Hi all,
this is the model near completed of a building made in cardboard and cork with a layer of putty diluted 50%

good job, suprb.

wow, excellent job

looks much better then mine

wow dude that looks just damn great.

where can you buy that cork? and what about telling us in detail how you build something like that?

just looks mighty great.

Hi Juul. Thanks for your words.
Here in Barcelona I find cork in a shop taht only sold these material. But I can see in other shops that sold school material.I hope that I can write a more detailed article in the future.

best whises

Carlos

You are a wizard Blockhaus

Do we get to see it painted?

This house ( as many others) is for a friend that have models here. When he painted the diorama we are glad to present the dio here :-)

Carlos

Carlos,

Superb building, bravo. The column sections are impressive, (corners and center) I have avoided them in the past, but after seeing how you accomplished this and the technique I think it is time to try a new element in my buildings.

Jay

That house loks really great. It looks like it would be a house on a corner or something. Great job. Do the windows have anything in them? I really love the railwork at the top. Keep up the phenomenal work. :-)

Hello
Minuteman: columans is very, very easy: you only take a rectangle of cork or cardboard ( 2 mm thick )and glue 3 or 4 strips. You can made it also in plastic ( see plastic building in previous post).
Gunther: This house is based in a photo taken in Vienna in war years. Is a factory. I modified sligthy the dessing. Soon I can post more buildings from industrial complex that I´m working now.
Thanks for yours nice words
Carlos

Great effort Blockhaus!!

I'm not sure if you want to share your "secret" with us....but can you reveal a bit of your techniques used??
Maybe it's a very nice subject for a new feature...

Thanks for sharing, John.

I John
Well...I not hare secrets: these building is no more that a carboard box with regular holes (windows) with some strips of cork glued in it and with a layer of putty diluted 50%.Secret may be in see how real things that be converted in things at 1/35. Secret lay in details and these details hare in real buildings. In this case I take a photo of a building of Vienna. I added some things fromnanother building that is near my home. This hibryd is the building that you can see here. As you lives in Holland I´m sure that you have near you a lot of buildings that are here in WWII times and that are very potential possibilities for make a dio with it.In modeller terms building is only a box with holes Windows, doors..) and some details( columns, etc...) and a concrete texture ( bricks, etc...) Of course some buildings are more complex that others ( gotic churches for sample) but this is another question. You an made 80% of buildings that you can find in wartime photos of Western front only with carboad, plastic and cork. For people interested in buildings I sugest make a probe: take a carboard( 2mm thick) cut a rectangle and round it with a stripe of same material around 1cm wide and cover it with a layer of diluted putty (50%) more or less, when this will be finished you will have a wall.for a little vignette. This is a departure for make more complex structures. Feel free for ask questions

Carlos

well i dont know if that way is teh easier or what . But i think that u have done a super nice work here . i like that a lot
When u say cardboard what exactly u mean can u be some more specific if possible >
Thanks
Costas

Hi Costas,
cardboad: this material is used in a wide range of things, for sample for box shoes. If you take a box shoes you have also four walls, you need cut windows, door and do the roof. Is basic but a good start. You have then the basic sape of a house. It´s time to do textures: brick, stucco, etc...
For more "professional" look you can go to artist suppliers shop and buy carboard of 2mm
best whises
CArlos