Again, as a reminder what i am going to build now, this picture
I am building part 3 now.
I could have cut my dio right in front of the building in the rear. Looking at the inattractive square shape of the building i was inclined to do so, but on the other side i wanted absolutely to incorporate the small chapel in the so-called witchtower.
Here is a overhead view taken late after the war, after renovation. Notice the Sherman who originally was destroyed twenty meters lower on the other side of the wall and only brought here as a memorial more then ten years later. I intend to do him also (as a fighting Sherman of course)
Here is a nice view of the chapel right before the war. Strangely, this staircase survived the devastative fire who destroyed the whole castle’s roof structure!
I could not transpose the original location of it into my dio because of space problems, so i shortened the square building a bit and also decided to destroy most of the roof.
The roof is way to big and uninteresting and also would hide a nice angle from the castle who is the favorite view of my wife.
The chapel roof will remain intact.
Let me start with the base. I will try to make a visually interesting module with the road leading up to the castle plateau viewable and also the chapel hanging over the hill. It’s 1,40 x 0,70 meter big.
The last picture on this page shows the module with the basic shape mounted with Styro.
Complicated? I know, it was also a great challenge for me and i changed a few times.
As the base walls of the square building ( in the years before the war it was used as a Youth hostel) are now done already i think i will do this first post as a quick Howto of my way to build this kind of walls.
This is the model
First, the windows. Rounded on the top! For that i made a pattern out of plasticcard. I needed a support for the Evergreen strips. It helped me to get those strips hold the curve.
Picture to rescue!
I hold the iron angles in place with a bit of plastillin and am continuing the mount of the window.
A mould is made from the first one and copies are made. I made a second mould after the first copie, so i had three forms to ill with resin at one go.
And a copy
Because i shortened the building i had a bit of a hassle to get everything placed
Cutting out the doors and windows of the front side
According to the model and my sketch
My stonework (widely known from the castle) is already glued on and i am inserting a window frame made of a cork strip with the window used as place holder.
Idem for the smaller classic windows,
I cheated a bit for those as i simply took the rounded ones and cut of the top.
Adding more details at the front
The front doors are made out of plastic
Testfitting
I will do a partly visible destructed interior. Therefor i am building the inside walls with plasterboard and am directly preparing all the attaching points for the joists
Here a first test. Later i cut more of the outer walls. Note the finished flagstone floor made out of cardboard. (see again the castle’s kitchen)
As the reat part of the building is going to be barely attached and handling is going to be difficult i need to make more fassade work now as i would normally do.
The wall is painted roughly and here are the steps for my plaster cover. I am using cellulose plaster with a long drying time.
Spreading out
After i smoothed it with my wet fingers
Done!
The front door painted and the glas made with clear resin (before breaking with a scalpel)
Glued in place after breaking the glass
Still need to complete the corners by filling with plaster and rescribbing some stonework.
The module filled with Styro
The other house will be placed front left with a small wall joining the two elements.
So, that’s it for now! Sorry for the bad english, i have a serious cold and the brain is only working partially. If there are questions or suggestions. please feel free to bring them in.
Next up the roofwork and some detailed work for the view of the inner rooms.
Cheers
Claude
Edit.: corrected the last picture
