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Old Collingwood

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  1. Good to know chris, reason I ask - with some of the card I use in my Waterloo build, I have got into the habbit of brushing over a 50/50 watered down PVA to strenthen the card. OC.
  2. Very nice work chris, how do you go about preserving the card/does it need any sutch thing? OC.
  3. Evening all, firstly a Huge thanks to all the likes and comments about my build - its all my buddies here that make this and any build worth the time. Right on with some more progress - I am still working on the staircase area making a little space underneath where I can hide a toilet/heads type thing, firstly I made a floor for it and set about creating some tiles, first I made a paper template than I cut out the individual tiles and glued them down on some card leaving a mortar gap, then I painted the mortar gaps in sand and the tiles in Brick. When dry I glued the staircase down onto the floor, next I filled in part of the front with card leaving a space in the front where I will construct and fit an angled door, to finish off tonight I made a cardboard end to close it in. Also I made the partition wall using card and paper glued on both sides then trimed to fit, this still needs it cut out acess into the living room. I am quite happy as its looking better than I thought it would. OC.
  4. Thank you All for the input and regards, I was thinking of doing similar to how ships heads was set up around that time - basically just a box with a hole in it leading to a pipe in the ground, and a bucket with water kept at the side (hope that would have been the kind of thing in use back then)? OC.
  5. Just done a quick plan in Paint, this will be my first level floor plan - The main Black line is the main partition that goes from ground to roof, there will be Two bedrooms with a small hall way, where there will be Two doors going into each bedroom. On the ground level there is a Large kitchen with a w/c area under the stairs, the stairs will be situated against the partition wall, a door will lead into a small living room. Hope that makes sense? OC.
  6. Hiya mate, yep its a nice straight forward assembly using a slotted system, but I have made it more interesting with some bashing, I want to do a part interior (as you do) before I put the whole farmhouse togther - then I will move onto the next stage. OC.
  7. Evening all, I did a couple of hours work making a set of stairs this evening, I have saved a lot of wooden lolly sticks and I worked out the length and width I needed then cut them out, I have then started to stack the treads and risers together glued using PVA then I sanded the edges to level them - I need a few more added to it as its not quite tall enough, then I will add the Two side boards again made from my sticks, then I will fashion a hand rail. OC.
  8. Enjoy it - ask as many questions as you want to - experiment and look at it as if you were tackling small separate ventures, and enjoy it most of all. OC.
  9. I just checked and saw Three main B24 kits in 1/72 - Hasegawa, Academy and Airfix would the not be anygood to you mate? OC.
  10. Thank you Alan, I think it will look ok when its atatched to the walls and when they get a bit of weathering too. OC.
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