Time to Panic - My Mad Imaginings are Taking Physical form
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Well in my last blog, I told you that the Domestic Overlord had allowed me to have my felt tips back, well I have been a very good boy, as this weekend I was allowed my glue as well.
Being positively angelic, the Domestic Overlord even allowed me so time to "play with my trains" as my reward for being good, or maybe it was just to get rid of me for a few hours. Anyway I ruches to the spare room to get my hands on my secret stash of card, my modelling knives (of the heavy duty Stanley variety) and set to work, knocking together the carcases for what will eventually become part of the urban sprawl on Lugsdale road.
In my last post I showed you how I tend my ideas/plans onto the layout using a little graph paper with the footprints of the buildings drawn out full size. I find its a good idea to plan this way as it helps you get a feel for what will and wont work on the layout. Once I have made a few alterations only of the minor type, I like to flesh out this plan my making the carcases for the buildings so the plan turns 3D.
Now usually when I construct buildings from plastic, I make these mock-up carcases out of cardboard, but because I am making the final buildings from card, I thought I would make these from the same cardstock I would use for the final buildings.
I couple of hours work and in theory if your happy with the dimensions and positions on the layout you can then cover these carcases with the final walls etc.
I still have a couple more to construct and then I can start on the very slow process of adding the outer walls, and cutting out doors and windows, that is once I get my head around the huge number this will involve.
Hopefully I will capture some of that elusive urban atmosphere?
So there you have it, that's the progress so far, I used my knives and glue, un supervised and I still have all my fingers in place, and only things glued together that I set out intending to.
That means it must be time to panic, as things can only go down hill from here..............
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