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1 hour ago, modelman182 said:

Ha ha - touché, sir. In all honesty, it's a bit small to be of any use. It's a 'Starter kit' from the people who make castle kits using ceramic brickwork (they also did the Stonehenge I built last year).

 

The card is simply a template. The bags at the back of the pic are (from L to R) individual bricks [or perhaps stones would be a better description], roof tiles, paving slabs and static grass.

 

Building it for my LMS to display as he stocks a few of their larger kits.

 

Nice work on the window frame. Damn, that brush is coming in awfully handy, isn't it? 🙂

 

Kev

Hi Kev,

I did notice the bags of 'stones' after posting my comment. I suspect they'd come in handy for anyone building a diorama. I will have to have a look on t'internet. What's the manufacturer's name? And don't say 'Brian.'

 

Yep, the broom was a fantastic buy. I look forward to discovering what else I use the bristles for!

 

Rearguards,

Badder

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Hi Badder. Just been catching up with your progress and it looks to progressing 'relatively' smoothly!! Yet more amazingly realistic effects throughout! :worthy:

Kind regards,

Stix

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29 minutes ago, PlaStix said:

Hi Badder. Just been catching up with your progress and it looks to progressing 'relatively' smoothly!! Yet more amazingly realistic effects throughout! :worthy:

Kind regards,

Stix

Thanks Stix,

No major disasters as such, just the usual changing of mind, re-doing bits, and general fooling around with experiments! The problem with these ruined buildings is resisting the temptation to actually build a complete, intact buidling!  There are some sections which look finished, but will get 'knocked down' in the future. That's either going to be fun...... or terrifying!

 

Rearguards,

Badder

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6 hours ago, Badder said:

I did notice the bags of 'stones' after posting my comment. I suspect they'd come in handy for anyone building a diorama. I will have to have a look on t'internet. What's the manufacturer's name? And don't say 'Brian.'

Brian? Oh no - I would never say him - he's a very naughty boy! 😉  (and he isn't the Messiah!)

 

The manufacturer is Aedes Ars - here's a link to their site: http://www.aedesars.com/home

 

My local model shop stocks a few of their kits and I know that they're available through Amazon and a few other online retailers.

 

Cheers

 

Kev

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I skipped a few steps in the photos here I'm afraid, basically because the painting and weathering was a quick process.

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First I removed the graphpaper. I then painted the entire window frame with pale blue and carved grain patterns into the wood where I wanted to show rot. Brown was then applied to most of these areas and then washed off to a greater or lesser extent.  I CA'd panes of glass to the backs of the frames. (Not individual panes, but two rectangles cut from a piece of merchandise packaging) and dirtied the glass with a wash of brown.

 

When it came to fixing the window casemnt in place I deliberately left the top piece of wood off. I have the original part though and this will be fitted in a 'fallen off' position.

 

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I still haven't carved the stonework around the window. That's because I'm not happy with the surround. I will probably end up replacing it with a slimmer version.

 

TFL

Badder

 

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Not much progress on Tuesday due to 'falling asleep at the drop of a hat' which is nowadays customary!

What I did manage to do (not in my sleep) was set about making another window frame, which just needs the .... er.... the er... what's the bits that go across windows and support each individual pane called? Anyway, them.

Oh, and I also ripped that window surround off that I grumbled about in the previous photo.

If I can stay awake long enough later today, I will hopefully have a few more windows done and fitted. I won't fit every window though as I tend to use the empty window apertures as handles to pick the blooming thing up!

 

TFL

Badder

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8 hours ago, modelman182 said:

Yep - mullions.

 

Badder, here's a link to a page with an 'Anatomy of windows' : https://www.pella.com/glossary/window-anatomy/

 

That should give you the majority of the terms for them 🙂

 

Kev

 

8 hours ago, bhouse said:

Mullions?

Thanks chaps,

It was on the tip of my tongue, but at 2.30am-ish I couldn't be bothered to google it.

Luckily I don't need to make millions of mullions.

 

Rearguards,

Badder

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Hmmmm. Fell asleep again! Grrrr!

 

Got another winow nearly finished though.  Dry-fitted here and still needing some rotting. And and dust/fluff removal.

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TFL

Badder

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You know that wall I hate? Well, I was originally intending to cover it with a lot of ivy, but I've come up with an additional idea to make it more interesting.

I'd post a pic, only Imgur hasn't been working for several hours. I hope they aren't going the way of hostingpics, or photoracket

 

 

 

 

 

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Still unable to access Imgur to share new photos. Have tried everything, but 'connection timed out' message comes up no matter which browser I use. Tried all that ipconfig nonsense, and followed lots of possible 'cures' on the net, but still no luck. It's just Imgur that is unreachable. All a bit of a mystery. Wonders if it's a virus, or a possible hack and someone has 'locked' me out of Imgur? I'm a luddite. I don't know.

 

Grrrrrr.

 

 

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6 hours ago, Badder said:

Still unable to access Imgur to share new photos. Have tried everything, but 'connection timed out' message comes up no matter which browser I use. Tried all that ipconfig nonsense, and followed lots of possible 'cures' on the net, but still no luck. It's just Imgur that is unreachable. All a bit of a mystery. Wonders if it's a virus, or a possible hack and someone has 'locked' me out of Imgur? I'm a luddite. I don't know.

 

Grrrrrr.

 

 

Strange. Do you still see your earlier photos, like the ones above? I see them perfectly well. And I can go to Imgur and browse around, so no general Imgur problem. I'm not an Imgur user so I cannot test photo uploading.

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21 hours ago, Svedberg said:

Strange. Do you still see your earlier photos, like the ones above? I see them perfectly well. And I can go to Imgur and browse around, so no general Imgur problem. I'm not an Imgur user so I cannot test photo uploading.

Yeah, all of the photos posted here show up, but if I click on the photo (which should take you to the imgur image on their site, I can't get to it. I get 'connection timed out' message.

My bro is an IT specialist and he suspects I have some virus that's blocking me from just that site. I will switch to Flickr, but hopefully he can figure out and cure the problem. As I said elsewhere, I have nearly 1700 photos on Imgur and don't fancy having to replace them all.

 

 

 

Rearguards

Badder

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Hi Badder. Hope you are well. Well the windows from last week look to be progressing well and I hope you manage to get your photo hosting problems sorted soon.

Kind regards,

Stix 

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20 hours ago, PlaStix said:

Hi Badder. Hope you are well. Well the windows from last week look to be progressing well and I hope you manage to get your photo hosting problems sorted soon.

Kind regards,

Stix 

All good here, thanks Stix.

All the better for having solved my Imgur accessing problem! Dunno what the issue was, but I found that by adding the Imgur address to my Internet Options, Security, 'Trusted Sites' and clicking on the 'Enable Protected Mode' box, I can now get to my Imgur account and use it.

Maybe one of these actions solved the problem, maybe both together solved it. I don't know. All I know is that I hadn't needed to do this previously. Maybe someone can explain what happened, what the cause might have been, to require me to do these things?

 

Very little progress diorama-wise, because of the hours spent trawling through and playing with my laptop settings, so no pics to show.

Back to making more windows!

 

Rearguards,

Badder

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On ‎10‎/‎21‎/‎2018 at 3:05 AM, Badder said:

Still unable to access Imgur to share new photos. Have tried everything, but 'connection timed out' message comes up no matter which browser I use. Tried all that ipconfig nonsense, and followed lots of possible 'cures' on the net, but still no luck. It's just Imgur that is unreachable. All a bit of a mystery. Wonders if it's a virus, or a possible hack and someone has 'locked' me out of Imgur? I'm a luddite. I don't know.

 

Grrrrrr.

 

  

As a Luddite in residence 😎 I can assure you that your "connections timed out"  is due entirely to the faulty fram-a-shan, that has failed to combine with Uranus, causing a temporal drift into the back of the beyond-temporally . So soon your connection will be right as rain, uh, tickity-boo, uh, bobs yer uncle  or whatever you folks say. 🤔

Now on to more pressing matters and things of major import I have to say your window work is  uh, "spot-on" (that does mean "looks really good"- humm?) I hope you can read this, as some  say I have a strong-ish American accent yo.gif

I can see that by watching your labors, how I can find "crafty-tricks-of-trade" to steal Uh I mean learn so someday I can perhaps learn to open a folded sheet of paper and know which side is up. 😋

                     p.s. thank you for sharing  your great talent with us.👍 

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On 10/23/2018 at 11:24 PM, Prop Duster said:

I can see that by watching your labors, how I can find "crafty-tricks-of-trade" to steal Uh I mean learn so someday I can perhaps learn to open a folded sheet of paper and know which side is up. 😋

                     p.s. thank you for sharing  your great talent with us.👍 

Hi Steve,

Sorry for the long delay in replying to your totally sane post, but I had trouble deciphering the word 'labors'. It's not in my Oxford English Dictionary. Neither is anything between the letters 'P' and ''N'. Yep, the dog ate all those pages. And it ripped out the 'N' and 'P' sections, and carefully re-inserted them into the dictionary the wrong way round, which explains the non-alphabeticallness of it. Having said all of that, I don't have a dog. I have 3 cats though, so maybe it was one of them - probably Molly-I-hate-'O's-cat.

 

Feel free to steal any of my 'crafty-tricks-of-trade' (I assume that's an American expression, because over here we call it 'common sense') I'm always glad if anyone finds anything even remotely useful in my threads!

 

Rearguards,

Badder

 

 

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Right. I've been away from BM for a few days, or six. Firstly, I've just been too tired to do anything worth posting. And secondly, I came to a bit of an impasse, contemplating the work I've done hitherto. Wow. I think that's the first time I've ever used the word 'Hitherto' like, ever.

I've been contemplating that damned wall I hate. And then I got to contemplating the walls at the 'rear' of the building as well. And I came to the conclusion that I'm not happy with them. 

 

What I've decided to do is..... replace them! Or at least, re-face them. Yep, call me a bloomin' idiot if you like, but I figure this diorama (and my Ever Evolving Diorama) will be the first and last of my 'Large Dioramas' and as such I want to be extremely happy with every aspect of each. The stonework is no good on the 'hated' wall, and 'in places, not as good as it could be' at the rear. i'm not going to re-skim the walls with plaster and recarve them this time though; I'm going to take the plaster right back and face the walls with FTINFBISS instead. It's so much easier to 'carve' than plaster, with clean lines, and clean, dust free air! But mostly, it will give me the opportunity to get the stonework pattern consistent with that of the gable end wall (something which I hadn't achieved previously) and get it all horizontal, parallel and true.  Yes, there will still be some inconsistences (deliberate ones) there still be some damage, there'll still be collapses, but I won't feel the need to cover large sections of it with ivy to hide the poor bits.

 

As I'm using the FBTINFBISS, I can make the new walls 'off the model'. I don't imagine it will take very long. The taking-back of the current walls will be the hardest part.

 

Anyhoo... watch this space.

 

 

Badder

 

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Good grief Badder! If you're discarding the walls you've already done (masterpieces, from what I have seen) you should stick them on eBay. A starting price of a grand each would be reasonable.

I really don't see how you can improve on what you've already done - you're obviously a hard taskmaster!

Grand work, as ever. 

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2 hours ago, bhouse said:

Good grief Badder! If you're discarding the walls you've already done (masterpieces, from what I have seen) you should stick them on eBay. A starting price of a grand each would be reasonable.

I really don't see how you can improve on what you've already done - you're obviously a hard taskmaster!

Grand work, as ever. 

Hi Brian,

Thanks, I've seen walls and buildings of superb quality on here and other places and I want to look at mine and think they are, if not as good, then at least the best that I can do. That's not the case at the moment. Of the two options: re-plastering and re-carving, or refacing it with carved 'foamboard', I think the latter is the best option. I say that because whilst plaster casts were my only option in the past, and have served me well, I'm now prefering the advantages that the 'foamboard' offers. I have a large supply of the stuff now and, if I could start again, I'd build the entire farmhouse with it.

I've started on the wall that I hate, and am taking back the plaster to the required depth. Once the 'foamboard' has been carved, fitted and painted up, I'll post comparitive photos which will hopefully show a very noticable improvement!

 

As for sellling my walls on eBay, I am looking into maybe getting the finished buidling (or something very similar) scanned and 3D printed. (My bro has a 3D printer) If that's's feasible, I could maybe turn the thing into kit form? I won't say any more than that at the moment, but I do have several ideas which may prove very popular.

 

Rearguards,

Badder

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Scraping back the plaster would have been a lot easier if it weren't impregnated with veins of CA. The CA was used to glue the original plaster parts together and it tends fo 'capillariate' in the gaps, mix with any plaster dust and set like glass. These veins are visible as black lines running vertically down the sides of the 'stripped' wall. Being unable to get the scalpel at certain angles, I resorted to melting the glue veins with a pyrograph.

 

Here's the wall scraped back. Oh, of course I removed the window surround, the window sill and the windows themselves.

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With the piece of FTINFBISS shaped to fit:

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With the window aperture 'roughed out'.

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Above: To get the window aperture positioned correctIy, I ran a scalpel around the inner window aperture and scribed the outline onto the reverse of the FTINFBISS.  It was a simple case to then remove the board and scribe right through it to make the window aperture. Wise of me not to have fixed the floorboards in place or access to the inner window aperture would have been awkward.

 

I would usually use graphpaper now, sticking it to the FTINFBISS and using it as a guide to scribe the stonework pattern, only my pad seems to have disappeared. I suspect the wife used it to light the log fire.

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Lined paper and a set square will have to do......

 

I can now remove the wall and scribe a better stonework pattern that what was there previously. Scribing the wall 'off the model' is easier for one thing, but the FTINFBISS is far easier to 'carve' than plaster anyway.

 

TFL

Badder

 

 

 

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Okay Badder - it's about time you came clean with this! I think you have a Time Machine and that you're determined to build something that has 'evolved' over a couple of centuries into a scale working of a few months.

 

Your processes of building, stripping back and re-building are so like every builder I've ever known that you MUST be watching them... somehow! 😉

 

Whatever it is you're doing, it's wonderful - keep doing it, please!

 

Kev

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1 hour ago, modelman182 said:

Okay Badder - it's about time you came clean with this! I think you have a Time Machine and that you're determined to build something that has 'evolved' over a couple of centuries into a scale working of a few months.

 

Your processes of building, stripping back and re-building are so like every builder I've ever known that you MUST be watching them... somehow! 😉

 

Whatever it is you're doing, it's wonderful - keep doing it, please!

 

Kev

Hi Kev,

I swear it's not intentional. I really wish I could get things right first time. To be fair, most of my 'failures' are first attempts at something and I learn 'on the job'. So I think it's okay in those cases to scrap the object and start again.  This building has been a lot harder than I had envisaged, mainly because a lot of it wasn't up to standard in the first place - this  wall that I hate, for instance. It was a bad plaster cast and I should have replace it right at the outset!

 

Still, I'm enjoying it all.  Sadly though, it's going to have to go on the back-burner whilst I take part in the forthcoming PzIV STGB,

 

Rearguards,

Badder

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Well.............. I think this is a lot better than it was:

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Admittedly, not perfect, but there's still work to be done on it. I'm going to 'raise','sink' and apply pitting to a few stones so as to match the character of the gable wall. That will give me the opportunity to hide some of the 'slips' and tidy up some of the messy bits.

 

I mentioned a while back that I'd had an idea for this wall - at the time thinking that it would save me from having to replace it. Obviously that idea was scrapped, but here's what it was: to part-cover the wall with wooden clapper-board (painted blue to match the barn doors etc.

In the end I decided it would look a bit odd and superfluous to requirements (of the former occupants) But, I will probably add a couple of boards up under the eaves, mostly to hide the joint between plaster and FTINFBISS, but also for somewhere for bats to roost.

 

TFL

Badder

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