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Beverley Minster - Rupert Cordeux
Finally managed to finish this, hampered for a while by a fractured wrist. It was quite a step up in terms of the amount of detail parts from my previous attempt with Rupert's Romsey Abbey and there were times I thought I would never finish it.
I used a lot of matchsticks to straighten up the buttresses and flying buttresses. Anyway another one for the wall. [/URL] |
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Looks good.
Strengthening those pointy things at the tops of the towers with CA glue helps keep them straight and pointy. You have to check to see if the CA changes the color, though. Sometimes the CA will darken the part.
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Thanks SCEtoAUX. I had to tease them a bit to get them as they are. The superglue will help to hold them.
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Very nice work. It's probably too late now, but I wonder if toothpick points could be run up into the pointy bits to give them more strength
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I had filled most of the buttresses with matchsticks to get them square. Toothpicks/cocktail sticks may have helped too but that didn't occur to me. I had some problems with the basic structure blocks and I should have squared them better with thick cardboard bulkheads too.
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Revel Compacta Professional liquid cement for plastics is a good alternative to cyanoacrylate super glue. It is a mixture of polystyrene and solvent, and when used on paper and ordinary card, it will soak into the material and leave a colourless coating of polystyrene owithin the fibres. Unlike some ca glues, it does not form a rippled varnish effect on the surface.
The solvent has a strong smell however, but it doesn't last for long. |
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An obvious coment since printing inks and papers vary.
Test a small corner of the model first, just in case the cement disagrees with the printed surface. |
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comment - I missed an m
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The model is impressive, and beautiful to see.
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Splendid.
And I was gob smacked that there was a model of Beverley Minster - something I would love to make. My father was born and lived the early years of his life a few hundred yards from this Minister, and it is in my opinion one of the best Minsters around. It has a particularily impressive font!
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