ARNHEM: Major General R E URQUHART'S HIDE OUT HOUSE Zwarteweg 14

[monica]

nice shows up more off your detail with the brick work , what a nice shade off brick red/orange is that your owe blend ?

 

[Richi72]

Hi Alan, thanks mate, well you need to wait a little bit more, about 11 months :rolleyes:.

Moni thanks, yes its my own blend, used some red and brown paints that are normally used to colour white house paint.

Cheers Richi

 

[Richi72]

02.02.14 Update

Hi all here is a little update.

Made the top wall parts and the chimney and glued them in to place, and simulatet the stones.

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After that I made the front doors from 0,5mm sheet and put some detail on it.

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Then I made the door windows from Balsawood cut them and glued them together

And I put in a picture of some dimensions I used for the door windows.

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Cheers Richi

 

[Richi72]

And here are some pics of the door in the wall

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Cheers Richi

 

[flyjoe180]

Nice work Richi. Lots of detail going into this.

 

[monica]

WoW Richi that is mighty fine work, and a very good idea on the dimensions as well always so handy

be looking forward to seeing more great stuff

 

[Richi72]

Thanks Joe,

Thanks Moni, I knew you would like those drawings

Cheers Richi

 

[monica]

your getting to know me to well, :rolleyes: but thats a good thing always good to have top advice and help

 

[Polux]

Dear Richard.

Is a pleasure read and look this thread step by step!

Fantastic work so far :rolleyes:

Polux

 

[geegad]

stunning work your dio is making my mouth water with anticipation..

 

[Richi72]

09.02.2014

Hi all,

here's a little progress on the build.

made the windows and started with filing in the gabs between the stones. I used plaster for this.

but here are the pictures.

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So this needs to dry for a day or so.

Thanks for watching.

Cheers Richi

 

[monica]

thank you for a great detailed update Richi,, wow you put in some work into the window frames,/doors and they look so good ,

nice easy way to do mortar , flood in the plaster

look forward to the next update keep the good work going

 

[tommy1drop]

Amazing work and detailing Richi, I really am enjoying your updates and look forward to seeing more of this superb build.

 

[Richi72]

10.02.2014

Hi all,

thanks for the kind replies.

I have had a big disaster:mad:, after the first layer of plaster I put on a second layer of plaster, but this layer took away lots of details of the wall. So back to the drawing board and make a new wall, will put on some pics later on so you can see what I mean.

Cheers Richi

 

[Andy Mac]

There's some impressive detail work going on there...

 

[Polux]

10.02.2014Hi all,

thanks for the kind replies.

I have had a big disaster:mad:, after the first layer of plaster I put on a second layer of plaster, but this layer took away lots of details of the wall. So back to the drawing board and make a new wall, will put on some pics later on so you can see what I mean.

Cheers Richi

Ohhh!! Sorry to hear that Richard!!

Anyway the diorama is coming along very nice

 

[monica]

10.02.2014Hi all,

thanks for the kind replies.

I have had a big disaster:mad:, after the first layer of plaster I put on a second layer of plaster, but this layer took away lots of details of the wall. So back to the drawing board and make a new wall, will put on some pics later on so you can see what I mean.

Cheers Richi

OH No ,Booooooo, that real S----, all that work so sorry to hear that Richi ,you cannot wash off the plaster at all ? to try and save it :oops:

 

[Richi72]

Hi Polux, Hi Moni,

Thanks for the kind words guy's

no way of saving it the depron is way softer than the plaster.

But the new wall is half done, so thumbs up, gone go with 1 layer of plaster this time

cheers Richi

 

[monica]

hi Richi ,thats nice to hear, but alot more work than you needed to do, i use a wall filler , that i water down more , and has alot

longer drying time, so you can rub it back with a wet sponge when half set and just give that bit more time to play with as i found

plaster seens to set fast and quick once you pore it out ., dont know if its a help off any type to you, over hear its called sally wall filler

 

[Richi72]

Hi Moni,

it was my own dumb mistake, poured a second layer. The first layer sucks up the water from the second layer which is then almost dry in an instant and I know this

I got something like that somewhere, its called Molto filler here. but I don't want to wait that long :D :D .

But there is a saying around here, ''Übung macht den Meister'' wildly translated ''practise and you will become a master'' (someday:rolleyes::rolleyes

Cheers Richi