Castle gate entrance

[grumpa]

Tremendous work my friend! much too involved for an old hack such as I, can't wait to see it finished! .......Jim

 

[monica]

I've seen some lovely work on here, but this has to be one of the best, excellent scratch building at it's best, there is so much to look at and take in, really looking forward to the next update Richi

wow Richi,I think this comment by Tommy summons up what i would say,


just superb, :D


would lov to know how you made all the hinges for doors and gates,


loving this one,

 

[bluriusz]

I wanted to write something, but all I can do is place this:


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[Gern]

C'mon Richi, don't keep us all in suspenders! How did you fill in between your stones and get such a fabulous result on the colours?

 

[noble]

Mate that is incredible work, and so realistic looking, I like this a lot.


scott

 

[Richi72]

Wow thanks alot for these great compliments.

C'mon Richi, don't keep us all in suspenders! How did you fill in between your stones and get such a fabulous result on the colours?

Hi Gern,


I made a test piece and tried different stuff but here is what worked the best for me,


as a filler i used light spackle normally used with rc planes, i coated the bricks with a thin layer and waited about 10 minutes, then i took a thin sponge (1 cm) that was glued to a piece of wood to keep it as flat as possible, sprayed some water on it and started to wipe the cork stones clean.


After each 2 or 3 wipes i cleaned the sponge and repeated this until i was satisfied. After about 2 hours i went over the cork stones with a small flexible steel brush to get covered up details by the spackle back and let it dry for 2 days.


By cleaning the cork stones with the steel brush i got an irregular color of the stones with shades of brown and white which was perfect to get a base grey tone that vary in color (like a pre shading)


For the paint, I used a dark grey base tone mixed from white and black from reeve's acrylics and sprayed it with the AB, after that was dry i used a lighter mix to gave the stones the first grey tone, at the moment its a medium blue grey, but that will change if i build up the different grey tones to create depth.


Cheers Richi

 

[Richi72]

would lov to know how you made all the hinges for doors and gates,

Hi Moni,


I used my computer to draw the hings and then i let the machine cut them , after that i drilled the 0,5mm holes.


Glued them in place and put a piece of sprue in the drilled holes.


After that i cut of the sprues and heated up the ends to get a bold end.


Cheers Richi

 

[Gern]

Lots of work then, but worth every minute Richi. This just gets better and better. What is this machine you refer to for cutting out the hinges?

 

[Richi72]

Thanks Gern,


Its a plotter machine that draws on paper cuts vinyl, paper and plastic, got that machine some 9 year ago in a garage sale.


Help me allot with scratch building projects.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

I'm proper impressed with this Richard. Brilliant work........ Not a lot else to say that hasn't already been said.

 

[monica]

a great machine to have and even better being able to use it lol,

 

[Richi72]

Hi all,


so here's a small update on the Castle build. I did some work on the moat at least the bottom of it.


I made a transparent box of vivak material 0,75mm as a base too put some scale water on, so i didn't need too put a 2cm layer of resin in.


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But i didn't like it that much so i cut it out and glued in a new bottom that is a little higher.


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Started to work on a figurine.


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And painted the bottom of the new moat.


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[geegad]

Wow and wow again this is truly a amazing build the level of detail in your build is Ho smacking.can't wait to see more of your build

 

[Richi72]

Next up was making a plate of resin about 4 mm thick.


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Cut it to fit the moat


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So i think it looks a little like frozen water, now for some details under the water, i used some candle wax melted on the bottom side of the resin to recreate some air pockets under the ice. After the wax was on I used an flat iron and some wax paper too get rid of the drops so it would look like a large splash. then i turned the plat and, (got this from a book)


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glued the plate in place with modge pod,


So thats all for the moment.


Thanks or watching.


Cheers Richi

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Blimey that's all I can say.

 

[Polux]

Simply superb Richard....:eek:


No need more comments

 

[monica]

agree with both the above,


just simply superb work Rici, :D

 

[flyjoe180]

Yep, superb work Richi

 

[Airfix Modeller Freak]

There was an SAS raid during ww2 on a town and castLe in Belgium. I have many pics of it... You could do that.... Just a suggestion


Btw, stunning work


John

 

[Richi72]

Hi John, thanks.


I am intrigued by that, can you tell me what that operation was called?


Cheers Richi