Ola Guys

Since my AB decided to die on me a couple of weeks ago and for the coming months there is no chance I can afford one. I decided myself to start a project so big that when I managed to scrape together enough money for a new AB and Compressor I probably still will be working on it. It is something about a 4 story appartment building in a big German city. About the time the war ended and the Allies are in Germany. The Building itself is bombed and the complete front is on the street. Bladibla... Complete interiors visible... Bladibla.... All Appartments get their own interior... Bladibla... Civilians working hard to salvage all stuff salvageable and cleaning the mess.... Bladibla..... Lots of rubble bladibla....... etc. etc. Yaddi Yaddi
Now back to the thing the topictitle refers to.
I started scratching furniture for the Appartments. These are only the first 2 Items I made. I did not have scaledrawing nor did I had much reference certainly not for the writingdesk with rolling door. I just started measuring and then made it in basically one afternoon. The Closet of which you see pictures of it still in progress ( A lot of it needs to be done still) is also built without much more reference then my own knowledge about furniture round those days.
Ok here are the pics.
First the writing desk


My haindpainted woodgrain. Used a technique which I use to call "Striping"... works very nice for Rainstreaks on vehicles too.

Now the Closet




As you can see this is the kind of Closet to hang your clothes in. As you also can see is that there is still a lot of work on this thing as it is all still a bit rough. I still need to make a lot (a whole lot) No I`m lying (A Huuuuuuuuge lot more) Next on the schedule are a Piano of which I took measurements of the 90 year old piano we have at home and a bookcase based on what I know myself from pics. If you guys like (and I have some spare time) I could transform my rough sketches to clear 1:35 scale vector images and offer them to Armorama as some sort of feature so you guys and gals can make them yourself... It is actually quite easy. These are the first pieces of furniture I`m making. I`m aware there is still a lot to improve but as long as I don`t have an AB I have the time. Look forward to Chairs, Tables, Pedestals, Bookracks etc. etc. think of everything you could find in an Appartment building. Further I would really love to hear what you guys think.

The two pieces look very promising Faust. Love the woodgrain. Please, more info here. This effect is amazing. Im sure the closet, when painted up will be cool as well.
One thing that I would suggest is to fill the knobs with some putty and round them off. I think they´d look more natural. What are using for knobs anyway? The scale looks spot-on!
Looking forward to more. There seems to be a furniture craze at the moment!

Faust... mister miniature furniture builder !

Looking very good mate. I love the desk. Excellent detail.

I can't wait for you to finish my lounge chair

Keep it up dude...another massive is seeing the light of day.

niceeee really looking good.! like the way you added the beads in it can't wait to see what you do with it when you are gonna paint it.

They both look very impressive and verry good, though they don't look like 1/35!(must be the photos)! It's very good work! I like the closet very, very much! I hope to see more of these and of this in here! Keep us posted!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato

Looks good so far.....
a 4 story apartment building is sure going to need a lot of furniture, and other items.
Hopefully you'll continue sharing your progress on this project.

Very nice, what did you use for the knobs, because they seem a bit to big? just me though
-Shain

wowww
excellent details, love it

woohooo I robert u really decided to do some ..handjob. Miniature furnioture looks pretty good and i like it a lot. Looking forward to see the painted closet and next items that i am sure u ll be showing here !!!!
Great Job

Ola Faust

Your furnitures are looking pretty good. Woodgrain looks great. Could you tell us a little more on the "striping" technique?

I think it would look better, if you fill out the holes in the knobs.

That is very inspiring job Faust.
I also made one piece of furniture for my Warsaw Uprising vigette, but I think yous look much better.
Congratulation

Faust,
These are real.. I couldn't believe what you've made here. Thank you very much for sharing.

Ola Rob,
Wife asked can we have them 1/1 for our house?
excellent SCwork.congrats

Ola Guys

First I want to say thanks for all the replies and usefull feedback. These are as already stated my first pieces of furniture that I ever made and I`m really satisfied with how they came out. Yes there are some rough things about it but in the end it is all a learning provess isn`t it. The result of my own work and the feedback from you guys is an Encouragement for the next lot of furniture.

Ok I will give some answers.

First about the doorknobs I used. Basically I used glass and Plastic beads which I got from my sister (She makes necklace thingies and armbands for Hobby) I actually took them from the jar in which she puts the beads she doesn`t use. She doesn`t mind.
Looking at the posts I see 2 directions of thought. 1 the group that thinks the doorknobs are spot on in scale (Plasticbattle) and the party that thinks they are too big or out of scale (Mech-maniac. ) Well I have to say that for long I have been looking for long for a good way to represent Doorknobs and that sort of things and I finally came out in the hobby of my sister in which the smallest beads she used were perfect for this scale. About the filling of the holes I will use it in my future furniture. I thought it was looking kinda fun with these holes in it. But still there are a lot of Appartments to provide with Furniture so more to come on the area of Knobs

Eagle I started working on your lounge chair this afternoon. Probably will have some progress shots of it in the weekend. I like the shape so far.

Prato I`m not really sure what you meant with they do not look 1:35. Maybe you could spread some light on that. Lookign at your post I take it as a compliment.

Engin. Well sadly where I know something about working with plastic I really don`t know much about working with wood. I could make a few extra though so you still can have the furniture :-) :-)

Ok Now one thing was evident in the last posts that a lot of you are interested in the " Striping" method.
Well actually it is based on the Filter method and I will explain exactly how it works. I`ll start of with a little graphic I made:

Ok To start with 1 I first paint the basecoat. ( in the case of the writingdesk this was quite a dark brown.
Then comes 2The part where the striping comes in. Take or mix a color that is darker (Much darker in the case of the writingdesk it was a brown so dark it was almost black) And thin it heavily. Now take a really small brush (I used a Tamiya High Finish 000) and swiftly put some streaks on the surface of which you want the woodgrain. Make sure all the lines follow the same direction as there are not much woodsorts which have lines running criss cross.
3 Now you have your basecolour with some dark (thin) lines runnign across. Take the turpentine with which you diluted the dark paint and do the same as in step 2 only don`t try to follow the streaks you made in that step. Yes they can overlap each other some may be covered completely this is no disaster but try to make a difference in lines. A little hint here is to use turpentine that you already used for a couple of other jobs I tell you why later. In the drawing in step 3 you see some parts are dark and some are light the dark part is where you striped the turpentine.
Step 4 Now blow the turpentine dry this takes only a couple of blows not that much work. What you see is that the turpentine diluted the stripes you made in step 2 but also it made the stripes blend in in the basecolor more and giving it a nice transition. Also it gave it a more diversity in colour. The reason to use " old" turpentine as stated in step 3 is for this reason. The turpentine functions as a filter itself and is giving an extra colour to it. A good example of it is the 2nd pic of the top post as you see a darker line running through it and some lighter lines this is the effect of old turpentine. Usually when you are doing a wash or a filter you try to avoid these lines but when making woodgrain it is perfect. It is an easy way of doing things and it is easy to recreate rainstreaks with this method. It only needs some experimenting.

I hope this is a bit clear for you guys. If the moderators think it is good enough for a feature I`m willing to make some more text around it with the graphic.
Further I will say that the closet will be painted in a lighter woodcolour with a dark red/brown grain.

More progress to come.

I would love to have some templates or guides for making furniture.

Patrick

Man - if this is what happens when your AB goes TU - I wanna see what you build when your exacto goes TU

Nice work so far. I would fill in the bead thread holes with putty. The hole looks out of scale. the rest is awsome

Looks like you found a very usefull way to spend your time now....great job my friend!

Looking forward to see them in a diorama!

Martin

I'll take up that offer that is, if it is OK with you FAUST

Sorry for digging this up

FAUST,
some templates or measurements would be great. Like your work.

Lee

Hola Robert
Knowing a little about antique furniture, I'd say the roll top looks pretty good! I like the un painted wardrobe; very 'Ikea' at present :-)
Not knowing if you have all other furniture already in mind, but have you thought to look on Antique Auction websites? They often have a photo catalogue of the upcoming weekly auction showing the lots. etc. and you'd be sure to find 20s through 40s furniture
HTH
Cheers
Brad

Great furniture, I can relate to the amount of work that goes into making scale furniture... The only difference is I make mine from wood. I might make the suggestion to venture to a craft shop or a sewing shop to find some more "knobs" just to add a little variation. I have found some brass pins that work nicely. For my hinges I use soft wire, roll them with my blade to carve the grooves in the soft metal, it works well. Good work...

Looks really nice, the knobs a bit on the big side, and some of the cuts seems a bit fuzzy, but is propably not noticable IRL.

Templates and other stuff in various scales can be found here: http://www.printmini.com/printables/

Ola Guys

Well I didn´t expect this one to pop up again after so long. The title sounded really familiar when I looked this afternoon at my work and found out it indeed was mine.

Well let me tell you guys what happened since. I got an Airbrush and a new compressor. so the whole furniture making got a bit on a sidetrack. I have made a couple more things like another writing desk, several tables, some chairs and such .. Never made pictures of it and it is still standing in my workspace. Also the whole berlin caved in multiple story citybuilding got on a sidetrack. due to the fact I have several Diorama´s and other vehicles going on at the same time... First I want to finish that.
Another thing is I got work (finally) and this took a huuuuge part out of my free time and now the stuff I normally could do when I was going to school I now have to do in my OWN time. So eventually the whoile modelling became even slower then it already was.
At a time I thought of making a sort of product out of it supplying people with everything they needed to make a specific type of furniture and it eventually came to a serious looking prototype, Then eventually I also spotted a mistake which I immediately had a solution for but I never took time to add the solution to the product. I still have to do it

@ Luke (Skateordie)
Well because of the explanation above the delivery time has taken Eastern block proportions. You ask now and you get it 15 years later. Besides all the stuff I now have to finish first I don't see where to fit in the furniture stuff

@ Lee Tierney
I Still have a bunch of templates and I have posted them here on Armorama... problem is that the gallery for some reason scales the drawing down a bit so it isn't 1:35 anymore. I will see if I can find a solution for that. It is easier for me and it takes me less time to make templates then to make the furniture.

@ Hunnicut
Well as you already can read, There is not much time anymore for furniture making but... I will keep the antiquarian auction in mind when doing research if I ever have to make Furniture again.

@ Paul Rains
I have seen your awesome furniture and I admire people that are able to work with wood. My skills with wood are sadly not nearly as good as my skills with plastic (Which are only a little bit better). As for the knobs well I worked with what I could get and in this case it was beads. Since my mom studied making design clothes (no clue what the english name for Coupeuse is) she has pins in all sorts of metals and all sorts of sizes too. But these two pieces of furniture were only experimentals actually... it were my first 2

@ Jan
Thanks for the compliment. I know that the cuts are sometimes a bit fuzzy but that is actually reworked after the pics.. the closet is now painted too in a really light shade of wood color. About the knobs see the reply to Paul Rains.

Thanks guys for bringing this one up again... was kind a surprised this afternoon

I'll take the templates instead then, but post the templates in this topic please I've never been able get into the stupid gallery so if you'd please post them here it would be appreciated thanks

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/54687&page=1

found the desk template