East Dock an Irish Timesave (ish)

[DJ Dangerous]

The whole digital sculpting concept is mind-boggling. Amazing to see how it works. And that mill is a beast!

[Mayner]

More workshop than layout topic today.

Successfully printed the facades of some of the low relief background buildings first planned approx 14 years ago.

Terrace of 3-4 houses .

The windows/doorway originally etched in 2012, the intention to use Wills Flemish Bond material sheets in combination with etched window/doorways and lintols.

The Dublin Port layout reserrected in a different in OO about 10 years later with some of the buildings in 3D printed form.

Windows/doorway placed temporarily in the openings to check fit before carrying out final (hopefully) adjustments to the 3D model & print set up. While brick coarsing, opening, cill, lintol and parapet lines came out well some 'interesting' distortion along the party wall between adjacent buildings & de-lamination between layers in one corner (joy of resin printing) Some tweaks to the model (digital reinforcing) to reduce distrotion and delamination resulted in some improvement to the building on the right!

The pitched roofs & chimneys on this terrace  are hidden behind a low parapet when viewed from street level!

Next challenge will be painting and weathering the brickwork.

[Mayner]

Three usable facades glued together after some fettling to the construction joints with a large mill file! Now ro read up on Iain Rice's advice on painting brick buildings, but may go for more of an overall effect as mortar joints and difference in colour/shade between individual bricks unlikely to be noticeable in background/same for maltings building.

 

Designwork substantially complete on a larger house that completes the terrace. Still got to add floor & internal walls to strengthen the model and an Ionic Portico to the doorway.

There are another pair of buildings to be added. I'll probabably include pub for those that lived and worked in the neighborhood. 

As a kid my Mum used to take me to visit her aunts that lived in a house in North Richmond St, their landladys husband was a cattle drover who sometimes drove cattle along the North Circular to the Docks into the late 1960s. Years later in my teens I attended the MRSI clubroom almost weekly as a teenager and waited for the 23 bus home close to the canal and railway bridge on Ballybough Rd.

[Mayner]

Mixture of physical and digital modelling. Preparing some of the building in the terrace for painting/weathering.

I have glued the three building on the right together primed and sprayed with brown aerosol (my version of CIE brown wagon paint) and filled & touched up unsightly joints in the party walls.

Brickwork joints in the building on the left flooded with a cream paint to represent the mortar joints and brickwork overpainted with a shade selected from a photo of the prototype and a paint colour chart. I used a colour chart and matchpot from Resene a New Zealand owned paint & decor company.

The buildings on the right and left were overpainted with the same colour one on a grey the other on a brown base, I've forgotten which is which and managed to 'disappear" the two test pots I bought yesterday

Finished the CAD work for the final building in the terrace, main difference is that I extended the brickwork and plinth onto the gable.

Currently the prototype has a rendered finish and pitched roof gutters visible at eaves level and bay windows at groundfoor level, out of character with other buildings in the terrace and the adjoining terrace on Ballybough Road. It looks like the building was originally to a similar design/character to the other facades in the terrace and along Ballybough Road, but re-built parapets removed, possibly roof framing replaced and external walls given a render finish and bay windows added. Interestingly window, door locations and general proportions are similar to other facades in the terrace and on Ballybough Rd.

I'll probabably model the pitched section of the roof and chimneys in semi-low relief and on the backscene as the buildings are only 30mm deep>