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Thanks for that. Shows just where I'm going wrong...

...That is the point where I do pretty much none of the above and then roughly measure and cut by eye.

you use a rock to sharpen your blade? all these years I've been using pidgeons to hone my blade no wonder PETA keeps me on the naughty list. Guess my blade won't be sticky anymore either

Well, in my defense it is only half a rock. But all those blades come with the do not resharpen warning, I do it anyway. I live dangerously. I also grind down old utility knife blades to make interesting exacto knife blades. I'm what they call a 'bad seed'.

Oh, and PETA.

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Can't glue everything together until the interior is all done. Thinking stainless steel sinks for this. Blue tiles for the walls. Toilet color? Hmmm... And the showers, mother of pearl tiles. Because I can.. dream, anyway

And the reserve project

Being able to stand the mini on the walls like that means it will playable. Ha! It'll mean the mini is actually in the space between the walls. Or so goes the theory. Now onto the rest.

Thanks for stopping by.

Very nice. The interior of the comfort station looks great, the walls are just plain awesome.

They only moan about about the blades because it means less $ in their pocket. Also yes PETA, they are not even active in the UK and I wish them some Darwin awards.

Good progress Red. Shaping up nicely.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Very nice. The interior of the comfort station looks great, the walls are just plain awesome.

They only moan about about the blades because it means less $ in their pocket. Also yes PETA, they are not even active in the UK and I wish them some Darwin awards.

Oh, I kind of like some of the "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" posters. That and the lettuce bikinis some of them wear hereabouts when protesting. Not that I'm a sexist pig or anything like that

Thanks for the compliments, Noodles and Doc.

So, the shower. Still contemplating the faucet handles, and the stall door. I like the idea of two faucet handles, but a lot of shower faucet handles are single lever these days. And glass doors, but that doesn't seem such a good idea for this piece, even frosted glass. So, More research. Anyway, the start...

Top view for scale.


And a couple of side views to show the shower head and the drain.



The tile is supposed to be mother of pearl. For the showerhead I just filed down the head of a pin-- the kind with the round head-- and bent the shaft to the right angle. Makes for a convincing enough shower head in this scale, methinks. Need to get a better photo of the drain too.

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the pinhead for the shower head is a brilliant idea! my own OCD tho now needs due to the shower you implemented here a se through door....after all..how to avoid all that splashing water ... or at least lets have a slippery when wet sign later on

Why no have no door or a shower curtain, make it more llike a wet-room

Looks absolutely ace.

I'd go glass doors or glass block except for a walk in space. A curtain would look out of place with such nice tile work.

Wow that shower head is awesome the rest is pretty darn spiffy too!

Pretty great stuff, loving the mother of pearl.

Really cool idea for that shower head, how did you make the drain?

I may have to steal some of these surfacing ideas when it comes time to put floors in multi-story deadzone buildings, they're really classing up the place!

I'd go for frosted glass doors.

All looking good here....apart from the armed voyeur clambering around above the toilets......

Thanks all. I'm thinking frosted white glass too. I'll try that first. 'Cuz I have the material on hand to do it.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Really cool idea for that shower head, how did you make the drain?

Used a hole punch, painted the disk with metallics, then stabbed a pattern into the top with a pin that I jammed into a bamboo skewer...
How about some pix?

My hi-tech ejection system to dislodge the plugs

All the bits, and my homebrew probe/hole punch/whatever

After painting them silver and stabbing them multiple times

And done


For the shower head

and putting it together. I'll cut the pin shorter later, when I'm ready to glue it into place.


Still need to figure out the faucet parts. Then onto sinks. I'm saving the thrones for last.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Pretty great stuff, loving the mother of pearl.

It was your suggestion, good sir. It does look better in RL too. The stuff doesn't photograph easily.

wow, Cool bathroom/shower.

now that ís again a very nice tut mister red!....I too love my holepunch...now with extra use 3214...

For the handle couldn't you do similar to the shower head? Make a flat back like the drain, flatten the tip of the pin again, but this time attach that to the drain piece, bend the pin right at the head, cut it short and you have a single handle control.

Need some Starship Troopers style communal showers

Excellent looking stuff so far with some great ideas on materials.

Nice work on the shower.

It is possible to make the taps from sprue

Yes Doc, I saw that already Ingenious. I think If you had enough sprue you could move the world.

 Theophony wrote:
For the handle couldn't you do similar to the shower head? Make a flat back like the drain, flatten the tip of the pin again, but this time attach that to the drain piece, bend the pin right at the head, cut it short and you have a single handle control.

I was thinking something like that, but with 2 handles, one above the other (the on/off handles and the water mix handle) as seen in some modern showers.

Of course I missed a beat there. Should have made the drain and backplate hex shaped Hmm, I suppose it is possible to overdue the hexes...

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Need some Starship Troopers style communal showers

Excellent looking stuff so far with some great ideas on materials.

Find me some Dina Meyer miniatures to put in said communal shower and sure, why not? No Casper Van Dien's though. Not going to have a sausage party in the shower.

I wondered about the hexagon fixation with infinity. How about a hexagon bar of soap on a rope

I'm not sure why the hexagons are "Infinity" but I like them much more than skulls. I find the skull motif repulsive. Too much like the totenkopf.

 Theophony wrote:
For the handle couldn't you do similar to the shower head? Make a flat back like the drain, flatten the tip of the pin again, but this time attach that to the drain piece, bend the pin right at the head, cut it short and you have a single handle control.

Why, of course...


Works out very well. Thanks for the idea The top knob is on/off and of course water flow, the bottom is the mixer for hot/cold. I will need to do some painting on them to indicate that of course. But I'm convinced that these are believable. Pins. Go figure.

And the frosted glass door, WIP



If you dismantle a disposable razor, you can get some interesting bits.


I used the black pieces in the manufacture of the shower handles, along with pins. Also, Another use for the pins...


Faucets for sinks!


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Wow. You are entirely too good at this

 Red Harvest wrote:
Well, I learned Castellano from Colombians and actual Castilians, so my Spanish isn't quite Central American-- which is what we normally hear in the US, obviously. Leads to some amusing situations.

Hahaha, yeah. I learned my Spanish from East coast schools in the 1990s. It turned out to be Castellano, from Spain. Spanish Spanish.Not worth much in the Western US. All of the idioms are off , most people look at me with a kind of confused, WTH is this guy trying to say expression, so I stopped trying to speak Spanish to folks. Like someone learning English as a second language from someone in England and then trying to talk to Americans. The idioms are all wrong.

I've actually had a hard time trying to understand people in certain parts of England, and we are supposedly speaking the same language!

Anyway, love your work. I am relatively sure I could not ever be that accurate working with card. Beautiful terrain.

Ow i do love this kind of stuff. Please more.

That's some great work with the pins on the shower and sink

Great work. Love the details.

Uses number 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106 for pins . Don't forget to use the long parts to be the granny bars in the shower or next to the toilet. You could also make towel bars out of them too. And use 4 of them with the heads being the feet going up to a piece of plastic for those elderly shower chairs.