The Supreme Littleness Designs website is launched!

[toxicpixie]

It's a bit like - http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl

Really nice, looks better than my real garden does!

[Techno]

Excellent, Michael !! 
Cheers - Phil

[WeeWars]

Probably not much of a surprise to some but long before I purchased a laser cutter, I began laser-cut designs for 10mm German buildings to use in my 1809 project. This is one of these designs worked on since those early days. It will be included in a range of German buildings suitable for 1809 and many other wargames projects. I don't plan to put it up on my site just yet but drop me a line if you can't wait as it's good to go.

http://www.supremelittleness.co.uk

Cheers, Michael


The German townhouse kit made up of cut fibreboards.





I painted the window panes and frames first before assembling the kit. I brushed gloss varnish on the window panes.

The kit needs nothing more than simple assembly using wood glue. I chose to add some texture with acrylic modelling paste dabbed on with a cocktail stick.





I used a range of natural colours, painted straight on to the model without an undercoat. Now it only needs some neighbours!

[Fenton]

Very nice

Can we order stuff from the website yet? 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yes, please!

[Subedai]

Great looking building, and suitable for a number of periods and locations.

[Nosher]

Id certainly like to place orders for things from the naps range. How do we go about it?

[Steve J]

Very, very effective paint work and modelling . Well done!

[paulr]

Marvolous Michael

The step from winter to summer garden is disconcerting and beautifully done

[Bodvoc]

Top work, you must have green fingers?

[WeeWars]

Top work, you must have green fingers?

    Only on the tabletop, not in my own garden!

[WeeWars]

Id certainly like to place orders for things from the naps range. How do we go about it?

Is there anything you specifically want that I can bump up the design queue? 

[Norm]

This hobby just gets better!

[Techno]

That looks terrific, Michael !
Cheers - Phil

[Nosher]

Is there anything you specifically want that I can bump up the design queue? 

Ive lost track of whats been designed in the range. I seem to recall two bridges. One timber and one stone. This townhouse and belle alliance. Are there any others?

[fred.]

Another lovely looking building.

A small suggestion, should the alternate rows of roof tiles be offset?

Do you have a link, or brand name to the modelling paste, it seems a very easy, and effective method of adding a bit of texture to a model.

[WeeWars]

Another lovely looking building.

A small suggestion, should the alternate rows of roof tiles be offset?

The intention is that they're pantile tiles rather than off-set. Clay tiles come in a variety of colours. I have quite a few red roofed models so I chose to paint this one grey. Perhaps too blue 'slate' grey?





I can design off-set tiles as well but pantiles were more common for German houses. Pantiles were also common in Belgium - Flemish pantiles were being used here in Scotland as early as the 17th century. La Haye Sainte used a mix of off-set and pantile, for example.

[WeeWars]

Do you have a link, or brand name to the modelling paste, it seems a very easy, and effective method of adding a bit of texture to a model.

I used a cheap Pebeo opaque heavy acrylic paste. It's designed, like paint, to adhere to the vertical so I find it quicker to work with than filler that's designed to fill gaps. Quickly running a cocktail stick through a thin layer adds, I think, a simple impression of wood grain to an otherwise flat surface with minimal effort.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pebeo-Studio-Acrylics-Auxiliaries-Modelling/dp/B00972HPMI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1434803727&sr=8-2&keywords=modelling+paste+pebeo

[fred.]

Thanks for the link to the acrylic paste, I'll get a tube, seems to work very well to add that small bit of texture that is so important in making things look more natural.

Re the roofs - I think the grey had made be think of slate, and they normally overlap, not of pantiles ( auto correct, nearly made that into a naughty sentence    )

[WeeWars]

I've recommended it on the forum before. It's useful when you don't want a sandy texture. It's also quite easy to mark brick and stone shapes with a pin. In effect, it's just thick paint that holds its shape.

I think you have a point. I might add a bit of a red glaze over the grey and keep the blue grey colour for actual slated roofs.