Thank you Gerard.


I made a little progress.







The base colors were brushed on using very thin layers of paint (almost as thin as water).

Cu folks ! G.

The last picture is truly amazing,
really, you are full of surprises Guy!
JB

JBA, if you are in for another surprise of mine...I changed the look of the front of the house.
I wasn't completely satisfied because the house didn't have the typical 'Normandy' look. I wanted to add more colors and structure, so I covered the bricks between the wood with colombage.

Here's a small update.

This was the old situation :


The reference picture that made me decide to give it another try :


This is the result so far, it's not done :


A detail/close-up shot :




Cu guys ! G.

Wow what a pity you've done the brickwork under this coat..
But now it looks great! with this kind of normandy looking "torchis" .I can't found the world in english. Maybe some french speaking user..
G'bye!
A.

Hi Guy,

I don't know if the change was really necessary,but the result looks great also. I would eventually have left a bit more bricks looking through your cover.

Well done

Claude

Another artist gone totaly mad, got to love it. Great work Guy.

Hey Guy, this is simply incredible. Can you PLEASE make this into a feature when you are done?

Alexandre : I'm glad you stay tuned to my topic. You think the new look is great, this gives me confidence in my decision ! Tx !

Claude : I wanted to add more color to bring life in the house. I think sometimes a builder must dare to forget all the effort he put in a job, and change the whole thing dramatically. Tx for your kind reaction my friend.

Bob : "gone mad" is the right choice of words, I'm simply addicted to this kind of modelling, no expensive stuff involved, only imagination and cheap materials are !

James : I try to update as much as possible, but if you like I will make a feature (I just need time enough to do this, I want to spend each minute in creating, building, composing... ).

Next update :

I have made two shutters (? is this a correct word for it ?) and used this picture as a reference :



They were made from plastic sheet and wood texture was carved by using a scalpel and a file.



The house front :



Now I have to complete them, ...and then paint time !

Bye guys.

Oh God I wouldn't expect you to do the feature until you were all done anyway. SUPERGAJOULISTICEXPIALADOUCIOUS. I know I didn't spell that right but oh well. Ya'll know what I meant.

Excellent, the shutters look just right.

What do you think of my lamp post? Your tutorial was a great inspiration.

Chas

I stay tuned, cause you know Guy, I'm in love with cork since I've follow your blog. I'm using the same way in my Cretan dio.
Really like this house!

Bye!
Alexandre.

Amazing!

does this mean that I don't have to check the benelux site for your progress?

you are gettin' more praise over here hé

hope you finnish the project "I'm building a whole village , but I ain't tellin' anyone yet"

I'm still working on my house , you just seem to fly over it,damn!

greetz
Tha Pit (first official groupie of Guygantic )

Hey Peter, I don't understand what makes you think that I stop updating my topic on Benelux ?
But I like big A as well and I have a lot of respect for the builders here, I like to share my experience with every builder around the world, so this is the place to be !

And to be clear : I would never fly over a good friend's topic, check it out my good friend.

Update of the small window :

I chose to use yellow transparent plastic sheet to complete the old window.



Cheers, Guy.

Hi Guy, when you covered the brick work with spackle I was a bit doubtous about if was a good idea... but seeing now the result I want to say : excellent!!! It´a pleasure see your work congratulations
Carlos

Carlos : thank you, your opinion means a lot to me, but to be clear, I didn't use spackle to fill the brickwork, it was plaster. It works good for me. I sand here and there where necessary, depending on the effects I try to achieve. When this is dry, I brush on thinned wood glue to make the construction stronger, it hardens the cork too. I did use spackle (the Reno filler stuff to fill up holes and small damage in plaster...) between the wood to create the colombage.

G.

Wow, once again fastastic work!

cheers!

I join! impressive work, very nice painting of your building so far

Thank you my friends !

The paint work of the window of the first floor with the shutters is finished, but I still have to add some stuff :




I hope you like it.

G.

Like it? Like it. are you kidding me? This stuff rocks man. Keep going. Don't stop now!!!!!!!

Thank you James !

Update shutters :

I've made long iron hooks (there must be a better word !) for manipulation of the shutters (comes in handy for short armed people, they won't fall out the window no more ), I used this photo for reference :







The holes in the wood will be replaced by more accurate stuff, tomorrow !

Bye ! G.

Yes Guy,

That was exactly what I meant.

Peter.

(I post it here, for you obviously didn't have the time to upload it on the Beneluxdepartment, you tellyaddict )

Hello friends,

I've filled the holes in the wood with big nails. I thinks this is more convincing, and the look is more medieval, just what I was looking for.

Again, my reference pic, now for the nails :



This is the result :



Left is done, right is the old situation :



Better I hope ?

Thanks for watching friends ! G.

Far better!
Extremely convincing!
Really good work my friend!


A.