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Thank you Steve . . . I had considered removing the window sill or making it smaller, in order to place the sink unit under the window as you kindly suggested. There will be no dishwasher or tumble drier, as I think there are enough appliances in what is not a particularly large kitchen, but I take your point. M'Lady is welcome to wander out through the French doors and into the garden, once she has finished washing the dishes . . . David

Two days ago the process of mounting the wall panels onto the baseboard floor plan began . . . Each individual wall panel is being carefully positioned, with PVA glue being applied to the lower edge, and also to the edge of the panel that is immediately joined to it. Using two 1-2-3 blocks, one weight bottle and also a few quilting pins to hold the joined panels firm, this is left overnight to set for a good 24 hours . . . By following this slow and precise procedure, I feel this gives the joints the best possible opportunity to achieve a strong bond with the baseboard, and also between each pair of wall panels . . . There were four different ways of approaching this process; one being to unpin all of the wall panels and remove them, leaving an empty blank baseboard, while the alternative was to leave all of the wall panels pinned in place, as they are now . . . Then there was the removal and refitting of each wall panel, starting from the outside and working inwards, or there was the option to start from the centre of the bungalow and work outwards . . . I decided to go with the method of leaving all of the wall panels pinned in place, so that I could be absolutely certain that they were all lined up squarely. I also decided to start from the centre and work outwards, which seems to involve less risk of misaligning the overall structure. So far, I have done this for three walls, and the one filler piece. The strength and the rigid squareness is evident with these first few walls, so I shall continue ! David

You know what Steve ? You are absolutely right on this one . . . I am seeing the layout of the bungalow kitchen purely from a man's perspective, which would be fine if this room was a workshop or an office, but the kitchen is usually a woman's natural space. Maybe I need to consult my wife or my daughter for good solid advice ! Thanks for your lateral thinking . . . David

Further work on the floor surface at the back of the garage was carried out, with some grey emulsion paint. The frame for the hinged opening garage doors has been strengthened and squared up, using some pieces of balsa . . . Every so often, I like to test fit the roof structure by placing it on top of the ground floor walls. The kitchen appliances and furniture have been arranged roughly where they might be located, so as to visualise how the kitchen space is used . . . Both fireplaces now have a coat of paint on the 5 mm square hearth tiles, and a coat of yacht varnish over the paint. Between the walls of bedroom two and bedroom three it has been necessary to add a filler piece of foam board, in order to close off a gap. Later, the small gaps between the pieces of foam board will be filled with Mr White Putty 'R' and overpainted after sanding flush . . . I have now arrived at the point where the walls can be mounted onto the baseboard floor plan, and fixed with PVA glue . This process needs to be carried out with due care and attention . . . Scary stuff for me ! David

Man poses for photo with his wife by their overturned automobile, lights up a cigarette, pool of gasoline leaking from the tank . . . instant free cremation . . .

I like to work in 1:43 scale for my dioramas too George, and your work here is extremely impressive . . . Your figure painting and weathering is top notch. David

Thanks Paul, and I know what you mean about the realism aspect . . . I would say that the foam board is very good for the wall panels, the baseboards, the roof trusses and generally the larger components of the construction, so I have introduced lots of smaller detailing parts to balance the whole assembly. Things like the furniture, the kitchen appliances, beds, doors and windows, figures for example are important to compliment the expanse of foam board . . . The funny thing is, that originally this bungalow started out as a completely white structure, just like in the Adam Savage video that inspired me in the beginning . . . David

Do you have a favourite from this line up of six model tractors Charles? All of the six models have benefited enormously from your skilled weathering techniques, and for me the best is this one . . . David

Excellent " common sense " guidelines from Michael, and I must admit to being guilty of using my camera's high resolution 3664 pixels x 2748 pixels, without reducing the photos in size . . . My apologies for that 😞 . . . Also, thank you, as my ' Choose Files ' option is working as it used to before. David

Recent work over the past few days has included painting the seat bases of the dining chairs in Vallejo Deep Sky Blue acrylic, and also the frames of these chairs have been given a coat of Vallejo Burnt Umber acrylic . . . Further work was done on the eight brick headers that will be placed below each of the exterior window frames. I have used Johnstone's Tile Red for these brick headers. While the paint was drying overnight on the chairs and brick headers, I worked on an idea for the hearth tiles on the kitchen fireplace. This involved sanding the edges of the hearth stone, and also scoring lines for the tiles. Now I shall need a suitable dark blue paint for the hearth tiles, and when the living room fireplace is done in the same way, this will have dark green hearth tiles . . . Four of the eight brick headers have been glued in place, using super glue, having tried PVA glue which did not work. The kitchen cupboards corner unit has been given one coat of Revell 49 Matt Pale Blue, along with the two doors. Both the corner unit top work surface, and also the mantlepiece for the fireplace will be painted with Burnt Umber acrylic shortly . . . David

Thanks Michael, Dave and the whole team for all your efforts regarding this minor glitch ( major glitch ) . . . I can see that you have many members raising concerns, so I won't add to your burden guys ! . . . Myself, I have worked in the IT industry for over 40 years, both in mainframe computers and the very first Microsoft Windows on the first PC's, and as a retired Technical Support Engineer this sort of situation is all too familiar for me . . . Good luck with the fix !!! For your information, my typical photo file size is between 1.80 MB and 2.20 MB, so if I upload 10 photos, which is typical, that is 18 MB to 22 MB in total. David Xie-Watson M.C.I.T.P ( Microsoft Certified I T Professional ) England

Still no ' Choose Files ' available . . . ( Just testing really ) David

To my surprise, there was no ' Choose Files ' option to upload photos, so I cannot add any photos to my W.I.P. topic . . . I tried a few alternative methods, but nothing works . . . Oh dear ( sad ) David

Recent work over the past few days has included painting the seat bases of the dining chairs in Vallejo Deep Sky Blue acrylic, and also the frames of these chairs have been given a coat of Vallejo Burnt Umber acrylic . . . Further work was done on the eight brick headers that will be placed below each of the exterior window frames. I have used Johnstone's Tile Red for these brick headers. While the paint was drying overnight on the chairs and brick headers, I worked on an idea for the hearth tiles on the kitchen fireplace. This involved sanding the edges of the hearth stone, and also scoring lines for the tiles. Now I shall need a suitable dark blue paint for the hearth tiles, and when the living room fireplace is done in the same way, this will have dark green hearth tiles . . . Four of the eight brick headers have been glued in place, using super glue, having tried PVA glue which did not work. The kitchen cupboards corner unit has been given one coat of Revell 49 Matt Pale Blue, along with the two doors. Both the corner unit top work surface, and also the mantlepiece for the fireplace will be painted with Burnt Umber acrylic shortly . . . David The ' Choose Files ' option is missing from my topic screen, so I cannot upload photos at the moment . . . Here is a link to my Google Drive (10 photos). https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/189M_9A5e4wAItApCsJtXlVbufSeBIYA9

That is a nice dirty realistic shop scene John . . . Just right for your Chevelle too. David

Both of the tables, so one for the kitchen and one for the living room. have been been given one coat of Vallejo Burnt Umber acrylic paint, Once the acrylic had dried overnight, the table tops have been given one coat of yacht varnish, to produce a high gloss shine . . . The wall panel, the chimney breast and the fireplace for the kitchen have been coated with pale blue emulsion paint, while the living room has these areas coated with pale green emulsion paint. Several wall panels are now pinned in place to examine the alignment and to double check precise measurements. Some 3D printed furniture items arrived in the post today, including four dining chairs for the kitchen, and also a corner cupboards unit for the kitchen. These pieces have been washed in hot soapy water, rinsed and dried, with one coat of Humbrol Light Grey Acrylic applied from rattle can. Following overnight drying, the chairs and corner unit will be ready for detail painting . . . The corner unit comprises four pieces, which are the base unit, the work surface, and two cupboard doors. Here are some up to date photos of the current progress . . . David

Thanks a lot Carl . . . I am pleased to hear that you like this work in progress. I hope that you can continue to follow my posts. David

As you pointed out, Steve Grantham, the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I is indeed a very tight fit for this garage . . . Lengthways is not a problem, but to reverse the Rolls-Royce between the narrow door frames is challenging for the driver, to say the least ! David

Thank you very much Steve, and what a coincidence that you have used York Model Making / York Model Rail.com , , , Their products are of excellent quality, and I shall be ordering some ridge tiles in O-gauge (1:43) from them soon. This bungalow build is turning out to be most satisfying, and as you have found with the structures that you have built, making use of different materials provides a flexible approach to the overall structure of the building . . . David

Thanks a lot Paul . . . Hope your model building projects are going well . . . David

The baseboard floor plan was significantly warped, which was exactly what I had expected to happen, as I had applied PVA glue on one side only . . . The floor coverings of both carpet and printed card were glued onto some of the floor areas, and the bathroom has a tiled floor. Due to the fact that the underside of this baseboard has not had any paint or glue applied whatsoever, the foamboard naturally warped . . . This was rectified to some extent, by applying one coat of Magnolia emulsion paint over the entire surface of the baseboard, on the underside. There remains some slight evidence of warping in the opposite direction, but this should not be a problem because once all of the wall panels have been PVA glued to the baseboard, all warping should be fully corrected ( famous last words ) . . . In order to create the effect of a polished wooden floor surface for both the kitchen floor area, and also the living room floor area, I first tried applying yacht varnish, which is my ' go to ' reliable and trusty shiny surface friend. However, following 24 hours drying overnight, the printed image of a polished wooden floor on thin white card was clearly showing a MATT finish . . . Then I had the idea to place a sheet of clear film over the card image, and ' Voila ! ' we have the desired effect . . . two nicely polished wooden floor coverings in the kitchen and the entrance hallway. Recent work in progress has been all about the fireplace assemblies and the chimney breast panels. For both the kitchen and living room in this bungalow model, there is going to be a fireplace with a hearth and mantlepiece, which is mounted onto a chimney breast that rises from the floor to the ceiling. The fireplace assemblies are made from foamboard, wooden popsicle stick and Foamex board, with some black permanent marker applied to the stove area. Shortly, the chimney breast panels will have a coat of emulsion paint applied, this being pale blue on the kitchen side and pale green on the living room side. The paint colour for each room will extend to the fireplace surround . . . Thanks for viewing this topic guys, and I hope you like the work in progress . . . All comments are most welcome ! David

On my turntable I have a circular mirror from IKEA, which shows off the underside of a model car that stands on the mirror. Here is a link to my YouTube video that features the 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gOcKwcgl8Q The video is best viewed full screen and there is some nice background music . . . David

Nicely done Michelle . . . Liking the car and the figurine. I have one of those electric powered turntables, which is great for displaying finished models. David

Thanks Paul . . . To some extent I can relax a little now that I have managed to get this far with the roof structure. Today I am preparing the floor areas of this bungalow, which involves carefully measuring the inner boundaries of each room as an outline that I can work to . . . All of the wall panels will be unpinned from the floor plan baseboard, and laid out on a large sheet of foam board . . . There are 16 wall panels, 8 floor areas, 10 roof trusses, 8 roof panels, one baseboard, one ceilings board, one roof structure board, 6 interior doors, one front door, one rear garage door, two front garage doors, two pairs of French doors, eight windows and one chimney stack . . . David

Having decided to turn my attention to the roof structure, I set about calculating the position and lengths of the roof trusses. This was no easy task, and it was something that had been giving me cause for concern and many sleepless nights for most of February . . . The precise location of the central ridge of the roof was absolutely critical, because all of the other nine trusses would be leading off this central truss. I was unsure of the overall height of this bungalow roof from the ground level, and although my complex calculations were telling me that 118 mm was the magic figure, I needed to obtain a more accurate estimation, such was the importance of that central ridge. This is the highest point of the building, so I emailed the company that had supplied me with both the floor plan and also the roof plan, explaining my predicament. They kindly sent me a figure of 6020 mm as the overall maximum height of the bungalow, at the point of the central ridge . . . I was able to divide this figure by 43 and arrive at the true magic figure of 140 mm, as opposed to 118 mm . . . Everything started to fall into place from this point onwards . . . I then carefully measured and cut out hand drawn pieces of foam board to form the ten roof trusses. The whole structure looked to be correct, and once these truss pieces were pinned in place onto the roof structure baseboard, I was able to work on the sheet balsa panel that forms the main area of the roof on the left hand side of the bungalow, looking from the front of the building . . . This is the largest of the eight roof panels, as it extends from both gable ends and all the way up to the central ridge at the highest point. Using strips of grey roof tiles that were supplied by a company in York, which have peel off self adhesive backing, I covered the sheet balsa panel nicely. This used up two sheets of roof tiles in one pack, and I have three more packs of of two sheets each to complete the entire roof area . . . The bungalow roof is a complex structure, and I was fully expecting this part of the build to be challenging at every level. I came up with a name for this property, which is ' The Rose Bungalow ' . . . The color of the exterior walls was one reason for the name, and also my Chinese wife's English name is ' Rose ' . . . Here are a few photos of the roof structure work in progress. David