Hi all,
Made the remaining windows and small door for the brick element of the façade, and given them a basic paint job.
As a second attempt to build such items they’re, imho, an improvement on the ones I built for my first braille scale build, but I think I might have to try another approach if I try anymore buildings in future, 
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Cheers, 
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G
G, I’m fast running out of things to say about your stellar builds and how you go about it…
Outstanding (if not astounding!) as usual. I’m just wondering if in a WW2 context there might be tape on any glass panes?
Regards,
M
1:76 is OO scale (OO and HO share the same gauge) while HO (Half O) is 1:87, O in Europe being 1:43.5. In the U.S. O scale is a more sensible 1:48, but HO is still 1:87…
Regards,
M
It is actually Half -zero (H0), though in writing 0 and O seem to be mixed at random. I made the same error for decades. 
I always like to use natural materials where possible, including rocks where the grain size permits. I once visited an old slate mine where the car park was surfaced with small fragments, mooching around the margins of which I found several fragments which would serve as wargame-scale menhirs. I intended to base these individually to create a “Portable Re-configurable Stone Circle” but have since mislaid them!
As a child I had a couple of favourite playgrounds near my home, a disused quarry and small overgrown ravine (“The Old Ghyll” as we called it). The latter was mainly cut through shale strata some of which contained small fossils (foliage in the sides, small shells in the stream bed) which I began to collect. Eventually I grew up a bit and began to attend Secondary School in town, quite close to the small harbour I’ve mentioned in previous posts on this thread. Immediately to the south of the harbour, on the coast, was a disused colliery with a large waste heap which contained coal and shale from much older, deeper strata and which could contain much more impressive plant fossils. This area was later landscaped but the “made ground” created from the waste heap was made insufficiently resistant to the action of the sea and has eroded considerably forming a dangerously unstable area denying access to the beach below. However, if I do need coal I should be able to find some on the beach to the north of the harbour, as I recall you could find sea-coals there, eroded out of the coal measures where they emerged under the sea and washed up as wave-rounded lumps. However, it’s the best part of two decades since I was last around there, so maybe my recall is somewhat in error.
Regards,
M
Thanks to John and Tom for their continued support, 
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As for tape to help reduce injury from glass shattering due to explosions, I totally agree and, unusually for me, I’m already starting to try and represent it (see images of the lucam window from a week or so back)…though I have to say I’m not totally happy with it, and it’s only a representation, not necessarily accurate…but it’s a start, 
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G
Thanks to Tom and Erwin for the explanation of the scales, it can all get very confusing, 
…especially at my age, .
G
Stupid of me not to have noticed! I’m evidently not perusing your images with the attention they deserve.
Rather than another Lucam on the brick building you can just install a small gibbet-style hoist above the upper door…
Regards,
M
Totally agree with Tom about the use of natural materials, they can’t be beaten. I’m always on the look out for interesting materials, especially old bits of plant root, and moss, etc…plus it’s free, .
G
You’re welcome…
I find the use of Feet and inches all the more confusing… Pure scale (1:87 for H0) statements say much more to me than 3,5mm to 1 foot (even more confusing, mixing imperial with metric scales!) …
Cut my teeth on feet and inches Erwin, and even now the construction industry (my background) still has dinosaurs like me who flit between the two, .
G
I generally only do metrics… Only in computer business, there is no way of escaping inches…
Hi all,
A bit more progress, finished filling the window openings in the stone element of the façade. Also added the blast tape to all windows and doors, and blocked in some colour, though I’m not sure if the colour of the tape was specific, or variable, depending on what was to hand…anyone know, .
Think all those little crosses has sent me cross-eyed, .
Cheers, ,
G
Just keeps on getting better G… Colours are all nicely subdued and blending in with all the surrounding areas…
I was a bit worried the whole thing was going to be attacked by a rogue Dalek though 
From my web search, it looks like there was a variety of color and configurations, nothing specific though. I like what you have… reminds me of ‘A Bridge too Far.’
Question: Is your tape applied onto the outside of the panes? Shouldn’t it be applied to the inside? Sorry if I’m being a pain.
—mike
Usually brown, issued for the purpose. It wasn’t self-adhesive in the modern sense but like old stamps and envelopes it had a coating of gum which to be moistened before it would stick.
Cheers,
M
Gang, I think G just inadvertently told us his secret for building such an incredible diorama.
“Cut my teeth on feet and inches Erwin, and even now the construction industry (my background)”
He is actually building this scene full size along a harbor somewhere, then climbing up high on the Mast of a ship and taking photographs to make it look like it’s only 1/76 scale’s!
Johnny speaks truth!
For a long time I’ve thought those buildings were done and every little addition makes them ever more better. It is inspiring!
Don’t be silly. It’s evident the diorama is only 1:16 scale (the 7 is a misprint). It’s just everything you think you see in the background is a Photoshop enlargement to make the diorama look smaller…
Cheers,
M
