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Blackcollar

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  • Birthday 07/04/1961

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    Richelieu, QC, Canada
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    Duh... Modelling;<br />Woodwork;<br />Motorcycle Riding;<br />Computer;<br />Sailing.

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  1. Happy New Year Everyone; I have taken a step backwards. Dividing the upper and lower floors brings many problems due to warpage and alignments. I am going back to a modified version 1 with a section of the second floor which will be removable (fingers crossed). I have assembled a good portion of the first floor, and added the moulding around the doors and baseboards. I found and printed a war time poster "Mr Hitler wants to know". The project is taking form. Instead of using a glue stick to adhere all cardboards, I found Mod Podge to be much, much better. I applied
  2. Wow, that is great. Thank you very much for the info I was starting to think I was going to have to le0the panes empty. Cheers
  3. Good Day! I added some paint to the interior walls. I searched for tower interior paints and found 2 separate examples. Yellow and green seem to be the right colours. So... I also made more furniture as desks, tables and controller positions. I also found the interior walls were made of bricks. More work is in my near future! I might have to re-make the tower itself. It looks way too thick.. I have to find a material to make the window panes. Something very thin I can sandwich between the window frames. Later!
  4. Hi More cuttting and for a change of pace, a bit of paint. AK pencils were used to bring relief to the floors. I'm very pleased with the results. The pencils take a bit to get used to. They are not really paint pencils. They act more like dust/pigment which can be loosened with water. Until a sealer is applied, the pigments can be worked on. The full effect is only fully seen once dried. Here, I started a bit heavy. I like the effect. Once the rooms are furnished and walls filled, the effect will be quite effective. Cheers
  5. Hi everyone; I spent 1/2 hour writing a status update and the upload did not work. Anyway, Version 1 of the project was cut but I but it left me with an empty building with large windows to see it. Since I found pictures of the interior details, I decided to cut all floors so I could them and work on the inside. I used Dollarama cardboard for the floors and inner walls as they will be easier to paint. I used the original drawings and guide lines to transfer the wall, window and door locations. I scored the floor lines and cut away locations for the doors,
  6. Hi everyone;

    I spent 1/2 hour writing a status update and the upload did not work.

     

    Anyway, Version 1 of the project was cut but I but it left me with an empty building with large windows to see it.

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    Since I found pictures of the interior details, I decided to cut all floors so I could them and work on the inside.  I used Dollarama cardboard for the floors and inner walls as they will be easier to paint.  I used the original drawings and guide lines to transfer the wall, window and door locations.  I scored the floor lines and cut away locations for the doors, windows and inside staircase.

     

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    For the interior, copied the the exterior cuts and flipped them left/right.  I also cut the wall thickness away on each end so the cardboard would fit on the inside of the structure.  The exterior will be done to actual side plus the thickness of the cardboard to coverup the plywood finger joints.

     

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    The tower floor was done the same way.  I also worked on desks and chairs.  The crude chair version 1 on the left and the more refined version 2 on the right.  I'm currently working on chair version 3.

     

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    Today will be spent on the tower interior desks and chair.

     

    The part which will give me the most difficulty will be the interior and exterior stairs.  Solving the problems is the fun part of the hobby.  I'm working with 2mm baltic plywood.  I would like to make 1mm thick sections however.

     

    The thinnest I have managed so far with the laser is 0.25mm by the thickness of the ply (2mm).  It is the 2mm thickness I would like to slice.  I have to think of some sort of jig to achieve this.

     

    Thanks for the interest.

  7. Good Day Everyone. It has been a few years since I posted on the forums. Last year, I equiped myself with a laser cutting machine. With time, I got more knowlegedable and confident with it's use. In my latest projects included making WW2 US Carrier Decks I also made a 1/48 brick wall file, scored on white cardboard obtained from the Dollar Store at 2 for $1. These measure 22" x 48". A ten count costs $5 and I cut them 11" x 14", so I get 40 boards. A little hint here for users who would begin in this field, make a practice cut on cardboard instead of was
  8. Isopropyl alcohol worked great, thanks!
  9. Hi everyone; Has anyone been successful in doing a complete stripping of Vallejo paints?
  10. Has anyone been able to do a complete stipping of Vallejo paints? Cheers
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