Cathy‘s Flower House by captain_hook - FINISHED - Robotime - Scale approx. 1:20

[captain_hook]

After building the Armed Virginia Sloop I take a little break from ship modelling to build a small kit I promised to do for my daughter. The ‚Cathy’s Flower House’ is a little Flower House stuffed with a lot of tools and furniture and most likely a British flower house (according to the furniture). It‘s a DIY wood/paper/fabric kit which will be approx. 20 x 20 x 20 cm when it is done. Some wooden parts are prefabricated and already painted, but most parts have to be made of basic materials like paper sheets or fabric - even all the flowers. But the manual shows up every step of the construction and all tools for ship modelling come in handy. First all the furniture is to be done, then comes the tools and last but not least a lot of flowers have to be done. The building time should be about a month. I made some progress so far. Almost everything has to be build from scratch. I can‘t wait to get the Cheerful started but a promise has to be kept.

Edited April 19, 2020 by captain_hook

[captain_hook]

The kit consists of several bags of wooden parts, paper sheets, small parts, even a LED and battery case for illuminating the flower house is part of the kit. A 30-Page manual guides you through the construction. Boy, this will be more stress than building any ship model.  

[Egilman]

Honey, I shrunk the greenhouse...... {chuckle}

 

Modeling is an infinite variety of worlds.....

 

Very Very cool...... The best modeling is that which is done on request of a loved one.....

[yvesvidal]

What a beautiful little kit. It is adorable!!!

How much did you pay for that kit? 

 

Yves

Edited April 13, 2020 by yvesvidal

[Canute]

Nice little jewel.

[Egilman]

1 hour ago, yvesvidal said:

What a beautiful little kit. It is adorable!!!

How much did you pay for that kit? 

 

Yves

Not that bad for what your getting....

 

Rolife... (less on Evilbay)

 

They have a whole selection, quite a few of them are very very nice....

Edited April 13, 2020 by Egilman

[mtaylor]

The delay is starting the next ship will be worth it.  You're going to make a girl very happy.

[captain_hook]

Thank all of you for the nice comments. I finished some more items, a large shovel, a paintbrush, a colour tablet and a pencil. Didn‘t want to kitbash anything of this kit but the little shovels looked awful. Designed two new ones made of 0.5mm stainless steel sheet soldered to a 1mm wire with two handles made of castello I had in stock. Some more tools to build...

 

Edited April 17, 2020 by captain_hook

[captain_hook]

Finished all the tools, two kettles made of paper, a bucket made of card and paper, a water pipe, a faucet and a small rake made of brass wire and blackened. Next items are 21 plants...

[captain_hook]

Assembled the first 5 plants. The leafs are made of printed paper that has to be fold and glued together to form a single leaf. Two leafs are connected by a paper covered wire and bend to shape to fit the pots. I also painted the cutting edges with a green acrylic colour that matches the one of the leafs. Painted the hole leaf after with clear vanish.

[yvesvidal]

This is adorable. What a great kit and a beautiful implementation.

 

Yves

[captain_hook]

Thank you Yves. The plants are getting more complicated. The leafs of this one are made of light and dark green paper, are cut by using a paper template and then attached to a piece of paper covered wire. Three leafs are combined together by covering their wires with light brown paper. I didn‘t like the supplied card flowerpot so I made a scratch one out of scrap boxwood parts. 🤗

[Javlin]

To Cool! The little girl will probably treasure this little house most of all the rest of her Life. Kevin

[Canute]

Your stand looks great. Nice work.

[captain_hook]

Thank you for the nice words. The little girl has just turned 12 - the kit was stored about 2 years due to the long building time of the AVS. But she is still excited to see how it turns out ... will do my very best. 

[captain_hook]

Here is another palm. Made of thin dark and light green paper. The paper is folded and glued together to form a section and then two sections are glued together to form a leaf. A paper covered wire is attached to each leaf. The pod was supplied so no scratch building needed this time. Meanwhile the desk is crowded with stuff...

[popeye the sailor]

flora is look'in fine.......really nice work your doing with this project  

[captain_hook]

Thank you Popeye. The last of the more complex flowers is supposed to be hung on the roof later. It is made of light and dark green paper and paper covered wire. The wooden flowerpot is supplied.

[captain_hook]

The flowers are also made of thin colored paper and paper covered wire. I made the first three ones with supplied flowerpots.

[Javlin]

Nice!

[Egilman]

1 hour ago, captain_hook said:

The flowers are also made of thin colored paper and paper covered wire. I made the first three ones with supplied flowerpots.

The Admiral says you can come decorate the house anytime.... That's high praise around here......

[captain_hook]

1 minute ago, Egilman said:

The Admiral says you can come decorate the house anytime.... That's high praise around here......

😄

[popeye the sailor]

....the resurgence of flower power      very nice!

[captain_hook]

The next three ones, made of paper and wire. The lockdown in Germany is continued but with relaxed measures - more people go back to work and a lot of shops are reopened but you still have to wear protective masks there. Most schools are still closed or restricted to higher classes. So plenty of time. Meanwhile I start to get used to paper flowers - but still have a lot of respect for modellers who work with paper and card - I feel much more comfortable with wood. For size comparison my reading glasses in the background.

[yvesvidal]

Flowers...flowers...Spring is in full swing.

 

Yves

[captain_hook]

Thank you for the nice words. The next flowers, all made of paper and wire with supplied pods. I use dilluted matte varnish and a dowel to shape the leafs to the typical curved form.

 

Edited May 6, 2020 by captain_hook

[captain_hook]

And the last plants and flowers. They were not as difficult to make as the previous ones so I did them all in one session. Altogether there are over 30 plants and flowers in this kit with 25 different ones.

[captain_hook]

All components glued together, ready for installation on the basement.

[JpR62]

Superb ! I really love this build ! Very refreshing. Kisscool effect !

[captain_hook]

Thank you Jean-Paul. (Almost) everything you see is what you get, only some minor addons (1 scratch-build flowerbot and two showels).