Peterkern23 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Allan are you taking requests? I would love to see a brick house! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Allan are you taking requests? I would love to see a brick house! me two.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Allan are you taking requests? I would love to see a brick house! Bricks are boring - blocks of warped clay floating about on a bed of mortar but I will, and have done so in the past. Here's a kinda example. Cheers. Allan. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 How could you say such derogatory things about beautiful rectangles of clay lovingly smothered in mortar and bonded together? Brickist. P.S your brick buildings are great! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 London 'knees up pub' - freelance - showing front build up. Remember these East End beer palaces that dominated my wilder youth loaded with warm beer, dockers, toothless old hags one night stands, out of tune piano's banging out "Knees up Muvver Brown " and very little else and a sign out front saying "Beer garden and punch ups round the back" and a "Good time fer 30 bob luv, your place or the gasworks" out front. Cheers. Allan. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) As a relative newbie to your talents I have to say this is a lovely change of style. How are you cutting the window detail? Edited March 23, 2015 by Peterkern23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Reminds me of some of my old haunts in Cardiffs docklands! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 As a relative newbie to your talents I have to say this is a lovely change of style. How are you cutting the window detail? If you're refering to the patterened windows Pete these are brass etched from Scalelink and the framework around the doors are cut freehand with a Stanley knife. Talking of knives, just to see how I might get on with a Swan Morton scapel I bought one and it's now in the bin ! How on earth anyone can make heavy cuts through 1/2mm plus styrene with one of these toys is well beyond me - the bloody thing just wobbled all over the place then - snapped ! Alright for cutting iffy lumps out of brains and tickers I suppose... Love to have seen how it would have coped hacking through 6/12mm MDF as I often do with a Stanley knife. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Knees up pub - Those panels below the windows and the moulding along the bottom of the doors are genius. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 They say a workman is as only as good as his tools, but I think that's a load of rubbish. It may be considered heavy handed to use a broad knife like a Stanley knife to cut delicate parts. But if the skill of the person using them is good enough it makes no difference! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I have sliced my fingers and thumbs apart on both Stanley and Swann Morton's products. I like the delicacy of a sharp scalpel for thin materials, but a good sharp Stanley makes short work of thicker materials. I can't believe some of the cuts Allan makes.. and I'm so relieved those windows are etches ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Yes me too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 The rose window in this cathedral was cut out of postcard with a heavy duty Stanley Knife If you could hone a point on a shovel it would do the same thing.. A point is a point is a point is a point.... Cheers Allan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Just when Iain thought it was safe to come back on the scene . . . ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 24, 2015 A point maybe a point, but it depends who's wielding said point..... That little church looks better each time it's shown. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 The rose window in this cathedral was cut out of postcard with a heavy duty Stanley Knife If you could hone a point on a shovel it would do the same thing.. A point is a point is a point is a point.... Cheers Allan I looked, but there isn't a button on the right for complete exasperation...that bloomin cathedral! cheers, Iain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 The rose window in this cathedral was cut out of postcard with a heavy duty Stanley Knife If you could hone a point on a shovel it would do the same thing.. A point is a point is a point is a point.... Cheers Allan I don't see what your point is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Ornamental window surrounds for the London knees up pub. Each one took an hour to build so you can guess what I've been doing all day ! Cheers. Allan PS: sorry about the cathedral Iain, but I was demonstrating what you could do with a sharp shovel ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkern23 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Yes! That's the stuff. Well done Allan! I love this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Dry run, geometry check, several random slugs of Scotch, watch Family Bathrooms with wifey then might brick it out tonight if I can find the workshop ! Cheers. Allan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted March 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 24, 2015 I looked, but there isn't a button on the right for complete exasperation...that bloomin cathedral! cheers, Iain Until recently, there was, it was 'Hit By Mistake' preferably with a shovel, with or without a point honed in it! Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Those ornamental surrounds are just bloomin' marvellous! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 A sharp shovel? Allan's beginning to sound like the Desperate Dan of modelmakers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 A sharp shovel? Allan's beginning to sound like the Desperate Dan of modelmakers! Desperate Dan you say. Well you've got it half right... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Well for better or worse it's all boxed up and you don't realize the brute bulk of these buildings until you model one and now I know why Robinson builds in N gauge, it's cheaper. Wonder if my bi-focals'll be up to Z Gauge... Cheers. Allan. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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