Well it can get miserable cold for a week or two total in the winter. I is usually a damp humid cold that chills you to the bone whether it is below freezing or not. The house has eight fire places and a kitchen cooking hearth. This was a home for the "well to do" so had plenty of heat. A more modest home would have far fewer fire places.
Upon recounting, I get eight fireplaces. Three doubles and two singles for flues. Wonder how I got ten? It is spectacular work!
Been working on the back porch some more. Have all the columns, corbels, railings, stairs etc. attached.
Wonderful model, Russell. Did you make the corbels? What about the lattice work trim? (Can't remember what you call the trim? Gingerbread?)
Did anyone recognize it? Surely they did!! </font>[/QUOTE]Yeah I thought I saw it! If it was still there last weekend it was probably the house sitting accross the street from the Fort Bend County Courthouse. Only a couple of photos I took of that Module came out well enough to keep. It's peripherally in a couple of pictures I took on the 6th. (I think). I didn't linger too much on that part of Richmond while I was there.. Bad memories. So much for my powers of observation(!) [ November 09, 2005, 07:15 AM: Message edited by: Tom Hynds ]
Did anyone recognize it? Surely they did!! </font>[/QUOTE]Oh yeah. There were a number of folks who recognized it. One woman even gave tours of it 20 years ago. However she could not remember what the small "round" room was used for.
I guess that is what I am calling corbels. A corbel is really a more substantial brace sticking out of a wall to hold a load. Those are just decorative trim between the column and the porch ceiling. I cut up some HO Grandt Line "wrought iron" lattice work pieces to get make them. I turned Evergreen .06 X .06 inch rod with my Dremil motor to make the columns.
Here it is. Just got these uploaded to flickr. and here You can see it in the distance. I don't have good photo editing SW here at work. So I can't get any closer.
What a great job you did on that house Russ. I admire the lengths you are prepared to go to to make a scene look right. Well Done
Russ, this is truly one of the very best scratch built structures I have ever seen. Excellent and very inspiring work. And quite a lot of work, no doubt, but worth the effort!
The front porch is about finished and I have been working on the cornice under the eaves with all the ornamental symbols painted on them.
