Small Japanese shops (1/300)

[Siwi]

That last one is your best yet. The wall texture in particular is very convincing.

[Viator]

Thanks a lot, Don and Siwi!

More gardening shops and JA agricultural plants are being prepared, but they required many small machinery pieces to be prefabricated first. Today I am working on the lawnmowers.

[Tapcho]

We have a Honda lawn mower jus likw the one in the middle. Excellent work on this scale. I noticed that in the previous building you use paper surface structure to mimic the wall structure. Very clever. I like the greenhouse too, my wife is a professional gardener. ;-)

Tappi

[Siwi]

That really is next-level stuff. It looks like a couple of layers of paper, wire handle and some very small discs for wheels?

[Viator]

Tapcho, exactly the visit cards of my wife were printed on the slightly furrowed cardboard so they could imitate rows of bricks (if oriented horizontally) or the parallel planks (if vertical) or the corrugated sheet (if used on the roof). And I am really happy that the models are recognizable, exactly the red lawnmower was made after the images of Honda while the green one after Haige.

Siwi, you are right, my lawnmowers were made of 12 pcs each. I glued together few layers of thick cardboard, added the wheels which are made of plastic (they are in fact a waste, resulting from the production of sequins), made the handle of the wire (for black & red Honda) or of the part of the railing in scale (for green & black Haige), and added the basket for the grass (for Haige it was glued from few layers of a cardboard while for Honda it was made as an empty box and painted black). Painted with the acrylics with "No. 0" brush.

[Don Boose]

Andrew - Thanks for the information on your methodologies. Don

[Viator]

Hermes Mansion (an apartment building)

One more multi-storey residential building made from scratch according to my own design (side wall inspired by the background in some anime). The facade resembles me the concrete architecture typical for late 60s to early 80s, still to be found in many countries.
I came up with a random, fictional name for it: エルメス マンシユン / Erumesu manshiyoun / Hermes Mansion.

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[Tapcho]

Wow, there's a small property maintenance village on top of the building. Fine work, last picture is my favourite.

Tappi

[Viator]

The tatami shop

The core of the little workshop and storage manufacturing the traditional tatami sheets is an old building of an Edo-style farm shed, preserved and converted into the warehouse and office building (one of the Sakamoto Sanda-san Nxx series models, rescaled). Still fenced with the traditional wall with less or more equally spaced little sculpted openings, it is supplemented with the simple production hall erected much later in the modern style (scratch built).

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[Don Boose]

I like that tatami manufactury!

May I recommend Azby Brown, Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green From Traditional Japan , Clarendon, VT: Tuttle, 2013 (What does it mean to live “green”?).

It is this week's reading for my Japanese architecture class. A wonderful account of life in Edo-era Japan with excellent pen and ink sketches.

Don