thx and oooh yes ive got some projects going on at the moment

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@Azrael; Here's the answer to your question!

Here's the materials/tools you'll be needing..


First of all you take your foam-board (sometimes it can be easier if you don't have the double paper backed one) & draw on your window you wish, like in this picture below


Draw in the detailed arches in your window, to be honest you can actually do some very difficult ones & still get a brilliant outcome. I outline one here so you can see it more clearly (sorry for the smudges, did it a bit fast)


Once that stage is finished, it's time to cut. I always had trouble in the past with getting a nice edge. You MUST have a clean, sharp hobby knife, otherwise it will rip it, not cut it.


Start cutting out


And it should end out something similar to this, depending on the design you have chosen. You can also sand it down so you soften the edges & make it smooth.. in this picture, i didn't. Now that it comes to me, I'm sure you could use hot-wire cutters if you wanted, but it wouldn't give straight lines, and carving them out was rather entertaining in a strange way.


P.S. Sorry for the large images, I didn't want to spend time resizing them & all..

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that was just what I ment.
perhaps you can get some inspiration from this.
I'll try getting some sharpe hobby knives because I really want to try this ( I now use a very large kitchen knive)

looking forward to the next update

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Other side of the roof complete

woow! looking super good!

more! more! more! more! MOOOOORE!

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the roof looks great.
you went for the hard way by doing it tile after tile but it certainly looks much better than my own roofs.

you asked me how I would make the walls.
well, I would either put a layer of wall filler(or was it cald crack filler) on it and shape it with a spatula (that"s what the translator calls it (een plamuurmes) until it looks like the walls of my tharbad.
Or I would give it a thicker layer of crack filler and stab bricks out of it (it looks better than it sounds )
Miliput will probably work just as well but I've never used that
I hope this helps.

looking forward to the next update

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Sorry could you explain that further? I didn't quite understand. Is what your trying to say is use filler & then draw bricks into it?

Yup use the filler in a thick layer, take a big clay shaper (the ones you can buy about a dozen of for 1 euro in a craft store) and gently draw/ push a brick pattern in the filler.
this stuff dries quickly so you have to do this quite fast.

Otherwis you can flatten a thinner layer of filler and let it dry, perhapsh with a few wooden beams.

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Thanks!

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This the kinda thing?




That's only the example, but if that works ill do that.

Yes and you can file any pointy parts down.
And If you do this in a slightly thicker layer the bricks will look much better (much more detail) and they look more like old stones than clay bricks

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Right, so I'll make it thicker, and i tried rounding the sides of on another piece, because that normally shows the building is old - but it didn't work out very well (too much points bits & everything, looked scruffy) but maybe if i filed them down once it had dried, i never thought that far ahead lol.

P.S. Hope the heat isn't putting you off for your project, I'm rather excited about it

Looking really good and I must admit the advicde from aqan has been priceless - well done to both of you

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Fantastic work here Iain! I have missed a lot last few weeks/months! Too bad, cause the progress here is so great! Love the pics, great quality and focussed on the point. Article-quality-pics if yu ask me! *hint* *hint*

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Right well I found that incredibly difficult.. & I'm not sure if I like it or not. Opinions would be helpful.

Tried several knifey things

Rather ruff I know

Stages

Final

looks really good, but there is one thing i would change: try using something different for the windows because they are normally made ina different way, i mean they are thick and they are normally IN th wall, if ya know what i mean?

especially if your going for a Gothic-type theme because of the big window you made already

i would try using some styrofoam for the frame and put it inside the window, like in the middle of foamboard and then sculpt it a little to give it more depth

like this, kinda:




and at the top you could try and sculpt something like this:

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yep I like the thought of that, I'll give that one a go. I'm going to restart the walls, make a new one & use the milliput stuff... which will give MUCH better bricks

**Update**

After scraping the other idea, I used the milliput.

hmmm, to be honest i dont actuallly see the difference between this and the white stuff, but you still have to do something with the windows to give them a bit more depth

anywhoo, great job it looks really nice

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