Fachwerk Haus

[John Everett]

This is a building currently under construction for a diorama to be completed sometime near the end of this year. There are about a dozen figures and a few vehicles also enroute as well.




Polymer baking clay will not stick to MDF. I use a layer of hot glue to provide a tacky surface.

Roll the clay out into flat sheets and apply it to the walls. Real stones are good for providing texture.



Various tools can be used for doing stonework. Rectangular stones can be done with square and rectangular plastic tube stock.






Interior stone is done with sheet cork available at craft stores


Floors made from coffee stirs and stained with artist oil and mineral spirits.

More cork used as trim accents.







Drywall Spackle used to fill empty spaces.





Standard non-sanded tile grout from the home center.







Interior items are scratchbuilt.









This is where things are as of now. I'll get the rest completed over the next month or two.

[Deleted]

Very impressive work 

[armorguy]

Now that's modelling a house ! And that seat...nothing but stunning.

[wbill76]

You had me at the couch. Very impressive work so far, definitely will be following along with this one!

[Leon]

Have to agree with the guys John.Very impressive work indeed.

[bbd468]

WOW!!! That is amazing works John! Love what you have goin there....well done so far.

[deafpanzer]

HOLY SMOKES! Great thread I like it very much... please count me in too!

[John Everett]

Thanks for the input, gentlemen!

Soooooo we spent the afternoon baking, baking roof tiles, just a few. (polymer baking clay from Sculpty)

That's just about 1,000 tiles, roughly half of what we need.
I'm playing around with mixing colors. The pasta roller makes this super easy.


I also primed the four chairs. They still need a small amount of putty work and then paint.


These....are laminate (Formica) samples! They are given away free at home centers to those considering a laminate counter top in the bath or kitchen. For a long time I've tried decide how they might be used in model building. Today I acted on that idea.


Lots of textures.


I'll use the same color for the other two nooks.


It cuts cleanly in a sharp saw.


Trim. Wear safety glasses!!! (Sharp bits fly everywhere!!!)


Sand it!


On to the interior design! The armored suit will need more sculpting and fine clean-up. (Chainmail is hard!) Good thing metallic paint hides errors.


Pretty sure this will be the final layout.




Beginnings of damaged beams. The damaged parts may take as much time as the intact portions.


This end of the building will be bomb damaged. The viewer will be able to see into the structure from roughly this angle.




This wall has developed into a sort of monolith. It will probably be treated with a tree, vines or other vertical element......Rose bush might be nice......large red flowers would be kind of cool....I could do them from very thin red clay.....hmmmmmm.




That's all for now, folks. Back to work in the full scale world.

[Leon]

John,the amount of detail your putting into this is amazing.Top notch work my friend.

[bullardino]

Stunning job...

[tigrazor]

Oh... my... God!!! Thats really stunning. And I can confirm that the building itself seems to be correct - I call Saxony my home and theres loads of them. Scratching an armor and furniture, yes?! Cant get enough of that stuff... Those Academy furniture sets are really hard to get (and theyre made from vinyl).

Only one small critic - if it IS even one:

Fachwerkhaus is spelled like "Fachwerkhaus" - together

[TRM]

"I don't know why the little girl wanted to stick her finger through the window John"!! LOL!! What a brilliantly executed build!!! Loving all these detail!! Well on you way to completion!!

[fightnjoe]

this is outstanding.



joe

[wbill76]

Nice progress, got to love the shot of the figure holding one of the baked tiles, it's almost like he's caressing it gently...subliminal perhaps?

[venom1]

Bloody brilliant!! You sir, are a bit good at this!!!

Cheers,

Sam

[pantherf..-Email Not Valid]

Very impressive work. 





Jeff

[406 Silverado]

Fantastic work John. Looks to be another stunner. Loved the one you had at the show with the jeep driving down the stairs...very cool.

[tobias5555]

Like a real house, impressive, most impressive.

[John Everett]

Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen! It's nice to have feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying it.

We had some vacation time and I needed to finish a few things around the house. But I'm back in the mancave and have begun work on the roof system.
I've decided to use stiff poster board as a ridged base for the planks and tiles. The wooden truss beams are mostly in very good alignment, but a stiff sheet will ensure they pull together as a single unit with the roof system.


Both sides of the poster board are covered with a sheet of graph paper to help maintain alignment of the planks and tiles.


Coffee stirs are glued to the sheet and stained with a simple wash of tube oils and white spirit.




Underside of roof with appear thus:


Thanks for watching! I'm still working on the figures and vehicles which will go in this diorama. They're pretty well along and I'm hoping to have the scene completed sometime between New Years and Easter.

[Deano]

Nice construction work Johnny , putting the roof on will create some good shadows inside .

Deano

[bullardino]

Outstanding job

Those coffee stirrers will soon become a most wanted for modelers

[`Boots`]

Fantastic John.........so much too look at!!, absolutely brilliant attention to detail, first class bud

[pt109]

All I can say is "Wow!"

....and I just do regular modelling...!!!

hahah

Cheers, Paul

[armorguy]

Impressive !

[John Everett]

Thanks for following, gentlemen.

We have roofness!--no tiles yet.


I'm going with scale thickness plywood for the layer above the interior planking. This is meant to be a newer building, constructed for high ranking government types and there's enough reference for plywood as an available building material in 1940, think PT boats, landing craft and the Mosquito bomber. Plywood would have been better at preventing leakage than just a layer of shingles or tile on top of board and batten.

And it looks great when you tear and splinter it!


The roof isn't glued down yet. That will happen after the interior details are completely completed to completeness. Only then will I begin with the tiles.


Even with the white walls and large windows it does get a little dark once the roof is on.


I've got a lot of vehicle and figure work yet to do. But I'll keep plugging away gradually on this. Stay tuned!

[wbill76]

Roof's looking very nice John, nothing like using real wood to get the right splinter/damage effects on this one.

[John Everett]

Just one of the many, many objects which will be placed inside the lodge, a suit of armor.

Fake fingernails are cheap, tough, will work with both CA and liquid glue and have nice compound curves. I've used them in the past with scratchbuilt sci-fi models.

Fake fingernail and a hole punch.


Old torso as an armature.


Sculpting with epoxy putty.


Styrene.


First paint.


Weathered with shield made from yet another fake fingernail.




Bad picture, but this is where he lives.


Thanks again for following
John

[deafpanzer]

This is GREAT! I have been lurking... no more!!! Great work on the suit armor... never thought about using those nail clips!

[bullardino]

The fake nails are a great idea. If I wasn't sure my daughter would steal them, I'd get some

[Deano]

Nice idea with the Armour Johnny , looks great and fits perfect in the cove.

Deano