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Thread: the old farm sheds (WIP.)
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1st April 2014, 09:43 AM #1Senior Member
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the old farm sheds (WIP.)
Have started another carving, it is in QLD. Cowrie, and taken off a drawing of "Jolliff's" (sheds) at "camphill" station near Rylstone NSW. I find the cowrie good to carve being straight grained, but find it a bit hard to see the perspective (is that the right word?) as it is bland so I have been useing graphite to rub on to highlight it , for me it works well, Comments? CD. ( camera resets date to 2007 when you change batteries)
Last edited by col's dad; 1st April 2014 at 09:46 AM. Reason: wrong date on pics
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1st April 2014, 11:09 AM #2Skwair2rownd
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Looking good CD.!!! The graphite is doing its job well!!
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1st April 2014, 11:24 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Very bright and very bad oblique/side lighting helps me a lot. Try a LED flashlight from the side.
I'm running a pair of 18W LED monsters as bright each as 150W incandescent.
Sort of a 120 degree focus, too. 'Way over to the side, I can figure out what's
"up" and what's "down." Very expensive, as in $45 each, but they do cut the gloom of a
short, snowy winter day.
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6th April 2014, 06:51 PM #4Senior Member
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the old farm update wip.
as you can see I have progressed a little more, think I may have doubled up on a pic. or two. I've swaped and changed things a bit as I've gone along, shifted the tractorto the other shed then made it into a house, then got rid of it and put a truck in the shed . not having much luck with the lighting for the photos, some are too light and others are too dark , looks a bit like a winters day in one of those old english black and white movies,but it dose look better in the flesh so to speakCD.
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7th April 2014, 12:45 PM #5
Looking good so far
Iggy
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7th April 2014, 01:51 PM #6
Looking real good! Going to be a great carving. Keep going and posting progress.
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30th April 2014, 03:22 PM #7Senior Member
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buggared up the border went off line when I was doing the scolloping with the chisel, got the router out,. had stop in the wrong place and took a little nipple out of one side, have to try again you wouldn't belive it but I done the same thing on the top!!!, SO I got the plane out and planed the border down evenly all way round so now the carving stands proud of the back with a single line all the way around, I"m happy with the way it has turned out, with all the changes that I've made alone the way.
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30th April 2014, 08:25 PM #8
I enjoyed following this work in progress. Thank you for posting.