The Liberation of a Normandy Village - and some cheese and wine too!

[spanner570]

Right, back to the build.

After chewing over the thing, I decided six buildings would suffice and two bridges. I opted to make the buildings at this early stage so I could shuffle them around until I was happy with the overall balance.

Here's the first.
I scale draw them on a piece of paper, cut out the door openings and windows, then transfer the paper onto whatever the materiel is. (This is a polystyrene pizza base) Scribe around the openings and cut out with a sharp knife. I then scribe in any detail such as stone work and stick the sections together.
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Using cheap 'poundshop' type acrylics, I slurry well watered down paint all over the building.
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Then add colour.....
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Ready for the timberwork.....
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One shell done - Five more to go!

Cheers.
Ron

[papa 695]

Great start Ron

[Gern]

You are referring to that most wonderful, plastic or wood, 12" long measuring devise.....A Rule.

Try telling students that! To them, a rule is just another sort of law or instruction that must be disobeyed to gain extra street cred!

But I ain't gonna let you get extra points for alternative definitions! This is why I never taught English:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer.
16) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
17) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
18) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
19) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

By the way...there is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads aren't sweet nor breads.
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you have left? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

However, you are technically correct about rulers so I gotta give you that.

15 all! My serve!

PS I forgot to add this:

Ode to the spell checker:

Eye have a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea.

It plainly marques four my revue, miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word, and weight for it too say,

weather eye am write or rung, it shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid, it nose bee four two long,

and eye can putt the error rite, its rare lee ever wrung.

Eye have run this poem threw it, eye yam sure your pleased two no.

Its letter perfect awl the weigh, my chequer tolled me sew!

[scottie3158]

Try telling students that! To them, a rule is just another sort of law or instruction that must be disobeyed to gain extra street cred!

But I ain't gonna let you get extra points for alternative definitions! This is why I never taught English:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer.
16) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
17) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
18) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
19) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

By the way...there is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads aren't sweet nor breads.
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you have left? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

However, you are technically correct about rulers so I gotta give you that.

15 all! My serve!

PS I forgot to add this:

Ode to the spell checker:

Eye have a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea.

It plainly marques four my revue, miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word, and weight for it too say,

weather eye am write or rung, it shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid, it nose bee four two long,

and eye can putt the error rite, its rare lee ever wrung.

Eye have run this poem threw it, eye yam sure your pleased two no.

Its letter perfect awl the weigh, my chequer tolled me sew!

An excellent post made me chuckle

[spanner570]

An excellent post made me chuckle

Don't encourage him Paul. Gawd knows where it would end!

At least I managed to squeeze 1/2 a point out of the smart a***......:thumb2:

[spanner570]

Here's the second, but larger building. Same construction method as the first, but with wall plates, ridge boards and chimney pots added.

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Cheers.
Ron

[TIM FORSTER]

Ron,

You plainly don't need any 'advice' from me - those buildings are a miracle.

But I'm worried about your diet - it seems to consist of nothing more than beer and pizza at the moment...

[Allen Dewire]

Hey Ron.

Off on another fantastic voyage I see. I do have a question though. What is pizza foam and where do you get it??? I will also steer clear of the english language topic, but will definitely join you with a cold one!

Prost
Allen

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Buildings look great.
Seems like misbehaviour is obligatory when following your work so I'll chuck stuff, shout out, break wind and put my feet up on the chair infront :thumb2:
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

....and he never mentioned syntactic ambiguity once......”Montgomery flies back to front” anyone....

[spanner570]

Excellent posts chaps....
Tim - Thanks for the positive comments. I'll take any advise from anyone. That's what's good about this hobby. "Those who think they know everything know now't!" It's just that I'm so used to working with polystyrene for all aspects of 'ground work' that to change now would be a total disaster, But I really do appreciate your input and suggestions.
By the way, I do have a well balanced diet - I eat wine gums by the ton too!

Allen - Pizza Foam is the hard 4/5mm polystyrene discs which are to be found in Pizza packaging to prevent them breaking in transit. I must admit though that for my birthday earlier this year, my wife bought me a box of 5mm A4 foam board. I am starting to wade through those now - I have to, or my life wouldn't be worth a carrot!

Jim - Yes, please!....:thumb2:

Cheers all.
Ron

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Ron
Usually called “Crash blossoms” when referring to newspaper headlines.....something wot can be read wiv more than one meaning....
Classic examples:
Eighth army push bottles up Gemans
British left waffles on Falklands
Police help dog bite victims
Red tape holds up bridge
The deliberate one from Ray Davies designed to beat the censor “I’m glad I’m a man and so is Lola”
And the one about explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs leaving on yet another exploration voyage got the sub editor sacked so I simply won’t mention it ...

[Gern]

....and he never mentioned syntactic ambiguity once.....

That's 'cos I ain't got the foggiest idea what you're on about!

But I do know that time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana!

[Gern]

Hey Ron. Is that foam board that Justine got for you like a piece of thin foam with a plastic coating on both sides? If so, could you let me know how you get on with it? I tried some a couple of years ago and found it really tricky to use. More often than not, when I tried to cut it, I found my knife blade bending so I couldn't get straight, vertical cuts - but maybe that's down to my general hamfistedness.

[Steve Jones]

Ron

I see you have your own page on Zoopla now.The price of your houses are going through the roof!:smiling:

This is gonna be another masterpiece. Looking forward to watching it develop. Good luck

Steve