ARNHEM: Major General R E URQUHART'S HIDE OUT HOUSE Zwarteweg 14

[monica]

:D glad you see the liter side off it all, you just need 40c days to get things baked fast like me ,same think make a mistake and its all over,

i do like that saying must remember that one

and also glad to see your on top of it all :D

 

[spanner570]

Richi, I've just re- read your excellent build thread....

Excellent stuff. Pity about the mortar joints, but as the saying goes 'He who has never made a mistake, never made anything'!

So, onwards and upward my friend.

Cheers,

Ron

 

[Richi72]

'He who has never made a mistake, never made anything'!

the person who said that had to bee a wise man!

made another wall, but it didn't turned out quite the way I wanted, so I did a third one and this one came out great, at least I think so

update and pictures are coming this weekend.

Cheers and thank you all for the nice comments.

Richi

 

[monica]

glad to hear , it Richi a lot more work than you needed

will look forward to see how it turned out, and look forward to the next update :rolleyes:

 

[Richi72]

Update 24.02.14

Hello all,

Well after almost 2 weeks of trouble with my internet connection i am glad that it is working properly again.

I got my new wall done, and put in some windows and the door windows for a test fit.

I tried something different this time because I didn’t want to destroy it all with the plaster again.

Here are pictures of the old wall and chimney. You can see that on some places the plaster has filled up the gabs between the stones, that looks really bad.

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And this is the new wall with new paint and I made the gutter think that’s what it is called.

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That’s the first batch of pictures on to the next, any comments or question feel free to tell or ask

Thanks for watching.

Cheers Richi

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[Richi72]

Next load of pictures showing the wall with a brown red colored stone, and the gutter after that I took a break from the building.

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Ok so far the build on the building.

Cheers Richi

 

[Richi72]

So i started with the Stug III, to get my mind on something else then cutting stones.

I used the Revell kit with Atak Zimmerit and Aber PE parts.

Here are some progress pictures.

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any comments or question feel free to tell or ask

Thanks for watching.

Cheers Richi

Ps a couple of pictures in the next one:rolleyes:

 

[Richi72]

So here are the next ones.

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Next up is cleaning up and finisching the Zimmerit and the Pe parts and then i think paint

any comments or questions feel free to tell or ask

Thanks for watching.

Cheers Richi

 

[Polux]

Wow Richard!!

Excellent work around! The new wall is superb, a really patience work :rolleyes:.

The Stug III is coming along terrific!! Amazing work so far on all the build, like PE parts and Zimmerit :eek:

It's a magnificent diorama.

Ps: where I can buy this can of sheet, to build walls, please?

 

[Richi72]

Hi Polux,

thanks for your kind words.

I think you live in Spain, so I looked at the homepage for Depron and they have a seller in Spain.

Here is the contact data for Spain I got from the German Depron site:

MATERIS PAINTS ESPAÑA, S.L.

Joe Vial

ALP PINTURAS

C/ Francia, 7. Pol. Ind. Pla de LLerona.

08520Les Franqueses del Vallès (Barcelona)

SPAIN

+34 93 8494010



There is an alternative to Depron and that’s foam board if you remove the paper of it you have a foam to, and a expensive alternative one is balsa foam.

and here is a link to a shop in USA that ships international LINK

Hope this helps a bit.

Cheers Richi

Ps. Or you can try Amazon, landed a bargain with them last year.

This is what Amazon.es said after searching for Depron LINK

 

[monica]

welcome back Richi, sorry to hear about internet problems , but we do get them, glad its all sorted ,

well i think the new wall and guttering is much better with a lot more detail to it, very well done

do like the start on the stug and all the PE bits , plus that ooops i forget what its called ,

glad to have you back

 

[monica]

hi polux there is a another thing, that sells in art shops called foam board, what has depon inside 2 bits off cardboard,if you soak it in water

or rub alcohol over and let soak in for a min orr so and peel off the card,

as i had a hard job finding over hear as well, and Richi and a couple others helped

great stuff to work with I must say

sorry for cutting in on your post,

 

[Richi72]

Thanks Moni,

think you mean the zimmerito_O

no problem

 

[Polux]

Thank you very much for your help Richard!!

Will take a look

Thanks again

Polux

 

[Richi72]

your welcome Polux.

Update 25.02.2014 small one

well I did some small stuff today some jerry cans from Academy and Tamiya for the stug and put on some bolts and I made a wire ring. on the jerry cans I put a 0,3mm copper wire thru the middle to represent the welding were the two parts joint together, I know there are PE parts for this but this works to.

here are the pictures,

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I like the looks of the copper wire because it looks (at least I think:rolleyes more realistic than those PE parts. why? well I think its simulates the dents that would appear on the welding after a couple of encounters with other jerry cans pretty good I think :oops:

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here I used 0,4mm dark wire and 0,3mm copper wire wrapped around a 16mm tube.

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so that's it for today folks.

Cheers Richi

 

[monica]

nice Richi, the wire aces a seam to them and looks good nice tip thank you, and as always i think some think hand made looks better if you copy it with some think real,

wow how small are these nuts, hmmmm that just sounds wrong :oops: :D

 

[Richi72]

Hi Moni,

thanks, and that's why I called them bolts:D:D.

Cheers Richi

 

[monica]

:D haha oh Richi you make me laugh its so funny :D :D

 

[spanner570]

Richi, this has really come on since I last looked...All looking very nice.

Ron

 

[Polux]

Hi Richard!!

Where are you and this excellent build?

Are all ok?!