discussion Pushing Back .......

[toto]

Hi John,

glad you find it interesting. This is a slow burner so I'm in no real rush. I want to progress of course but there are that many little mini projects and I have to hop back and forth between them all to keep everything moving and coming in together ..... in my mind anyway .... maybe others would tackle it differently.

The good thing is you get a bit relief from working on the same element all the time. there are so many different materials involved and they all give you more idea's as you progress. My latest brain wave was when working with the plaster bandage. I will be building a structure with brick sheets but the minute you go above one storey high, the horizontal joint between sheets is not great as it is not keyed in. The sheets are simply glued together with PVA and the join is not great. ..... Answer ( if its a cavity wall ...... place strips of plaster bandage allow the inside of the cavity on the join ...... the plaster join will be much better than the PVA join ..... sorted.

I am trying to use as little " ready to plant " proprietary items as possible. Apart from the buildings, vehicles and figures, everything else has a degree of building from scratch albeit using moulds in some cases. The buildings although pre-cast still give me a bit of modelling to do in building the floors, ceilings and roof structures and to be honest, its the part I enjoy most.

Anyway ..... I'm blethering now ....... back to the task in hand . The first Daler Board layers are a bit drier or at least dry enough to work with so ..... on with the second fitting ....



The Daler Board needs to be clamped at first as it has a tendancy to warp and spring off until the PVA has bonded a bit ....



I used the cut off's from the outside walls to mirror the cut aways on the inside corner ..... what a brainwave ..... well for me anyway.



These clamps look like some kind of sci fi beasty invasion .... great little things .... and cheap as well.



concrete lintels ..... or coping stones at the ready .... I'm wondering whether to apply these after the stucco layer is painted. The stucco will be painted in some sort of muted pastille colour ... ochre or light blue and the lintels will be treated to some kind of dark washes to dirty them down. I still have to " take out " the explosion damage area's as well so plenty to do going forward.

However ..... for now ...... thats it. I don't know whether I may get a hour or two on this later tonight by which time the whole thing should be dry.

take care for now

toto

 

[John Race]

Good idea to have another part to fall back on toto, nothing gets boring then. As for those lintels, painting the stucco first and then the lintels I would give you the ability to do any wash that you feel would come off the lintels , esp shadow lines.
John

 

[toto]

Never made the shed again tonight. So ..... it'll be next weekend now.

More walls. I'll see how far I get in finishing off the two brick walls before moving on to the stone wall beside the Cafe.

I will need to cast more brick wall sections as I did use a few this weekend and one or two cracked. So the plan will be Friday night will be casting and hopefully Saturday and Sunday constructing.

I keep looking ahead by a couple of weeks to the start of my next mini project so after the walls .... who knows what.

The pavement areas need an undercoat of say .... brown acyrilic before laying paving slabs. The land under the buildings needs the same to create a base colour onto which everything else will be built. These tasks need done before the permanent planting of buildings and walls etc.

All these elements .... once done ......will start to bring the whole thing together and whilst nowhere near detailed or complete suggests the beginning of a living scene.

Roll on next weekend. For those getting bored or tired of plaster and casting etc ...... I will be boring the butt of you with balsa floors, ceilings and roofs before long ....... so be careful what you wish for.

Cheers

Toto