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by ge_rik » Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:37 pm
tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:54 pm
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.
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by Big Jim » Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:14 pm
Splendid job and a joint effort
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by Peter Butler » Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:16 pm
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.
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by ge_rik » Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:27 am
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:16 pm
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.
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by philipy » Wed Jul 25, 2018 9:25 am
ge_rik wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:27 am
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?
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by jim@NAL » Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:40 am
Thay look fantastic
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by Peter Butler » Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:12 pm
ge_rik wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:27 am
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.
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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!
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by ge_rik » Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:04 am
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:12 pm
ge_rik wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:27 am
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.
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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!
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by GTB » Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:18 am
ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:51 pm
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.
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by ge_rik » Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:43 pm
GTB wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:18 am
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.
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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.
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