Bibury Arlington Row by modeller_masa - aedes ars - HO scale

[Kevin]

nice build, have you made any more progress?

[Egilman]

40 minutes ago, Kevin said:

nice build, have you made any more progress?

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[modeller_masa]

1 hour ago, Kevin said:

any more progress

 

Sorry about delay. 😔 I'm doing the NRG half hull planking kit. I rescheduled due date of this project from June 2020 to June 2021 which is the person's birthday. I'll restart this build from March 2021, and complete two more wooden models before that. In 2020, my last complete project will be NRG HHP kit. I'll upload it next month.  

 

I hope you have happy holiday and safe new year.

 

 

[Waitoa]

Just found this log and look forward to viewing it once you restart

[modeller_masa]

1 hour ago, mikeredroom said:

Hi

 

Hello, Mikeredroom.

It is fascinating to hear that someone started this beautiful kit. I look forward to your project how it will be different from my job. Please make a new post and make people to concentrate on your project. If you leave a comment like @mikeredroom or hyperlink of my article, people can compare yours with mine. 👍

 

[popeye the sailor]

you've made some great progress ..........looks more like it      great job!

[modeller_masa]

10 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

made some great progress

Thanks for the comment, but I just moved the kit from workbench to unused desk a few months ago. 😏 Actually, I dropped the whole kit once and one of the wood chimney (left side) was broken. That's all. No crack on block walls. It has unbelievably stubborn and solid structure! 😮

[modeller_masa]

 

Hello! Long time no see.  I'm happy with good news that people are overcoming the COVID19.🧡

 

It's been an year since 2020 deadline, and there are three weeks before 2021 deadline. 😱 I'm rushing my job, and hope to give the present sucessfully this year. Tiling roofs is a repeated task, so I will upload photos when I reach a noticeable step. (It should be within 3 weeks!)

[Old Collingwood]

Good to see you back  - keep up the splendid work.

 

OC.

[Waitoa]

Good to see your progress

[modeller_masa]

Good to see again, Old Collingwood and Waitoa. 

 

Here is another great news. Ekis finished his masterpiece work on this February.

 

As I said, I stick to an angle and lines because of uniformity, so I'm making every roof tile all same size. However, his splendid work with raw and rough tiles shakes my decision. It seems more natural expression for medieval buildings!

Edited May 23, 2021 by modeller_masa

[Egilman]

And the prodigal son returns.... Welcome back!

 

Will be good to see this finished as well....

[modeller_masa]

Hello, Egilman. Nice to see you again.  

 

 

 

I'm considering the Ekis' method. He used raw rough tiles with weathering technique. 

 

My precisely aligned tiles are very good, in itself. The result looks like printed roof of commercial doll house just I wanted. Every blocks has 10.0 x 5.5mm size. Unfortunately, the post processing is painful and takes lots of time. It takes about 1 minutes per each block, but it is enjoyable when I paste each tile on roof thanks to the standardized size. 

 

On the contrary, raw tiles doesn't steal much time. it is a bit annoying to paste tiles due to uneven size, but it ultimately saves 2~3 times more than aligning every tile.

 

 

The order side is finished and polished, but chaos side is not. You may think that these photos are fine, but in real world, gaps between tiles and shadows is much visible, and it degrades overall qualities although entire exterior at long distance is ok. I can't satisfy with the raw tiles.

 

The reason I pasted rough tiles is that Ekis successfully managed it with weathering technique. His weathering technique covered weakness of raw tiles, and made buildings more like impressive medieval ruin. I'm considering to apply weathering to half of this building. My only issue is lack of time... 🤪

Edited May 25, 2021 by modeller_masa

[Ekis]

In fact, I see that you form a 45° angle on each tile in a very regular way on the front side.
For the village, I preferred to make the angles more rounded, but more importantly, I sanded each tile on the front side so that they look thinner when they cover the ones below. The thickness seems to me more in harmony with the scale of the buildings.
I also used different sizes of tiles for different uses and houses. 
I also deliberately left some broken or badly cut tiles to show roofs that are not all new.

Here, if it helps you, I put some pictures to illustrate all this.
Good luck ! It's long and quite tedious to do, like the sails of an 18th century sailboat... 😉

 

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by Ekis

[modeller_masa]

Thanks, Ekis! Your knowhow really helps me a lot. I understood that you spent tons of time and effort on sanding tiles, and weathering is one of many improving ideas. There was no easy way to achieve such great result. 😌 I'll apply these tips as much as possible to be more realistic.  

[modeller_masa]

 

I made chimney stovepipes using 4mm brass tubes. Also, I made chimney caps using 3D printer. I wasn't sure to cut brass sheet circularly without error. I holded them with 0.35mm brass tripods using epoxy glue. 

 

This color is too darker than I expected, but seems ok. I mixed blue and brown to be bronze green. Maybe I should have mixed white lacqure a little bit.

 

 

While I was drilling holes, one of chimney was broke.  I'll remove it and make it again.

 

 

Most of chimneys are done. I referred to real pictures when I designed, and I like my result. 👍