Hello friend, this is my new piece . Is a reproduction of Innis House from Frederickburg battle site.
Is made entirely in plastic. First I make a structure with 3 mm thick plastic and afther I put the clap side strips.
I hope that are interesting for us.
Carlos

welll what to say Carlos ure the master of the buildings . New technique but ure skill is a masters as always !!!! waiting toi see the finishing of it !!!!

Congrats

Lol Carlos, when are you gonna sell these things? You can become a rich person!! :-)

Great job!

Martin

Wow! That's a nice piece blockhaus!

How did you make those windows with the blinds? Those are very well detailed.

Amazing!

Angela

¡Hola Carlos! superb. (as usual) Tell me something, could you advise me on a source for (largish) quantities of plastic sheet here in Spain?...Un saludo, Jim

Carlos excellent work again, you truly are a master at this. I would love to know how you made the shutters. Cheers Kevin

Hello All for your nice words,
MArtin, these house is for a guy that have a company that make ACW soldiers
Jim, I buy plastic sheet in a shop that sold industrial goodies here in Barcelona, I know that in MadriI have another but I not know if in La Coruña have this type of bussines,please see at yellow pages under "plastics" label. You can find also warning posters that hare from plastic and big surfaces as Leroy Martin
Angela and Jackhammer I make the sutllers with bits of clapside from Evergreen at 1/87 scale sorrunded with strips of plastic.
Carlos

Carlos, thanks - I have a signmaker up the road from me. Think I might pay him a visit...Jim

Looking good Carlos. Another masterpiece from your skilfull hands.

Fredericksburg is famous for "the wall" during the Battle of Fredericksburg. How are you going to use your house in the scene?

A very nice and a different piece this time, Carlos. Looks perfect. It will be amazing when painted.

Carlos,

Very well done, I am very interested in see the completed house.

Cheers

Jay

Carlos this is super, and I hate to nitpick, but this is too nice a project to not point out one detail.

Here is a pic of the house:



Look how the clapboards don't lineup to the left of the windows.

Hello John
you are right, there are two clapboard types in this facade.
This piece is an original for a company that manufactures toy soldiers for collectors.When I began to work in this piece I had to decide that image wanted to give of the house. I could make a realistic work or a "ideal" reconstruction of her. The toy soldiers don't have such a realistic aspect as the figures that we use and I wanted that my piece followed the same style. It was a difficult decision but at the end I chose the image that you see in the pictures. I was looking for information of this house in the net, but I was not able to find anything but that 6 pictures, some of which sent them to me kindly some participants of Armorama. A boy that lives in that town even offered to send me but pictures, but the day that the one tried to make them the house was no longer in its place, alone there was a great hole in its place. I also read that this house had been used by snipers during the battle and that it had been repaired later on. I observed that the houses of this style use wood that go from an end to another of the house, although of course I have not seen so many pictures or I am so expert in American colonial architecture to affirm that it is always also in this matter. I consult several American books of doll houses to see if there was some reference to this type of houses and they always put the whole wood. Basing me on all these records decided to put the whole wood, in this case it considers but important that the piece was "beautiful" or "idealized" that that was absolutely realistic. I assume that it is a debatable decision and I am happy of being able to talk about it in this forum
best whises
Carlos

Thanks for the explination Carlos - I would have done the same as you have in that situation!

John

Carlos:

Just a beautiful job on that clapboard house model from the battle site of Fredericksburg. I am a reader of the American War Between the States history and finally got to go to Virginia from my home in Kansas several years ago. I spent almost 19 days in Virginia. I walked around that house when I spent four days in Fredericksburg. A tragic day in our history but very inspirational to be able to visit the battlefields. You're doing a beautiful job. I am eager to see more pix.

Kind regards,

Wow!! This is marvelous!! It must have taken a lot of time, with all that cutting and trimming, to make everything fit together. But the final effect is incredible. And I hardly ever work with plastic. I guess it's time to change that. Cheers!!

dsc.

seeing how I live in Fredericksburg, I might have a say on this one! Looks like a good ol' Freddy house to me, I'm glad you made the doors and windows narrow, because a lot of the buildings in my town are like that, even the ones post American Civil War. The shutters are very well done. I was almost goin to say the slant of the right part of the house is too steep, but it looks just right. Awsome job, means a lot that you're recreating a great battle that occured about 5 minutes from my house





that is true. There are actually bullet holes still visible in the house. I could try to go there sometime this week and take some pictures through the window of the house if you'd like.



-Shain

Carlos:

You continue to impress me with your abilities in all different mediums. Cork, plastic, etc...you can do it all. Keep us posted on your progress.

Thanks!

John

Thanks guys for your nice words.

Shain:
I will be very glad is you can make some photos of the sides of the house and the roof . I suposse that roof is made with wood tiles, but, Know you the measures(aprox:.) that these tiles can be?

best whises
CArlos

will do, today after i go to the gym, if you would like PM me your e-mail address and I can send them to you.