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The roof is coming along great, especially in newer pics .

Stupid fact of the day in the b-52 song "love shack" when they say "tin roof rusted", it is slang for "the girl is pregnant". I know there's no point in saying this here, but thought I'd share some of my vast useless Information.

Rusty roof looking great Dr H

Thanks dudes.
Nowt wrong with interesting facts here Theo.

Having decided that I should stop fiddling with the roof for fear of making a mess of it (like the ladder) and having fixed said ladder, I have started the (potentially quite long and laborious process of) painting the base.

This is brown as a base colour, dry-brushed with a lighter brown (having run out of my usual lighter brown I have had to mix some "bone" with brown) and now I've picked out the things that look enough like rocks to be rocks and found out what else is going to be needing paint, such as scrap wood, rusty metal and some either young plants or dried leaves...

And what bright spark decided to put a large rock next to a large plant (because that's where a plant would likely grow) and therefore make both of them difficult to paint...


The paint is still a little wet in places here, so ignore the shinyness.

The dirt is looking good... your dirt looks better than mine, I guess the it is always browner on the other side.

 Theophony wrote:
The dirt is looking good... your dirt looks better than mine, I guess the it is always browner on the other side.

...and it's all just dried paint and the rubbish off the modelling board...
Thanks Theo.

The things that look like rocks are mostly rock-like.
The things that look like rusty metal are mostly rusty.
The things that look like bits of wood are becoming woody...
Edit: Oh, and the things that look like broken pottery are ceramic coloured and waiting for a simple design...

Once that's done, I can start on the plant life and it's affect on the surroundings (read; mould).
Getting very close to done...

Getting very close to wanting to see it finished!

You'll just have to hold back a little bit longer NF...

Can the Dr finish?

 cormadepanda wrote:
Can the Dr finish?

I always finish...

I am now starting the plants...

Tiere is only dust, grime, rust and rotting carcasses... No room left for plants in the grimm darkness...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Tiere is only dust, grime, rust and rotting carcasses... No room left for plants in the grimm darkness...

But if there was no plants then those Catachen jungle fighters would have nothing to complain about...

And for the 1000th post here in my blog, here's the first layer of green on the plants.

The piles of plastic shavings painted up ok in the end.
You can also see some rocks and a lump of rusty metal.

those spure plants are bloody ridiculous! and amazing!...

the smaller one looks like someone tossed his spinach away

Amazing work!-But try some lighter brighter green too

Viktor von Domm wrote:those spure plants are bloody ridiculous! and amazing!...

the smaller one looks like someone tossed his spinach away

Thanks , they were just following the tutorial and there were about 3 or 4 other plants that I made but didn't make the grade.

Maybe that's why the hut got broken...

dsteingass wrote:Amazing work!-But try some lighter brighter green too

Thanks.
Yeah, see below. That was just the base green, there were washes and highlights to be added.

Well guys and gals, the time has come... it is done.

May I present... The (Sprue) Hut!
Outside:


Roof, top and bottom, and the ladder on it's hook:


and moving inside, the table and bench in position with the completed bottles (I wanted something recognisable and also a nod to one of the prizes on offer...) and you can see some broken pottery:


and finally, the smaller details:


All the above pictures are quite zoom-able (and vote-able ) so you can see all the little details.

I hope it's been worth the wait.
Any comments, questions and criticism welcome.
There is a lot of detail crammed in so feel free to ask about things if they're not clear...

Jaw droppingly, gob smackingly brilliant! A round of applause for that, truly outstanding, H!

Absolutely amazing, very blackadder in detail level, the modeler not the actor. And voted

What a great hut. A bit open plan and drafty to live in but if I went to Butlins holiday camp and this was my hut I would be pleasantly surprised


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What a great hut. A bit open plan and drafty to live in but if I went to Butlins holiday camp and this was my hut I would be pleasantly surprised

Is this for the re-purposing comp? Where do I vote?

Dr H, I take my hat off to you... That is simply stunning and worthy of shed of the year

http://www.readersheds.co.uk/

The small details such as the bottles, broken pottery and flowers really add to the unique story on this hut

voted earlier.... first i may add
then wanted to comment but my phone ate up my comment and i went all grumpy...

now with better mood again...

looks lovley! really... all those details...the flowers and the bottles or the hanging cloth... it is a true gem... i hpope you are proud about it... every ounce of sweat you lost was totally worth it!
also... on a related note... you defniatly made some great looking pics of that piece... somehow the light is very pleasant to see... it loosk most athmospheric!

seeing this i think you know should get yourself a new hobby...maybe ping pong... as i can´t see you best that thing anymore

Casey: Thank you *bows*

Theo: Thanks. Details is where it's at.

Weety: lol. Thanks. Yeah, it's for Brian's recycling competition. You can vote in the Dakka gallery, but it won't affect the competition as it's up to the judges who wins in the end. So it's only for my own warm, fuzzy feeling...

Ruglud: Ha ha, it's almost in a better condition than Mr "I've got a boat for a roof" 's shed. Thanks. Yeah I wanted it to look like it's had a long history.

Viktor von Domm wrote:voted earlier.... first i may add
then wanted to comment but my phone ate up my comment and i went all grumpy...

now with better mood again...

looks lovley! really... all those details...the flowers and the bottles or the hanging cloth... it is a true gem... i hpope you are proud about it... every ounce of sweat you lost was totally worth it!
also... on a related note... you defniatly made some great looking pics of that piece... somehow the light is very pleasant to see... it loosk most athmospheric!

seeing this i think you know should get yourself a new hobby...maybe ping pong... as i can´t see you best that thing anymore

I can see a comment you made on one of the pictures, so maybe it wasn't entirely eaten. Thanks.
Yeah, I am very happy with it.

Thanks about the pictures, you probably won't believe me when I say they were taken with a camera phone and a clip on desk lamp that I had to hold at the same time. I did have to take about 3 times the number of pictures to get the ones I used. I quite like the shot with the light coming in the window though.

Ha, I do have many, many hobbies and tend to rotate the focus every now and then depending on time/money/effort.
Although I'm more of a rock climber than ping pong player... (but I haven't done much for ages and so am very out of shape).

I quite like the shot with the light coming in the window though.

that´s the one i was referring to...

and it was only a joke.... don´t even think about stopping your awesome work

Yeah-I-know.

Had you worried there for a minute. I won't be stopping the modelling, there is so many models left to build...

As an objective judge, I can't comment too much yet, but I think it's great!

As a fellow competitor I realized the only way of beating this was a tragic accident.....I'm glad my operative failed.....mostly.

dsteingass wrote:As an objective judge, I can't comment too much yet, but I think it's great!

Of course. Thanks. I await your final judgement when the day comes.

Theophony wrote:As a fellow competitor I realized the only way of beating this was a tragic accident.....I'm glad my operative failed.....mostly.

Thanks. I'll have him (brain)washed and sent back to you soon...

Well done dr h. I like that hut a lot you have impressed me with both your skills of sprue foo and a good paint job.

I've been following your build on this, it's a brilliant piece of work, and beautifully painted.
Plus I love your attention to detail, It's those little things which really Bring it to life .

cormadepanda wrote:Well done dr h. I like that hut a lot you have impressed me with both your skills of sprue foo and a good paint job.

Thanks Comrade.

hk1x1 wrote:I've been following your build on this, it's a brilliant piece of work, and beautifully painted.
Plus I love your attention to detail, It's those little things which really Bring it to life .

Thanks hk. You know I already worship at your altar, so I'm glad you like it.

Little details (with reason behind them) are what makes a model.

Away to vote now.

It is brilliant and beautiful. As someone trying to compete, and failing, this is simply art. Absolutely perfect. We are definitely trying for 2nd place now.

Now lets see you pump one out for the other competitions.!!

 Camkierhi wrote:
Away to vote now.

It is brilliant and beautiful. As someone trying to compete, and failing, this is simply art. Absolutely perfect. We are definitely trying for 2nd place now.

Now lets see you pump one out for the other competitions.!!

Thanks Cam.
Hey wow, thanks everyone; near perfect 10s. I was hoping for 8s or maybe 9s... I is a happy chappy.

You just have to push yourself Cam and pay close attention to the smallest of details, you can do it.

Ha ha. One's enough for me. You can tell how much I dislike deadlines by how much effort I put in to getting this done (and I still only just got it done before the original deadline I was aiming for...).

I think I'm going to go back to my more casual modelling pace for now... and maybe one day in the future I may enter another competition that captures my imagination like this one did.