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Title: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Battlescale on 16 January 2017, 08:25:10 PM
Hi everyone,
Thank you fo the admin for letting me in here! I'm Steve Clay from sunny Cheshire and I've recently started a small range of 10mm resin buildings which some may have seen... I'm a huge fan of 10mm and have a growing collection of Napoleonics and I'm planning a WWII and ACW project.... if I get the time.

Steve
www.battlescale.com
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: paulr on 16 January 2017, 08:38:27 PM
Welcome :-h
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: fsn on 16 January 2017, 08:45:42 PM
S'up!

"Sunny Cheshire"? Is that somewhere in the USA? I live in Runcorn and if it's not raining, it's going to rain, or has just rained.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Fenton on 16 January 2017, 08:49:06 PM
Welcome
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Battlescale on 16 January 2017, 09:00:26 PM
Ok, ok,  it's not so sunny... I can dream can't I?   ;D
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Ithoriel on 16 January 2017, 09:01:45 PM
"Hello!" and "Welcome!" from me too.

Already have your site bookmarked and when (should that be if??) my finances recover from the excesses of the Festive Season there will be a small order winging your way.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: d_Guy on 16 January 2017, 09:05:14 PM
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the forum! Just placed an  order for a few of your buildings just last week.

Evidently extraordinary cats come from Cheshire? Or is that where they invented the well-know boardgame with the sixty-four squares?
I get confused.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Fenton on 16 January 2017, 09:11:42 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 16 January 2017, 09:05:14 PM


Evidently extraordinary cats come from Cheshire? Or is that where they invented the well-know boardgame with the sixty-four squares?
I get confused.

Such cheesy jokes
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Techno on 16 January 2017, 10:30:35 PM
Welcome, Steve.

Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 16 January 2017, 11:31:18 PM
Hello and welcome
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Battlescale on 16 January 2017, 11:51:39 PM
Thanks everyone. First batch of orders are going out tomorrow so keep an eye out for the postie!
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: d_Guy on 16 January 2017, 11:56:36 PM
Great Steve, Among other things I bought a couple of the ruins which I'm particularly looking forward to.


Quote from: Fenton on 16 January 2017, 09:11:42 PM
Such cheesy jokes

So Cheshire is like the cheese capital of Britain, much like Wisconsin here?
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Leon on 17 January 2017, 12:20:23 AM
Hi Steve, welcome to the Forum!  I've seen some of the pictures on Facebook and the buildings look great.

8)
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Post by: PB on 17 January 2017, 04:11:13 AM
Hello and welcome from a sunny place
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 January 2017, 07:16:30 AM
Moaning Steve - where in Cheshire ?
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: fsn on 17 January 2017, 07:53:22 AM
Quote from: d_Guy on 16 January 2017, 11:56:36 PM
So Cheshire is like the cheese capital of Britain, much like Wisconsin here?
Well Leicester and the area around Cheddar in Somerset, bits of Wales like Caerphilly, bits of Scotland and some parts of Northern Ireland would disagree, but they make a particular type of cheese in Cheshire. It's crumbly and quite dense.  

On this side of the pond, we are just informed by your TV and film documentaries, that all cheese in the US comes in a can.  :-&

My daughter spent a semester in Wisconsin. There are similarities to Cheshire ... but not many.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Leman on 17 January 2017, 09:00:45 AM
Cheshire , Lancashire and Leicesershire all produce county named cheeses, but the most popular cheese in Britain is Cheddar, which originated in Somerset. It is now produced all over the place, including Canada. If you go to the cheese section of a supermarket there is more cheddar than anything else, a bit like going to the Military History section of a bookshop only to find that the history of the military only existed between 1914 and 1945.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 17 January 2017, 09:02:46 AM
Whereas Shropshire Blue was invented in Scotland, and is made in Cheshire!  :'(
Welcome to thread hijackers and derailers anonymous!
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Westmarcher on 17 January 2017, 09:16:17 AM
Question to the forum, "What would be the best cheese to use for making 10mm buildings?"   :-\

Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: skywalker on 17 January 2017, 10:15:43 AM
Wensleydale?       ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: toxicpixie on 17 January 2017, 12:11:33 PM
Good for ruins, with it's crumbly texture, but probably not the best for anything intact...

Plastic supermarket cheddar is probably good. It's strong, flexible and takes superglue well. Although you'd need to run the grater over external surfaces first to get a bit of texture?
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Battlescale on 17 January 2017, 01:26:39 PM
I'm on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border. I live in a small village called Betley and my workshop is in Audley.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: d_Guy on 17 January 2017, 03:00:02 PM
Quote from: fsn on 17 January 2017, 07:53:22 AM
On this side of the pond, we are just informed by your TV and film documentaries, that all cheese in the US comes in a can.  :-&

It may be worse than that - we have American "cheese" (major application - bacon-cheeseburgers), it usually comes in individually wrapped slices, which have the density of tofu, the flexibility of an 18 year old gymnast and the taste of lightly seasoned styrofoam. I love it!

@Steve - just got your email that my order is shipped!
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: toxicpixie on 17 January 2017, 03:06:49 PM
That's what has to be described as "cheese-like product" here where we (for the moment) have food standards that require food to be at least vaguely as claimed :D

I quite like it, but it ain't cheese...
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Techno on 17 January 2017, 03:37:18 PM
Quote from: skywalker on 17 January 2017, 10:15:43 AM
Wensleydale?       ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yes ?......Oh, I thought you were talking to me....Mr Wensleydale....That's my name.

Cheers - A Twerp.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Fenton on 17 January 2017, 05:20:57 PM
Quote from: Westmarcher on 17 January 2017, 09:16:17 AM
Question to the forum, "What would be the best cheese to use for making 10mm buildings?"   :-


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For older houses in SE Asia I think Stilt-on would best
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: d_Guy on 17 January 2017, 05:25:43 PM
Sounds Gouda to me.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Techno on 17 January 2017, 05:44:43 PM
Go and get your coats.......the pair of you !

(Wait until Nobby's chewed them first, though.)

Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: fsn on 17 January 2017, 07:01:34 PM
Quote from: Battlescale on 17 January 2017, 01:26:39 PM
I'm on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border. I live in a small village called Betley and my workshop is in Audley.
Too late. This thread is a runaway, and there's edam all you can do about it. 
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Ithoriel on 17 January 2017, 07:03:56 PM
Can't dis' a brie with that, fsn ;)
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 17 January 2017, 07:44:31 PM
Groan!
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Westmarcher on 17 January 2017, 11:11:59 PM
Well, just tried it and despite what you might think, cottage cheese doesn't work.   :(

.... maybe I used the wrong mould ....
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Ithoriel on 17 January 2017, 11:17:46 PM
Use the right mould and it'll be Rocque(fort) hard!
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 17 January 2017, 11:19:01 PM
Camem-Bert, you can do better than that, Yarg all got better puns in you!
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Womble67 on 18 January 2017, 12:21:47 AM
Hi Steve and welcome

Take care

Andy
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: Westmarcher on 18 January 2017, 09:20:15 AM
Quote from: Westmarcher on 17 January 2017, 09:16:17 AM
Question to the forum, "What would be the best cheese to use for making 10mm buildings?"   :-


Is this the definitive answer?   Gentlemen, I give you ..... Wisconsin Brick Cheese!    :O)

http://www.widmerscheese.com/the-story-of-wisconsin-brick-cheese/ (http://www.widmerscheese.com/the-story-of-wisconsin-brick-cheese/)

[Btw, hi, Steve!]
Title: Re: Hello from a 10mm building sculptor!
Post by: fsn on 18 January 2017, 10:06:36 AM
 :D

Does it come in a can?