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« Reply #60 on: May 18, 2010, 03:07:58 AM » |
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It's still sitting here in search of the right project.   MR |
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« Reply #61 on: May 18, 2010, 04:40:24 AM » |
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Ok. Thanks. After reading that thread, I was curious to stumble around the net a bit. My gosh that stuff is expensive! Precision Board is a brand name for HDU (High Density Urethane) but everywhere I looked it is much the same. I didn't find anything of a reasonable thickness. In an case, where looking around I ran across 'Castable Rigid Urethane Foam' by Foam-it. It says it's available in 3,5,8,10 and 15-pound densities. I was looking at that and wondering if it might be possible to 'cast your own' sheets. It is certainly a lot more reasonable. They have a 1.9 lb 'trial size' for $25 http://www.smooth-on.com/Rigid-and-Flexible/c10_1122/index.html?catdepth=1 |
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« Reply #62 on: May 22, 2010, 09:34:53 PM » |
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Speaking of old posts and Styrofoam, I was inspired from pictures of a building created by the Danish artist Troels Kirk. Approximately half of the building was foundation made of block stone. Unlike Troels’ design, I based my foundation on a stone wall entrance to a golf course about one mile from my home.
Carving is time consuming but it is a bit faster than placing one brick, then another, then another…
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« Reply #63 on: May 22, 2010, 09:36:45 PM » |
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More shots.
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« Reply #64 on: May 22, 2010, 09:47:27 PM » |
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Don --
Thanks for the multiple pix! The bricks are rotten ... in a rather convincing way ... coloring on the roof shingles is equally impressive.
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« Reply #65 on: May 22, 2010, 10:07:03 PM » |
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Nice little building!
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« Reply #66 on: May 23, 2010, 02:19:16 AM » |
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Don, are you in town? Haven't seen anything from you in a long time. Nice work. -- Russ
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« Reply #67 on: May 23, 2010, 04:32:39 AM » |
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@don .. that building is certainly "Troels Kirk'ish" ..  .. excellent! Question: Is this the blue/pink styrofoam? and what scale please? |
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« Reply #68 on: May 23, 2010, 07:21:08 AM » |
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Hello Russ - Not in town but in NY. I have been spending some of my time "re-doing" the cellar (lots of fun). Maybe I can get out to CA at the end of the year and make another Terrapin meet.
eTraxx - It is the blue stuff from Lowes. The scale is 1/32.
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« Reply #69 on: May 23, 2010, 01:26:59 PM » |
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Don, I meant your town, not mine. Seems like last time you posted you said something about doing some traveling. It's good to see that you also found time to do a little high quality modeling. -- Russ
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« Reply #70 on: May 23, 2010, 07:37:38 PM » |
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Russ - I do travel on my job about 20 weeks per year in an area that covers from Maine to Washington, DC to Wisconsin. The frequent flyer miles add up.
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« Reply #71 on: May 23, 2010, 09:58:58 PM » |
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Don,
I think this came out great. I like the dry-stack ledgestone effect that you have created.
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« Reply #72 on: May 24, 2010, 01:34:36 PM » |
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Thanks Marc, Ray, Russ and Dallas - I hope this thread continues with some examples from others of carved brick, stone, block etc. This is another option when working in the larger scales.
Don
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« Reply #73 on: May 24, 2010, 05:45:37 PM » |
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I suppose this item is tangentially related ... took some cast-foam retaining walls and cut them up to make a "tiny" stone station in 1:35 ... using Magic Sculp to make fill-in stones where the wall sections are dove tailed together.
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« Reply #74 on: May 24, 2010, 11:26:11 PM » |
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Looking good, Dallas! I like tiny buildings like that. What was the source of the foam walls?
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