norseman Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 After a long summer of arm-chair-modelleing, I found a bit of inspiration this afternoon as the rain kept drumming on the windows. A 30s art deco semi detached house is under construction, and will find it's place on my layout in the future. My daughter (aged 9) wanted to help, and I asked her to make a chair, sofa and table for the living room, And a nice job she did! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2011 That furniture is too nice to hide away inside the house - well done! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanB Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 You just need Felicity Kendall, a plot of veggies and a goat out the front! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Job's Modelling Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 A compliment for your daughter. Nicely done. With some lighting you can make the interieur vissible. Looking forward to the complete building. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaternosterRow Posted September 12, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2011 Fabulous model. Reminds me of home - I grew up in one just like it. Well done - look forward to seeing it through to completion. I assume it's 00 scale? Regards Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpnewbold Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 After a long summer of arm-chair-modelleing, I found a bit of inspiration this afternoon as the rain kept drumming on the windows. A 30s art deco semi detached house is under construction, and will find it's place on my layout in the future. My daughter (aged 9) wanted to help, and I asked her to make a chair, sofa and table for the living room, And a nice job she did! wow. 9. I'm impressed. Oh, and the semi is pretty cool too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 That furniture is too nice to hide away inside the house - well done! Perhaps a cameo scene is in order of someone moving house? furniture being brought off the van and into the house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 I will be experimenting with interior light, and hope the furniture will show through the windows. But good idea of a moving house cameo... And I think it is great to involve the kids whenever there is a job they fancy doing. Or the hobby can get mighty serious... Done a bit of work tonight, finishing the windows, adding a bit of detail above the front doors, and started to slate the roof. As always done with the back side of cereal packets, cutting lengths of appr 8 mm width, half cutting each individual slate before gluing on to the roof. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Now that's really looking very covincing, especially the bay window and the hung tiles. I could imagine whole streets of those, with just small detail differences between them, just to make them individual. But, the style is not art deco at all. Nor is it even in the moderne style so typical of the 1930s. The moderne style houses are the boxy, usually of the flat-roofed type, mostly (but not always) white painted and often with steel-framed curved corner window. Not many inter-war suburban houses were actually in the true art deco style. There probably are a few odd ones about, but I don't know of any estates in the style. Art deco was mostly used on cinemas and some factory fronts (of which many are said to be art deco, but are actually moderne!) All the same, a very nice, typically inter-war pair of semis. You need a little John Betjeman looking up at it, while filming Metro-Land in 1973......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Wonderful and what a great way to spend a few hours with your daughter. I love that you have added a little different interest over the two doors. I also like the idea of a moving company which could show a new family moving in or a family moving out. You could even do it as a family receiving some new furniture. B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpnewbold Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I think the differences in windows and doors in the two halves are really nice touches, excellent attention to detail Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted September 16, 2011 Author Share Posted September 16, 2011 Thanks for all comments! Here is an update after working friday night. Almost finished slating the roof. Need to add flashing around the chimney, downpipes and front doors. Have just started on the front garden. Need to make quite a few flowers from the foliage I bought at the Manchester exhibition last year, bags still unopened... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 Some more work today. Adding flowers to the garden, and the wall towards the street, as well as one of the garages. A scratch built wheelbarrow looks okay from distance, although close ups are quite cruel. Will add wooden fence between the brick abutments, and need to make a few hedges as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 My first house, purchased in 1976 in Harrow! My neighbours disliked me................. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micknich2003 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Very nice job, apart from a few details could be next street me. In comparason, we are the "Rif Raf", our street is a long row of Victorian terraced houses, not that it bothers me and the missus. Mick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Not sure why but I can't get the pictures to appear? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 Not sure why but I can't get the pictures to appear? Change of internet host, should be ok now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englishman Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Very nice and the wheelbarrow is excellent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 yep can see them now, good work and little touches like the wheelbarrow make the scene, doesn't have to be super detailed to look the part. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 The additions look great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 On second thoughts (and don't take this the wrong way, please) if you have vertical red tiles then the roof should probably be red tiled also...... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyk Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 On second thoughts (and don't take this the wrong way, please) if you have vertical red tiles then the roof should probably be red tiled also...... Not necessarily so, our old house in Seaton, Devon, which was built in 1964 and overlooked the old branch line, had a grey wavy tiled roof, and flat red/brown vertical tiles on the upper storey. The houses around us were the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Loads of houses in Market Harborough with red hanging tiles and grey tiled or slate roofs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Thanks for comments/suggestions. I consideres having red tiles on the roof, but as I will try to give my layout a "northern look" I went for slate roof. Currently lots of other houses under construction, and my wife's bookshelf is used for storage... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted October 5, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 5, 2011 Not many inter-war suburban houses were actually in the true art deco style. There probably are a few odd ones about, but I don't know of any estates in the style. Art deco was mostly used on cinemas and some factory fronts (of which many are said to be art deco, but are actually moderne!) All the same, a very nice, typically inter-war pair of semis. You need a little John Betjeman looking up at it, while filming Metro-Land in 1973......... These houses in Northampton always struck me as being an interesting/odd hybrid of typical 30s semi. and art deco, particularly when they had their original curved steel framed bay windows:- http://g.co/maps/wqbdz Frinton Park Estate seems to be the only UK housing estate in a true Art Deco style, according to Google anyway:- http://www.frinton.org/history/frinton-park-estate.php Judging by the flickr page linked there it does look pretty darned Art Deco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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