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Now that's an awesome weather channel. They need to have scorpion take the heads of broadcasters from other channels.

I have seen that mini before. Last week or so at my FLGS....


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It was no where near as well painted s I expect yours to be.....



Perhps you would paint a nice titan.......

Ah, no colder than 20 tonight. got to about 40 today. Balmy for arctic conditions

Yeah it got up to 11 (-11 C for Vik) here today! Serious Heat Wave!

Thanks Max!! Your words are haunting me through this paintjob now

is it that's why you don´t update with pics...

and -11 at night...brrr....we always sleep with open window...(wifes orders...) and this would mean me sleeping next to the open window...argh... the weatherman said it will get brutally cold next week here too...

Oh hell no Vik! With the window closed (above our heads) you can still feel the cold even with the electric mattress pad on and piled high with blankets. When it's that cold, the double-paned glass in the windows just conducts the cold.

Not much to show, just working the woodgrain with india ink

Still needs highlights

My walls of the doublewide were emitting cold, I have the window under a blackout blanket and sheet to stem the cold from the window, the walls are just as bad

nifty already...

it is because you live in wooden homes...we life in good steady stone houses...that once these are warm stay longer warm...tho if cold...stay longer cold too...

my wife on Monday returned to work....with no functioning heating system at work... the lil toddlers of her group at the kindergarden are all still crawling on the floor...at streetlevel... so no fun when the heat is down...and thus they had them play inside with woollen hats and ski pants still on... if I had been the boss of said facility... then I would have sent the kids back home...you are the one that´s guilty for getting the kids sick due to this cold...

Nah, a Doublewide is not made as well in my opinion as a actual foundation based house. is flimsier, and more likely to go up faster than a regular home in the event of fires.

Nice wood tones you have going on there, Dave.

Insulated wood walls hold in heat pretty well, it's the windows and doors that leak cold....brrr

Looking nice though.

I have an old brick and mortar house, the cold stays cold and gets colder. When it's hot it gets like a brick oven . But the ac works good now.

Can't wait to get to Vegas and live in a consistantly warm environment.

Good job on the wood grain. I think we saw this from you before on the Submarine model, though. And then wasn't it a completely flat surface that you had to paint woodgrain onto?

Yeah Max, the SeaView I gave a 60's wood paneling vibe to it,

But my best woodgrain was the 1/35 Gangster diorama furniture

Both flat surfaces, in many ways much easier to do than something with a texture like the cart.

What scale were the furniture of the seaview again for?

1/Freakin' Tiny.......

Lol...that's the truth for crying out loud....

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1/Freakin' Tiny.......

I needed that

That's good wood! What colour ink is that?

Just thought you'd like to know on Wednesday it's going to be 36Degrees...... or for you guys...... 96!

shorts and t-shirt weather! might even have a barbie and lie in the pool with the dogs and a cold drink! :-)

Yeah record lows here, record highs on your side of the planet Damo!

@Vik- the scale of the SeaView is 1/128- Max was right

@Weets- Why Thank you! On the SeaView- I don't remember! It was a mix of different colors for the scale, but for the 1/35 furniture, I mostly used straight Brown India Ink (Dr. PH Martins "Bombay" brand) in several layers of streaks with a really tiny brush

thanks for that piece of information dave...

and nerdy...

also...got a question... i think i´ve built myself into a corner...the ribs of the roof of my cabin are 0.69 inches appart... how big length and width should one single shigle be? i am currently really without an idea how i should cover the roof....last option currogated iron is still available but only as the very last option...

i ask this here as you still get way more traffic and even tho you are yourself one of the judges i am asking you as a proven able shingler of scalemodel houses^^


thanks in advance...vik

I'd cover them with flat card first Vik...then make your shingles, maybe 5x10mm. Ribs like that would normally be very close together. Take a look at this cutaway pic

Modern wooden houses have more (gable) rafters closer together for the ease of carrying up and nailing smaller, more managable sheathing boards. For a model though, you can get away with a solid piece of sheathing since it will be covered by shingles and won't be seen.

Here I used stir sticks just because they were pre-cut already at the right length


Here I used pinking shears to cut strips of shingles and staggered them (I printed the pattern on card and used it for sheathing and to roughly align the rows)



For a rougher (and more proper Bree look) here I cut what seemed like millions of individual shingles and staggered them up and down

i think i need to do that flat card step too... there is only so much RL housebuilding you can transfer to this scale...

and that size of the shingles is probably way smaller than i would have tried...therefore i think instantly qualifes as the right size......i will do this exactly that way!

thanks mate!

Check my edit of the above post Vik. you'll notice I overlap mine quite a bit, the exposed parts are the important part.

checked it... and i still rememeber that last pic... that is precisly that i am aiming for... that random look...tho i see ways how to get the other methods done too... i have recently got me these shears too... so the round ones are dooable too... but too neat looking when done for what i am envisioning...and that wild west building is eventually something i will try on a new building...

thanks for these!

Np Vik...You probably don't see a lot of Wooden, gable-roofed buildings in Berlin do you? I see them so much, I'm always happy to go to the older parts of towns and gawk at the brick buildings myself.

oh... brick work you see in berlin quite often... even though the war has ruined many houses to the ground there is a fair amount still standing from around a hundred years and even older buildings...a miracle really...
but wooden roofed ones... i can´t recall one at all... i think these you get more commonly in sweden than in germany... we have the burnt loam tiles you porbably see everywhere on the globe...sometimes really artful tho... my father in law told me these were called beavertails...because of the shape...

I read that some construction/excavation there in Germany just dug up an unexploded bomb from WW2 and it killed the construction driver. That was a sad story. If we could spend half of the money on life as we do on death, imagine what we could all have!

Occasionally, you see clay roof tiles, but most of the clay around here got cooked into brick. Asphalt was apparently cheaper, I dunno.