Hi,
The builders have ‘signed off’ a new house for the hamlet of ‘Sycamore Creek’, which will be needing more when they (me!) get round to it!
This one is a Gambrel roof house, the gambrel roof is used much more in barns, but it also looks good as a house. The plans are basically from the ‘Aladdin’ kit built catalog, and slightly modified along the way.
All windows are scratch built first and there are styrene curtains and blanking pieces added before they are fitted, after pre painting them. The ‘glass’ is from the clear (generally pre-formed) plastic packaging, which is a very useful source of ‘glass’. The walls are made from Korroflute (plastic corrugated cardboard) sides and ends and extension with styrene card for the details and the added bay window
I made the main roof to look like metal and the same is used on the (kitchen) extension.
The side roofs are my usual cheap roofing felt (USA â€" tarpaper?) .
It is photographed screwed down onto its foundation slab.
Here are some photos of it â€"
One, with a high viewpoint, of the front if you look carefully one of the fixing screws is visible on the dark brown strip at the bottom of the side wall.
down a bit with the view, the small square window is by the side of where the the stairs would be.
Opposite side, again the fixing screw is visible, they go into a couple of pieces of plastic right angled strip that is fixed to the foundation plate.
a final view of the 'stairs side showing the extra rear extension, which I have labeled the kitchen; that has a blind instead of curtains, and a stovepipe added to the rear wall, this is made from a soft drinks plastic 'bendy' straw, doubled inside with the excess that was cut off, and a bit of it added at the top. It is a scale 3" diameter the larger plastic 'bendy' straws here in the UK scale out at 4".
Changing the subject the signwriter (Stan Cedarleaf) has been busy after the lazy sign maker got his act together (he was decalling loco's ) and made the sign boards for the Post Office - at least in early Colorado the Post offices are opening - here in the UK they are doing the opposite and closing them!
Nice and large to indicate the 'pride' in having been granted one by the US mail; the board is the usual plastic card edged up and the painted light blue to stand out - it certainly does that! Then the decals were added and varnished over for protection.
The builders have ‘signed off’ a new house for the hamlet of ‘Sycamore Creek’, which will be needing more when they (me!) get round to it!
This one is a Gambrel roof house, the gambrel roof is used much more in barns, but it also looks good as a house. The plans are basically from the ‘Aladdin’ kit built catalog, and slightly modified along the way.
All windows are scratch built first and there are styrene curtains and blanking pieces added before they are fitted, after pre painting them. The ‘glass’ is from the clear (generally pre-formed) plastic packaging, which is a very useful source of ‘glass’. The walls are made from Korroflute (plastic corrugated cardboard) sides and ends and extension with styrene card for the details and the added bay window
I made the main roof to look like metal and the same is used on the (kitchen) extension.
The side roofs are my usual cheap roofing felt (USA â€" tarpaper?) .
It is photographed screwed down onto its foundation slab.
Here are some photos of it â€"
One, with a high viewpoint, of the front if you look carefully one of the fixing screws is visible on the dark brown strip at the bottom of the side wall.
down a bit with the view, the small square window is by the side of where the the stairs would be.
Opposite side, again the fixing screw is visible, they go into a couple of pieces of plastic right angled strip that is fixed to the foundation plate.
a final view of the 'stairs side showing the extra rear extension, which I have labeled the kitchen; that has a blind instead of curtains, and a stovepipe added to the rear wall, this is made from a soft drinks plastic 'bendy' straw, doubled inside with the excess that was cut off, and a bit of it added at the top. It is a scale 3" diameter the larger plastic 'bendy' straws here in the UK scale out at 4".
Changing the subject the signwriter (Stan Cedarleaf) has been busy after the lazy sign maker got his act together (he was decalling loco's ) and made the sign boards for the Post Office - at least in early Colorado the Post offices are opening - here in the UK they are doing the opposite and closing them!
Nice and large to indicate the 'pride' in having been granted one by the US mail; the board is the usual plastic card edged up and the painted light blue to stand out - it certainly does that! Then the decals were added and varnished over for protection.