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Old Collingwood
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Has to be cheaper than the Plastic case I had made - that ended up costing like £300. OC. -
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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Dug yourself a hole there Kevin - think you will need a Huge popcorn machine - even bigger than Marks😁 OC.
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Thank you kindly Ken, I think when you get into your stride and it enjoyable the building of it just flows, and like I said earlier I am enjoying it as its all do-able at this scale. OC.
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Thank you so much Mark. OC.
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Evening all, made some quite good progress with the inside wall of the farmhouse - firstly I found some clear plastic (the casing of some jump seats) I then measured the windows and set about cutting out some plastic pieces just slightly larger than the MDF window cut outs, I then ran a film of PVA and placed the glazing sheets, then I made some cardboard strips and started framing the windows and doors, I finished off by applying a few coats of Nato Black and touched up the White after doing the edges of the frame. OC.
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I think the main thing that is different between them - Vallejo is designed for finer work probably on smaller objects and the Admiralty range are supposed to be colour matched to period ships and possibly designed for a rougher texture like wood. I guess both can be used (as I have used both on my Waterloo dio build) - brush work tends to be roughly the same. Hope this helps.
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Excellent build and what a tiny weeny little thing she is compared to the Battleships. OC.
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Sutch a sharp little thing with all that detail. OC.
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