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well... this looks like a more thought through construction...

as you are making rivets now... i wonder where you´ll put them to good use

Dude, what a coincidence! I was going to ask you again about the chop it! so i can get my rivet on and do the league proud! price is good too and that site has millions of things i want! can you give me a quick run down of handy sizes of rods and additions for riveting so I can get a supply drop to make you all proud?

might even show my dad and see if I can coerce him into doing some hobby work again

Well, those were 1mm rod..the smallest I use generally,
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Evergreen-Scale-Models-213-Round-Rod-100-5-p/evg-213.htm
tape short pieces together and cut 4-6 rivets at a time. Then sizes generally go up by .5mm at a time 1.5mm, 2mm, 2.5, etc. Hex rod is only good at 2mm and up IMHO, any smaller and you can't see the edges very well.
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Plastruct-90875-080-20mm-Styrene-Hex-Rod-10-p/pls-90875.htm
Then..well, you can rivet-cut any shape, half-rounds, square rods, L-shaped, U-channel, etc. etc. The tool says it handles material up to 1/4" thick. 1/8" is max I'll ever use it for.
Evergreen is always a better value, but Plastruct has more shapes, the plastic/quality is exactly the same.

8 pages to catch up. Just looked at pictures, incredible craftsmanship Dave. I'm as genuinely impressed as always. A bit confused about where the meat comes in, honestly it seems quite out of scale. The chopper I stopped and read real quick, it looks like an excellent investment I'll be considering before getting back to the Necromunda project.

Thanks dave- Ill give em a look!

Thanks Skalk!

What kind of craftsman would I be if I gave my hobbit-hole wainscotting more care than my brisket?

The symmetrical perfection of your arches has always been staggering to me. You did really well in Drafting when you were in HS I'll bet.

The blade on that looks great Dave

Oh My God!...

That's just GRAND! Needless to say the quality is as always high. I'd wish you luck and such stuff with that project but you don't really need it mate
Gosh... how I envy you... I'd love so much to dive into some creative and consuming hooby project myself but I'm stuck with a major RL scratch building resourse-vampire

I see you already have lot's of refrence visuals but if you'll ever need more, I suggest you try LotRO game by Turbine, it's F2P and devs made a pretty awesome job of bringing all the Middle Earth visuals together in to one giant world you can walk all over and inside out.

I'm liking the style of that building.

Dave, I'm greatly envy your skill, dedication and precision of your approach! That's just insane.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:The symmetrical perfection of your arches has always been staggering to me. You did really well in Drafting when you were in HS I'll bet.

Thanks, Not really, but I did spend a year drafting for Verizon, designing their FiOS network at the neighborhood level..it was the most boring job of my life. Mostly I'm just hobby-motivated and self-taught. I don't care for the math, so I just cheat with a compass-cutter

lone dirty dog wrote:The blade on that looks great Dave

Thanks LDD, just a standard, cheap Razor Blade
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolson-Razor-Blades-10-Pieces/dp/B0044LTBQ0/ref=sr_1_4?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1359484226&sr=1-4
Look!..I even found you a link! The only effort required is clicking!
Although this seems very expensive for 10..in the US, a box of 100 is about the same price as that ($7.00)
Try looking at hardware or DYI stores for this kind of paint scraper

you should be able to get them nearby those if nothing else.
edit: here..these aren't carbon steel, but you really don't need carbon steel
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trade-Quality-Utility-Stanley-Blades/dp/B006B3P3U2/ref=pd_sim_d_14
Funny..those are made about 1.5 hours south of me here in Indiana

storag wrote:Oh My God!...

That's just GRAND! Needless to say the quality is as always high. I'd wish you luck and such stuff with that project but you don't really need it mate
Gosh... how I envy you... I'd love so much to dive into some creative and consuming hooby project myself but I'm stuck with a major RL scratch building resourse-vampire

I see you already have lot's of refrence visuals but if you'll ever need more, I suggest you try LotRO game by Turbine, it's F2P and devs made a pretty awesome job of bringing all the Middle Earth visuals together in to one giant world you can walk all over and inside out.

Thanks Storag, I played LOTRO for a couple of hours, realized it was a lot like Wow and just quit- I've found Lego LOTR is a much better game for reference tbh. Not to scale, but a really great game.

n0t_u wrote:I'm liking the style of that building.

Thanks Not-U!

ishkatar wrote:Dave, I'm greatly envy your skill, dedication and precision of your approach! That's just insane.

Thanks Ish...I never claimed to be sane, only stubborn



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This much is painted and glued

Now you see how everything else goes on?

LMAO thanks for the link and I will have a look for some blades ……… Now I just have to find the dam chopper

The pic looks pretty dam fantastic even my misses was impressed (thats saying something concerning little plastic men her words) The wood work has turned out looking pretty decent is that a pint job and wash or actual stain

That's looking real nice. Good Job.

Wow LDD!- THat's impressive!
It's Vallejo air GrunBraun primer, then Did's magic brown ink, then highlighted with Vallejo Wood with a brush.Oh..then it got two light coats of future.
I used too many different kinds of woods for stain to work
Thanks Dr. H! -you made this possible, with your..ideas and such.

 dsteingass wrote:

Thanks Ish...I never claimed to be sane, only stubborn

Well, stubbornness - it's all it takes, after all

 dsteingass wrote:
Wow LDD!- THat's impressive!
It's Vallejo air GrunBraun primer, then Did's magic brown ink, then highlighted with Vallejo Wood with a brush.Oh..then it got two light coats of future.
I used too many different kinds of woods for stain to work
Thanks Dr. H! -you made this possible, with your..ideas and such.

Ah well, you did the work. I just offered a few suggestions. Glad I was some help.

 dsteingass wrote:
I don't care for the math, so I just cheat with a compass-cutter

Honestly that is something I would not have thought of and deserves a on my part. I'll keep that in mind for when I start my Necromunda project again. I actually have a few of them (kids in high school) so I'm going to put one in my Necromunda material box and when I open it back up months from now I'll say "heeeeey, I remember that!" and get to work.

I'm expecting you'll have Bag End done in a month.

Dave could help design and rebuild civilization if things were to go belly up

Haha! Once the Parlour is done, I'm going to take a distraction break and work on a 1:6 Cylon Centurion Model kit for an IPMS-USA review. Bag End will be a very long-term project I'll have to clean the gaming table off to build the hill once all the rooms are done, not to mention figuring out where to store the damn thing once it's done.

The COmpass-cutter is a lot like the Cricut- it'll make a nice score on plasticard, but it doesn't cut all the way through- still needs some good old-fashioned knife work.

Centurion? Hmmm, Old school? the newer redux "Bullet head"? or the retro cgi classic from Razor and the end where they fought in "the colony"?

This one, from Moebius:
http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=375296
The feet seem more like Caprica series CG to me, but I haven't really researched it much yet

The Bullet heads, and looking at the images, some severe molding issues, the gaps!! major putty work I see

Nope..Moebius kits are top shelf. In the latest issue of Sci Fi and Fantasy Modeler has two write ups/builds, and they say the gaps are all where the armor plates are supposed to meet up. Of coursr, they were using pre-production kits for the articles so We'll see. Every Moebius kit I've built so far has been a complete joy.


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see his calendar in the bg? It says Mar 30..which was last year, so he was probably using pre-prod sample kits too, since it just got released this month.
Of course, he posted in October, so he just may be too lazy to set his calendar too

 dsteingass wrote:
not to mention figuring out where to store the damn thing once it's done.

I'm about to be in the same situation once I start completing the other terrain projects I have going on. They are all on bases and I can't stack them anymore, and they have to share the same space as all the other stuff I've already created.

Looks like I'm finally going to have to kick everyone out of the house so I can use the bedrooms for storage.

Shelving! You need shelving! I need shelving! Everyone needs MOAR shelving!

I need rooms for more shelves.

Get rid of unnecessary things like plumbing

I was thinking about getting rid of the couch and TV and kitchen table and beds and wife and kids and pets and windows and doors and friends. Then I'll have all the space I need and time I want.

LOL Removing the windows WOULD leave more room for shelving...