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Nice work on that stable floor, mate.👍  Really looks like it should be in one's foyer, instead of the stable. My old barn stalls were mostly bare dirt with straw and other detritus scattered about, needing frequent cleaning. 😉

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Just now, Canute said:

Nice work on that stable floor, mate.👍  Really looks like it should be in one's foyer, instead of the stable. My old barn stalls were mostly bare dirt with straw and other detritus scattered about, needing frequent cleaning. 😉

The invention of the "Bobcat" skid steer front end loader was the single greatest tool invention for this old barn cleaner. 😄

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2 hours ago, Canute said:

Nice work on that stable floor, mate.👍  Really looks like it should be in one's foyer, instead of the stable. My old barn stalls were mostly bare dirt with straw and other detritus scattered about, needing frequent cleaning. 😉

Thanks Ken,   me  thinks it will have some more  dirty washes on it.

 

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Some straw clipping strewn about will look good, too. Maybe a bucket of feed or water, too.

 

Our stable doors were too narrow to run a front end loader into the stall. Best we could do was throw it thru the doorway into the bucket.

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Evening all,   work on the  stables continues  - first thing  I did was  to add a few more dirty washes to the  walk through stones, then I had  some lower paint touch up to do where the base plates met the walls,   next was the roof sections  - these need some adjustment after me adjustment to the one stable (it was shortened)   this will lead to a small amount triming off the one roof.

The roof is dry fitted as I will need to keep it moving to lign both roofs up against each other and also where they meed the farmhouse.

 

Talking of the farmhouse I decided  to do a dry run to see how they look together  -

 

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4 hours ago, FriedClams said:

The excellent work continues O.C.  Very nice progress!

 

Gary

Thank you kindly Gary.

 

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Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

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The farm will look great, OC. Very nice build. The KGL will keep the grognards at bay.😉

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10 minutes ago, Canute said:

The farm will look great, OC. Very nice build. The KGL will keep the grognards at bay.😉

Thank you kindly Ken,   I am on the look out as I type  for bits and pieces in Fle bay  - like tall  grass/rye  sheets hard to find as they need to be scall  of about  15mm  tall, looking at other stuff I need.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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4 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

Thank you kindly Ken,   I am on the look out as I type  for bits and pieces in Fle bay  - like tall  grass/rye  sheets hard to find as they need to be scall  of about  15mm  tall, looking at other stuff I need.

 

OC.

Hi OC

I expect you already know but there is a guy called Chris Dodson on a miniatures / war gaming forum who builds massive battle dioramas in 28mm I think (currently building Antietam. He has some interesting ideas for ground cover. May be worth a look.

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47 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

like tall  grass/rye  sheets hard to find as they need to be scall  of about  15mm  tall, looking at other stuff I need.

So your looking at about 3' in scale..... Probably "N" scale wheat or hay.....

 

Check this out....

 

https://www.sceneryexpress.com/Grass-Mats/departments/1051/

 

From that link you get to this....

 

https://www.sceneryexpress.com/NEW-12MM-MEADOW-GREEN-STATIC-GRASS-40g_14-oz/productinfo/NH07110/

 

12 mm right in what your looking for and it's colored green or golden, late spring/early summer to late fall harvest time..... close to perfect for June in French fields...

 

And this, How to build a Grassinator

 

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/grassinator/

 

I hope this helps as I can't find much in the way of tall grass in mats or sheets... Fake Fur is another technique that has gotten good results...

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14 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Hi OC

I expect you already know but there is a guy called Chris Dodson on a miniatures / war gaming forum who builds massive battle dioramas in 28mm I think (currently building Antietam. He has some interesting ideas for ground cover. May be worth a look.

Alan

Thanks Alan,  I will check him out.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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2 minutes ago, Egilman said:

So your looking at about 3' in scale..... Probably "N" scale wheat or hay.....

 

Check this out....

 

https://www.sceneryexpress.com/Grass-Mats/departments/1051/

Thank you brother,   Just opened the link and checking it out  - I think I need an A4 sheet of rye grass  (thats what was being grown on the fields where the battle took place  - accounts said it was over waist hight  so with my figures being 28mm tall I make the rye grass needed to be about  15mm tall.

Its to go on the side  oposite the roadway  where most of the cuirassier charges happened.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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2 minutes ago, king derelict said:

He lives in Bennos Figures Forum

Benno's Figures Forum • Antietam 17th September 1862 (bennosfiguresforum.com)

I hope its OK to provide the link

Alan

 

Can't see it being a problem Alan  - its on topic.

 

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HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

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It's not a problem as OC says.  I took a look and just had a "wow" moment.   

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33 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

(thats what was being grown on the fields where the battle took place  - accounts said it was over waist hight  so with my figures being 28mm tall I make the rye grass needed to be about  15mm tall.

But your battle took place in June, Rye doesn't harvest until late fall, so a little shorter and green would be the choices upper thigh height about 10 - 12 mm... or that's some awful tall rye...

 

I'm sure whatever you choose it's going to look spectacular...

 

PS: I updated that post you quoted with a bit more info and links..

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34 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

Thank you brother,   Just opened the link and checking it out  - I think I need an A4 sheet of rye grass  (thats what was being grown on the fields where the battle took place  - accounts said it was over waist hight  so with my figures being 28mm tall I make the rye grass needed to be about  15mm tall.

Its to go on the side  oposite the roadway  where most of the cuirassier charges happened.

 

OC.

I had a quick look on that site but no good brother - the closest thing that had to rye grasses or weet  was too large, I am after something the right hight and already attached to a sheet/mat   so all I have to do is fit to shape on my board  upto the  farm complex.

 

Thank you for finding that though.

 

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1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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4 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

It's not a problem as OC says.  I took a look and just had a "wow" moment.   

Thank you for clarifying that Mark, and yes  some of the skill in that site is amazing.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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5 minutes ago, Egilman said:

But your battle took place in June, Rye doesn't harvest until late fall, so a little shorter and green would be the choices upper thigh height about 10 - 12 mm... or that's some awful tall rye...

 

I'm sure whatever you choose it's going to look spectacular...

 

PS: I updated that post you quoted with a bit more info and links..

Thank you again  - very much appreciated, I have been finding close - but not quite close enough  - lots of clumps on mats that you take each clump off  and place your self  (that might have to be the route I have to take)  perhaps go with 12mm  that would be the equivelant of Two Feet tall.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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Evening all, the roofs  are  adjusted and fitted  and the flashing  was also fitted from paper strips.

 

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1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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I have added a few more things to my shopping list for my build  - ordered them  yesterday from our friend flea bay  - 

Trees for the Orchard,

Hedgerow for the kitchen garden side and side of the orchard,

Tall 15mm  grass  (managed to get it in 1:35 scale  to make it taller,

Water gel  for the ducks pond,

And lastly some  paint on dust.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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Evening all,  a bit more progress on the stables  starting with one of those OMG:o Moments -  I had painted the roofs yesterday and they had over night to dry,   this evening I set about  putting a wash over the tiles - same as I had done to the farmhouse, so no issues here,   then I decided to run a wash over the stable  walls  - after doing this I managed to knock my jar of  wash all over the table  - it was a case of remove some of the wash on the walls as there was too much  - or clean the table, the table won,   I then knocked over my jar of water on the table that I use to clean my brushes.

By the time I got round to working on the stable walls the wash had dried  - so it was  a case of re working some of the White and try to blend it into where it would meet the  wash/shading from wear and tear  - it was a case of wet and dry brush work - followed by a damp cloth to blend them into to each other.

 

I have the one wall done  (I think)  the same treatment will be done to the other tomorrow.

 

Talk about a  palaver.

 

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

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They look fine my friend, Excellent in fact..... Sometimes accident is a better artist than all the skill in the world...

 

Sometimes it is best to roll with the flow.... 

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2 minutes ago, Egilman said:

They look fine my friend, Excellent in fact..... Sometimes accident is a better artist than all the skill in the world...

 

Sometimes it is best to roll with the flow.... 

Thank you kindly brother,   it will be even more weathered when I get my  dust paint.

 

OC.

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28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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11 minutes ago, GrandpaPhil said:

The wall looks great!  The weathering is phenomenal!


As Bob Ross says, “There are only happy little accidents.”

Thank you kindly Phil  - much appreciated.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

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Definitely a happy accident, OC. I like the brownish staining. It looks very good for the stable area.

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