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Monday 16 November 2015

The Street (3)

The upper floor's floor
Having completed all the walls and glued the ground floor walls together it was time to take a look at how at how the upper floor's floor would fit atop the ground floor.
I used a single sheet of foam-board for this purpose with two rabbets cut into it to accommodate the dividing walls of the ground floor. It would of course have been a much easier task to have just cut the ground floor walls by a centimetre in the first place, but it was another one of those problems that was par for the course for this build.
The rabbets "Highlighted" with black marker
 The roof with its two rabbets cut into it was a very floppy piece of foam-board and was handled very carefully to avoid tears. (both the rips and the water variety of tear).
All but two edges of this floor also had rabbets cut into them so that the floor would sit on the ground floor walls and the foam would sit inside.
The reason the two sides were left uncut this way was that two walls of the left-moist building had slight extensions to the outside portions of their walls and would act ans an 'anchor' point for the whole of the upper floor.
Once the upper floor walls were carefully aligned with the ground floor ones (and where necessary cut  to size) they were all glued in place.
The front view.


The resulting structure can be seen in the photograph on the right
The most interesting thing that can be said about this model, so far  is that you can see through the downstairs windows (bottom right)
I don't particularly like the basic 'box' shapes of most model buildings and therefore I off-set the right-hand building by about an inch.
The rear view (fairly interesting imo)
I did have other ulterior motives too, which  I explain next time.
The rear also had to be a bit more interesting than just an plain back wall too, so as can be seen from the photograph the off-set building also juts out further than the others, whilst the centre building is much smaller than the other two with a walkway connecting all three.
There will of course be a stairway up to the second floor!
Aarggh!!!
It wouldn't be typical of one of my builds if there wasn't some major alignment troubles along the way too.
As can be see in the photograph  two of the upper walls on the off-set building's rear didn't align at all and a minor bit of modelling was in order.










And relax....
It should be obvious from this photograph just how much out of alignment the two wall were!















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"Ooooh look , doors and stuff"
If I manage to shake the lurgy I caught whilst on my southern sojourn I'll show what I managed to do with this:  -->










Concrete and wood -- luverly
And this: -->















More "thrilling" instalments of this marathon build next week and I hope anyone reading this is enjoying it a lot more than I did building it !

My other blog (HERE) features more gladiators for the arena, this time a w.i.p. on my Velites.

25 comments:

  1. so far it looks incredibly good. I can only imagine it will be stunning when finished.

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    1. Thanks Clint, the dodgy camera-wrok sure does help - as for stunning, I'll make sure it's photographed in a low light and slightly off-focus

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  2. Great stuff Joe! Despite all the headaches it looks really good. I'm sure it will be s pleasure to game on when it's finished. Leaving us with those teaser shots is a rather good move. I'm really looking forward to seeing what your doing with it next.

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    1. Thanks Bob, much appreciated; the "teaser shots" weren't meant as such, but I'm happy enough that you've taken them that way!

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  3. Nice, I like the lack of uniformity in the offset building

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    1. Thanks GG, as I've said failry often I get easily bored with the standard, small, cuboid buildings belived of others.

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  4. Totally hooked Joe, I really love this project.

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    1. Thanks Michael, I so very pleased to have your enthusiasm for this, I just wish it was finished.

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  5. Coming on nicely, I'm enjoying following it. Cheers.

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    1. Thanks Irqan, always good to hear from you, I'm happy enough if others are getting something from this build.

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  6. Despite some teething problems, which I'm sure you'll address, this is already looking tabletop worthy, Joe, though you're clearly planning on going that extra mile to really make this project stand out. Great stuff and as the others say, this is turning out to be a great project to follow.

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    1. Thanks Blaxx, I guess now that you've blatanlty challenged me to go for it, I guess I'll have to put in a little more effort in the final details, so "thanks" for that (*rolls eyes).

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  7. Cracking progress Joe its certainly coming together nicely despite the precarious handling required of it!

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    1. Thanks Brummie, it's been a headache from the moment I found all the bits, but I'm now happy enough that it'll be OK when it's finally finished.

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  8. Splenidid work again... i would be lost in all that papper and foam board!

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    1. Thanks HW, at times I too get lost amongst iit all, no matter how much I plan it all out before. - hence the missing door. :-)

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  9. Hi, Zab: I appreciate your "stick-to-itness" in your present modeling project. Very nice work, and presentation of the steps to reach your goals.

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    1. Thanks Jay, if nothing else i'm quite an obstinate type of guy when I set my mind to doing things and my mantra of "glue fixes everthing" helps my mindset.

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  10. Very cool, and a very interesting set of buildings! Can't wait to see them completed!

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    1. Thanks N667, as fpr completion, you and me both can't wait, but in my case I'm wanting a few days of "healthiness"

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  11. That's very impressive Joe, damn good work!

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    1. Thanks AL, much appreciated - I knew all those cut and stick craft lessons as a toddler would come in handy

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    1. Thanks C6, slow progress, but progress nonetheless.

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