Better not say anything to the gardener. The local constabulary are somewhat suspicious of the plants he's growing in the greenhouse.

Most excellent work! 

The gardener has been extending the vegetable plot. He's always complaining about his aged knees. There's nothing he likes more than raised beds for managing his vegetables.

To begin, a base for the vegetable plot.



And bases for the vegetable beds.



Eight pieces of lollipop stick were cut.



After some light sanding of the waxed surfaces, liquid shoe polish made a good job of highlighting the wood grain of the sticks and weathering them. After that, the ends were marked with a sharp point to represent nail holes.



Eight pieces of matchstick were cut and glued into the holes in the main base. At the same time, the bed bases were glued to the main base, giving further support to the matchsticks at their corners.

The lollipop sticks were glued around the beds, making sure the nail holes were lined up with the matchstick uprights.



Wires were glued into the holes in one of the bed bases and a trellis structure was formed that supported a run of very thin wires.

A thin layer of filler mixed with glue was smeared in the area between the beds and cut-out bricks lightly pressed into the paste, and then the rest of the ground was covered with paste and filler – almost giving the appearance of the garden as it looks in winter.



Cabbages grow so slowly. Paper craft roses were painted and planted instead, producing a  healthy cabbage patch.



And paint and flock did much to bring the rest of the garden to life.

Very nice.

Though I do find it disconcerting the easy with which you go from a pile of bits, to a lovely finished piece   

Wow!

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

Really nice, looks better than my real garden does!

Excellent, Michael !! 
Cheers - Phil

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!

Very nice

Can we order stuff from the website yet? 

Yes, please!

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

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

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

Marvolous Michael

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

Top work, you must have green fingers?