Timbered House - Stable

[Sangennaru]

Ok, i admit i regret not having taken enough pictures of the process.

Basically, i'm trying to reproduce a timbered house effect with a method that tries to imitate the original method himself.
I know that there are several people here that made very nice timbered houses (Andym, Elladan, Tabletop World), and i just wanted to try this very my own way.

I did a quite big timbered house for an Italian company a few ago, but it's not possible to find any picture of it, so, i'll just directly post a picture of what i've done last evening:



I basically created the wooden skeleton, and then i poured the plaster in the holes. that's the nearest method to the original one i could figure out, since positioning each brick individually was - obviously - out of question.

After a few detailings, i realized that the base was too high, so i added the floor structures in the middle of the panel. I know, that's unrealistic, but it's just a test! ^^



And now something i'm very proud of: the nails, have a square base, and the head is not flat, not round!
I'm not sure that the pic explains what i mean...



I'm now trying to make something bigger. Maybe a whole first floor, and maybe i will find some company interested in having a complete piece!

Cheers
Jack

[muncehead]

 :oThat looks great - bookmarked!

[Constable Bertrand]

Sengennaru, You little ripper! That's one hot looking half timbered wall. How do you manage to see such small detail, yet alone create it! My fat fingers cannot work with things that small. I unfortunatly must be related to Jerremy Clarkson, as I am a ham fisted oaf.

How did you do the bricks? Are they inscribed into a balsa bottom of the cast?

Cheers
Matt

[Sangennaru]

Sengennaru, You little ripper! That's one hot looking half timbered wall. How do you manage to see such small detail, yet alone create it! My fat fingers cannot work with things that small. I unfortunatly must be related to Jerremy Clarkson, as I am a ham fisted oaf.

How did you do the bricks? Are they inscribed into a balsa bottom of the cast?

Cheers
Matt

Thanks guys! The bricks are inscribed in the plaster pour, while it's hardened yet not completely dried. I used a couple of tools for that purpose, i talk about them in the tutorials on my website!
soon i'll make an article about this technique, but since my "soon" can mean 6 months... well, keep on with this thread, for the moment

[Sangennaru]

This evening i worked quite a lot. I've just did the wood work, and i intend to finish that part before working with plaster and plastic.



Guess what it will be? Ok, the horses are a big hint.
Anyway, that's pretty exactely 9 x 12 cm, tipical Ainsty (and others) size, and will have a timbered roof as well.

cheers,
Jack

[gamer Mac]

Lovely work. The details are amazing
How long does it take to scribe the bricks?

[Elbows]

Lookin' good...I love the cowboys inside...

[Andym]

Excellent!! I love the texture your getting!!

[redzed]

those nails are excellent, look just like the real thing

[Sangennaru]

Thanks!
and actually, those are ECW cavalry, not cowboys! XD

Lovely work. The details are amazing
How long does it take to scribe the bricks?

Not that much, i made myself a few tools to speed up the work. Some i copied from Emmanuel Nouaillier, some are my own ideas. ^^


not much progress at the moment anyway. i had to do some real life commission in this days.

[cianty]

Wow. The level of detail is amazing. I'd definately love to paint up such a lovely structure.

[Cubs]

How did you do the bricks? Are they inscribed into a balsa bottom of the cast?

That was what I wanted to ask. Just gorgeous stuff.

[pacarat]

Really nice rock work. Time to make a couple of molds and get to casting... 

[Sangennaru]

Wow. The level of detail is amazing. I'd definately love to paint up such a lovely structure.

it would be an honor for me to appear in your great blog, cianty! ^_^

That was what I wanted to ask. Just gorgeous stuff.

Well, actually there's no cast. i just poured the plaster in the gaps, and started working with that. works pretty well! ^_^

Really nice rock work. Time to make a couple of molds and get to casting... 

First i'll make the complete project. If it is for my personal use, i'll make some monovalve molding: it is much cheaper and errorless, but there are no details on the inner side.
If i will find some company interested - as i hope - i will have the masters molded on both sides! or with deeper molds on a thin side!

[Sangennaru]

a small update here: i started working on one of the four walls, some brickwork. I am not sure that the bricks are enough sharp, they look roundish and that's not what i wanted.
what are your thoughts about the look of the bricks?