1/72 scale.....Scratch building the Hospital, Rorke's Drift, circa 23rd January 1879.

[Gern]

Can't believe you've never heard of flying saucer sherbets! Tut tut! What did they teach you at whatever junior school you went to?

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[spanner570]

Tut tut! What did they teach you at whatever junior school you went to?

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Doctors and Nurses! :hungry:

[spanner570]

I've just come in from having fun in the garden. I'm trying to get a sort of smouldering, next day look after an intense but short lived conflagration in the middle of the building. Only one way to do it........

ARG NO! Zulu Chief 453 has snookted past my defensive perimeter and torched my model!
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After I put out the fire.
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I figured some of the clay brick walls would have burst and collapsed with the heat. I still need more scorching but I'll use paint. I will also need more burnt Junk/thatch and clay bricks scattered about and a flattened, burnt hand rail.
All good fun and something new to me anyway.

Cheers.
Ron

[scottie3158]

Ron,
That's a great result just as well you didn't let Mr race near it you would only have had the outer walls left:smiling:

[spanner570]

Thanks Paul.

I still reckon it was 'Pyro' 453 wot started the blaze!

[JR]

570 ,a slur if there ever was blaming me for a fire what ever next.:surprised:
If I may make a suggestion when firing a building you may find it is advisable to wet any area before hand that you don't want burnt to a cinder . By varying the amount of water from a soaking to a mere wet brush dragged over a joist a realistic line of fire damage can be obtained.

My book .
Pyrotechnics For The Elderly.:smiling3:
Has several chapter dealing with this common problem.
Available from all cheap under the counter and in a brown bag bookshops .
Or by Post from :
Stalingrad Pyrotechnics
Burtnisky Precinct.
Stalingrad
Russian Federation .
862 Rubles plus shipping.
Ivor Ripyuooff

[spanner570]

453 - I already have a copy of your book. Well I did have!

I found it most useful for starting my own fires. The rest of the pages made a perfect base for my compost heap!

Regarding your excellent suggested method for reducing fire damage, I reasoned that all the timbers would be tinder dry and kind of go up WHOOSH like.
Once the embers have cooled down I will enter the ruin and assess what I need to do to finish the job of.

Your Servant.

Ivor 570 Burnitdoun Goodski

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Can't decide what is best here. The building or the banter. Both most entertaining.
Jim

[spanner570]

Thanks boys.
I suspect Ivor Matchinanski was being polite when he posted his practical way of reducing the amount of fire damage. Perhaps he really meant to write "You've burnt too much away you prat!"

On my entering the cooled down building I realised if that was what he was thinking, he was quite right (Something I suspected after the Fire Brigade had left my front garden!)

To try and salvage the building, I've reinstated the middle wall and replaced a few bits n' bobs. Done some scorching on the surviving thatch and added tons of burnt and charred rubble and thatch.

I realise the pictures are getting somewhat repetitive, but they are different - Honest!

Here is my final effort regarding the fire damage.

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My thanks to Comrade Ivor 453, for politely providing a tip to prevent any further ballsupskis.

Next I'll make a 'proper' base and add some post battle debris. I promise no fire damaged roof pictures.

Onward and upwards!
Ron

[scottie3158]

Hi Ron,

That is very convincing nicely done.

[JR]

Greeting Comrade Ivor 570 Burnitdoun Goodski .
I'm glad the book was of some help, and that my suggestion was in fact helpful.

My comments were in no way as you thought, I thought it was good.
The recent photos of the added debris are excellent, and well carried out.

We pyrotechnic lovers are a small group that share information on the best methods of building burning, most members are to be found in any maximum security insane unit .

I was however rather up set for you as the book has since become a major sort out collectors item and the price appears to have gone to over 5000 Rubles.

453 Ivor Ripyuooff
Cell block H
Bed 9.

[spanner570]

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Tapped on pipe Cell Block G. Bed 4