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I like the look of your window. I think it fits the overall feel of the piece. You could go crazy and put a slight wave in the crosspiece to draw its style in with the tile or you could leave it as is.

I like the panes in the window; it's small details like that that transform it from a model into a real, operating building.

The stucco works as well, especially with the brown wash highlighting the texture.

I love your work, it's very inspiring!

 Red Harvest wrote:
Minimal hobby time, but there is this,


The questions. How does the window with the panes look compared to the open ones? (never mind the crappy quaity of the mock-up.) Is the texture/color believable for adobe or stucco?

If the texture is good, I'll be able to finish the exterior of this thing quickly.

Thanks for stopping by.

Walls look good, texture + colour (Base and washes/stains) do give a very veritable finish. As for the windows, as much as I like open ones IRL, the panelled one has the great advantage of looking (being!), more detailed, and thus, maybe "adding" more to the piece, if I make any sense.

The un-hexagonal floor is great, excellent call there.

I'm completely blown away by your work. I especially like the stone bridge over the river scenery. Keep them coming, great job!

The texture works well.

and naturally, I do prefer the window with the frame in (what did you / will you make that out of?).

Y'know, that lone hexagon on the patio would be the ideal place for a manhole You could just add a little handle (recessed into the surface) to lift it up and access the sewer/drains.

I love that fountain, and your interior work is so good.

Its a joy to look through these pages... really lovely work! and that flooring is very nicely done!

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
I like the look of your window. I think it fits the overall feel of the piece. You could go crazy and put a slight wave in the crosspiece to draw its style in with the tile or you could leave it as is.

Curse you sir That is a brilliant suggestion and I spent quite some time looking at images of windows.. I'll try something like that.

 jabbakahut wrote:
I love that fountain, and your interior work is so good.

Thanks. I really enjoyed the challenge of the water and the interior detailing. Gets the creative juices flowing.

 Dr H wrote:
The texture works well.

and naturally, I do prefer the window with the frame in (what did you / will you make that out of?).

Y'know, that lone hexagon on the patio would be the ideal place for a manhole You could just add a little handle (recessed into the surface) to lift it up and access the sewer/drains.

Someone suggested a fountain on it. Another suggested a planter. Maybe I'll combine the two. And have a manhole cover underneath. Y'know, press a button and the planter slides away to reveal a hole with a ladder descending into the secret lab... I've often thought about a multi-level table.

 Maverick421 wrote:
I'm completely blown away by your work. I especially like the stone bridge over the river scenery. Keep them coming, great job!

Thanks. I built that years ago, but had fun doing it.

 MagosBiff90 wrote:
Its a joy to look through these pages... really lovely work! and that flooring is very nicely done!

My printer (and digital imaging skills, such as they are) thank you Unless you mean the patio. Then I thank you. It was a new thing to try. And partially your fault that I did

Haven't had much time to do any more building. But I should have a few hours on Sunday. And progress to show for it. Saturday I pick up my GenCon loot from a friend who bought a few items for me (the Infinity starter box and limited edition minis, and the Pathfinder card game Skulls & Shackles. I'll need to think about scratch-building a few pirate ships, for grins, since minis etc are needed for the game. Nut I do love the visuals.)

So to end a bad week, there was a very pleasant surprise in the mail today.


It will go very nicely with the rest no? Cam did an excellent job I'll paint it to match the other pieces.

Thanks Cam. It's a great prize, or Trophy, or both, really. The added scatter pieces were a nice touch too

I found a few moments to do more work on the guest house.



The roof. The large holes are for skylights -- gable skylights I'm thinking-- and the smaller cut-outs are for the roof vents. You may note that I actually added gutters to the roof, but internally, since they would look meh on the exterior. The etxterior is close to completion. Only a few more details, then I can attach the patio roof permanently, and finish everything off. The next one should go much faster, since I will already know what to do.

And maybe paint and base a few more minis to act as the models for these projects. I'm getting a bit tired of these three.

Thanks for stopping by

That roof looks brilliant. Whole thing is great.

Happy I managed to chear you up a little at least.

Nice work on the roof.
Liking the colours too, patio looking nice.

Looks great: roof & skylights, texture on the walls, and shape and colour-play on the floor.

Glad you week improved some at the end, too!

Thanks all for the kind words. I did indeed cheer up. But that is what the hobby is for eh? A ray or two of sunshine every now and again?

I squeezed out only a piddling few hours of hobby time this week. And really made a mess of things. Won't show the pix of that. So I re-did both the roof vents (originals were waaay too large) and the skylights. Here be the final not yet fully painted bits...

In case you are curious, the black vents are going to be painted copper for the small ones-- they are actually the vent pipes for the sinks...realism eh?-- and probably steel for the large ones-- vents from the water heater and stove. I thought I'd actually add detail that would really be there, were this a real building, even if the location is a bit awkward for playability purposes. Rule of Cool> Rule of Playability.

The roof is detachable. Somebody asked about it on the DataSphere. So here's a photo showing its detachability.


And here is the back view

Lot's of empty space on those walls. I'm going to break them up with a HVAC unit, and a cellar door entrance. I may need some sort of flower bed or something too.

Still undecided about how to paint the fram on the skylights. I'm thinking just leave them white (but shade them a bit, of course) I wanted window panes on the gables too, but that proved, erm, problematic. Maybe something to create a shadow line on the ends? They still don't look 100% right. OTOH the vents are perfect. (IMHO, they look just like the photo I used)


At least the only exterior building work will be the windows and the bits mentioned above. Oh, and a set of stairs down from the patio. And anything else I missed.

Thanks for stopping by.

The texture on those walls just makes me want to touch it, i want to rub your walls .... urm ok that sounds odd. .. "Taxi"

Fantastic, as usual

Fab indeed. I'd love a smashed skylight with a rope for access between levels

The vents look very nice.
for realism, as always.

Looking fantastic, I would go grey on skylight framing.

Also may I make a suggestion for that big blank space? What about a Infinity style sign. Like a piece of painted acetate, nice and shiny, maybe an advert of some kind?

Thanks all

Cam, Perhaps a Diego Garcia style mural? Hmm, I'll think about it. Other suggestions included a trellis, which I find appealing too. I went light gray for the skylights. Turned out well.

And this finishes the roof.

 M0rdain wrote:
The texture on those walls just makes me want to touch it, i want to rub your walls .... urm ok that sounds odd. .. "Taxi"

Hmm, that's not too creepy... The texture is talcum powder mixed with the housepaint and dabbed on. I like it much better than sand, since I get a finer texture, and I hate working with sand. I hate sand, actually. But, I had to use the scented talcum powder ( sold as baby powder around here) since I couldn't get any of the unscented kind. So,, the building has a pleasant smell too. A bit unsettling....

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Fab indeed. I'd love a smashed skylight with a rope for access between levels

No need to smash em. They are removable...

 Dr H wrote:
The vents look very nice.
for realism, as always.

Here is the source image for the vents

I made a few changes, but overall a decent copy of the orginal, IMHO.

I've finally gotten around to my GenCon loot. Here is one of the buildings from the Icestorm box alongside the guesthouse for scale...

Not bad for pre-printed cardstock. They assemble really well. And yes, I am tempted to make a proper version of the thing, just to see...

Thanks for stopping by.

That looks brilliant...vents and skylights are great

I like the sound of a trellis...not enough trellis-wotk on show in terrain.

 Red Harvest wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Fab indeed. I'd love a smashed skylight with a rope for access between levels

No need to smash em. They are removable...

10/10

And scented, too!

Building looks awesome!

Maybe you should go on kickstarter with a range of lavender scented paints? Especially for basement dwelling teens.

Nicely done building! I never even saw the one seam for the roof!

So, that was what Cam was making those bits for.

Thanks guys, and Lol, scented paints and terrain. Truth is, the smell eventually gave me a head-ache. So no more of that for a while. But it does make a good texture. Hmm, maybe I'll just hunt down some unscented stuff. Ah, always a solution, if you look hard enough

Anyway, question about the glass for the windows

Clear? Or...

Frosted?

I decided on a simple curving for the window panes. I like it though. An excellent suggestion.

Oh, and a new toy

It's...Red I easily have over a dozen pairs of tweezers. And a strange problem, apparently.

Started an interesting little papercraft project --'cuz I finally got a new printer to replace Jammy MacJammerson and wanted to see how it printed. I'll post a few pix and links to the source files soon enough. It is an interesting way to work. I want to hone my papercraft skills so that I can build this http://www.sdmaritime.org/shop/san-salvador-collection/downloadsansalvadormodel.html Nice, eh? Naturally I went for the advanced difficulty version. I'll work my way up to it, with all the other little papercraft projects that I have found. Some are really nifty.

Thanks for stopping by.

Looks like it has a view of the shower/bath room so frosted, anything that doesn't have a view of that area go clear.

As always I'm in awe of your attention to detail and skill Red.

Nice job on the window frame.

Yeah, frosted in a corner for a bathroom or other "private" area, and clear everywhere else.

Nice work, frosted and clear, a mix is good in my opinion.

Ditto here....the judicial use of both works best

Nice link....I've downloaded that for my dad, he should enjoy that.

I personally think the frosted looks more appealing. That's just my opinion, though.