Nice work John
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John,
In my ever so humble opinion, you are doing exceedingly well.
Cheers, Rick H.Comment
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Hi John
You're doing a great job and learning a lot along the way. Looks good.
JimComment
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Rick.......That's very kind of you to say, thank you.
Morning Jim.... Trying methods out is one of the best parts of modelling, esp on dioramas. If all fails I can either knock it down or ........set fire to it.:smiling3::smiling3:
John.
Rain this morning here in deepest Linc's, so no gardening :disappointed:, but moggling instead,:smiling:
Have a good one.Comment
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Morn Buddy,
Rain here in the Fatherland too, along with cool temps. From the walls I see you are once again in your element and having fun. They look fine to me and I think you can put away the matches for now Pyro!!! Have fun at the bench John. Will PM ya later...
Prost
AllenLife's to short to be a sheep...Comment
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It's raining here frequently as well getting the tail end of Typhoon Monkhut. The cobbles and brickwork are look just fine John. The cobbles would have some serious scuffing from the Sturm tracks.
Cheers,
RichardComment
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Nice to see you in your element John, walls and floor work look great.:thumb2::smiling:
Richard might have a good one there, massive weight and steel tracks can chew up any pavement.
If you need any help with the lighting, just let me know, have a couple of diagrams that might be of help.Comment
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Hi Richard....... Thanks.Your spot on there,as you will read below steps had been taken :smiling::thumb2:
Spot on there with the track damage. More below
Cheers Fernando.....Might need to ask for help at that stage.
I haven't post the photos tonight but earlier I had gone over the sets with 200 g sanding paper. It removes enough when pressed hard to lift some on the sets edges, so this has given that look of worn and damaged stone. I also stippled the whole area with a black wash, this gives a textured look to the stone. Also did a few oil stains, really need to do another brown wash , just to give some highlights. The final bit for the floor will be a thin coat of mat varnish, followed while it is wet a thin application of very fine soil. This will be obtained by recovering the micro deposits of soil when you rinse out a garden bucket, it always leaves the finest layer of soil, ready graded ! Collected and dried in the MV .
The walls were dry by this morning, and had a another black wash. Say dry, even after having gone over the surface with the hair dryer I notice that the black when over thinned looked more like grey !
Hopefully If time permits a first dry brushing on the bricks will happen.
Have yet to work out the 4 folding doors, and what they will be made of. Really timber would be my first choice, but I have a good selection of plastic card, which can be given a fair woodgrain effect. Thinking Hat on .
Thanks for looking in and for the likes and comments, makes it all worthwhile.
John.[/QUOTE]Comment
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Outstanding. PaulEComment
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Thanks Paul.....
Today saw the collecting of very fine soil particles. Taking a sieve ( from the green house:smiling2: and not from the kitchen ) I put a small amount on soil into a plastic tub.. Then adding water,followed by stirring, and then allowing to settle.
The scum on the top consisting of light bits of dust, the odd of root are poured away.
[ATTACH]314907[/ATTACH] Leaving a very fine soil, note Wolfgang is showing you how small these sections are.
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This will be left to completely dry, and will end up being used on the stone sets.
Meanwhile a shot of the paints for the brick work
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The one on the left is AK rust, the rest from cheap tubes of acrylics, just a small amount of water added.
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The darker brown has been applied, then a random stippling of the red. At this point I was putting the AK over the top. In using a stipple motion the 3 colours can remain, only partly being covered so as to expose parts.
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You can see the effect starting to appear..
All done for the time being, needs to be left to dry for at least a couple of days at the least, before I do another black wash. Followed by the white/grey pigment .
As Richard and Fernando alluded to I had marked the sets on the base to show some damage, but added more and came up with this. Again dragging a 120 g across the foam removed some of the paint. I renewed the set lines and then picked out some of the foam, to represent a broken stone set. I decided that when something heavy is dragged or turns on something like stone it would remove the top level, and most likely leave a clean mark. Having done that I used two colours, one dark wash and a light grey. Think it looks about right. I had also done another light brown drag , as might be able to be seem. I can see another touching up on some of the sets will be required.
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Any way comments on any part would be welcome.
John.Comment
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Hi there John what a great progress the figures looks good the wash certainly helped to bring the facial expressions out ! Well done mister! The scratch built building is stunning, have to say you have a lot of patience to carve all those bricks in ! Will be a great scene! Are you planning to live the roof open so you can see in ? Regards DannyComment
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Hi mate, and thanks. As for the roof, it will be on, the doors will be bi fold and 4 in total will be open with lights inside . always wanted to do something like this and seeing Stevens trench mortar and how good that light was was the trigger. Going to need about 3 or 4 lights, have to work out the wiring, probably with Fernando's help .
John .Comment
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Hi john great idea ! Check this website out for lights , when i built the control tower i get the lights from here ! You can buy it pre wired and also with a battery and switch pack and its less then 10£ look around hope it helps!
Regards DannyComment
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