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.