Village Blacksmith

[SCEtoAUX]

The method I described earlier to make the movable joints works good. The models that employed that method have been working since 2009.

The coloring on that Village Blacksmith is very good. The nice shading adds some great detail.

[cdavenport]

I think those brass brads add a nice little touch to the model. Well done!

[Amccombs3]

Doug and Chuck,

I'm not ignoring you. I carefully considered your suggestions, and some time when I pick up some wire I'll try them. I just ... I don't know, I guess I'm mildly averse to wire for aesthetic reasons (Doug's method), even though they're so tiny they'd barely show. I like the look of the brad heads (purely a personal preference thing). Chuck's method wouldn't show, though, so I may give it a try next time. As noted, I'm still fine tuning.

Anne

[jagolden01]

Anne, I think the little brass brads are great! Where'd you get them? The build looks wonderful!

[SCEtoAUX]

No problem.
When I first made one of those I looked for some small eyelets or small brass brads to use but could not find any locally so came up with the method mentioned. Looks like small eyelets would be the way to go if a small enough size could be found and you get the hole the right size and don't scrunch the eyelets too much so the movement of the joint would be affected.

[Amccombs3]

The little brads come from the scrapbooking section of pretty much any craft store anywhere. I got them at A. C. Moore, but Michaels and Joann Fabrics also have them. They're much smaller than the ones you get at office supply stores.

Anne

[SCEtoAUX]

Found some small brads at a Hobby Lobby on clearance sale. I replaced the wire things described earlier with the small brads and they work real good.
The package has "Spare Parts The Paper Studio 200 tiny round brads" on it. They come in bright colors and subdued colors.

Here is a picture of some of the brads. The scale is cm with mm graduations.


Here is the front of the owl with some grey brads:


Here is the back of the owl. Some of the bright colors were used where they would not show up on the front.


The heads of the brads could be painted to help them blend in so the original colors are not that important.

[cdavenport]

Thanks for that recommendation SCEtoAUX.

[altomentis]

All,

You can find all the Barnacle Press models plus others in my Flickr collection here:
Newspaper Cut Out Toys - a set on Flickr

All these are by Dan Rudolph. I have not been able to find any other information about the man. They were published in US newspapers before 1923, so are in the public domain.

I have additional models I have found and am working on cleaning up since they are from old newspaper microfilms.

Christine

[SCEtoAUX]

That is good. It looks like Barnacle Press no longer has them. I saved the ones from Barnacle press a few years ago. You have some on your site that they did not have. Thanks for the effort.