Hens - and new fence ...

[trammayo]

Recently I purchased a box Brutain's farmyard chucks - three pair of red and three white. These, when further modified will grace the trailer layout's cottage gardens.

They are supposedly 1/32nd scale but, to my eyes, are not out of place on 1.22 or 1.20 layouts.

I gave two pair of the white hens, a wash of dirty turps that the brush was soaking in. The white, as supplied seems ,a little too bright and the plumage (from a couple of feet away) didn't show up. The couple of 1.20 little horrors show up the scale well.

I was working on the trailer layout, fitting some station fencing I built a few weeks ago. Offcuts of wood, coffee stirrers and the secateurs. The posts, which start at "ground level" were drilled and pins fitted. Corresponding hole were drilled in the back edge of the platform.

A drop of superglue (after tapping the posts down) was used to further secure. Cost (not including time) was around 20 pence. The fence on the opposite side was made from stripwood and cost a few quid.

I'll continue working on the hens - making them individual rather than grouped - and might get to fit them when I drag the trailer out for this coming weekend's show.

The Britain's hens came from Letterkenny - via a pop-up add on GSC. SAved on International postage

 

[playmofire]

Nice work, Mick.

 

[Gizzy]

Finger lickin' good!

I reckon you should brush all the hens with the dirty turps, both the white and the brown....

 

[The Devonian]

The fowl look very good Mick and the "dirty wash" improved the look of them. I like your trailer set up by the way: I hope it gets results in addition to interest. I have a few fowl and sheep near a barn but those look better than mine.
I have some bears and deer around the railway but am on the lookout for a coyote or two, But they are Thin on the ground in the UK.

 

[trammayo]

Thanks for your comments chaps.

Gizzy - I wondered about the red ones - will do them too!
Ross - over t'border they did indeed. Cilla springs to mind.
Gordon - thanks
Alan - I've got all sorts of animals around the layout and had been looking for some 'right size' hens for a while. Coyote - Schleich (if that's how its spelt)? Thanks for your comments on the trailer. It draws its fair share of spectators but not much on the results side. As I have always had an interest in Vintage & Agri shows, it gets me all over the country. Too busy running trains for folk to see the shows though

 

[trammayo]

I had a go with the red hens but the wash didn't appear to take as well as it did on the white ones. Until I started to separate them from the green sward they stood, I didn't realise that the base colour was white and that all other colours were painted on.

Anyway, after a lot of cutting with the razor saw, hens and grass parted company. 1mm diameter holes were drilled and a steel pin inserted in each hen. This will allow me to fix them to my layout by drilling corresponding holes in the baseboards.

As the painted hens still had a glossy finish, I used some matt varnish. The pics show the results. Still need to make a hen hut and other poultry accoutrements.

 

[Gizzy]

Chooks look much better now?

You've even gained approval from Mizzy Gizzy....

 

[KeithT]

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I have some bears and deer around the railway but [style="color: #0000ff;"]am on the lookout for a coyote or two, But they are Thin on the ground in the UK.

Have you tried the Banks.............? ?

 

[trammayo]

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I have some bears and deer around the railway but [style="color: #0000ff;"]am on the lookout for a coyote or two, But they are Thin on the ground in the UK.

Have you tried the Banks.............? ?

I think they only have the wiley ones Keith.

Thanks Gizey.

Well, chucked the chucks around. Now need to include a few humans - plus I need a cat (or two)...

 

[cbeckett]

G'day - catching up!

I've tried to buy online some Britains chooks and pigs - results of searching tend to be vintage lead ones... to expensive and n/s for outdoors.

1:32 scale is great - just littlies...

Can you advise where you got these from, or a supplier please? I keep looking in op-shops, but to no avail. I did manage to get a kids toy wild-west wagon - for a buck - took the wheels off, threw the rest away, then got it out of the bin as realised the plastic could be useful!

Cheers, Chris

 

[trammayo]

Hi Chris - I got mine from over the border. Tinney's Toys, Letterkenney.

www.tinneysfarmtoys.ie

Good luck.

 

[tramcar trev]

They do add something to the scene... What next, a fox hunt?

 

[cbeckett]

checking out that URL - Fox hunt could be fun - maybe cricketers on the village green, as the bells chime 3?

 

[PhilP]

Not sure they fox-hunt in Germany, but we do have 'shooters and rabbits' on the Harz!!

 

[trammayo]

They do add something to the scene... What next, a fox hunt?

Red tails for the funset?

 

[tramcar trev]

Red tails for the funset?

 

[cbeckett]

Trammayo, thanks for the link www.tinneysfarmtoys.ie - soon filled up my shopping cart!

 

[trammayo]

That's good. I trust you will post some pics when you get them set up!

 

[cbeckett]

Apropos of nothing...

Chooks' eggs in Oz are so tasty - dunno what they feed them on. I can't wait to get my plastic lot, and see what they lay....

 

[tramcar trev]

Apropos of nothing...

Chooks' eggs in Oz are so tasty - dunno what they feed them on. I can't wait to get my plastic lot, and see what they lay....

Aussie eggs are nothing compared with Kiwi Chook eggs.... Duck eggs are best for flavour but not easy to get... My personal favourite eggs come from Darrel Lea and have a chocolate shell....