Something I've been working on a while. Always liked the looks of decorative carpentry in 1/1 scale, the HO scale selection was very limited and not what I wanted, so I made my own. Will offer an assortment online shortly, meanwhile I'll have the parts sets available at CSS this week.
For Russ, its made of a sort of paper! :)
Dave
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Very nice!
Seems like a natural item for you.
-Marty
Don't forget folks this is 1:87.1. We look at all sorts of larger scale stuff on the forum but not much HO. This is not Burn 'n Box like so many others sell these days. This is art.
Dave sent me a couple of color photos of this model recently. I put one up as my work computer desktop. Various co-workers, men and women, asked me if it was my house and what a nice home it is. I had to tell them it's a model that can fit in your hand.
Dave, how about something in the photo for scale?
John
The Giant Hand of Doom ;D
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Holy moly, that is one sweet model! The trim is a great detail and the whole thing is very well done!
I like the lawn and shrubs too. Nice to see grass that isn't bright green.
Very nice detail! Does your laser ever get to cool down?
Lasercutting is a natural fit for gingerbread trim.
Is the house itself scratchbuilt, or is it something VectorCut will be releasing? It looks very relevant to my interests, I might even sell some plasma.
(But it'd be a lot cooler if that gable window was a funky shape-- I'm thinking hexagonal-- and maybe one of the rooflines could have an asymmetrical angle and some extra vents and chimneys to add some interest (just stick 'em anywhere, there's a prototype for everything, y'know), an open window with curtains hanging out is always a hit, and would it kill ya to add nail holes and broken siding, and some bird poop on the roof?)
The house kit and separate packages of trim would make excellent products in several scales. -- Russ
Dave, I don't know where you find a prototype like that... You must think we are stupid.
A house like that should have some weathered wood and a watertower. A little covered stairwell on the side would be neat, too.
;D :-X
I guess Walther's has some 'splainin' to do!
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3601
Because that's what I used, I just fixed it up some. No oil barrels or spare tires in the box either :-\
But wait 'till I get that three-speed motorized pounce wheel for Christmas. ;D
Dave
Dave, I'm impressed you took a Walthers plastic model and turned it into a jewel ;) Craig
It's pretty rare that I fail to recognize a mass-market plastic kit, even a well-assembled one-- I blame the awesome porch trim. Well done, sir.
I love the delicacy of your work, Dave. You always seem to push a little farther the limits of what can be done believably in HO scale.
I don't know about the feasibility of laser cutting styrene sheet, but if its workable, you could glue the trim on with regular liquid cement. No weak, potentially messy white glue bonds! No disappointment when the last bottle of CA on hand is dry and frosted!
Styrene will laser cut but not to the degree of precision and sharpness I need. The material I use for details like this is a .0145" thick resin impregnated cardstock, its actually much stronger than styrene of the same thickness. Takes paint very nicely and glues really well with CA, the glue is absorbed a little, so smears disappear. Proving once again, Russ's point about the versatility of paper! :)
Dave
Cool!
I've switched to Mercury Adhesives CA anyway, that's pretty much nixed my issues with just-opened bottles of superglue turning up solid and crusty the next time I sit down for a modeling session.
It may seem I'm a paper freak. Not really. I just want to overcome the inertia with respect to cardstock and get some help advancing the frontier. If it weren't for the Photoshop skills I've honed because of publishing I might be working with lasers or some other computer related tool. I am, as all of you know, a lazy sot. -- Russ
Great stuff Dave. Really well done.
Marc
Beautifully done Dave. The details will work well in dressing up an existing "cheap" kit as well as scratch building.
Porch trim pieces in HO are now available on my website! $14.75 for a sheet of goodies, free postage anywhere.
Dave
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That makes me want to go back to HO. -- Russ
Dave, Very nice ;)
Quote from: finescalerr on December 17, 2010, 11:43:27 AM
That makes me want to go back to HO. -- Russ
I'm sure he can do it in O too, Russ.
Very nice, Dave.
Thanks. :) Yeah, I've found thicker stock material, so yeah, they'll also be in O scale. Probably won't cost much more, but with fewer pieces per set.
Dave
Now all we need is a nice O scale house for the coming O scale porch trim. By that I mean no bordellos, haunted houses or wild west miner's cabins. Just a nice, regular home for nice, regular miniature people.
Very well done Dave. Do you ever send stuff off for reviews and other mainstream attention?
John