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blog-0147997001385600984.jpgI learned several things today; 1) I really should have painted under the laths before fitting them. 2) Colron wood dye does melt foam board. And 3) Colron wood dye is really expensive! £10 in Home base and a mere £8 in B+Q and what is worse, I know I have a tine somewhere.

 

Anyway, spent the evening on the building.

 

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Here it is with some more floors, window and door frames.

 

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Here I am icing it with DAS rolled between cling film in a scene more akin to the Great British Bakeoff.

 

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Here I am using one of my finds from the weekend, a brick stencil thing which when I find the packet I can tell you who from. I am here pressing it in to the wet DAS with a wall paper seam roller.

 

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And here are the results. The intention was to put more DAS over the top as render with bits of brick poking out but will have to see how it looks tomorrow.

 

And here is Charlie cat completely oblivious to the house building going on right above him.

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Yes that's the one! Most of their stuff was aimed at much larger scales and for dolls houses but there were a few bits of interest.

 

I do have some of the EDM weathered wood and in fact made up a particularly foul smelling cocktail of this and the Colron for the inside wood. Is actually a real problem to know what colour to do the wood. From the example of our attic everything is a very dusty dark grey but would this wash off after being open to rain and would there have been a fire? The other thing is how long has the building been derelict? I am assuming that the area I am modeling was intact and behind the German lines until a few months ago. When the Germans withdrew they operated a scorched earth policy so all buildings were put out of use by demolition rather than shellfire. At the end of the day I am sure I will be doing it wrong in someones opinion!

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nigelb

another way to stain  the wood is to use tea 

make a cup of black tea  to the required  colour add some washing up liquid n soak the wood in that . I have seen it used on matchstick models to great effect

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KalKat

Demolition (usually by explosive charge) would probably have blown out the lower walls allowing the whole thing to collapse.

 

That damage looks far more like shellfire. Seeing as the battles raged backwards and forwards over much of the front, it wouldn't be unusual for areas to have exchanged hands several times and often structures were left alone as you never knew when you'd need to shelter/take cover in it.

 

The few remaining structures also formed landmarks in a sea of.... well mud really, often giving rise to odd place names like "Dead Cow Farm"

 

Emma

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That's interesting about the demolition. Now, another question - how much wood should be left and should there be any furniture in the ruin? What I am assuming is that if the building was in a ruined state during Winter any easily removable wood would have disappeared as firewood. As to furniture, I am sure that anything usable would have disappeared but  would some have been in place when the building was damaged leaving some remains inside?

 

Now off to play with tea - and maybe coffee!

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If vacated in a hurry the furniture would have been left and may well have succumbed to the flame in winter. Generally I would have thought loose structural material would have gone first, as chairs are much nicer than mudddy ammo cases to sit on.

 

If the house was in a suitable position, parts could be cobbled up  to serve as offices/ communications,  stores or simply shelter with the use of tarpaulins. In that case furniture could get reused.

 

Given supply issues there were many odd structures assembled from the ruination - make do and mend was a very real thing then!

 

Emma

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