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Depends on who you are!
Hi Ed, appreciate that. I'm keeping a slow but steady pace on the build.
This is really great stuff Ken.
Jim
Hey Jim...thanks...and wait till the deck is installed and I put in a loafing stool and some details inside and out on the counter...Funny you mentioned the little people (LPs). I, as a rule, tend to not like a diorama populated with little people. I think if it were done with high quality figures painted extremely well it would work. I know other modelers that have done a very good job with the LPs, and I think it's just a personal preference kind of thing. With that said, I have been thinking of late, to begin a Dr. Grunge signature move and have just one little person somewhere on all my dioramas but in a not so visible spot. Just like inside at the counter as you mentioned. Anyone viewing my diormas will have to search around to find my LP...kind of like the "Where's Waldo" books. I will begin with BlueSky and also see if I can back track and add them to my previous builds. Korny idea...probably...but sounds fun to me.
Well hi Mike, ask away...nice hearing from you
The roof card stock was cut out and rafters and purlins were made and installed so missing and rotten roof boards would reveal the apperance of a structured roof framing underneath. This now allows for a cohesive apperance of the entire right rear of the barn has suffered water and weather damage from the roof water tank, exterior plumbing which leaks and water run off from the roof.
Roof card stock cut and sub-roof framing installed.
Finished main barn roof with wethered rear corner complete.
Better view of the roof area detailing
The photo that you used--is it slightly out of focus within the model? Or is it crisp but appears blurred in that picture?
I especially like the way you have thought through and planned this corner, obviously long before you started building it.
The leaking water tank/pipe, leading to a hole in the roof, leading to the rotten walls at the base.
People in the future will see the finished model and that specific scene will look natural and make sense to them without them even thinking about it,
however,
It takes creative vision to see it before it is even there, and then even more to design and build it, essentially visualising it all in reverse.
ie: I want a rotted wall, so, what would be behind the rotted wall? how can I build that? how can I adapt that into what is there now.
Basically reverse engineering the outward look you wanted and then actually building it forwards to give you that look.
Nicely done. !
Karl.A
Hi Phil, welcome back from the "field" so to speak. Thanks for the vote of confidence and I'll see how I do on a sample LP and hide em in BlueSky somewhere!
Karl.A
No more to say.