Advance from Normandy.

[minitnkr]

Great start Scottie. Worked slate tiles back in the 80s. Not fun.

[tr1ckey66]

Fabulous work Paul. Inspiring stuff
Cheers
Paul

[yambam26]

Nice one Scottie, looks great so far!

[scottie3158]

Well having a critical eye of 50 years in architecture you have done superbly well there
Paul. Very nice piece of work on the dormer. A good idea of construction not easy.

Perhaps a few broken tiles at the eaves. The slate edges are the most vulnerable there
as the slate tops are nailed to the tile battens an upward blast will snap them.

Very nicely done. Great to see DIY just love this work myself. Just thinking of a small hanger
on my Jersey Airport. Look forward to your progress.

Laurie

Laurie, thanks for the great feed back I will stick some broken tiles on.

Great start Scottie. Worked slate tiles back in the 80s. Not fun.

Cheers Paul. I watched a program not that long ago of how the guys used to spend all day splitting the slate to make thousands of tiles a day.

Fabulous work Paul. Inspiring stuff
Cheers
Paul

Paul very kind of you thanks.

Nice one Scottie, looks great so far!

Cheers Ben, good to see you looking in.

[scottie3158]

Well having a critical eye of 50 years in architecture you have done superbly well there
Paul. Very nice piece of work on the dormer. A good idea of construction not easy.

Perhaps a few broken tiles at the eaves. The slate edges are the most vulnerable there
as the slate tops are nailed to the tile battens an upward blast will snap them.

Very nicely done. Great to see DIY just love this work myself. Just thinking of a small hanger
on my Jersey Airport. Look forward to your progress.

Laurie

Cheers Laurie if it passes your scrutiny then that's good enough for me.

Coming on very nicely indeed Paul.

Keep up the good work.

Andrew

Cheers Andrew it's getting there slowly.

HI Paul this is lookin great carpentry an could you put your hand nr the build so i can see how big it is an whats wattle and dorb ?
chris

Will post a picture later. Tim has given an excellent description, which I will try and get right.

Paul

Excellent building job to complement an excellent vehicle build. BTW it's Wattle and Daub" as in daub mud all over the woven sticks.
Keep it coming

John

Cheers John, good to see you.

Different applications weren’t they though Laurie? I know you know this stuff Laurie, but others may be interested…..

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Wattle, covered with mud/clay/dung/straw as a wall finish….
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Lath with the plaster removed…
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Lath from behind, plaster keyed into the wall by the horizontal gaps.

As I understand it, Wattle and Daub was used for main wall construction filling in between house framing.
Lath and plaster was used for a smooth decorative wall finish inside a building? It is very difficult to hand things like radiators and cupboards on lath and plaster stud walls…believe me, I’ve tried LOL. The only way I found was to use spring toggle clips…..everything else just fell through or fell off…unless you were lucky enough to hit a stud behind the lath!

Thanks mate for taking the time to post the pictures it will mean i will hopefully get it right.

[scottie3158]

I have added some stonework to the building. The foam then received a coat of diluted PVA to seal the surface. All the sub assemblies have been undercoated with primer. They have just been put together loosely for the picture.






The window details are a mixture of Mini art and scratched items. These will be painted and weathered before adding later. Not sure what colour to paint the building and woodwork so any suggestions will be considered.



Finally a small section of wall for across the street.



thanks for looking.

Scottie

[Tim Marlow]

Superb stuff Scottie. Really looks great. Excellent texture to the parts that will show well with paint.

[Guest]

Nice, takes certain mind to do these things.

All in the detail.

Laurie

[scottie3158]

Superb stuff Scottie. Really looks great. Excellent texture to the parts that will show well with paint.

Thanks Tim very kind of you.

[scottie3158]

Nice, takes certain mind to do these things.

All in the detail.

Laurie

Cheers Laurie, still details to add yet lights, guttering etc.

[boatman]

great work scottie these building dios really show out your skills at modeling very well done
chris

[JR]

Hi Paul. thanks for the text.

Perfect in my eyes, Dormer looks right.
As far as the out side colour for the walls from a cream to light grey cement based render. Esp on that gate post with some brick work showing through.
Like the road way with the covered stone sets.

[minitnkr]

Most are outside the Crayola Eight so must defer to Dzohn on color.

[Jim R]

Hi Scottie
Looking great. The primer has really tied it all together. Gonna look great. I think John's colour ideas are spot on.
Jim

[scottie3158]

great work scottie these building dios really show out your skills at modeling very well done
chris

Cheers Chris, very nice of you to say.

Hi Paul. thanks for the text.

Perfect in my eyes, Dormer looks right.
As far as the out side colour for the walls from a cream to light grey cement based render. Esp on that gate post with some brick work showing through.
Like the road way with the covered stone sets.

Cheers John I was thinking of a pale colour but wasn't sure what sort of traditional colours would have been used on the woodwork.

Most are outside the Crayola Eight so must defer to Dzohn on color.

Paul that made me chuckle especially as they reckon soldiers eat crayons,