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Hi Doris, you are deliciously mad! all the best Tom
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Hi all, it's been a while, but the festive season kept my quite busy and there was Little time to relax in the Workshop. Just a quick update. The inner gunportframes are all in, the two halfes have been joined together and I have loosely fitted the gundeck base. Next step is to install the final gunportframes. best Tom
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Hi all, I wanted to let you know about my experience with the use of basswood for miniature carving. Quite a lot of modellers, including myself, entertain the prejudice, that basswood is not very good for miniature carving. Instead, the only timber to go for, are all sorts of short-grained, hard-growing fruit varieties. Not true. I have a carving mentor, who lives near the alps. 1 hour driving time. Every now and then I visit him for a lesson. The typical alpine carving style is what he does for a living. Nativity scenes and that sort of thing. But sometimes he does miniatures, just to push the borders and see what's possible. From that, from practicing with basswood, I can tell you, basswood is perfect for miniature carving. Especially, if you plan to gild, or paint it. It is not as hard as the fruit timber, but still holds tiny edges. It is worked with normal, small carving tools. You need to keep them in a pristine sharp condition. But you do not have to invest in expensive high quality dental burr equipment, if you don't want to. This also means you can finish figures much faster than working the much harder fruits, like pear or box. I am attaching a picture of a quadriga, my mentor did. That's his smallest so far. The groundplate is much smaller than my palm. Again, no dental burrs, only knives and traditional miniture carving tools. Tom
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Hi Nigel, apple is a treat to work with, very similar to swiss pear. Good für planking, beams and even carving. It holds tiny edges as good as pear or boxwood. The natural color of apple i very nice and can vary. Another excellent wood for miniature carving is plum. It has the same characteristics as pear or apple, but has a much wider variaty of colours. Very nice when doing carvings in 1/48. Especially if you don't want to guild or paint it, but leave it natural. It can flare up with nice surprises within one figurehead. Blue-ish grain areas, for instance. Very beautiful. best Tom
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