When I'm the one to issue a build challenge, to keep it fair, I try very hard to think of categories that others would find interesting and fun... but not about what I'm actually going to build.
This time I had a few ideas of what I DIDN'T want to do, but not a single clue about what I did. Last year, on another board, I attempted a "WOW! factor" type of build... As a result, I not only blew the budget restraint. I missed the deadline as well. --- In fact the damned thing STILL isn't finished! :'(
(see: http://www.the-ashpit.com/mik/southpenn.html if you want an idea on how to get in over your head! )
So what was called for this time was something basic, yet charming..... fairly easy, but different.... But my muse simply refused to co-operate all week! :brokeheart:
Today Kim went looking for a box to ship the second Lindsey wagon to it's new home, and found these inside it. She'd bought them back in November intending to give me them for Christmas.... and forgot they were there!
Being in a hurry to get to the Post Office I looked at them and said something non-committal and probably ungracious and inane as well. (Kim often buys stuff that just doesn't quite work with my "vision"... sometimes it takes me a while to see it her way...) And started to toss them in a drawer ------ then I realised they shared a common theme. (Yes, I can occasionally take a hint -- especially when it smacks me upside the head!
)
So would it be a rural life mini scene.... Wait! How about a small commercial building?.... No. That would blow the whole "simple" thing right out the window.
But then I remembered I had a Korber "Aunt Bertha's House" kit that I'd bought last April but never gotten around to assembling.
So, what IS the difference between a small cottage, and a tiny business (besides higher property taxes)? Big windows! And I had a couple sets of Simpson windows left over from my machine shop project. Now we're really cookin with gas! My muse was back!!!!!!!!!!!
Aunt Bertha's front wall, before:
Big gaping hole... maybe need to get a housing inspector to check to see if too many structural supports were cut?
Simpson windows installed.... doesn't look too bad, and only took a bit less than an hour.
And After; Just your basic plastic box so far....
Thank God I didn't need to "buy" any of this stuff, or I'd already be so far over budget I'd be in orbit! I will have to buy a bunch additional detail stuff, tho.
And that brings us to the end of build day 1
This time I had a few ideas of what I DIDN'T want to do, but not a single clue about what I did. Last year, on another board, I attempted a "WOW! factor" type of build... As a result, I not only blew the budget restraint. I missed the deadline as well. --- In fact the damned thing STILL isn't finished! :'(
(see: http://www.the-ashpit.com/mik/southpenn.html if you want an idea on how to get in over your head! )
So what was called for this time was something basic, yet charming..... fairly easy, but different.... But my muse simply refused to co-operate all week! :brokeheart:
Today Kim went looking for a box to ship the second Lindsey wagon to it's new home, and found these inside it. She'd bought them back in November intending to give me them for Christmas.... and forgot they were there!
Being in a hurry to get to the Post Office I looked at them and said something non-committal and probably ungracious and inane as well. (Kim often buys stuff that just doesn't quite work with my "vision"... sometimes it takes me a while to see it her way...) And started to toss them in a drawer ------ then I realised they shared a common theme. (Yes, I can occasionally take a hint -- especially when it smacks me upside the head!
)
So would it be a rural life mini scene.... Wait! How about a small commercial building?.... No. That would blow the whole "simple" thing right out the window.
But then I remembered I had a Korber "Aunt Bertha's House" kit that I'd bought last April but never gotten around to assembling.
So, what IS the difference between a small cottage, and a tiny business (besides higher property taxes)? Big windows! And I had a couple sets of Simpson windows left over from my machine shop project. Now we're really cookin with gas! My muse was back!!!!!!!!!!!
Aunt Bertha's front wall, before:
Big gaping hole... maybe need to get a housing inspector to check to see if too many structural supports were cut?
Simpson windows installed.... doesn't look too bad, and only took a bit less than an hour.
And After; Just your basic plastic box so far....
Thank God I didn't need to "buy" any of this stuff, or I'd already be so far over budget I'd be in orbit! I will have to buy a bunch additional detail stuff, tho.
And that brings us to the end of build day 1
