WIP Afghan Compounds (Update: 3rd October Ruined Walls Cast WIP)

[6milPhil]

Great modular set up Phil. What about a 2 storey extension?

Yep good idea... on the list. Thanks!

[Lowtardog]

Very nice, the walls especially, they are rather tasty, Brookes minis used to do something like that.

I wonder if you could knock up sdome corrugated iron rooves whihc could sit on them, give you more variations too

[6milPhil]

I have been looking at different roofs, like a dome, which isn't accurate but gameable. Corrugated is a good one, maybe for the shed. Thanks. 

[6milPhil]

Doors and windows for the buildings, not great photos, so apologies for that.

[OSHIROmodels]

Great little project 

cheers

James

[Suber]

Loving every bit of this .

[Wirelizard]

Missed this so far as I've been away from home and barely had time for the internet, but this looks fantastic. Interwar NWF/3rd Anglo-Afghan War and related pulp-flavoured stuff is a project I might start up later this year, so this is relevant to my interests, as they say out on the internets. 

I mostly scratchbuild my own buildings, but could see getting a couple sets of the doors and windows for dressing my own stuff up, if those are going to be available separately.

[6milPhil]

Glad you're enjoying it, do occasionally think it might be a trifle boring for folk, and that's the greatest sin of all.  

Yes the doors & windows will be available as a set seperate from the buildings, they're in rubber as I type. The wall sections are in the catalogue now, plus I found the button to make the file a lot smaller. That'll be available in about half an hour.

e2a: I think I might have degraded the catalogue too much... what do you think? http://slugindustries.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/slugindustriesjune2013web.pdf
 Hmmm this is bigger but much better I think::: http://slugindustries.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/slugindustriesjune2013web1.pdf


I'm currently making 2 piece moulds for the modular buildings. Is it worth taking photos of it?

[Eric the Shed]

Phil

The stuff in your catalogue looks great...will come back soon

In terms of additions for your NWF buildings what about a slightly larger basic building? That way the smaller one could sit on top to create the two storey version.

Equally this would create a bit more variety in the various constructs.

Eric

[6milPhil]

Phil

The stuff in your catalogue looks great...will come back soon

In terms of additions for your NWF buildings what about a slightly larger basic building? That way the smaller one could sit on top to create the two storey version.

Equally this would create a bit more variety in the various constructs.

Eric

Allo Eric, hope Shed Jnr. is well. I'll be making a smaller building to go on the rooftops of the two largest ones. The biggest one is 130x90mm which might sound small but you could fit a dozen 25mm based figures in it. If I make a larger one it might start to get pricey and I'm trying to keep everything reasonable... unless some bloke with a shed comes along and wants to preorder half a dozen of them. 

[mcfonz]

I'd love to see the process of the moulds being made. Always intrigued to see the magic happening.

[Belgian]

I'd love to see the process of the moulds being made. Always intrigued to see the magic happening.

Me too particularly interested in seeing how double moulds are made 

[6milPhil]

For your viewing pleasure...   Being basically a box this is not the most exciting two-part mould you could ever make but it shows the basic principles.

Here's the model temporarily based on a sheet of plasticard, with a figure for scale.



internal wall added to make the resulting mould easier to remove casts from, and plasticine added to block the door and window and also all around the bottom edge to prevent leaks. The inside of the building will form one part of the two part mould, this is to make any resulting mould lines inside and below the roof line. Purely cosmetic really.



Balls are added to the inside plasticine, to help the finished mould sit neatly together.



It's then partially filled with rubber, degassed in the vacuum chamber and then topped up to the roof supports.



Once cured, a couple of cuts are made in the top, which like the balls above will help hold everything in place during casting. Then a box is added around the outside.



First a few coats of wax are srayed over the exposed rubber, to stop the rubbers fusing together, then a small amount of rubber is added over the model which is then degassed and topped up. This has been degassed a second time and the photo shows it before it's settled.



Next up... taking the master out and test casting.

[6milPhil]

Ghosts in the machine...

[Eric the Shed]

this is very cool...