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Amazing! But what's with the two-toned toilet?
Carlo

I'm flushed with envy at your exceptional modeling prowess. 

Stuart

Thanks Russ. It is always a challenge to design with enough layers to get good detail, but not so much to make it impossible to build! The side walls have 4 layers plus glazing. I designed it so it looks good on both the outside and inside. Also, glazing is captured between the layers so that you don't need glue to set them in place. That is always a problem in avoiding glue squeeze out.

Here is the second version of diner for consideration.

Let's plunge deeper into the toilet topic.

The toilet paper roll is made from a strip of thin recycled paper wound onto a brass tube with a little matte acrylic binder. The rudimentary device shown in the picture ensures a clean roll edge. The tube is clamped in the Dremel, which is fixed to the table, and I slowly turned the chuck by hand.







I assembled the period-appropriate enameled toilet paper holder from 0.5 mm thick brass scraps. First, I created a scale drawing of the individual parts and printed it on self-adhesive paper. The image above shows the retaining tabs, and the image below shows the base plate.




The holes were then drilled. To ensure the two retaining tabs were identical, I cut one out and soldered it onto the other, roughly pre-cut one, and only then filed the edges.




On the soldering board, I used a rudimentary method of fixing the parts with broken drill bits to ensure they were symmetrically aligned with the drill holes.




The lid was a bit more difficult to make. It has a very fine rim that I couldn't create on a die due to the curvature. Instead, I soldered a thin wire to three sides and then sanded the outer edges until it fit. A small tube at the top will later provide a movable bearing.




And this is what it looks like soldered and finished:







The wire is then simply glued to the back of the cabinet.




It worked.




Now all that was missing was a soap dish, which was also made of brass. This time, however, I was able to fold the edges and prepare the drawing accordingly before cutting it out.




To be able to hold the tiny piece, I left a long tab along the front folded edge, which I only cut off at the very end.




The soldering was then done without a jig.




There it is, hanging next to a towel rack, which was also made from a brass plate and soldered-on pins.




Cheers,
Volker

Volker, your sense of humor is as terrific as your modeling skills. It's always wonderful to see what you have built, how cleverly you went about creating it, and then to read your entertaining comments. Satisfactory. -- Russ

A clever and well designed kit that builds into a beautiful little model. I hope you sell a ton of them. -- Russ

Nice, clean work. The project is coming along nicely. -- Russ

I know what you mean. I always need some time after finishing the construction and assembly of parts or rooms, because there's a point from which it will develop into something better or worse, the ltter meaning to overdo things. I experienced that it rather goes the first way if some time has passed.

This is a wonderful exercise in detailing, even if we, on this forum are the only ones who see it. I wanted to share with you a small, nerdy, observation about exposed pipes in bathrooms...the water in the pipe is cooler that the surrounding air, which creates temperature differentials that result in the tiniest airflow which redirects very small soot particles in the air. This ends up as dirt patterns on the wall around pipes over a period of decades. I am expecting that you will be able to recreate this entire process in scale.

Magnificent work.

I'm afraid filling that into a bottle, howsoever small it is, won't be sufficient  .