treadhead1952
08-02-2010, 07:26 PM
Hi All,
I have been tinkering about with Fiddlers Green buildings for a while and while enjoying adding to my stash of built up models for a future rail road layout, sometimes I come across an odd one. In this case, a model of the Robert Burns' Cottage caught my eye. The original is in Scotland in a small park around the places that the Poet wrote about in some of his best loved poems. It has been restored to what it looked like in his early days and features local folks dressed in period costumes showing it and related structures and a small museum to the public.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC001.jpg
While the model loosely resembles the structure, it isn't an exact copy by any stretch of the imagination. But it is still an enjoyable little model to build and can be accomplished in a couple of hours by even the most inexperienced. I like to take an extra copy or two and section the buildings I make by opening up windows, doors and other features then adding a piece behind and/or in front of these openings to give them a more 3D appearance. Since the model doesn't really resemble the original that closely, I just chose to make it as a small country cottage with a little landscaping added. The curved shape of the building was used to make it conform to the bit of land along a curve in the road where it is in reality. I added a pair of concrete pads to the front of the two front doors since the model had a step up to reach the level of the doors printed on the piece.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC003.jpg
Since there were a few things printed on the sides, front and back of the buildings walls such as bushes, a box, sacks, an old fashioned wooden pitchfork and a broom, I used landscaping materials, tissue and parts of the spare pieces that I printed out as well as some styrene rod and strip to make these parts and add them to the places where they were printed. It adds to the 3D look and covers up the printed bits on the walls.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC005.jpg
Since the back door to the place was at the ground level and had no step printed at its' bottom, I chose to model a gravel path with shrubs edging it. I also added a small tree to sort of break up the back yard a bit. Shrubs were used to divide the property into a front and rear yard for visual interest.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC004.jpg
I have been tinkering about with Fiddlers Green buildings for a while and while enjoying adding to my stash of built up models for a future rail road layout, sometimes I come across an odd one. In this case, a model of the Robert Burns' Cottage caught my eye. The original is in Scotland in a small park around the places that the Poet wrote about in some of his best loved poems. It has been restored to what it looked like in his early days and features local folks dressed in period costumes showing it and related structures and a small museum to the public.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC001.jpg
While the model loosely resembles the structure, it isn't an exact copy by any stretch of the imagination. But it is still an enjoyable little model to build and can be accomplished in a couple of hours by even the most inexperienced. I like to take an extra copy or two and section the buildings I make by opening up windows, doors and other features then adding a piece behind and/or in front of these openings to give them a more 3D appearance. Since the model doesn't really resemble the original that closely, I just chose to make it as a small country cottage with a little landscaping added. The curved shape of the building was used to make it conform to the bit of land along a curve in the road where it is in reality. I added a pair of concrete pads to the front of the two front doors since the model had a step up to reach the level of the doors printed on the piece.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC003.jpg
Since there were a few things printed on the sides, front and back of the buildings walls such as bushes, a box, sacks, an old fashioned wooden pitchfork and a broom, I used landscaping materials, tissue and parts of the spare pieces that I printed out as well as some styrene rod and strip to make these parts and add them to the places where they were printed. It adds to the 3D look and covers up the printed bits on the walls.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC005.jpg
Since the back door to the place was at the ground level and had no step printed at its' bottom, I chose to model a gravel path with shrubs edging it. I also added a small tree to sort of break up the back yard a bit. Shrubs were used to divide the property into a front and rear yard for visual interest.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/treadhead1952/EmRBC004.jpg