Petite Properties

[tom.boyd.125]

Mike,
Enjoy your vacation. Really nice modeling and like your choice of textures in the builds. The building tribute to your late sister is really nice too. Will watch the rest of your village come together.
Tommy 

[madharry]

Thanks very much Tommy, I appreciate it.

Mike 

[madharry]

Here is the last of the 10 background (low-relief) structures - Daffodil Cottage. I have used a thin coat of plaster on the walls which I scribed as rough stonework. The roof was covered in good ol' Campbell's shingles.

Now I can start on the 10 full-size structuresand a charming Lych Gate to complete the series..........

Mike

[madharry]

Here are couple of full-size kits - Washtub Cottage and Parsnip Cottage. I have glued the MDF walls together, sanded them and applied a coat of PVA (Elmer's School Glue) before adding a skim coat of white filler plaster. Now they need sanding down, the window and door openings cleaned before I start to scribe the stonework.

Mike

[madharry]

Continuing..........

Here is Parsnip Cottage. The shell has been primed with plaster and scribed. Parts of the kit are shown with the chimneys which have been wrapped in Redutex brick film.

Mike

[Rail and Tie]

Mike, you have been hammering away at these little buildings like Santa's Elf! We shall hence call you "Magic Mike!"

[madharry]

Thanks Darryl - you can talk with the way you are proceeding with Sea Biscuit -bit like a race horse!
Mike

[madharry]

Continuing.......

The roofs were covered in Redutex Terracotta Pantiles and the chimneys were capped. The caps were "painted" with a black marker pen.

Next up to add the windows, doors, window sills and prepare for the bow window. The doors, lintels and bow windowframe were painted celery green.

Mike

[postalkarl]

Hi Mike:

I really like row of buildings. They came out very nicely. Can't wait to see the last one finished.

Karl

[ACL1504]

Mike,

I like how you finished the walls on the Parsnip Cottage. Great job and look.

Tom

[madharry]

Thanks Karl and Tom for following..........

Here is the start of the bow window and front porch placement. I have used white paper behind the windows to represent curtains.
I then added the roofs, fascia panels to the scullery (out-building) and wall ties (little x's). Almost there..................

Mike

[madharry]

Here is the finished Parsnip Cottage. I have added the chimneys, pots and lead flashing. I topped the roofs off with a single line of pantiles.

Only another 9 to go................

Mike

[madharry]

Continuing...........with Washtub Cottage.

I have used a plaster skim on the walls which I have then scribed free-hand. I then sponged shades of beige, cream and white on the walls. Afterwards I brushed on a very dilute wash of black to highlights the mortar lines.

Mike

[Janbouli]

The walls are magnificent Mike , WOW.

[Rail and Tie]

In Mike's language,  "Bloody Marvelous!"