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Great work Will. What did you use for foliage? And how did you get it to clump like that? CarlL The foliage is the Javis clump foliage, but the literally sticky part is smearing the glue across the top of the prunings and wire and then pressing it together. The break off any loose/badly positioned ...

The varieties of vines and the way they are grown varies a lot depending on the local conditions. In our case, the vines originally grew wild on my grandfather's property in Missouri before being transplanted to Kentucky. Local conditions in our case were more than a bit odd. In addition to a purpo...

Very nice work. I think the plant prunings are more convincing than the wire ones. The vines my father and grandfather used to grow got quite large at the base, although I'm not sure how much similarity there is between local grape varieties and Sicilian ones. David The varieties of vines and the w...

After my failure to make hardly any of the terrain I intended last year I thought I had better start with my long planned extra vines. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-udWGDtXj7t0/YG6egj2gc8I/AAAAAAAAZrE/TbDT5gEb8EAtueXpwoB7_TPZhukEr3UVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Vines%2B1.JPG I made three according to my original d...

While hunting through the stash for something else I found I had four of the Fujimi motorcycles and I haven't assembled any

I seem to be in a race with my mate Andy to finish sets we have shared and yet again he beat me to it. These are Mars figures and like many of their newer sets they are quite nice mouldings. I gave them a mix of civilian and military dress all linked by a yellow Volkssturm armband. https://1.bp.blog...

They look very nice

I had considered the long tom, but decided my Boers could always use my 4.7" naval gun if required

Right at the beginning of our period, just what's need to support my Boers https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WxTK-KHccm8/YF5Nu1YdaFI/AAAAAAAAZpA/iAVLI-Gh2fQDqclel0Mic7Fw5h4bWU5QwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Col%2BBoer%2BArtillery%2B1.JPG Theses are two Krupp 75mm field guns and a pair of 1pdr pom-poms from Strelets, su...

Thanks for the translation