The photogrpah to the right shows two of the four buttresses - I went for four, despite having no evidence for two of them, mostly because I like symmetry.
The yellow arrow shows one of the four that I have no clear evidence of its existence!
The yellow arrow shows one of the four that I have no clear evidence of its existence!
The tower was the main objective of progress this week, requiring a lot of cutting and glueing , but the main body of the church had a lot of filler added too.
Here's the photographs:
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| The parts needed for the 'bell housing' |
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| The housing itself, still needs filing, filler and bells! |
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| The main body of the tower. |
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| The tower with a block of foam inserted, that I was going to use for the tower originally |
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| The foam from above, showing its trapezoid cross-section. |
The trapezoid nature of the foam prevented me using it, but I will be cutting it down a lot and I'll use it to reinforce the structure of the tower.
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| The right hand side of the church. suitably gunged with filler. |
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| The apse at the rear of the church, gunged up |
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| The left-hand side of the Church, the buttress on the right I have no evidence for, |
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| The front left corner showing where the tower will fit and why the buttress looks very rough. |
So that's the sum total of my efforts this week, not much but still progress. I did spend a lot f time looking at photographs of the tower and considering how it will fit into the church and there's little to no evidence of that !
In other news:
I did mention last week that I had some very intersting news to share, which unfortunately never came to fruition, in part due to the petrol shortage, but the 'event' has been re-scheduled for this weekend. Hopefully I will have some interesting things to report upon next week, which should alleviate the tedium of yet another 'work in progress' post !
That's it then for another week, I was heartened by the responses to last week's post as it's the followers'
comments, criticisms, suggestions etc. that have kept me plodding along over the last nine years.
Thanks for taking the time to visit, hopefully there was something (however small) that was of interest and as always your comments are both welcomed and truly appreciated.
Great progress Joe, the essence of the build is really starting to show. The idea of using the polystyrene block to reinforce the tower is a great idea, and should make it very durable.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping you get to go to your event this weekend.
Thanks Dave, the poly-block allowed me to only use just one layer of foamboard.
DeleteThe event is going to be interesting not just for me but for a lot of other bloggers too and as I've not heard anything different it should go ahead on Saturday.
Looking great sir. Fantastic progress.
ReplyDeleteThanks you Michal, slow but steady progress.
DeleteYou've made decent progress, following on from last weeks considerable progress, you were never going to match the same level of productivity, the extra buttresses make sense and a neat trick with the lump of poly!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, I'd have done a lot more if I were able and the poly block idea came as I was going to put it into storage !
DeleteGood progress Joe! I would agree that there is very likely another butress where you've located it. The wall wouldn't be well supported otherwise. Large projects like these can often seem like they are not moving at the speed we desire, but not allowing glue to dry can lead to many other headaches & even more wasted time. I recently lived that experience in my own recent project
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry, when using Pva glue or filler I like to let the model dry overnight at least, for I've found working too long on any build is not always beneficial- it leads to mistakes and occassionally ruining bits you've already worked on and have to redo them.
DeleteExcellent work and progress, Joe! It's looking great! You adding the buttress is probably the right way to go, and it's your build so why not? I know what you mean about having to sit around waiting for glue and filler to dry, it's the one big downside to making scenery.
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt,it was probably bad timing on my part that when something was drying out. I had nothing else to tturn to !
DeleteI went for four buttresses merely because just two looked strange !
Keep plugging away Joe as this build will be well worth all the effort when complete 😊
ReplyDeleteThanks Frank, that's the sort of encouragement I need !
DeleteYou'll get there Joe just keep chipping away at it a bit at a time.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brummie, I surprise myself at times as to just howmuch I do, even though I think it's very little at the time.
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