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The last picture is my favorite Bryan, it really conveys the scene very well indeed. Nice job.
Karl.A
Bill, my dirt is dirt from the backyard. Once you get below the topsoil here there is a nice clay/sand mix. I dug some up last summer and let it bake outside, breaking the clumps as it dried. Once completely dry I crushed it up and sifted it through a metal colander. To get finer particles I sift again through a tea strainer.
For the dirt here I started by painting the foam a dirt color. BTW the paint mixer didn't like it when I asked him if the paint sample I chose looked like dirt. While the 2nd coat was still wet I sprinkled on the dirt. Once I had placed everything and glued it down I sifted the finer soil on with the tea strainer so everything looked like it was set in the ground. I set this with matte medium.
The cordwood is from a butterfly bush. Love the texture on it's bark. Unfortunately it died this summer. I need to plant another one...for the butterflies or more cordwood. That wood chopper sure has been busy.
Kevin
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The entire scene is truly amazing. So many details--the anvil and the vice=perfect; the texture of the burn barrel!! Wow! And I love the handle on the Peavy...the wood is worn from use and even has a crack at the top. Nice!
For your rough cut beams, I think the color and texture look fine but how are you going to connect them? I wonder if it's possible to fashion something that looks like a motise & tenon type joint with some wood pegs. Sort of like the way they would join heavy timbers in the lining of a mine or on a barn:
Just an idea.
Thanks for the compliments. As far as the timber joints go the verticals have tenons cut on top and then they are greased and hammered into the mortises cut in the heavy horizontal timber while still on the ground. Then the gang barn raises them in place. Sounds good to me. Actually Bill, as long as something I model doesn't look absolutely ridiculous I don't care very much if it's not totally prototypical construction. There will be side bracing of course and I think the finished shed will look structurally believable. I appreciate the input.
Kevin
Kevin
Karl.A
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just some test pics.
Well, it's been quite a while since I was in here so I figure it's time to brush off the dust and try to get this ball rolling again.....
Details, details, details....
It seems that I have misplaced quite a few of the detail castings in the last couple of years, or possibly used one or two else where. I'm sure they'll turn up tomorrow when I have a good look for them....... in the mean time I have plenty of others to get started on.
As always with Bretts castings the clarity and detail is exceptional and there is next to no (if any) clean up required prior to prepping.
Metal detail parts.....
Blackened with "a-west blacken-it"... ready for some judicial buffing.
Resin detail parts ready for painting, atleast the ones I could find....
"wooden" items primed with earth/tan colour spray paint.
"metal" items primed with black spray paint.
Karl.A
glad to see you back on this one, this will be my first kit to tackle this winter....my wife promises me some time after the holidays....I'm never sure that will happen......here's to hoping
keep up the great work and tutorials
Scott
If you look closely at the first picture you can see that Brett even cast in some splinters !!
Karl.A
I'm glad to see this thread come back up to the top. I had a chance to look back over Kevin's work. Man, the amount of talent he had!
At the last Expo he attended he brought along one of his walls similar to the wood cutters shack. I couldn't understand the way he got that rough-swan look, so he took me and Joel up to his room for a quick mini-clinic. He drug (dragged?) a straight razor along the board with the razor almost straight up and down--which caused it to "skip" and leave the saw banding marks. But he took it a step further by carving the edges a bit to give it an imperfect backwoods look. As opposed to boards that came straight from the lumber yard.
I agree Bill I spent a few hours looking back over Kevin's work when I re-opened the thread. He was a great guy and a very talented modeler, very missed.
I'm not sure drugged and taken to his room is a good story to share.... :-)
Karl.A