7mm 'Denton Brook' an industrial whimsey

[Alan]

Look like sparrows to me.

 

[Giles]

Sparrows indeed! Silhouettes imported and cut in acrylic on a sprue, then lightly rounded off with a small needle file (that took some doing - I'm struggling to see!) and finally painting.

Sorry Jordan I'll leave the flying to others!

 

[simond]

Nah, the one on the right might be a sparra, but the other is a spit for one of Darwin's Galapagos finches...

 

[adrian]

I think they need to be blue.



For the birds.

 

[Osgood]

Definitely not a telegraph insulator bird on the wrong perch -



I didn't start it…...

 

[Giles]

I've been playing with nettles, and this is probably about as refined as I can get them. Even so, they're a big labour-intensive, as every leaf has to be rotated to position.

 

[Peter Insole]

Fabulous, fabulous!

But dare I suggest you shouldn't have planted them there. Believe me, you'll never get rid of 'em now!

Can I see a Tortoiseshell sunning itself on the wall?

Pete.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Sparrows indeed! Silhouettes imported and cut in acrylic on a sprue, then lightly rounded off with a small needle file (that took some doing - I'm struggling to see!) and finally painting.

As long as they're not Daphne du Maurier's birds.......

 

[Giles]

There's not a tortoiseshell, but there is a marmalade elsewhere.......!



Each plane is made up of two of these, glued together down the stem - off-set, with the leaves then twisted level, and each pair rotated 45 degrees in opposition.

 

[JimG]

Rosebay Willowherb next?

Jim.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Each plane is made up of two of these, glued together down the stem - off-set, with the leaves then twisted level, and each pair rotated 45 degrees in opposition.

What material are they made from?

 

[Giles]

It's either 80 or 100gm card (I can't remember which, off the top of my head!)

 

[David Varley]

Rosebay Willowherb next?

Jim.

Have to be some dock leaves to counteract the nettle stings!

 

[Giles]

Dock leaves already designed! ( but need testing.....)

 

[David Varley]

Working dock leaves? Does that mean the nettles work as well??

 

[Steph Dale]

I can just imagine the look on my other half's face if I told her I was 'test building dock leaves'. I suspect that would be the very end of me having any credibility as a sane human being...

Steph

 

[Heather Kay]

having any credibility as a sane human being...

Define "sane". We, after all, delight in building working miniature replicas of the real thing.

 

[oldravendale]

Steph. I told yer mutha that I was test building dock leaves, just as a test.

She said "That's nice, dear......"

B

 

[Steph Dale]

Steph. I told yer mutha that I was test building dock leaves, just as a test.

She said "That's nice, dear......"

B

Nice to see she's still treating you with suitable disdain

Steph

 

[Phil.c]

Those nettles look great Giles...now to do them in 4mm

Phil