Spanish Lighthouse

Started by madharry, December 24, 2016, 10:39:22 AM

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GPdemayo

Merry Christmas Mike.....I'll be looking in.  :)
Gregory P. DeMayo
General Construction Superintendent Emeritus
St. Louis & Denver Railroad
Longwood, FL

madharry

Thanks Greg,

I will stop procrastinating and start very soon.

Mike

madharry

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

madharry

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Continuing.............

Da dah! DONE!

Just kidding 1 souvenir that I picked from La Coruna which appears to be scale size.

Mike  ;D

madharry

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

Rail and Tie

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.
Darryl Jacobs
Inter-Action Hobbies
www.interactionhobbies.com

madharry

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

Mkrailway

That is insane! But looks like fun.

Rail and Tie

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!!
Darryl Jacobs
Inter-Action Hobbies
www.interactionhobbies.com

madharry

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  :-\

postalkarl

Hi Mike:

Looking good. You're off to a good start. Are the wood block mad of wood? I'll be watching.

Karl

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