coombe junction - moorswater - cladding - episode IV a new hope...
Update - Following the setbacks from last time, and slight loss of mojo, I retreated from the layout and immersed myself in a string of christmas parties and the final season of 24, which provided about 10 evenings of time to reflect on my way forward taking into account the helpful comments and suggestions received and the conclusions to date.
Last night, I returned, determined not to send any euros winging to the swear box (tis the season of goodwill after all) and started by cutting out postcard templates to fit the elevations, to allow more work to be done on the flat. I also received by post, a scriber (thanks for the tip and link jim s-w ) although I will tackle this a bit later.
Thus the elevations started something like this....
This enabled me to mark out the lines of the cladding and help with alignment (Bernard...this time the joints line through ) and at the corners. I used a 2mm strip of doublesided tape to act as the spacer between the sheets to help express the horizontal joints giving this...
The elevations have been temporarily attached to the card carcus with doublesided tape as this...
The corner joint is in theory a cladding capping piece so I will add this on after and then perhaps add a further cover strip in paper to overlap the cladding slightly. The photos are a bit crude in that the shadow between the joints appears to be larger than it is, but it is barely noticeable from some angles and I think will provide a basis for the painting and weathering. I need to think about scribing the joints now and also adding the roof panels.
That's all for now though...hoping to get another night in on it later in the week when my wife disappears for another christmas knees up...
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