The Farthing layouts

Brilliant, I love things made from something else.

Yeah, it's fun isn't it :-)  And it doesn't have to be on a small scale either. Jim SW does the same on Birmingham New Street (no other comparison intended!).

I like your resourcefulness. The result is very impressive, and even more-so when superimposed over original photographs ...

 

One question: Do you really have such a selection of colourful beads in all shapes and sizes (picture 16)?

 

I recently found small glass beads to be a good representation of fancy Victorian multi-faceted lamps and have since been thinking of other uses for what's on offer in my nearby bead shop!

Hi Southernboy, the beads are my daughter's. As far as I remember they are a mix from many different small bags that she collected throughout her childhood. They're all plastic.

 

But she is 19 now, and so I dug them out of storage and plundered just two white ones!

 

Those Victorian lamps sound very appealing! 

Brilliant!  If you'd have painted that before putting it up against the real photograph there's no way you'd think it wasn't part of the scene.  This is the sheer joy of modelling isn't it - building something from absolute scratch, using the most unlikely of materials to do it with and then pulling it off?  The paint brush for the weight part is sheer genius.   

Very much agree, CAD modelling etc produces some fantastic results but there's still a place for this kind of messing about :-)

 

The poor old paintbrushes were actually subjected to a third assault, which provided the spacer rings between the gearwheels. Forgot to include the pic before.

 

Just when it seems that Mikkel's modelling can't get any more exquisite ... he ups his game! Lovely presentation of the build too, I had no idea what it was going to be...

Thanks Al :-) I wouldn't have guessed it myself either!

 

I don't mean false modesty, but it's a fairly simple object to model. The most tricky part was getting the curvature of the "frames" to look un- home made. The rest is just a matter of sticking things together.

Mikkel,

The modelling is one thing, and it is brilliant, but to be able to see the parts in other things just blows me away. 

 

Chris

Thanks a lot Chris :-) For those of us who aren't proficient in scratchbuilding/turning things from metal, it can actually be a fun challenge to find out how then to build something, and find all those strange parts!