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At the wife's suggestion, I'm going to build the Hospital at Rorke's Drift.
It will be in 1/72 scale and made from foam board, plastic card, string and coffee stirrers. (Can't find polystyrene pizza bases anymore!)
I always keep my paper templates for any model buildings I design. When I built the original Rorke's Drift model I made template for the Storehouse, but to be honest I'd forgotten I made a pattern for the hospital at the same time. Then decided not to build it.
So yesterday I found it....
Lousy weather outside, so here is this morning's work. After marking around the templates, I cut the parts of the building cut out of the board with my scalpel. Various doors and windows were then marked out.
Folks have different approaches to modelling buildings and walls. I prefer not to add a separate layer of filler 'Texture' because I find it easier and simpler to add the effect directly to the board using tools and sandpaper etc. I find this method also makes painting and weathering relatively straight forward - Sez he!
Next I will scribe the brick and stone work, cut out the openings and glue it all together.
Cheers all.
Ron
It will be in 1/72 scale and made from foam board, plastic card, string and coffee stirrers. (Can't find polystyrene pizza bases anymore!)
I always keep my paper templates for any model buildings I design. When I built the original Rorke's Drift model I made template for the Storehouse, but to be honest I'd forgotten I made a pattern for the hospital at the same time. Then decided not to build it.
So yesterday I found it....
Lousy weather outside, so here is this morning's work. After marking around the templates, I cut the parts of the building cut out of the board with my scalpel. Various doors and windows were then marked out.
Folks have different approaches to modelling buildings and walls. I prefer not to add a separate layer of filler 'Texture' because I find it easier and simpler to add the effect directly to the board using tools and sandpaper etc. I find this method also makes painting and weathering relatively straight forward - Sez he!
Next I will scribe the brick and stone work, cut out the openings and glue it all together.
Cheers all.
Ron