End to End with Cassette Fiddleyard

[user=19]Marty[/user] wrote:

Splendid modelling… love the little axe on the chopping block.
Forgive me for asking but what is in the wagon/cart in the back garden? A sack of potatoes or maybe coal?

My original thought when I put it there was that it would be coal.

Although there is also a small pile of logs by the outhouse for the fire.

I am going to call this done for now, there's still a lot that can be added but I will leave that until the better weather comes and I can make some mess in the shed in the warm and I want to get on with something else.

Hello,
That is a great piece of work. What era are you aming at?
Stephen

I can see why you'd call it done for now, it looks pretty good.

That looks brilliant Andy - superb bit of modelling.  :thumbs

[user=802]GreenBR[/user] wrote:

Hello,
That is a great piece of work. What era are you aming at?
Stephen

Middle/Late 50's to early 60's, middle to late Summer.

Next project started, another from the J Ahern miniature building book.

Walls marked out and started on the finishing of each wall before assembly



First two walls and floor boxed up



And a small barn that I am working on while waiting for glue and paint to dry



This will have a lean-to cart shed added and will be part of my farm set when I get that far.

That's looking very nice indeed. Glad things are progressing well for you

That look good Andy.

What's the brickwork on the wall in the first photo - paper ?

Great stuff, I like the individual garden designs. And off with another project - looking good already!

Michael

No not paper, scribed into the card and then painted using watercolours.

The scribing can be done reasonably quickly, the painting takes a bit longer, I have used papers and may still do in the future on some buildings.

I blame it on the wife as she got me a copy of 'Cottage Modelling for Pendon', by Chris Pilton for Xmas. it has some really useful techniques even if you don't want to scribe your own bricks.

Now got the three arched windows to make and got to do the hanging slates on the upper front of the building.

Wow - painted !!!  That really does move it up a notch Andy - excellent stuff. 

My wall painting goes as far as the inside of a tunnel ……………………. ;-)

Any particular trick to the brick scribing?

I use a metal letter opener honed to a sharp but rounded edge for the horizontal scribing, then a 1mm jewellers screwdriver to mark the vertical brick courses.

The actual courses are first marked out in margins using a sharp point (I use a point from a pair of dividers) for the type of brick bond required.

If you make sure the marking out is accurate then the actual scribing is relatively easy using a set square and the 1mm screwdriver.

 These are all methods described in the book, and it makes it easier than when I first tried it by trying to scribe it all using a semi blunt pointed scriber.

You just need a bit of practice to get the pressure correct when scribing and finding a type of card that takes the scribing and watercolours nicely, I am luck in that we use a smooth white card in A4 size 0.75mm thick at work for labelling pallets.
 

Thanks, good to know! I think I'll be able to put that to good use.

The main walls are now boxed up ready for more detail and the corners sorting, the lower brick wall is not fixed yet as I need to make a couple of simple interior rooms for where the windows will let in enough light to see in as this building will be near the front of the layout, I can then install ceilings and start on the roof and cornices and supporting columns.

That's looking very nice!

The first simple room for the downstairs, the upstairs one can be even simpler.

The figures are cheap far east ones that are ideal for using in interiors and carriages.

That interior is looking good. And I keep meaning to get myself some of those figures

I thought you said "simple" Andy - that's better furnished than my house !

You're doing a great job.   :thumbs