Project: Victorian Baronial building

[The Dozing Dragon]

Looking incredible as usual. I will borrow that idea for the planking for my Frothers Cthluedo dining room floor. What is the official name for a 'chopper' so I can look for one!

[Hammers]

What is the official name for a 'chopper' so I can look for one!

Chopper.

[Silent Invader]

Looking good.  Some nice hints and tips as well.  I like the idea of black-lining the flooring planks  while your technique for locking the sides together while gluing borders on genius!

[Thunderchicken]

Oooooh! This is looking good Hammers, some nice tips there. 

I do like the look of your chopper, I could do with one of those.

[Admiral Benbow]

Hammers, which set of the Zvezda castle series has a set of the round turret pieces which you can hang on the caste walls? And where do you order your Zvezda stuff from?

[Wirelizard]

Looking incredible as usual. I will borrow that idea for the planking for my Frothers Cthluedo dining room floor. What is the official name for a 'chopper' so I can look for one!

The Northwest Shortline Chopper, to expand slightly on Hammers' post.

Looks like Hammers has treated himself to the skookum Chopper III. Very nice. (Even the III is surprisingly reasonable at $45 USD - which is about 5 Euro right now, isn't it?)

[odd duck]

Great looking project Hammers!!and some great tips I'm already rethinking my aproach to wood floors,and resisting the temptation to start a  Scottish project at least until I've finished some of my other projects first!

[Hammers]

Hammers, which set of the Zvezda castle series has a set of the round turret pieces which you can hang on the caste walls?

They are sold as separate sets. I am sure they are part of some of the larger sets to.

And where do you order your Zvezda stuff from?

Some is bought in stores, some ordered from Model Hobbies.co.uk.

[Hammers]

Today, while filling in gaps and holes with Miliput, I also made an effort to sculpt the stone work for the Colonel Stone Hall entrance. I tried to make them look reasonably in style with the building. Obviously some extra sanding and scraping is called for but I feel it may just do, even though it looks a bit flat.

[Mr.J]

This looks great! Very cool looking building and interesting walk through.

[Hammers]

I don't think I have told you which kit I've used for Col Stone Hall:

Here it is:

http://www.model-making.eu/zvezda-8517-living-quarters-for-castle-8517--p-1-279921.html

This site also have very good content images for several of the Zvezda kits.

[anevilgiraffe]

wow... just stumbled on this, looks great...

am suddenly intrigued by the zvezda stuff now the windows are completely optional...

[carlos marighela]

Today, while filling in gaps and holes with Miliput, I also made an effort to sculpt the stone work for the Colonel Stone Hall entrance. I tried to make them look reasonably in style with the building. Obviously some extra sanding and scraping is called for but I feel it may just do, even though it looks a bit flat.

With a view to constructive criticism  I think .I may have spotted a tiny error. It's usual for floorboards to run at a 90 degree angle to the walls rather than parrallel to them. Of course this may be different in Sweden.  

[Prof Steelblade]

Hammer: It looks great!!
Are you going to do a scenario about the devilish rabbis (rabbit) on the rabbisfield???


Yes Carlos Marighela you are right. In Sweden you should turn it 90 degree to the big windows otherwise you would see every crack in the floorboards. But at the same time you have carpenters who say's that you should follow the leanth of the building  . But the most important is that the boards on the roof is in the same direction as the floor..

[Silent Invader]

Ah, flooring and which way it should run!

I work on the principle that the floor boards run opposite to the joists, which I conceptualise from the roof downwards.

Thus, assuming a two storey square building of brick built construction:

(If) Roof slopes front to back
Roof joists run front to back
Mid-level joists run left to right
Ground-level joists run front to back.

So, in the above, the flooring would be:

Upstairs boards run front to back
Downstairs boards run left to right

Unless, I've got myself tied up in knots, this should enable the structure to cope with the weight of the roof bearing down on the walls, as the roof pushes the front and rear walls outwards but they are pulled back in (tied in) at the mid-point, thus discouraging bowing of the brickwork.

I will now take a bow for the chorus of "pedant!"  

PS:  Not to be used as the basis for building a real house!