Cuttng flitches

[ge_rik]

This is why I like using real world materials!

Me too, Tom, but I can't find a way to cut real branches into flitches, so this is my only option.

Rik

[Big Jim]

Splendid job and a joint effort

[Peter Butler]

Stacked to dry with the spacers between them looks very convincing. You are certainly right about the difficulty in creating the correct colour of bark, most of my trees are definitely green.

[ge_rik]

Stacked to dry with the spacers between them looks very convincing. You are certainly right about the difficulty in creating the correct colour of bark, most of my trees are definitely green.

I honestly once knew a girl called Theresa Green ...... and went out with a girl called Honor Kermode. I assume that their parents either had a sense of humour or lacked insight.

Rik

[philipy]

a girl called Honor Kermode

There ought to be the name of a shop or business in there somewhere? Honor Kermode - Purveyor of Toilet Requisites to the Gentry perhaps?

[jim@NAL]

Thay look fantastic

[Peter Butler]

I honestly once knew a girl called Theresa Green ...... and went out with a girl called Honor Kermode. I assume that their parents either had a sense of humour or lacked insight.

Rik

A local business by the name of 'Days' have a daughter, Holly.
But my favourite was a couple by the name of Mr and Mrs Bate and their young son, master!

[ge_rik]

I honestly once knew a girl called Theresa Green ...... and went out with a girl called Honor Kermode. I assume that their parents either had a sense of humour or lacked insight.

Rik

A local business by the name of 'Days' have a daughter, Holly.
But my favourite was a couple by the name of Mr and Mrs Bate and their young son, master!

I once (and only once) went to a youth club meeting of the Railway Mission in Colchester - the pastor, in his wisdom, decided to hold a mass debate. I've forgotten the topic but it didn't live up to expectations!

Rik

[GTB]

Been trying to sort out the flitches. Painting to simulate bark isn't as easy as you might think .....

The stack of flitches look reasonable to me.

Bark colour varies with tree species anyway and I've seen flitches with the bark removed. I was watching an old film of a bush mill recently where the bark was being peeled off before the log entered the mill.

Regards,
Graeme

[ge_rik]

Bark colour varies with tree species anyway and I've seen flitches with the bark removed. I was watching an old film of a bush mill recently where the bark was being peeled off before the log entered the mill.
Regards,
Graeme

Not sure how or why it works. Some places seem to remove the bark first and others seem to leave it on. At first, I tried simulating the sort of orange effect of wood which has just been stripped of its bark, but that looked awful. So I opted for the mottled effect.

Rik