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Looking a bit more like a stair now.


Dave John

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Having got the sides to a shape I am happy with progress has been reasonable. Being stuck in the house for a day waiting for a parcel to turn up has a silver lining. Anyway its about ready for some paintwork and then a roof . Fiddliest bit was the gutters, I think these would have been cast ogee section rather than half round and I’m going to have to fit some downpipes.

Mind you its always the same , the small projects do tend to take up much more time than you ever thought they would.

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Glad its just the one platform......

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Is looking exceptionally fine scale. Me likey moocheey. :)

Window dividers are particularly good. String strands?

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Cheers . 

 

The window astricals are all done on the silhouette, its actually just one sheet of 10 thou clear so that they are all identical and line up. I use a blade set right down at 1 with minimum speed and it just engraves the whole sheet. Each side of that is a 10 thou inner frame, again cut as a single sheet, pre painted and then suck on with glue and glaze. Next is the outer frame, cut and prepainted with the brown. All the positions for the beadings are marked on that by the silhouette. 

 

The end brackets are part of the same 4 layers so it really is just a styrene sandwich. 

 

The other big advantage of the silhouette is that making identical  left and right handed sections is very simple, just duplicate and mirror. 

 

Really I doubt I could tackle this sort of thing without the silhoutte these days. 

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Would think there would be a magazine article in the construction of this, or at least as a worked example in an article of the use of the Silhouette.

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Top notch. I can just imagine this next to the already excellent platform buildings - wonderful stuff Dave.

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