Old Collingwood
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That carving is looking superb Mark - wood carving has always been a terror to me - thats why I have never tried it - seriously hats off to you mate. OC. -
Thank you Mark, I think it looks a little more realistic now - they will either be painted Black or White with a Grey slate roof. OC.
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Evening family, some more progress fitted in between spotting in the garden, I have been continuing with the dorma's - I firstly put a layer of Black on the indside backing plate and side walls of the Two closed/glazed dorma's, then I started shaping/cutting and fitting some paper side pieces to hide the dorma window section joints - quite fiddly/delicate work - was secured over the top with a couple of watered PVA to lock in the paper. OC.
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Thank you kindly my friend. OC.
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This is looking Excellent Alan - so worth all the effort you are putting in to it, the extra works turns a nice model into a story. OC.
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Yep, I will deffo do something - to good an opportunity to wast not putting a few firing from the windows. What I might do - Is place them in there but remove their Shakos so they have more headroom, and glue them in situ rather than trying to place them on the first level floor and having to try to fit the roof around them (that would be next to impossible due to the square cut out shapes in the roof under the dorma frame. OC.
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Evening all, right back at it this evening after having a day off to watch a certain Footy match, so I have been continuing making the Dorma windows, I have tried to make the cut outs in the roof larger as the frames for the widows are not really big enough to fit a rifleman firing - so I will have to give it some thought or use the specially selected group of much much smaller guys😁 I have also started on the Two upper roof windows - these have been glazed and will be displayed with a darkened interior and with the windows shut (the other Three had there windows removed by the troops to give more firing room. Oh, the mid chimney stack was also fitted. OC.
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Gorilla PVA glue, not sure about its canopy use but it sure works good on cardboard/wood. OC.
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Has to be cheaper than the Plastic case I had made - that ended up costing like £300. OC.
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Excellent work mate, your work ethic and what you create is just stunning. OC.
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Evening all, next step in the dolls house (farmhouse) is to work on the roof sections to get an idea for the spacing of the first floor beams/flooring, to do this I first made up the roof containing the Two roof sections with the Two roof beams, after doing this I cut away the cardboard sections that make up the dorma windows, after building the Two side pieces to the backing plate I marked a inner area that needed to be cut out for access to the dorma window - firstly I pained on a few layers of PVA and heated with a hairdryer, this is to strengthen the cardboard ready for cutting out the centre. Next job was to mark the Three cut outs on the roof then using my hacksaw I cut down and using my blade cut across till all Three was cut out, I then glued the sub dorma frame to the roof and added the roof pieces, then using some paper I made some flashing to seal a gap where the dorma roof meets the main roof. This will now give me a good guide for where to place the roof beams. OC.
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Thank you for your kind words Ken, yes I think you are right in the way I will need to do the roof dorma windows/figure placement - probably after trial and error sizing - I will probably place the figures on some blocks to get the right hight, then when I am ready to close it up - I will offer the roof up fitting the dorma window side first. OC.
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When I get round to fitting a first level floor - I will have to do quite a bit of fettling around to get the right hight, so I will be able to place a few soldiers firing from the Dorma windows that will be on the bottom edge of the roof (question is - how will place them there) The problems I face are from the designed physical size of the Farmhouse as it was cut too narrow and with the windows too low down, this will affect the ability to get the right angle for a staircase and allow me to place the first level floor at the right hight, so I may have to fudge it a bit and put a step in front of each dorma window for my soldiers to stand on so they can shoot from the windows, none of it will be seen once the roof is on. OC.
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Evening all, more work continuing with a couple of Black layers on the doors, then I continued with the window making and frame making on the other wall, still needs a wee bit of White touch up after painting the edges of the frames. OC.
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I love the detail you are putting into this mate - really really impressive. OC.
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I bet Gaitor Glue cover most corners with their range. OC.
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Its like we are witnessing the birth of a digital cloan of the ship - amazing just can't get my head around 3D digital printing. OC.
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So - work for tomorrow - Paint the back of the doors and paint around the small airway windows - then do the same to the other wall/side, then I can start adding some floor beams attached to the walls on each section. OC.
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