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@Marklo, yes, stacking would be the thing, and I already tried that, but unfortunatly it is really not possible.

Thanks guys. I will keep the chairs (at least for now 😀). I will better the painting, break a leg or two, and I have actually ordered a child tricycle. As a kind of backup illusion support. Maybe it want be needed.

A quick (and badly executed) brush paint job to check if the chairs can pass as chlidrens' chairs by painting them in vivid colors, as suggested by @psdavidson. I think this might work. Or do they still just look like oddly sized chairs?

Good idea. If I could add some kind of toy alongside them it would perhaps be easier for the viewer to see that they are child size.

I sat out to prime some of the 3D printed 1/35 scale chairs I bought for this little project. Like this: Perfectly OK chairs, at the first look. Then I thought it would be nice with a matching table, which I scratch built from styrene and some brass rod. But when I placed a chair next to the table I saw that something was out of scale. The chair looked awfully small alongside the table. Measurements and calculations showed that the chairs are rather 1/45 scale than the advertised 1/35. Bugger! 😒 The small size also reveals itself when a chair is placed alongside the bike. The picture below shows the problem. The fridge and the washing machine (from the same manufacturer) are also on the small side, but only a tad. I think they can pass. What to do with the chairs I do not know right now. I'll postpone that decision for now, and start working on the scenery base instead. Seems funnier. 😐

Thanks a lot @Hunker! Exactly the kind of info I was after.

Thanks for the tip @Lewis95 I'll look into that.

Not on this one apparently! 😀 But thanks anyway.

Thanks @Lewis95. I already use mostly water but think something with a little more "tooth" is needed in tight areas such as inside the nozzle. I haven't tried IPA for the reason you give. But maybe I should try it.

Attention turned the appliances: a refrigerator and a washing machine. The kits I bought for these are 3D printed and do not contain very many parts, but are well executed and contain a surprising amount of details. Here are the parts (except for the glas part of the washing machine hatch), after priming: And here they have been assembled and given a basic coat of white paint. Even the inside of the washing machine and the back of the fridge are modelled! Time to raise the entropy by adding some rust and grime. Perhaps I overdid it? At least the grime in the fridge. And also, the camera is always unforgiving in close up photos like this. I might revisit the fridge at a later stage. What do you say?

Thanks. Yes, working on them. 🙂

Thanks @Mark Cassidy

Hi, I mostly use Vallejo colors when airbrushing and have been using Vallejo Airbrush Cleaner (to complement ordinary tap water which I use for the major part of the cleaning), but have come to wonder what the cleaner really consists of. Is it mostly some readily available stuff I could buy more cheaply somewhere else than at the hobby shop? Anyone knows? What do you otherwise use for acrylic paints?

Looking great!

Thank you @Trevor L. They do not look that shabby I think. Or that’s maybe exactly what they do. 😄

Thanks @Muchmirth!

I continued working on the bikes. First a general layer of rust colors. And then the various parts were brush painted: - An aluminum color on all the bare metal and chrome parts. - Remnants of the original frame color - Black and grey on the tires, saddle and handles. Last, it was all brought together with a light rust wash and some weathering powders. I'll leave it at that, at least for the time being, and turn my attention to the refrigerator and the washing machine.

Black primer...

Thanks! Yes, the whole build was quite tricky. But the chain more or less bent itself, so that part was not that hard. It was harder to keep things supposed to be straight from not bending. 😛

Thanks! Yes, that would certainly be appropriate! But the tires are so thin so I am afraid that would be really hard to pull off in a convincing way. And also, I plan to have a lot of weeds growing around the bikes so I don't think you would have seen any of it anyway.

I started the build by assembling the bicycles. It turned out that the actual bicycles where identical in the two different "Soldier-with-Bicycle" kits I had bought. The two kits where the same, except for the figures themselves. What otherwise differed between the kits was which gear you were supposed to load onto the bike. This is what the bike parts of the kits both looked like. I just wanted the generic bike parts and not any of the military gear. I also did not use the more archaic looking parts, like the old style hand-brake handle, since I wanted the bikes to pass as a little more modern items, matching the washing machine and the refrigerators. This was not a very easy build (for me at least 🙂), since many parts were very small and fragile, having a tendency to break. Resulting in some not very nice looking attempts at mending. I made one of the bikes more or less intact looking while the other one has been somewhat cannibalized and wrecked Here are the two bikes after assembly.

A caravan! Yes that would be cool, but this was supposed to be a small build so … may be some other time since I like the idea of a caravan.

As I just said in the chat thread, I have decided to give this GB a try. My idea is to build a vignette showing some everyday stuff, like bicycles and household appliances, that have been left outside to slowly decay away. Maybe against a background of an ill maintained wall. And with weeds all around. We'll see how well I'll succeed. Anyway, here are some inspirational photos: So far, I have acquired some kits to get me started. I will not be using the figures, just their bikes. 🙂 I got he soldiers, although I did not need them, since I could not locate any other bike kits in a suitable scale. Now I shall just muster courage enough to actually get going.

Late to the party, but I have decided to give this a try. My inspiration is just the everyday decay of the everyday things around us. Stuff like this.

…now rebranded to The X ? 🙂