I intend doing a step-by-step build of a model kit by Spanish firm Aedes Ars of the lighthouse Faro de la Herradura situated at Almunecar, Spain. The kit is in 1/75 scale and features 1550 individual ceramic bricks. The kit retailed for some 35 Euro and I bought it in a hobby shop in Cadiz, Spain.
Here is the obligatory box top
The contents of the box include packets of 1550 individual bricks, glue, a MDF diorama base, card formers for the lighthouse, scenic materials to create a diorama, metal railings and even powdered paints. The instructions take the form of coloured diagrams. We will see how I get on!
Mike
oooomph! That's a lot of stones! What type of glue are they having you use?
Welcome to my mad world of brick laying.
Definitely following along, Mike the mason.
Quote from: rpdylan on December 24, 2016, 02:38:36 PM
oooomph! That's a lot of stones! What type of glue are they having you use?
Not sure mate. They include a bottle in the kit. So we will see when I begin....thanks for following.
Mike ;)
Quote from: Janbouli on December 24, 2016, 03:40:02 PM
Definitely following along, Mike the mason.
My Dad was a Mason (the othe kind) I never did join. He made my brothers and I a garage for Christmas out of Linka bricks way back in 1957.....................
Jan have a Merry Christmas.
Mike :)
My Dad was a mason, the kind that lays bricks, will be seeing him tomorrow and my mother , and we will have rabbit like only my mother can cook it for Christmas dinner.
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones Mike.
Glad you are home from the Spanish coast and back at it Mike! Looks to be a fun build!
Jan, you know of bricks in Holland?!!! Did not know they had any there!! LOL On a trip there a few years ago to Holland / Belgium, I don't think I saw a single house that was not made from bricks or stones. I bet your dad kept busy in his career. So different then us "new world" types, everything is quick built from wood and wood fiber board and not to last.
We don't have that much wood , but we do have enough clay, our buildings are built to withstand heavy winds, building with bricks would be a major improvement in some states in the US.
I'm in Mike!
This one will be an interesting build ;)
Thanks Jan, Darryll and Pol.Lux, I will try and not disappoint.
Mike :-\
Mike,
This is cool. Looks like a real block by block job.
Tom ;D
Hi /Mike:
Have fun will be watching.
Karl
Thanks Tom and Karl....as I step into the unknown, mind you it will be good taster as I bought their Cotswolds Cottage Row from a hobby seller in Italy and it is only 32 inches long by 7 inches wide.....eassy peesy ............maybe that it is the Christmas wine kicking in and should have stuck to Diet Pepsi.....
A very Merry Christmas Guys..we are off the the Nutcracker Ballet at the Royal Opera House in London in a few hours...........my daughter is the one with the class not me , I'm just buying the Prosecco at half time!
Mike ;D
Merry Christmas Mike.....I'll be looking in. :)
Thanks Greg,
I will stop procrastinating and start very soon.
Mike
So here I go...................
The kit comes with a general colour guide and another personalised to the kit. There are no written instructions as such you just have to scratch your head and study the pictures until the little grey cells say eureka!
The paper base 1 is the start to which you glue a cardboard strip B into a circle. The glue (Bob) seems to a heavy quick acting PVA. The kit comes with a piece of chipboard so I used double sided tape to adhere this to the thin cardboard base to give it some rigidty.
The kit comes with some thin cardboard strips that have been scored in the middle. The idea is you cut small sections from these and glue them to B to support the next card A.
Mike
Continuing.............
Da dah! DONE!
Just kidding 1 souvenir that I picked from La Coruna which appears to be scale size.
Mike ;D
Continuing...
I do not know whether this is relevant but I found about 4 sizes of bricks. I have sorted the 1550? bricks into 4 packets. The printing on the cards seem to have the same size brick so I do not know??
Mike
Quote from: madharry on December 28, 2016, 01:39:06 PM
Continuing...
I do not know whether this is relevant but I found about 4 sizes of bricks. I have sorted the 1550? bricks into 4 packets. The printing on the cards seem to have the same size brick so I do not know??
Mike
Actually, looking more closely at a photo of the model on their PDF catalog, it appears that they randomly put big and short blocks together in the same row if that makes any sense.
Thanks Darryl, I think you are on the money. I have glued the stones I have most of around the circle of card. I filled the gap at the end of each row with either a larger stone or a smaller one to complete the circle. I am using fast acting heavy PVA.
Mike
That is insane! But looks like fun.
Looking good Mike, I can see how it is a bit of a thinking game to use the large and small stones to minimize the angle between each, thus reducing any wedge gaps between each. Doing this while still having an overlap with the stone edge in the layers below. Still, might be a ZEN experience once you get going!!
It is certainly interesting............I intend using some sandpaper at the end to bring everything into line and possibly some filler to replicate mortar.
Mike :-\
Hi Mike:
Looking good. You're off to a good start. Are the wood block mad of wood? I'll be watching.
Karl