Good Grief PVA is a tough tool to work with
............
Slow to cure and has a capillary behavior that defies gravity AND the time/space continuum!!
That aside, (Retired) Gen Alpha's bunker is coming together now.
I stumbled over the mesh I needed to get the match for the security panels as are visible in the period picture.
In a local hardware chain store(Bunnings for the locals) while the Wife was setting up for a school fund raising sausage sizzle, wandering around looking for any object that looked like the material that looked remotely like that of the stuff shown in the picture from the day.
Apparently in the home storage section, they have various baskets you use for paperwork & stuff like that(if thats your OCD thing) who knew
Well, in white or black, pressed steel mesh, $14.95AUD (thats about 3 pence/Euro for those with real currency
) I got enough to make loads of screens! AAAaaand I got a sausage to boot
Tough to cut though being steel, but once the edge trim is put on all panels, and painted, it should look good.
Got a bit of Kiwi blood spilled cutting the sections, but it was worth it.
The roof was a weapons grade pain in the ass to get to get right.
Again, the PVA glue & shape angles, plus its need to be supported more than a functioning alcoholic at a beer festival ,meant a long slow process to get it done.
A bit to do on the roof details, and the lower facade details, but the final form is there.
Still to place the flat timbers and other bits as seen in the period picture, which should help to add strength to the structure.
I still would appreciate any of our members that can speak French(not google) giving me direction on how to correctly make the sign on the roof that reads something like :
GENERAL ALPHAS JOURNAUX...........or............GIRLS UND PANZER JOURNAUX........(but written in spoken French)........
Thats the key for me to be able to send this off as I feel it should be.
Its my intent to complete this project and make it available to be repatriated to Hawaii where it could be retained by the man that gave me the motivation and means to do it, or, turned over to the relatives of the Late General for their care & fate.
Either way, I just want to get it right as much as my skill will allow.
HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85