Starting off with an apology again. I started this model at the beginning of last week but it kind of slowed off through the week. Then I was in Oxford all day Saturday for a Uni thing and other stuffs being happening so I haven't had loads of time to spend on it. It is finished now though and I'm pretty pleased with it, think its worth the wait.
The inspiration for the model first came from a picture of a waterfall that I liked, got me thinking about how you could have a feature like that in the landscape of a building. This idea then became a rough drawing, with the waterfall part being the centre of a large water feature.
The building is split into 3 parts. A main building and 2 out buildings. The main building makes up the main living space with the out buildings being additional spaces. I also decided with such a large expanse of water why wouldnt it be a pool, so the lower portion got a surronding tiled pool deck.
The main building is made up of 3 areas. At one end is the master bedroom, with ensuite. Infront of this is an open living space.
In the centre is a large open living space, it has a low wall dividing off a kitchen area in the space. The open space infront of the master bedroom joins onto this central space.
The final area has the entrance hall, a guest room with ensuite, a small office space and a small powder room.
The out buildings are basically the same, both have a simple square space that could be used for a variety of things. The only difference is that one out building has a second space. The idea being it would be a kitchenette/ utility room so you could work in the office space and not have to keep going back to the main building for things.
I think this is my favourite build to date, which is saying something as I really, really loved the tracy island build.
I also decided to film the build again, so yep that means another build timelapse for you lovely folks to enjoy.
You may spot a couple of my building tricks in this video. Firstly the roof tiling. The large roof spaces take up a lot of tiles but I found by doing the perimeter and then some kind of criss cross pattern to fill in you can save tiles and still get a pretty decent finish. It's not 100%, you do get a few dips occasionally but its pretty good and it does make the tiles go a lot further. The other trick you might notice is not always using the adhesive sheets for finishes. This is to try and make them last longer. In this model I decided to do the pool deck in paper as I knew the shape of the deck would give me some offcuts that in that particular finish wouldnt be much use again.
The setup for this video was the same as the last, minus the flashlight I was using as lighting. The video still looked alright, so the fact the flashlight clonked out wasn't a big deal. I'm making progress on looking for new equipment, i'm not buying anything yet as its my birthday next month so i'm going to wait until after that, never know what you might get...