The Twins, Part 3

This week there's been a bit going on, and only a short time available for modelling. The benefit of a modelling bench that you can leave a project in progress is a real advantage, and it's allowed some progress on the twins. Heres a progress shot of the four walls being glued together, and the advantage of having multiple squares can be clearly seen.

So why all the squares? Well theres one on each end that is up against the upright walls, and also up against the underside of the eaves. Then on the left there is a square on the inside of the upright wall to keep the walls at ninety degrees to each other. One last one that is against the floor that keeps the wall inline with the floor.
I would love to hear if you have a trick for squaring up walls to each other. I seem to take ages in this part of the build,whilst others would turn out a dozen buildings in one weekend.

The walls are all together, the centre wall is slightly off centre, that way the floor and the internal wall will slip inside and be aligned. The reason for this is so that I can detail and paint the interior more easily.

The roof is a bit of a process, however the above photo shows how I begin. The two sides of the gable are measured and cut as one piece with a shallow cut dividing the two. A snap of them in one direction, then align them on top of the roofline. Then I cut and place a piece of styrene rod in the cut, apply the glue to hold them all together, and in alignment. I've done this a few times and I do find it excellent for stabilising  the roofline at the correct angle ready for adding more detail.

The two gables are sitting and drying, as well as the two verandah floors for each end of the building. The floors will attach to the floor of the building and have all the verandah posts attached. That way when the floor is slipped inside the building the posts will fit inside the verandah roof.

 I do enjoy working with styrene, and recently I purchased a bottle of the tamiya thin cement, and it's been great to work with, and has a handy brush attached to the lid.

Lets all hope for some time to get some modelling done this week.

Have a great week,
Oorroo!
Geoff.