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ATM the sky board is tucked between two stacks of crates, and the other two are leaning on the plotter - I need to make more permanent arrangements.

Managed to get a bit of primer on the smaller/loose bits of the Hagglund (everything except the bodies really), but weather & forecasts are really against getting any more spraying done for a while

There are other RC related things that I "should"/could be doing, but I really felt lie doing something simple with quick(er) results - so I'm making some skips (aka dumpsters) instead

Strictly speaking these are 1:14 scale, 12 yard (large) skips, but fortuitously this means they also come very close to 1:12 8 yard skips (I guess the size most likely to be seen in the UK), and/or 6 yard (still seen fairly often for domestic clearouts & smaller kitchen/bathroom refits at 1:10 scale. They're about 20mm shorter than the first one I built, a little lower & quite a bit narrower, for better scale accuracy.



Parts cut to shape from 1mm sheet:




Top/side reinforcing bits bonded on:
 



Lift points reinforced with M3 machine screws:




Basic structure done:




End reinforcement (1.5mm strips) & drag/steady bars:

OK i'm going to ask the question.  Why are you making skips? 

I want to have removable scrap in these, so made platforms to make them nearly full to start.

This is the underside of one to show the reinforcement:




I've divided most of my "interesting" styrene scraps between the three, this will make up the top layer(s) once I've put in enough boring scrap to hide the platform/insert:  

That's crazy. I love them

If your going to paint them yellow Hycote do an AA yellow.

Way ahead of you

 

Taped up the inside of each skip to stop the inserts sticking, and fixed on the 1st layer of "boring" scraps

 

Awesome as usual!
Do you cut by hand or with the plotter?

Can't wait to sit down in my new mancave and do styrene and other rc stuff.

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