Bits, Pieces, & Clutter

[marc_reusser]

Oooooh.  Most lovely!


Marc

(Still waiting for the foam SBS.)

[Malachi Constant]

(Still waiting for the foam SBS.)

Yeah, I've got to queue up for this one too!  Your cobblestone SBS is a true winner, bookmarked and slated for use here ... the foam stone walls look like another major winner.  Sure, it's an imposition ... but if you can't count on your mates to be a pain in the arse at times, what are we here for? 

Nice stuff!
Dallas

[lab-dad]

Guess I am in line too for info on the foam stones...........
Are we there yet?
=Marty

[Design-HSB]

Hi Gordon,

what I particularly like, is the Structure of the model blocks.
I tried this mine on my model and I am also currently playing with the task of trying to replicate this heap.



Tips very welcome.

[Gordon Ferguson]

Helmut,

I suppose it is difficult to programme your computer/milling machine to produce that pile from a solid block of brass ............ however with your skills I am certain you will try.

Boys, boys lets all calm down a bit .............. this experiment was only done less than 24 hours ago and there is nobody more surprised than me that it turned out the way it did  ................. or that they would be other sad people in this world who wanted to build a 1/35 drystone wall stone by stone.

I am working on the SBS, trouble is having to build another wall so I can take pics

inspiration

 

So far



Will do my best to post SBS, sometime tomorrow

[Malachi Constant]

Your new wall is a very lovely shade of aquamarine  ... and, thanks in advance!   

I suppose everyone interested has a raft of different questions.  Some that come to mind:  Are you slicing the foam into various thicknesses and then breaking off bits?  What are you doing to shape the faces of the stones?  How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?  And all the various other concerns and painting issues.  Aside from going into all the excruciating required detail, this should be a snap. 

-- Dallas

[Mr Potato Head]

oh! I can answer the wood chuck question! 
we have those in Idaho
MPH

[Ray Dunakin]

inspiration

 

Now that's really interesting... never seen a stone wall bridge a stream before.

[marc_reusser]

inspiration

 

Now that's really interesting... never seen a stone wall bridge a stream before.

Tricky Brits!

[Andi Little]

Tricky Brits!

Yes! .................... the sun will never set on the British Empire.................

......................................but, that's only because God doesn't trust the English in the dark!!! 

[Gordon Ferguson]

Andi,

only 1/35 scale 'cause if it would work in this scale , it will be OK for the proper scale.

Oh and I do have one thing 1/35 that needed a background

[BKLN]

The piece by piece construction is the way to go!

(and deserves a new thread)

[marc_reusser]

The piece by piece construction is the way to go!

(and deserves a new thread)

I agree, that a new thread of its own would be nice...I could actually do that....though in order to make it a wothwhile thread, it really should have an SBS to read and see.....other wise its just a bunch of really neat pics that leave everyone wondering what the thread is about.

[Gordon Ferguson]

Your really enjoying this , aren't you Marc  

Footings have been dug , foundations laid & first stages of SBS completed ............. its terribly complicated and may run to 100+ pages

SBS will be posted later today, fingers crossed, in its own thread !

May go all arty with the pics

  Only joking Russ, been reading you photo crib sheet again  

[granitechops]

inspiration
 

Now that's really interesting... never seen a stone wall bridge a stream before.

Tricky Brits!

Ah. ,  .  ,
But do you recognise what it really, actually is?
Its a single lane clapper bridge with fortifications  
must be in celtic territory    
possibly high on the moors near the source of the stream as it has not been washed away in a flash flood.
Got to be a rare surviving example, possibly? 
Edit,
BTW, how did you hold the foam together for painting ? glue? or cocktail sticks down through so as have no glue showing?