Stuart Birks
Active Member
With the church being a success I decided to build part of a village to go with it. The buildings are based on real buildings from the Cotswolds but not in this layout. The main features of Cotswold buildings are the colour of the stone which is dressed on the front but is often left rougher cut where it doesn't show and the roofs which are limestone tiles. These tiles were hard to make and so a significant feature is that they used large tiles on the lower part of the roof and gradually got smaller towards the top.
The windows are a mix of making moulds and casting frames in the same way as I did for the church but also I drew some frames and doors in CAD and had them photo etched in brass. For the varying tile sizes on the roofs I could think of no other way than to cut individual tiles and glue them on.
It doesn't show well in these photos but there are stone courses and half timbering scribed into the white plastic.
Sorry about the awful colour balance. The camera was not happy with just white and brown as colours and so made a mess of it.
Stuart
The windows are a mix of making moulds and casting frames in the same way as I did for the church but also I drew some frames and doors in CAD and had them photo etched in brass. For the varying tile sizes on the roofs I could think of no other way than to cut individual tiles and glue them on.
It doesn't show well in these photos but there are stone courses and half timbering scribed into the white plastic.
Sorry about the awful colour balance. The camera was not happy with just white and brown as colours and so made a mess of it.
Stuart