Introducing The PistonBroke Line

[OBJack]

Back again.
Thanks for taking the time to endure the read and post the advice Matt, I am sort of doing it like that although being a slight 500 km drive to my nearest LHS, at times I have to make do with what I have on hand . I didn't bother asking Randy to replace the small broken piece.. which I am sure he would have but...I am living upside down downunder in Australia so... anyway you get my drift. :oops:

Thanks for your concern Charlie, I regularly go MIA ( or so The War Office tells me, but in her case it is just my selective hearing) But I usually turn up like a bad penny, and I gotta wait until it rains until I start work in earnest.
I couldn't follow the link, guess you have to be a yahoo group member, but will pursue all avenues of attack 'cause I have a few more to build.

I have done a bit more on the M Balmers place.

Man this white stuff gets everywhere.
I have just sanded down the edges to take off any lips and unevenness so all the seams fit snugly together...... and it looks like 100 pastry cooks have invaded the house and had a flour fight.. with me in the middle.

I am covered in the stuff from head to toe and I've only just started.

Too embarrassed to show the rest of the room folks. :oops:

Ok, so I glued the first couple of bits together ( as well as the broken piece ) with Araldite, 2 part epoxy.

Seems like they stayed stuck...... first hurdle hurdled.

I read somewhere you can strengthen the walls with card, so why not.


I then had a go at gouging a few of the mortar lines a bit deeper with a dental pick thingy to make them a bit more pronounced ....maybe.


After painting the walls a couple of times with a paint wash to seal them a bit, and seeing as how the first bits I stuck together were still intact, I decided to glue together a few more.

Looks like a few vines are going to be needed to cover some dodgy workmanship on the corners

And so held together with some of the building industry's most advanced technological and innovative pieces of equipment, I went to bed hoping it would still be together in the morn.

Yep

I painted the inside black, ....as well as the window recesses... and added a bit of bracing.

What the heck.. what do I know? Just doing what I see others others do.

I gotta tell ya, while I'm experiencing this type of build for the first time, its not only the medium that I get messy with, it's the glue. :o It hardens fairly quickly and not only sticks your fingers together, but anything you touch also ends up stuck to something, or some body part, ...been seen walking around with a piece of cardboard and a toothpick stuck to my for a few hours....and.... I end up with little piles of hardened glue everywhere.
Sorry, no pics available of that either.

Just as well it's a hobby and you can stop anytime you want to.
I love this game.

Anywho.... onto the next phase, I stuffed some tissue paper into the window recesses in readiness for the first outside paint job on the M.Balmers

Now I need to find me some painters..

P.S. I noticed those Kramers aren't showing their sign at the M Balmers at the moment, I be thinkin' they don't want to put their name to anything ....until it is proven whether or not they can build it.