KNP Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 That's amazing! Did you knit that garden bench too? Thanks and I knitted the seat using a new technique using brass? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 A well ordered garden, a pergola, a dovecote, a knitted brass bench what next I ask myself. Excellent modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 (edited) How utterly splendid, Kevin. All we need now are David Niven and Leslie Howard sat discussing the merits of the Spitfire after it's latest test flight. Charming. Rob. Edited April 8, 2017 by nhy581 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 I fully agree. I've enjoyed all your photos Kevin but that garden shot made my eyes widen. It is very, very good. It would grace the frontpage of any modelling mag - except everyone would think it was an issue of Country Living 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 How utterly splendid, Kevin. All we need now are David Niven and Leslie Howard sat discussing the merits of the Spitfire after it's latest test flight. Charming. Rob. How interesting that you should say that Rob. I was driving to our local model shop this morning and the first piece I heard on the car radio was Walton's "Spitfire Prelude and Fugue". 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 It's good to see that the pesky buddleia has been kept out of the garden. It grows so predominantly near railways. I guess the shiny dog doesn't get to "go" in that garden. Did you buy the plants or make them Kevin? A very convincing display. Re the new build, will we see deliveries of windows etc arriving on site? I imagine they arrive by train due to the close proximity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Kevin Please follow this swinging watch with your eyes. With your eyes, Kevin, just with your eyes Keep watching the watch, Kevin Now repeat after me - I must write my techniques up for the magazines - I must write my techniques up for the magazines - I must write my techniques up for the magazines Keep repeating it, Kevin Keep repeating it. And when I snap my fingers, you are going to write up your techniques up for the magazines SNAP! Because I thought at first that it was a pic of your garden. Then I realised. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 It's good to see that the pesky buddleia has been kept out of the garden. It grows so predominantly near railways. I guess the shiny dog doesn't get to "go" in that garden. Did you buy the plants or make them Kevin? A very convincing display. Re the new build, will we see deliveries of windows etc arriving on site? I imagine they arrive by train due to the close proximity. Thanks Regarding the plants they are adapted from mainly MiniNatur products using garden flower strips cut into individual stalks and pushed into a predrilled hole in the flower bed. Others are lengths of reed, Woodland Scenics I think, bunched together as one, ends dipped into glue then coloured flock and again planted in a hole. Long flowers top end rolled in coloured flock and planted. Small foliage clumps used , potato strips cut into individual plants and stems with coloured flock on. Base was sundela so I carved out the flower beds to give the recessed border effect, one of my favorite materials Treemendous Earth Powder to form the flower beds. Path created with silver sand and wash painted with different shades of grey (50 I think....!!!!!) Windows delivered from LCut last week by Royal Mail and hand delivered to storage yard..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 post-14122-0-95370900-1491635659.jpg Kevin Please follow this swinging watch with your eyes. With your eyes, Kevin, just with your eyes Keep watching the watch, Kevin Now repeat after me - I must write my techniques up for the magazines - I must write my techniques up for the magazines - I must write my techniques up for the magazines Keep repeating it, Kevin Keep repeating it. And when I snap my fingers, you are going to write up your techniques up for the magazines SNAP! Because I thought at first that it was a pic of your garden. Then I realised. One day........ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 How interesting that you should say that Rob. I was driving to our local model shop this morning and the first piece I heard on the car radio was Walton's "Spitfire Prelude and Fugue". Sorry what radio station are you listening to that plays that?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 (edited) Sorry what radio station are you listening to that plays that?! It was on ABC Classics at about 0845 AEST this morning. Edited April 8, 2017 by St Enodoc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 Sorry what radio station are you listening to that plays that?! Classicfm also play it a lot too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Very relaxed on this thread. Other threads woukd be screaming "get back on topic". It must be the therapeutic affect of that garden. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Very relaxed on this thread. Other threads woukd be screaming "get back on topic". It must be the therapeutic affect of that garden. We're not considering some of the posts on A Nod to Brent, now, are we? This one hasn't got to sausages and parsnips yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 I swooned earlier in this thread, having just recovered the garden has flattened me. Superb modelling. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 I'm still looking at your garden and I'm fascinated by the layers of shrubs and trees laid out so realistically. After handling all that foliage texture with adhesive you must have green fingers! It shows. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 We're not considering some of the posts on A Nod to Brent, now, are we? This one hasn't got to sausages and parsnips yet. More like a "bargain" thread where they get quite shirty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted April 8, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 8, 2017 (edited) On 08/04/2017 at 21:07, Limpley Stoker said: I'm still looking at your garden and I'm fascinated by the layers of shrubs and trees laid out so realistically. After handling all that foliage texture with adhesive you must have green fingers! It shows. Thank you but I don't really have green fingers in the real world. The trick with planting them was to put the glue on the model first and then offer the plant to it with a pair of bent nose tweezers. For some reason I haven't many recent pictures of the garden until I was messing about with the camera at low level the other day when that shot was taken. I built the ground on a slope which helped with the effect seen. The best picture I have at the moment was taken a while ago but gives you an idea of the garden and it's layout even then it's missed a bit. Edited June 9, 2023 by KNP 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 Absolutely fab-u-lous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted April 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2017 Thank you but I don't really have green fingers in the real world. The trick with planting them was to put the glue on the model first and then offer the plant to it with a pair of bent nose tweezers. For some reason I haven't many recent pictures of the garden until I was messing about with the camera at low level the other day when that shot was taken. I built the ground on a slope which helped with the effect seen. The best picture I have at the moment was taken a while ago but gives you an idea of the garden and it's layout even then it's missed a bit. What a lot of gorgeous detail - even the greenhouse is full of plants width a vine growing up the wall. I'm feeling guilty that we a keeping you from your modelling- you could e digging foundations raher than reading this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 We definitely need a DOUBLE WOWSER button now, that is superb Kevin. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 (edited) What a lot of gorgeous detail - even the greenhouse is full of plants width a vine growing up the wall. I'm feeling guilty that we a keeping you from your modelling- you could e digging foundations raher than reading this! Many thanks, but I am working on the building site. See, one of a couple of the building frameworks knocked up ready for brickpaper. It's a small stable building in case you were wandering with a forge at one end. Edited April 9, 2017 by KNP 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2017 With that amount of bracing it looks very stable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Will the horse make a bolt for the door? Or will the smith? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted April 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2017 With that amount of bracing it looks very stable. I thought it was a house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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