discussion Little garden

[StephenN]

Here is a little garden I built for someone, now completed.

 

[spanner570]

Very nice Steven.
How did you make the walls / brickwork? They look excellent.....

Ron

 

[Guest]

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Nice to see a garden in scale like that Stephen. Congratulations .

 

[colin m]

Good work. I'm guessing the bricks were individual pieces ?

 

[rtfoe]

Well done Stephen, nice walls and trees. Nice touch with mummy cat carrying her kitten.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[papa 695]

Nice work

 

[Andy T]

Very nice Stephan. The bricks look very realistic and the ivy (?) looks great.

 

[Valeron]

A proper walled garden. Really good work there. Love it.

 

[Jim R]

That is excellent and the cat and kitten is a lovely touch.

 

[StephenN]

Hi folks, thank you so much for all the wonderful replies and encouragement. In reply to some of the questions, no, they're not individual bricks......
Firstly, I cut some compacted polystyrene down to shape with my Proxxon hotwire machine.
I then measured out and cut the width of the brickwork virtically.
I then did the same horizontally.

 

[StephenN]

To be continued.....

 

[StephenN]

I prised apart the horizontal cuts with a knife and the virtical cuts with some kind of needle. I then weathered them by putting dents in the brickwork and pulled some bricks out, then I put down a base layer of mahogany brown on it. After
painting the individual bricks different colours, I then added a mixture of plaster of paris and sand for weathering effect. I added a mixture of water and glue to add to the weather effect and tone the colours down, then added white streaks and finally olive drab for green algea.

 

[Richard48]

Looks brilliant.Really nice work.
Rich

 

[StephenN]

Looks brilliant.Really nice work.
Rich

Thank you so much.