Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)

[Old Collingwood]

A lot of  models  of  the  scene  just  show  the  cottage garden as  Flat  -  but its  not, as  it  starts  to  slope  up  with  the  general  terrain  as  we  know  the  land  sloped  up  from LHS  to  the  sunken road  and  beyond  -  the  British.

 

OC.

[Canute]

OC, maybe cut up a cereal box and build up a slope. Cover with your ground material/putty and then blend into the original dio.

[Old Collingwood]

6 hours ago, Canute said:

OC, maybe cut up a cereal box and build up a slope. Cover with your ground material/putty and then blend into the original dio.

Thanks Ken,  what I was  thinking of doing  is  to  layer  the scenery  with  sheets  of  typing paper as I only need  to  go from nothing to about  a Inch  at the end/back,  then  lay my grass  mat  and  hedge  over the  top  of that.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   work  has started on the  porch,  I  transferred  the paper  to  my  MDF  then using my sharp  knife  I cut them  out, then  after making  the Two  sides and front  and also  the  door  - I glued them together  using  Super Glue  for a  faster stronger bond  -  this  is  where  I am  with it.

 

OC. 

[Old Collingwood]

So next  off I will  make a couple  of roof trusses  before  I  make some  mock roof tile panels  (probably wont be  individual  tiles)

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Eveening all,   some more  progress  -  I built  the  Two Trusses  and a  support  rail,  then I cut out the  roof linings  using some card, and  have started to  tile it  using single strips of paper  that  over lap each other, I then pencil the  gap in between  each til where I will cut  down to  simulate individual  tiles,  also the  top  and  edges will  have some  paper flashing  over the  top of the  tiles.

 

OC.

Edited April 20 by Old Collingwood

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,    Roof tiles  -  Tick,    Flashing   -  Tick,   and   dry fitted  to  check it fits.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Some of the  scenery  I need  to tackle  -  stone paths  -  a  wall  and  a  sloping  grass  that  I estimate  will go  from zero  to  about  Four  Feet  at the  edge of my  dio.

 

Some  head  scratching  me thinks.

 

Oh  also  the  porch has been taken down in these  modern  pics  of the  net  - even the  original  door has been  bricked  up  and  moved to the  side.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   a  bit more progress  on the porch,  I  put a  few coats of White on it  - inside and out, and I have also  made  the  stone base for  it thats  also  been painted and weathered, the  base was then glued in place on my dio.

Next stage will  be  to  paint the Black  bottom  same  width  as on the  farmhouse, then the Grey  on the  slate tiles  followed by some  weathering.

No pics as my batt  was  dead  but will  take some  later.

 

OC.

Edited April 22 by Old Collingwood

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   -  Pictures   -   base  down  -  White applied  and  Black band  and  gate.

 

Sorry about the pic quality  -  light and  hand shake))))

 

OC.

Edited April 23 by Old Collingwood

[chadwijm6]

Excellent detail OC, looking good 👍🏻

[Old Collingwood]

36 minutes ago, chadwijm6 said:

Excellent detail OC, looking good 👍🏻

Thank you kindly.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

I have also  been measuring and cutting out a  piece of  ground works  - in the  shape of a  small section of cobbled  stone path, its  only  small  no more than Four feet wide (In scale  size)  Im making it from my MDF  type  wood, the  idea  is  that  I will  mark the  cobbles  then  scribe  them using my knife,  then paint and weather them as required.

 

OC.

Edited April 24 by Old Collingwood

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,    Black  roof  done  and  the first bit of  washes  with  the  dusting  of  dry brushing still to do.

 

OC.

[king derelict]

The walls look like real weathered whitewash. Great work.

Alan

[Old Collingwood]

21 minutes ago, king derelict said:

The walls look like real weathered whitewash. Great work.

Alan

Thank you kindly Alan,  going to try a  wee  bit of lichen on this  one  with  PVA  and my grass  sprinkles.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Your little add-on looks very good, OC. Nice addition.

[Old Collingwood]

4 hours ago, Canute said:

Your little add-on looks very good, OC. Nice addition.

Thank you  kindly Ken.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,    I am calling  the  porch  build  done  -  I tried  to do some  moss lichen type  thing  but the  sprinkles  I have are to  clumpy  and  didn't  look right  so  I left  it alone  with just a  wee bit  of dry brush  dusting,   the  figures are  not  fixed  just there  for  scale.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

I just want to add  -  that  I think the  porch  will  have  more  impact  and  blend  in  when  I  start  to do more  scenery  and  weather  some  of the  buildings  a bit more  to blend  it all  together  (I am  quietly  proud  of the  porch as  it was made  competley from scrap material  with no plans  -  just  bits  of wood  -  card  and paper).

 

OC.

[king derelict]

1 hour ago, Old Collingwood said:

I just want to add  -  that  I think the  porch  will  have  more  impact  and  blend  in  when  I  start  to do more  scenery  and  weather  some  of the  buildings  a bit more  to blend  it all  together  (I am  quietly  proud  of the  porch as  it was made  competley from scrap material  with no plans  -  just  bits  of wood  -  card  and paper).

 

OC.

Rightly so; it looks great

Alan

[Old Collingwood]

51 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Rightly so; it looks great

Alan

Thank  you kindly Alan.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Have  I  over done  the  weathering?

 

OC.

[BLACK VIKING]

It looks very good to me 

Martyn 

[king derelict]

No, it reminds me of some of the outbuildings on our farm when I was a child 

alan

[Old Collingwood]

9 hours ago, BLACK VIKING said:

It looks very good to me 

Martyn 

Thank you Martyn.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

4 hours ago, king derelict said:

No, it reminds me of some of the outbuildings on our farm when I was a child 

alan

Thank you Alan.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

I have been busy again today  -  firstly  by adding a wee bit more  weathering  to the  White  on the walls  and  tiled roof  (looked better)   but also   I have started the  cobbled path  that  goes from the  porch  to the  log store  near the stables,  in real life it was  about  5 feet  wide and  about  15 feet long,  I used a  piece of my  MDF type wood  measured  and  cut  it to shape,  then the fun bit  - measuring  for the  rows of stones, then marked  and  with  my sharp knife  I cut  the  rows, then I used  scribing tool  and  cut slightly  wider deeper  gaps.

Will  take pics  later after my phone has charged  up.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Checking some  old photos  and  stuff  -  looks  like I have a   bit  of  rectification work  to  do  to  the  wood  stoor  at the  end of the  farmhouse  at the  front of the  stables,   as  it does not  protrude  enough  it needs about another Two scle feet adding to  it, it will also  need  a  new  front  and  tiled roof extension.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Morning all,  just to show  you  the  sloping I need  to  do  by  building up the  kitchen garden, I have  borrowed these pics  of the  net, one also shows  the  location of LHS  in relation  to the  British line  (to the  left)

 

OC.

Edited April 28 by Old Collingwood