Very nice!

I especially like how the bricks want re-pointing.  The eyebrow dormer is way cool!

Absolutely outstanding work

You described some of your building processes in your engine shed posts. I would like to see more of your process presented step by step (picture by picture) or if you have the time and inclination in videos.

Great work as always! So

Great work as always! So many different textures to enjoy.

Beautiful work!

Beautiful work!

Nice!

Those gardens, the cramp area behind the cottage (what we in America call a back yard) look very British, or at least from what I've seen on PBS/BBS America.  Nicely aged/weathered too.  Well done!

Nice Work!

Nicely done!

I like the curved brick work over the windows and the bits of moss on the roof and in the sidewalk cracks. Speaking of windows, how do you make the windows, the window frames are very cleanly cut. I have trouble with paper getting a bit fuzzy when I try these types of cuts.

Brent

Calgary

Cutting those windows...

Thank you for all the appreciative comments.

Hullo Brent,

Those windows are simplicity itself, remember I try to buy nothing, and the idea of spending whisky tokens on ready made plastic window frames is anathema to me!

Some years ago I had to return a book to a well-known on-line supplier.

The return label was made of white self adhesive paper with enough paper around the edges to cut out a small window frame.  I stuck it to some clear plastic and cutting through the paper, leaving the plastic unharmed, laboriously cutting out all the individual window panes before picking them off to leave the glazing bars.

Then came the Eureka moment....It worked just as well by cutting right across the whole face of the window in line with the edges of the glazing bars. The 'glass' area was flicked up with knife tip and picked off with tweezers, the glazing bars and the intersections remained stuck to the glazing material.

Now I use A4 self-adhesive label sheets printed from my computer as below. I have posted this in sites in the U.K. and it is now recommended on the Scalescenes series of models.

I have since experimented with gluing thin printed card to the A4 self-adhesive papers before cutting in order to get a thicker glazing bar, but extra care needs to be taken as it is difficult to feel exactly how much pressure is applied to save cutting through the glazing material as well!

I hope this will help, best wishes,

Doug

Great work!

Very good looking and a very special model! I love such outstanding objects for individuality!

Mullions

Doug,

Nice tip on the glazing bars.  I shall have to try it.  I especially like the idea of using heavier cardstock so they present scale depth.  By the way, 3M and Krylon both make re-positionable adhesive in a spray can, which you could use rather than gluing cardstock to the label.

A thought if cardstock doesn't turn out: If you print in colour, you could add shadows to the bars.  You could effect a trompe l'oeil to make them look deeper. Indeed, you could use that to improve on the square mullions that most modelers are satisfied with, and make them look like the triangular ones on real windows.  I suppose you could also use another colour for the lines so it's not obvious is your knife misses them by a fraction of a mm.

Have you found a minimum viable width for the mullion?  I would expect that if they were smaller than about .5 mm there would not be enough glue and when you go to cut through the label, the mullions would move.

Cheers,

Rene'

I am going to try this!

I am going to give this a try, and as suggested do the printing in colour with the fake shadows.

Thanks,

Brent

Calgary

Trompe L'Oeil

Madder Valley and John Ahern's book

http://www.pendonmuseum.com/about/madder Heres a link to his layout built in the 30's. He also wrote several books, Miniature Locomotive construction, Miniature Landscape Modeling and Miniature Building Construction,an architectural guide for modelers. All long out of print but still to be found on the secondhand market here in the UK. Try here if you want to find one 

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=john+h+ahern&bsi=30&ds=30&prevpage=1

The building construction book is full of similar drawings to the one shown by the modeler shown here. A good way to search for inspiration is search UK old postcards.Most images will be copy write to the postcard dealer but make a note of the village town then search for old picture of ?. Oh and for a bit romanticized England search YouTube for a film called "The Titfield Thunderbolt" available on Amazon, one towns attempt to save it's railway from closure.

Mullions/Glazing bars

"Have you found a minimum viable width for the mullion?  I would expect that if they were smaller than about .5 mm there would not be enough glue and when you go to cut through the label, the mullions would move."

Rene, I haven't found a minimum thickness yet, my thinnest has been 0.33mm [13/1000"] for an greenhouse and the little strips and intersections stayed put, no problem. You just have to be careful that you don't disturb them when picking upa corner of the 'pane' area to peel it off. When finished I gently burnish the strips more firmly against the glazing with the handle of my knife.

"I suppose you could also use another colour for the lines so it's not obvious is your knife misses them by a fraction of a mm."

In practice, if I'm doing white window frames I print in a pale grey so that little misses or inaccuracies are not drawn to your eyes. A downside of this A4 adhesive paper lable stock is that it is not designed to accept very fine detail like high quality paper or photo paper, and on fine glazing bars the shadow detail just merges into the paper. I've tried something of the technique in the models below, one with white window frames and one with green window frames. These represent English 'sash' windows where the upper and lower  halves of the window slide over each other to open, leaving an opening at top, bottom or both as desired.

Doug

Very nice...

I almost expect to see a 1:87th James Herriot walking out the back door on his way to the car shed... The "All Creatures Great and Small" books captured my imagination as a teenager, and this is very much what I would expect his veterinary practice to look like. 

Thank you all..

Sorry, I am forgetting my manners, Jeff reminds me I had meant to begin my reply by saying 'Thank you' for all your kind remarks of appreciation,

Doug

PS Jeff, this is where the TV program was made...

http://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/walks/walks/walk_photo/282201/