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FriedClams reacted to king derelict in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Its a favourite of the High Eye Youtube channel that does dioramas
High Eye Workshop - YouTube
Alan
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Thank you Alan, it does look good - I have watched a few videos of it being used for scenery.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to king derelict in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
I haven't tried that but it is generally very forgiving and tolerant. It doesn't tear up into little balls like expanded polystyrene. I used it as the base for Castle Loarre and the current seascape. Its nice and rigid too.
Alan
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
I have seen this stuff even says it can be sanded to make contours and gradients -
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OC.
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FriedClams reacted to king derelict in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
I do like the 1 inch thick extruded (not expanded) polystyrene sold for insulation. Its easy to work with, cuts well, glues well and takes paint and medium well. When shaping slopes I find the average hobby knife doesn't work too well because the blade is just not long enough. I raid the kitchen instead. A long serrated knife works well. Remember the old "kitchen devil" knives. They are just the job
Alan
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
I have been studying that Styrene blocks that you can cut and sand to shape, need to check it out for later.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to king derelict in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
OC. I was wondering if you had some old cardboard boxes that you could cut up to create the contours of the rising ground. Then use strips of old newspapers/ free newspapers/ junk mail (just avoid the glossy paper) laid on with diluted white glue to get the final smooth shapes. Maybe a final layer of typing paper to get a clean surface if you want to paint on it. Yep,, old school (literally, I remember doing this at school sixty years ago). It’s papier-mâché as suggested above. The thickness of the card is probably not critical so you could use whatever you have on hand. Good luck. The scene is developing wonderfully
alan
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FriedClams reacted to king derelict in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
The boxes are just to yield pieces of flat card. Sorry I’m still half asleep
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FriedClams reacted to jim Landis in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
You might want to consider paper mache, using newsprint paper as well. It sounds like you will need more than one ream of copy paper for that area...
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
I am very keenly looking at all the options for my landscape areas of my build, as I want to try to do a convincing job of it.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Thank you kindly for explaining all that, my thinking for using ordinary copy paper is because I already have a ream of it to hand, I will be landscaping directly down onto my plastic base (Green in my photos) and the dimensions of the slope gradients are from 3mm at the end where it joins the paving section near the porch sloping up gradually towards the edge of the barn where it needs to be between 15 and 20mm, then sloping away to my Right where it needs to be about 25mm, so I was thinking starting off with my 3mm thick over the whole area, then page by page adding them graduating them to get the gradual slope or even a slight ridge where the slope might not be a perfect line but lightly rounded, also where it meets the log store extension I want the ground to slightly fall back abit with a nice rounded taper, not forgetting it will have the grass mat over the top of it so it should be plenty tough enough - and the weight does not matter as its weighty all over to be fair.
But I have never done any scenery landscaping before - so its all a learning curve.
I do appreciate your input and ideas brother as every little helps.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to Egilman in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Oh I completely understand my Friend.... May I make a suggestion.....
Do some materials pre-work/ pre-prep,... Standard poster board is about the thickness of the cardboard on the bottom of many notepads.... About 20-30 thousandths thick... A standard copy paper sheet is 4-5 thou thick... Laminate 6-7 sheets together into one sheet... You could even stagger the sheets to give you a thin starting and ending edge... This way you get the benefits of a thicker stronger foundation medium and a thin edge for finishing... The laminations would be lay a sheet down on a non stick surface (plastic sheet) and spray it wet with your diluted glue, lay the next sheet and do the same continuing with the inside sheets to the thickness you want, then the final sheet you lay over the freshly wetted last inner sheet and allow the glue to soak into it from underneath... Then allow to dry....
It will be a little stiffer than normal poster board from the laminating process but should duplicate the medium quite well....
But before you commit to this test it out with a one sheet set to find out how it works best for you if you go this way.... I think it will be a lot easier in the long run, yes a bit more time in preparation, but less chance for issues when you get to applying it on the model...
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Evening all, washes on the extension - just needs some gentle dry brusing dust to blend the roof in and some on the edges of the posts (also noticed a piece of the roof edge missing paint)
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Thank you for that brother, trouble is I am trying to do everything scenery wise from stuff we have in the house, the only thing I want to pay out for is more figures when I can.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to Egilman in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Should work brother, but it's going to be heavy... I would recommend poster board for the contours, it's thicker and much lighter, and you can put holes in it under the uppermost layers to keep the weight down, then use your typing weight sheets with waters down PVA to give the final layer before doing the grass sheet....
One thing it does do is give you a good surface to mount figures and trees and the like to....
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Morning all, I have decided to attempt my scenery profiling using sheets of typing paper (as I have these to hand) has any body tried this formula for model scenery as I can not find any links on the net, its sounds straight forward in my head - just a case of having enough paper for the height I want - then just sloping the A4 sheets in the directions I want using PVA to keep them in place and build it up as I go, don't foregut on top of this I have my grass sheet that will be glued over the top of the contours.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to king derelict in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Looking very nice OC. The mucky whitewashed walls are excellent
Alan
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Afternoon all, right - washes added to the wall, then glued down, also I added wee bit more washes to the general areas to dirty it up a little, the log store still needs its extension placing.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to Canute in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Looks like a lot of block walls around here. Keep up the good work, mate. 😄
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FriedClams reacted to mtaylor in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Kind of looks like a wall???? Humpf... that is a wall.
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FriedClams reacted to Old Collingwood in Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)
Evening all, working on my wall - random brick colours done then a dusty dry brush, this will be followed up tomorrow with a wash or Two to darken it all - kind of looks like a wall.
OC.
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FriedClams reacted to Keith Black in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
The wheel is a beauty, Siggi.
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FriedClams reacted to Siggi52 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
Hello,
it is done. At least the wheels are ready build. Next to build are the two supporters for the wheels.
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FriedClams reacted to Mirabell61 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
great work Siggi,
I see that your chissel cutting tool has the exact contour of the spindles, smart and time saving idea !
Nils
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FriedClams reacted to Siggi52 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
Hello,
because today the summer ended we had here the last weeks and it rained again the whole day, I was busy at the yard.
This is cutter No. 3 and I think now it works. The handles are a little too bulky, but when they are slimmer they would break. The spooks have a Ø of 1,6 mm!
Now are only 17+ spooks left
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