine but for what I think is one tappet that needs closing up a bit. Pulls well, doesn't smoke. I guess run it for a few months and gauge the fuel/oil usage first?