ARNHEM: Major General R E URQUHART'S HIDE OUT HOUSE Zwarteweg 14

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Richi

Good shout on the Arnhem build. An ambitious build off to a great start will look forward to the progress on this.

Cheers P

[aaron]

Awesome stuff.

[monica]

wow Richi Awesome stuff, and the work on the grates is just superb, so you hand tooled them out,nice,

may i ask what size do you do your pavement stones att ? and also the border stones ? please,

i know you use and talk about depron , what is it a type off styrene, that much finer ,

look forward to the next update

[Richi72]

Hi Moni,

Depron is a closed cell styrofoam foam in sheet form, it is a fantastic medium for building model aircraft, and also a popular medium for architectural model building, as well as model boats and prototype design.

my pavement stones are 4 x 8mm and the border stones are 30 x 15 x 3mm and the boardwalk stones are 8 x 8mm

Hope this helps a little.

Cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Richi, thank you very much it dose help as my cobble stones are ok, just the others were not to sure on

as your,s look to be right,

think i will have to try to buy online for the Depron no one has it that i can find,spent hrs over 3 today to buy cork board

just silly so mite try horrible bay for that,

[Richi72]

Hi Moni,

here are some retailers in NZ. that have Depron,

Link 1

Link 2

Hope this helps

Cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Richi thank you so very much for the help and so sorry my firefox is acting up and ,

things just are not showing up for me i feel bad and once again very sorrry to off missed the post

and looking forward to see more of your outstanding work

cheers

[Richi72]

No problem Moni,

Update is coming soon.

Cheers Richi

[Richi72]

24.01.2014

Hi you all,

here is a little update on the build.

Started to make a balsa wooden frame around the base, that need some more work but I am not in a hurry with that.

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Received some models I hat ordered for the build.

Some Para’s with conversion set,

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Pe parts and some Atak Zimmerit in waffle design for the Revel Stug III

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And a conversion set for a SDKFZ 253

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Then I started to cut some more wall pieces for the house.

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So thats all for now

Cheers Richi

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[monica]

nice to see things coming along nicely Richi, always wounder what you have for us, do like the looks off these conversion set,

just lov the little metal bits for the half track , looking forward too see that one built , dont realy understand what the 9th pic is ?

i must say my hats off to you with your brick work , dont know how you have the patients ops: i get up after an hr or so and walk about ,

thats why it takes me so long to get any were

keep the great work coming and always look forward to your posts

[Richi72]

Hi Moni and thanks,

the 8th, 9th and 10th

you mean these I think

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that's the zimmerit its made from a thin layer of resin and has a waffle texture in it.

zimmerit was used on tanks to make them less vulnerable to sticky bombs or magnetic ones.

And for the time I always make little breaks in between, if not u will goo_O

cheers Richi

[The Migrant]

Great work Richi, it's come a long way since I last looked in. How are you replicating the brickwork on the sides of the buildings? I can't figure out how you've transferred the pattern from your printed templates to the wall material, and then how you've embossed the detail. The street cobbles look amazing, BTW.

[Richi72]

Hi Mike,

Thanks

I hope I have understood your questions right so I will give it a try.

a./ How are you replicating the brickwork on the sides of the buildings?

the same as the front side they are separate pieces that I glue together

I put my brick template with some adhesive paper on my wall material and I cut the pattern with a scalpel through the paper in my wall material.

after that I use a old permanent marker witch is filed with acetone, to follow the scalpel lines and I use it to scribe the details in the stones.

I made a How to on the brick wall that you can find here Link I hope that answer all your questions if not just ask away.

Cheers Richi

[geegad]

looking amazing seen them molds lucky model sell them they work a treat..keeep the pics a coming

[papa 695]

Just caught up on this epic build Richard great work so far keep it up and I will keep popping in from time to time