Blog: Warm Ale and Mud
Owner: MichaelStockin
Author: Mike
Post: Johanne Pertwee Had A Farm...
So begins the farmhouse build.
I am basing it on the Townscape one.
It will be close enough for people to recognise it, but not a faithful reconstruction.
Balsa wood for the timber and foamed PVC for the shell/substructure. Superglue being my weapon of choice.
Fiddly bits.
It gets messy so I find I need to scrap it off and score the balsa where the filler has tried to make it look a bit more wooden again.
Some scrap plasticard for the roof substructure so I have something to rest the roof tiles on.
Next up a few extra bits and bobs and then to prime it.
Continue reading over on the Warm Ale and Mud blog
Owner: MichaelStockin
Author: Mike
Post: Johanne Pertwee Had A Farm...
So begins the farmhouse build.
I am basing it on the Townscape one.
It will be close enough for people to recognise it, but not a faithful reconstruction.
Balsa wood for the timber and foamed PVC for the shell/substructure. Superglue being my weapon of choice.
Fiddly bits.
Then rapid dry Polyfilla for the rendering.
It gets messy so I find I need to scrap it off and score the balsa where the filler has tried to make it look a bit more wooden again.
Some scrap plasticard for the roof substructure so I have something to rest the roof tiles on.
I think the Townscape farm has tiles but I am going a bit poorer what with it being Stirland and am doing wooden shingles again.
However the balsa I have is too thick for shingles as it is, so once cut into strips I then carefully slice them down their length to make them about half the thickness.
However the balsa I have is too thick for shingles as it is, so once cut into strips I then carefully slice them down their length to make them about half the thickness.
Then after quite a while and just under 400 tiles later...
Next up a few extra bits and bobs and then to prime it.
Continue reading over on the Warm Ale and Mud blog
