Afternoon everybody,

 It's sunny and 66 degrees out. Calling for more rain tomorrow.

 I need to get the bag-n-wagon out and vacuum the leaves this afternoon.

  Working on a craft paint carousel that will hold 84 bottles.
Will be cut on the laser out of 4mm plywood that's available at the local big box store. The base measures just over 12" wide and 12" deep. The bottom will have a drawer to keep brushes and stuff in.






 Have a great day

 I like it and it looks very much like a dilapidated brick foundation

This is the prototype I used for fitment and to learn how to do the shingles, but mirrored form the structure I finished. Also you can see that for the finished design, I centered the dock.

With some encouragement from Dave and Jerry, I went over the shingles with a wash of India ink.

I think it helped a lot.

  Thanks guys.
This ts the first structure I've completed. Most just get the walls together and then on to the next project.

Quote from: deemery on December 21, 2023, 05:00:34 PMOne suggestion on the shingle staining:  Run the brush vertically across the rows of shingles, rather than horizontally along the shingle runs.  That'll add more variety to the end result, preventing it from looking kinda streaky along the shingle runs.  It's cool to see how you did the combination/layers.  And it looks like you had much more success than I had with SketchUp when I used it to design a structure for my Roman Architecture course a couple years ago...

dave

 The shingles were stained before they went one. Next time, I'll try just one color on the shingles, then add weathering after they are on the structure.
 Been using Sketchup for about 15 years now and it works for me.

Used tar paper for both of the dock roofs.






Finished with a few details
Found this guy leaning up against a light pole on the web. Printed him with the light pole and then cut the pole off.
















And the last piece to go on was the chimney

Stained shingles





  I started with the roof that doesn't have valleys. I applied a few strips and then trim with scissors, apply a few more strips and trim and so on.










 Added both docks

Cut sheet of shingles








I took some scrap stryene and made a template to get the correct angle for cutting the shingles at the valley ends.









 


 For coloring the shingles, I used TRANsol powdered wood dye (from Amazon) and mixed it with 91% alcohol to add to the Hunterline stains that I already had. I mixed a verity of colors in these small containers from the dollar store. Each color used very little powder in each bottle. I also mixed up 4 shades of India ink. So far I have about 30 different colors and a few different shades of some of the most used colors.

With Roof










 I found (with help) some label paper that is only .003 thick and I use it for shingles.
 Took a lot of time to draw these up. Here is the cut plate for them

After paint and with windows and doors

After making sure the windows and doors fit, I brushed a coat of white paint on them.





While the paint dried, I started assembling the walls







Walls assembled

Here is what the etch plate looks like



And cut plate




All the parts just out of the laser
Note the etched lines on roof as a guide to apply shingles

While the site was down, here is one of my first N scale structure I've completed using my laser cutter and 3D printers.

 The printers that I have, are all made by Anycubic. 2 of the original Photon's, a Mono X 6K, and a M3.
 
This is the my 100 watt laser I built with a 18"X36" bed. The bed has a travel of about 10 inches up and down.







 
 I made a basic model in 3D with Sketchup (Pro)









 Then drew up the parts that are 3D printed.
 Note that I use some open windows

Hey Tom,

 Great work so far and thanks for sharing your work with drawings.
It's great that technology is getting so affordable for the hobbyist. 

What software do you draw with for your laser???
Are you using lightburn to run it???

I built a 100 watt CO2 laser with a 18"X36" bed, have 4 resin and 3 FDM printers, and a Cameo Pro that I use for complete builds in N scale,


 Thanks


 

  I'm following along

  Like the real glass idea. I'll have to get some to play with.