CD-case-based ruins

An experiment gone awry

I tried this a few months back - before I was aware of UHU glue. I glued foamcard to CD cases with PVA glue, and carved it to form a mound. Then I pinned the walls in place with, er, pins, to secure them as the PVA set. Wanting the buildings to look like Tudor-style homes, I used slices of balsa to duplicate their appearance.

Bendy-bendy

As it turns out, the bases didn't care for the PVA and so curved up. I am quite happy with the majority  of the work, but not so much the bendiness. I found it a bit dispiriting, but am almost ready to give it another go with UHU.

Timber-framed village WIP

The "Mosque" still needs its minaret and a few other details, but the adobe village is pretty much finished. Needless to say, since I have not quite finished it, my mind has moved on to another project. I am half a dozen houses into a timber-framed village project. At the minute I just have the shells of the houses. I intend to get all the shells constructed first. Here's that first half-dozen. This time I intend that no two houses will look quite alike. So you will see houses of the same height, but they are of slightly different length or widths. I realised after beginning construction that I had quite forgotten to account for chimneys, so I shall be going through the shells with a pencil now, hopefully finding somewhere to put the smokestacks! A wee BEF Scots officer down at the front for scale.