What I would normally do in a single week of effort (even at my rate) has taken seven days, spread over two weeks, with real life rearing its ugly head to prevent me completing the church tower. A routine clinic visit and a weekend away were the main culprits, hence just seven sessions of hobby work. There was a lot of waiting for glue and plaster to dry toov(of course).
The photograph on the right shows the assembled towere, awaiting its covering of filler.
Here's the rest of the photo record:
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| The collection of bits for the top of the tower |
The bits for the top of the tower, in the photograph above, were, left to right: a piece of polystyrene, top of a Kinder egg top, a piece of cork, two beads and a piece of sprue. The kinder-egg/cork arrangement was discarded in favour of a perspirent spray top !
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| Top of the towere, showing the cut-down foam block insert and packing for the higher bit. |
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| Top of the tower surround - cane and BBQ skewers |
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| Upper bit of the tower, needing filing and filler |
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| Bell housing being fitted |
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| Tower in place (but not fitted), before filler added |
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| Tower after gunging with filler |
The tower still need a lot of filing and sanding down before fitting/attaching to the church and it'll then be glued in place. It also needs four pieces added to the four small block, which I'm still sourcing.
Given all the issues I've had though I'm happy enough with the progress I've made and another few sessions will get it to the stage where it can be painted with the rest of the models.
That's it then for this week, thanks for taking the time to visit and as always, your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.
Great looking progress Joe, and great use of sourced materials. Hope the routine visit went well, and you're doing okay.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, the clinic visit went well except this time they wanted a urine sample (talk about taking the p...).
DeleteGood to see the progress, soon it will painting time!
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry, yep I'll be clearing my table off, covering it with newsprint and painting all seven of my latest builds.
DeleteLots of progress! Tower looks great, I would never let a level near one of my models!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain, normally I don;t use one either ! Becuaae of the height of the tower and the top bit, I had to make sure it wall all level and veetical. (The kitchen work-bench was the only really flat surface I could find too)
DeleteBeautiful! Better and better!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Michal, much appreciated.
DeleteLooks excellent, Joe, really well planned and constructed and with some clever use of bits. I can't wait to see it painted up!
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt,painting is of course the bit I hate the most (mostly because I'm rubbish at it).
DeleteThis is looking good love the additions to the top.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brummie, it's always the smallest details that make a model and are always the biggestpain to do.
DeleteLooks fantastic as it is Joe!
ReplyDeleteThanks ray, but there's still a lot of work to do - rear apse needs a roof !
DeleteThat's really looking the part Joe 😊
ReplyDeleteThanks Frank, it's well worth all the effort imho.
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