Inspiration for building town houses

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Very, very nice. Good job. 

[dodge]

Tesco's own brand ones

cool we shop at tesco's

fantastic model too, I think I've said that already 

[oldskoolrebel]

Yet another question Mr Colin...

What size are the windows?

And in answer to your email... I'm not sure about the mould making stuff I've got... a friend in work gave it to me. I'll pass it onto you tomorrow as I'm not likely to ever use it; on the condition you make me some lampposts 

Cheers
Andy

[gamer Mac]

The squares in the picture are 5 mm. It will give you an idea of the size



The remains of the two packets I had





The parts are now glued together. PVA glue doesn’t work great but I have found out that superglue works well! Normal plastic cement sticks to it as well.





Now on to the roof.
But first I am going to watch some tele, haven't seen any for 10 weeks

[Thunderchicken]

Colin, this is cracking stuff! A town house is on my list of things to build but was dreading it so hats off to you! Looking forward to seeing this one finished.

For inspiration you've got Google images but you can also take a wander around the local town and it wont be long until you see something that catches your eye.

As the other chaps have said books are a great source. Nip down to your local libaray and in the reference section they should have books like those 'Then and Now' publications or 'Such and Such Town as it was', you know the sort I mean.
I'm a bit lucky as I have access to the university library and there are shelves of books with images of Victorian Britain, I've literally spent days trawling through them!  There's even books for the architectural boffs with floor plans etc of Victorian housing. If you get desparate get yourself down to Chez Thunderchicken for a weekend and I'll take you there so you can have a trawl yourself..... via the pub of course. 

[OSHIROmodels]

Chez Thunderchicken

Why does that sound not quite right 

cheers

James

[Thunderchicken]

Why does that sound not quite right 

cheers

James

Because your mind works on a disturbed level 

[Skrapwelder]

Thunderchicken Arms has a certain dignity to it.

[OSHIROmodels]

Because your mind works on a disturbed level 

 

[Overlord]

The parts are now glued together. PVA glue doesn’t work great but I have found out that superglue works well! Normal plastic cement sticks to it as well.

For foam I use UHU Por or Foam2Foam.
(http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/gbu0-catshow/glue.html - Far right, rows 3 & 5)

[Red Orc]

Gamer Mac, how come your Tesco pizza base doesn't seem to have an annoying raised circle in the middle of it? We had pizza for our tea the other night, so I grabbed the packaging as I'd been reading this thread earlier in the day, but the polystyrene tray has a circle in the middle of it, about 50mm diameter. Have you cunningly disguised this, or am I eating the wrong pizza?

[gamer Mac]

Some of them have but it is not very pronounced and usually only on one side.
The cunning trick is to use the flat side

[Dewbakuk]

 
I think, but I could be wrong, that he's telling you to turn it over Orc. 
Genius 

[OSHIROmodels]

I think, but I could be wrong, that he's telling you to turn it over Orc. 
Genius 

    

Have you heard the prank phone call by the Asda customer who complains that his pizza has nothing on it, goes on for a bit then relises it's upside down, priceless 

Very nice build by the way, how well does the foam hold it's shape. I get the immpression that over time it would 'form' back to it's original shape?

cheers

James

[gamer Mac]

Made this one last summer
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=12124.msg139204#msg139204
and it is still fine.
Hasn't been used much just sat on a shelf.