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MATTTOMLIN
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Posted: Friday, October 08, 2004 - 06:10 PM UTC
hey all, i was wondering when any of you make your own walls, and door ways using the picture frame and plaster technique, that how do you make the brick arches, and the patterns, like the cemented edgins around doors, stuff like that.

matt
Angela
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Posted: Friday, October 08, 2004 - 06:19 PM UTC
Maybe this would help:
https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/248

Angela
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 01:48 AM UTC

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...how do you make the brick arches, and the patterns, like the cemented edgins around doors, stuff like that. matt


Hey Matt,

Simple answer: I engrave them with hobby knife, dental tools and a fine jewelry burnisher I got at a jewelry/Rock Store. The artilce I wrote a while back, Basic Construct of a wall. - "Hunter or Hunted" ... , will give you details and shows a picture of my main tool - the burnisher.

Good Luck,

John

nexy
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 02:53 AM UTC
her you go see my bilding of plaster i use, similarly as angela give you link.





dio is in progres.
demodelbouwer
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 03:03 AM UTC

Quoted Text

hey all, i was wondering when any of you make your own walls, and door ways using the picture frame and plaster technique, that how do you make the brick arches, and the patterns, like the cemented edgins around doors, stuff like that.

matt


Matt,

A while back i made a complete village section including the road from Styrodur insulation foam.
Many of the armorama members know the dio...

Try to find the postings i left behind

They are called the ' styrodur project part 1,2,3,4,5,6

enjoy..

Greetz

Eric
RAF-Mad
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 03:35 AM UTC
Since you guys are talkng about walls here i was wondering how thick would a buildings wall be in 1:72?
slodder
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 05:40 AM UTC
RAF-Mad - to figure that out simply measure your wall in 1:1 and convert to 1:72. I would say a brick wall is easily 10 inches thick and in 1:72 thats .14
12" = .17
RAF-Mad
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 07:20 AM UTC
thx slodder
MATTTOMLIN
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 08:23 AM UTC
thnx guys for all your help, regarding that custom walls technique, i have already tried it, and i loved it, but i dont understand how you guys can just carve these things out, for example, in nexys dio, how would you do the frame/brick work tha go around the windows and door. its things like that i need to do for my sherman dio.

thnx again

matt
nexy
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 03:35 PM UTC
first of all i make mod from carton, around the windows and door on base i glue carton 1.0 mm and i get different level , all that in frame, all are airbrush which gloss color to make easy separating mod from plaster, mod is for one use only . if you want some pic of progres send me pm.
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