Petite Properties

[madharry]

Continuing...

Here is the school with the window surrounds, door frames, lintels and quoins fitted and then painted terracotta.

Mike

[madharry]

Continuing....

The only problem I can forsee with the school are the large windows that beg for interior details.

I decided to use Scalescenes.com Interior Detail kit TX00a which includes furntiture and lineside junk.

The colour downloadable sheets are meant to be glued to 2mm cardboard. You then cut out the items from the card and in most cases glue the cards back to back to form the piece of furniture. A printed wrapper then attaches to the sides to hide the card edges.

Problem: cutting 2mm card is hard labour and getting a perfect square edge takes some practice.

Tip: I decided to use foamboard for these very intricate items. Foamboard is far easier to cut and it is much easier IMO to get a perfect edge. My foamboard was slightly wider than 2mm but with a little touchup with a Prismacolor marker pen - problem solved.

Here are a cupboard and a set of drawers with the other elements still on their sheets.

Mike

[madharry]

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

I have made a few more bookselves and fitted them with cupboards into the school along with a blackboard.

The interior no longer looks empty.

Mike

[madharry]

Finishing up Little Acorns School....................

Mike

[ak-milw]

Looking great Harry, I like the color choice and the interior is a nice touch.

[Rail and Tie]

Really great work Mike. I am a sucker for interiors when ever possible. The little school hits everything in structures modeling. Size, composition, color, texture and detail.  Very nice! All it needs is the tall blonde school master with the short black skirt and yardstick....  Oops Wrong Website!

[madharry]

Thanks very much Andy I appreciate it.
Mike 

[madharry]

Darryl, good thinking now I am sure that I have a Cameron Diaz lookalike somewhere in my Prieser collection of figures.

Could she be wearing a bikini and be a swimming / physical education teacher with a german accent..............hmmm

Mike 

[madharry]

Right while I am rummaging around in my figures box...........

Here is Teacup Cottage. She has been plastered and scribed. I was hoping to finish her today but............Darryl has raised the bar somewhat and she will need a full downstairs interior now - sitting room with sofa, armchailrs, tv, fireplace etc and kitchen with worktops, washing machine etc......

Back to the modelling table.

Mike 

[cuse]

Great thread Mike. I love the euro kits and layout style. Nice work!


John

[GPdemayo]

Thank you Greg, yes I am trying to make them like the ones around Tetbury in the Cotswolds which I am intending to model one day.

Mike 

We had a great time there and met some really nice people on the trip.

We got to go to a very British wedding in Hitchin, fly a Piper neat Warwick, visit Stow on the Wold, stay at "The Old New Inn" in Burton on the Water and visit a bunch of other villages in the area and drive on the wrong side of the road, loved all the roundabouts.

We also got to visit Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory, in Portsmouth and see how Brighton compared to the Orlando for a resort destination.

We had a really fun time and the only grumpy person we met was the bureaucrat at Gatwick that stamped out passport before we got on the plane to come home.

[madharry]

Thanks very much John.

I'm glad you enjoyed yourselves Greg. Please come back sometime.
Airports - they say give someone some power and they will abuse it.............

Mike

[madharry]

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

Here are some of the Scalescenes furniture download that I have constructed today.........

3 sofas, a washing machine, a cooker , a bookshelf and a set of drawers............

Mike

[Rail and Tie]

Now we're talk'n!!   What no ham and eggs in a frying pan on the stove!!  Slacker!!

...excellent work Mike. Keep it coming.

[madharry]

Thanks Darryl. We call it bacon and eggs but hey............

Mike