Yorky D's Küchentisch - Purists look away now.....

Bothy

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Some more work on the doors and windows.

Glazing added and suitably dusted. The glazing was rubbed down on wet 'n dry emery paper to make them translucent (apart from one pane seen later) and after installation was given a brown wash. Once dry they were dusted with a MiG dark grey pigment.

Door knobs (brass pins) and keyholes (made with a knife point). With an attempt at wear around the latter.

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An attempt at a cracked pane in the upper sash and one part cleaned in the lower sash to peer into the building.
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Bothy

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Thanks Jonte.

This is something I've always wanted to try out - building a laser cut kit, weathering brickwork and an ill-maintained building. However there's no layout yet on which place it though.

Now for some chim chimneys.... spent a couple of hours building and painting these today.

The whitemetal chimney pots were drilled out as far as I dared and I decided to have one broken. This was the same height as the single pot and the removed pieces have been retained ready to place in the gutter (when added) with one or two shards on the ground.

The mortar base on which they are resting is made up from filler and painted with a mixture of Vallejo Stone Grey and Middlestone. The pots were painted black inside and then weathering powder applied to obtain the dusty soot effect. The rim was touched up along the edges to make it appear as if had recently broken. The terracotta colour is Vallejo basic rust oxide from their Panzer range.

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This one has a nice lump of soot ready to fall back down to the fireplace.
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Next - the roof....
 

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
Dave,
It might be worth having another little look at that broken chimney. Ceramics don't distort when they fail so you'd have a very clean break, not the flaring you've shown. I like the colouring with the blackening inside and the dirty terracotta is good for the outside; but a clean break with the bright orange visible would just 'make it'...

Just a thought,

Steph
 
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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Very true, but ours still needs decorating and we're running out of time before Warley..

You could always use this one....... but it may be too distressed /derelict for the period you're portraying :eek:.

Anyway I've made a start on the guttering - the hard way. Lengths of 3mm copper tube cut down the centre with a piercing saw (6'' wide gutter), 2mm brass tube (4'' pipe) and Modelu downpipe brackets.

The guttering is just placed on with blu-tac as I've yet to make the gutter brackets and representations of the gutter and downpipe joints.

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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
The gutters have been made, installed and painted..... ATSF blue as this is close to London Transport blue.

The final details have yet to be added to the gutters - namely weathering, slipped slates, weeds, dead leaves. etc, etc....

There will be a few bits of mosses and lichens but I don't think they would have survived a semi urban atmosphere given the pollution during the 1960's despite the 1956 clean air act.

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