mullie Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) It's ok, i've rehung the doors on the barn. Hopefully they won't collapse in a week unlike Allan's neighbours! Edited February 20, 2014 by mullie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Think I'd prefer a beer, myself: Hmmmm, cracking jugs ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 This is the main roof tiled out - three hours including cutting out the tiles - and this is what a roof looks like after the PVA sealing coat has been applied over the textured stippled pollyfilla treatment. At this stage it looks an absolute disaster and a right mess - which it is - but the end product is well worth it , and came as quite a shock when I first ever tried it! Cheers. Allan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 And fully dried and dustcoated, then dropped temporaraly over the roof for any trimming. I'm sick of tiles, I'm going to bed... Cheers. Allan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dorset Wanderer Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Anything like this? Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 After checking the roof pitch with the prototype I realised that while I had the right pitch, more or less, it wasn't high enough to the ridge by almost a third again !!!!!! Drat, drat and drat again - so do I make the roof again? like hell I do, so it'll have to be Arlington Row, an alternative ! But this is just between us while Robinson's up in Aberdeen ripping off the oil industry ! Cheers. Allan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Aha! A chance to regain some lost ground. Come on dremel, lets make the living room floor dusty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 After checking the roof pitch with the prototype I realised that while I had the right pitch, more or less, it wasn't high enough to the ridge by almost a third again !!!!!! Drat, drat and drat again - so do I make the roof again? like hell I do, so it'll have to be Arlington Row, an alternative ! But this is just between us while Robinson's up in Aberdeen ripping off the oil industry ! Cheers. Allan. Hee hee...glad to see I'm not the only one to have to completely rethink a project because I've made a mistake! Petra says she's going to start using that Polyfilla stipple technique for the roofs now it does look amazing. cheers, Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Hello Iain, Hope Aberdeen is treating you well. Pete, Allan, you're both 18 steps ahead of me I'm still drawing mine out! Just a few more verticals to add in The reason for drawing ALL the stones? Well, I'm trying a new technique - I'm going to feed a sheet of 2mm foamex into the plotter and get it to cut in all my window and door holes and mark on all the stone courses, so all I have to do is go over with the scribe and trim the apertures out properly If it works, It should save literally hours of marking out and scribing, plus all my verticals should be true! Edited February 21, 2014 by freebs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Hee hee...glad to see I'm not the only one to have to completely rethink a project because I've made a mistake! Petra says she's going to start using that Polyfilla stipple technique for the roofs now it does look amazing. cheers, Iain If it's Petra that uses the roof technique, then it's free, if it's you whoe's been raking it in up in the North sea while I labour to keep the Thread going, then it'll have to be another swift 50 ! Anyway, any probs with the method, let me know on here, or give me a call and I'll talk Petra through it - it's messy, so be warned ! Cheers. Allan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Hello Iain, Hope Aberdeen is treating you well. Pete, Allan, you're both 18 steps ahead of me I'm still drawing mine out! Terraced-House2linesno-windows.jpg Just a few more verticals to add in The reason for drawing ALL the stones? Well, I'm trying a new technique - I'm going to feed a sheet of 2mm foamex into the plotter and get it to cut in all my window and door holes and mark on all the stone courses, so all I have to do is go over with the scribe and trim the apertures out properly If it works, It should save literally hours of marking out and scribing, plus all my verticals should be true! Cheers, Lee... just got back late last night and am sitting at the workbench looking at the plans for my latest project, which I will share on here. Your drawings look great and it sounds like a very good idea to use the plotter. I find that my stone vertical courses develop a "lean" to the right after a while! Allan, I really think I should be due a discount, fifty quid again? After all, we are both members of the veteran card scribers and Colron sniffers association, no? I noted in my absence that things had gone awry with the thread, arguments about door bracing, photos of interesting tea and beer trays etc... good job I am back to keep the peace! cheers, Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Yes, that's one thing I wince about when looking at the ones done so far - a definite lean on the verticals! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 The back of our house faces roughly south west and the driving rain makes land fall for the first time since Canada apparently. When they built the second extension on our house in in around 2000 (before we moved here) they appear to have clipped each slate at the rear on individually to make sure they don't blow away in a place that is more or less always windy to a greater or lesser extent. I've not seen this in a modern house before or since.There are no trees to lessen the strength either and we are approximately 500ft above sea level in an exposed position. INFORMATION GIVEN. Faces roughly south west. Location (according to RM web). Dorset. Driving rain makes 1st landfall since Canada. mmmmmmmmmm Methinks Dorset suffered badly in the recent weather and has been blown violently westwards and now lies somewhere off of Lands End. Either that or Canada has moved somewhere west of Isle of Wight or has my geography erred? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Yes, that's one thing I wince about when looking at the ones done so far - a definite lean on the verticals! I use a template stuck to the filler. The Verticals still go out a touch but they are ok. Edited February 21, 2014 by Peterkern23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dorset Wanderer Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 The wind spun us round! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravy Train Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Hi all,would you believe that I once used Colron wood dye Jacobean Oak on a model for a purpose you wouldn't expect, I will put the photos on after Can you guess what I used it for, 'no prizes for guessing I'm afraid', I'm just a poor model maker :-( Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Thank you for that Jaz, though I'n not so sure that Robinsons clay jobs beat my cardboard one's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, just for you (and hopefully to make Robinson buck his ideas up ) some more sunshine shots, taken fresh today. Cheers. Allan. MORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 011.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 012.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 013.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 015.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 016.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 017.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 018.JPGMORE SUNSHINE SHOTS 021.JPG I know how much you hate figures..... but do you think you could manage a spot for some birds? swans, geese, moorhens...I removed the mallards their heads are not at all in proportion. Edited February 21, 2014 by Jaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Yes, that's one thing I wince about when looking at the ones done so far - a definite lean on the verticals! I think I suffer from a 'lean on the verticals' could be my age!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I know how much you hate figures..... but do you think you could manage a spot for some birds? swans, geese, moorhens...I removed the mallards their heads are not at all in proportion. Beautiful water effects and birds, Jaz. cheers, Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Jaz, that is superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythocentric Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) I noted in my absence that things had gone awry with the thread, arguments about door bracing, photos of interesting tea and beer trays etc... good job I am back to keep the peace! cheers, Iain Hello Iain. Glad to see the Wee Free Men haven't got you! Who! Us argue? Nah! Just a lively exchange of opinions on stuff n' things of a carpentry nature! As for interesting tea did you know that in 1736................................... Harrumph! Anyway good to see you back in the fold. Allan's been working his fingers to the bone keeping us lot amused (and calm!) so have at it Sirrah! Regards Bill Edited February 21, 2014 by Mythocentric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Hi all, would you believe that I once used Colron wood dye Jacobean Oak on a model for a purpose you wouldn't expect, I will put the photos on after Can you guess what I used it for, 'no prizes for guessing I'm afraid', I'm just a poor model maker :-( Peter Smoke vents ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Iain C Robinson, on 21 Feb 2014 - 11:50, said: Allan, I really think I should be due a discount, fifty quid again? After all, we are both members of the veteran card scribers and Colron sniffers association, no? I noted in my absence that things had gone awry with the thread, arguments about door bracing, photos of interesting tea and beer trays etc... good job I am back to keep the peace! cheers, Iain DISCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the nerve of the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK, OK, from now on a swift 60. Re the door bracing, nobody was really arguing, they just wouldn't agree with me - my Thread, my rules - If I say the doors were hung upside down, the doors were hung upside down, If I say Robinson wears a rug, Robinson wears a rug, end of. Cheers. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalfytich Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Having now posted a few comments I thought I'd better show you something I had made. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalfytich Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Having now posted a few comments I thought I'd better show you something I had made. rear elevation.jpgFront elevation.jpg Before you get the wrong idea, I model in N gauge and this is about 150 times as big. We built the extension on the left looking from the front. I have a mind to make a 2mm version when I get that far, but work still gets in the way so progress is glacial. Dave 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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