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Looking really good. I love the electrical work.
 

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*thanks for the comments - always appreciated


I am takng a break from the balconies (not on them…) for a moment to focus on other parts of the building’s details – the sandbagging.

Being heavily fortified, the building has fairly tall sandbag walls both inside and out. That’s a lot of sandbags and a lot of milliput…..so I reused a silicone mold to produce the bulk of the piles of sandbags from plaster. Mold was a leftover form making my 3 Great War– dios.

Further individually produced sandbags from Milliput will be added to these to add height and details and fill the void between it and the wall.

Base coated black and painted off - white these will be further weathered using pastels and wahes .

In Aleppo everything was used to make sandbags including pillow casing and duvets (I am told this was also the case in the first stages of the entrenching stage of Great War on the British side) - regardless of the designs and patters – I did include this on the first version of this dio but have omitted it here as I feel it would be lost to any onlooker.

On the LH corner upper balcony there’s no possibility of short – cutting as I plan to show that the near total destruction has caused the sandbag wall to partly collapse- this will be a challenge to do realistically.
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Hello Chaps

Bit of an update on the destruction on the Balconies:
sandbagging, adding details such as rebar and smaller broken pieces – everything is WIP and there’s a lot to be done – I am hoping to finish the general work on the façade come end of February, I will however be taking a break from the Façade (to preserve my sanity..), to concentrate on smaller details on the building and the Roof covering the Arcade (sigh more electrics... )
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Rabar can be a pain to work with but it does add some interest to broken Concrete – Cf. top and below where it still needs to be added. I will twist and mangel bend and bow these accordingly

 

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Hello chaps I finally got time to post an update.

Leaving the building aside for at moment I am right now concentrating on doing some detailing of the Arch Arcade roof where I am planning toad a ceiling fan and a light fixture.







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Construction of the fan using plastic strip and the head of a clothing pin and some fuse wire – it is not a masterpiece of accuracy but it does not need to be as not much of it will actually be showing











The lighting fixture is form Verlinden (although scratching one is easy, I chose the easy route...). I have added metal brackets because the original idea was to have it partially hanging from the roofing form a bent bracket. I have since abandoned that idea, in favor of having it fully torn from its mounting brackets and dangling from its cable alongside some other installations. Damaged will be added to Brackets accordingly.

All for now – thanks for watching.

Next time: some updates on the building – interior, rooms etc. and we will be adding some rubble and details to the balconies.
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