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Differing Shacks
My shacks have agreed to disagree. Started with the walls. I think I'm starting to get it!
A glass of bourbon and some piri piri stuffed olives helps. . .
A glass of bourbon and some piri piri stuffed olives helps. . .
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In working with wood, you may want to look at Ken's tutorial in the Working with Wood section of this forum. It's called the Dr. Grunge Advanced Wood Clinic. You'll learn a ton about preparing the wood and aging it thanks to Ken's tutelage. Your shacks have gotten off to a good start. These were the first kits I had ever built and got hooked from there. Take care.
I'm enjoying your posts as well. Very good modelers here. I do wish the images could be larger, and that more posters would explain their methods, but with enough digging I can generally figure things out.
bob
No nothing special. I think your on point with your start and I look forward to seeing your progress. I agree this is an awesome forum as we learn from each other but you're right in that it sometimes takes some digging to figure out how others do what they do. I do reread the Dr. Grunge thread almost every time i start a new model just so I don't forget. Seems like you do something similar which is what these posts are for. Happy modeling, Bob, and thanks for sharing. I enjoy reading how you're doing. Talk soon.
The first steps are underway, we look forward to enjoying the rest of them with you.
Going to be great when the battens are in place, nice work so far.
Not finished, but I thought I'd post progress. The tree was made using a Woodland Scenics armature, a little tacky but hey, this is a learning kit, haha. I need to work to blend the trunk to the base a little better. I have ordered supplies for making wire armatures similar to Robert G's, but there will be a learning curve in doing those also.
I made the base a little larger than called for in the manual, and added a couple of slight "hills," just to see how that might go, and placed the building at an angle- just because. I surely have created site drainage problems, but after all I'm the builder, and don't see why a model shouldn't contain the kinds of mistakes I make in real life!
bob
I should stop calling this a shack. Heck, I'd live there. . . but when I went to move in I found that a modern-day Huck and his Pap already lived there. Pap sits and drinks and curses the government while Huck plays on the tire swing out back.
I liked this model enough to buy a case for it!
b