Norwegian Houses

[madharry]

Continuing......... here are the completed walls.

Next the dormer has the same treatment and the bevelled lower edge is cleaned up for a good fit on the roof.

The dormer sides are glued to the window wall and then the four walls are glued together.

Hopefully house #6 will look as good as house #5.

Mike

[Janbouli]

Very nice Mike , you do realize you'll have to do the whole layout in forced perspective don't you , that will be a treat to see .

[madharry]

Hey you are ahead of me! Yes that is my intention. I have photographs of both Bergen and Stavanger. They use mainly pantiles for roofing so I am going to buy some and continue the scratchbuilt story of Norway.

Thanks for looking friend. 

Mike

[madharry]

Here are some more buildings I am hoping to copy..............

Mike

[S&S RR]

Mike


This is a really cool project.  I will be following along. The depth you are creating with the forced perspective is amazing.

[ACL1504]

Mike,

This just gets better and better. And, smaller and smaller. Great job my friend.

And to think, you and I finished way down the list of the old Forum Build Challenge.

Tom

[madharry]

Thanks John. Originally I was going to use the standard photocopy reduction ratios of 93%, 83%, 69% and 47%. However as I have got more into the project I have decided to up the ante. Photocopying a 93% @ 83% creates a 77% and 83%@69% creates a 57% etc...........I could go on and on and on.....................

Mike 

[madharry]

Thanks Tom, yes I agree just fancy...........All competitions are subjective and I am just doing this for myself. Thanks for your kind comments which I appreciate very much.

Mike

[Zephyrus52246]

The houses look great.  I think it would be weird to build the same structure over and over.  I'd probably make the same mistakes over and over as well.    In the picture of the red shops, the one on the left appears to be tilting, is it just the picture?


Jeff

[madharry]

Jeff, the shops are in Bergen and yes it is tilting. While we were there they started shoring the building up with piling. They were originally old warehouses next to the shoreline and I think the waters are still seeping into the footings.

In actual fact my little houses are getting better as I make fewer mistakes. I do not find it boring as I have to constantly resize components to ensure the resulting house looks to scale.

Thanks for the questions.

Mike

[madharry]

Following on..................... time to do the roof. The shingles were left over from an old SRM kit. I use double sided taped to affix them the roofs.

[madharry]

Continuing............... The gables were cut from plastic coated heavy paper. Before attaching the roof I painted the roof edges white and marked with a pencil where the rafter rails would be glued.

[madharry]

Continuing... the dormer was offered up to the roof. Care is taken to make sure it sits well before attaching it. The fancy cross pieces are added to the gables using very fine plastic microstrip. The rafter rails are applied long and then trimmed when dry.

[madharry]

Finishing up.............. here is the finished house with its grey twin at 69%.

And..............here she is with one at 93% that I finished while I was building this one.

Mike

[madharry]

I have just returned from the British NMRA Convention run by Kathy Millatt.

I picked some bargains including 11 packets of N scale strip wood and 3 packs of bass wood walls. It feels like I have won the lottery!

Now I can get started on the 47% size houses with the correct size wood.........later

Mike