Sinful alley 3: disaster strikes

Here is the newly made three-story building. The foamboard is covered with a layer of Evergreen plastic sheet. Chimneies are also fitted on the top of the building. Why did I have to redo the three-story building? Previously the building is only made from foamboard. I applied grey acrylic paint over it as the base colour. Surprisingly, the paper surface became bending and distorted after absorbed water in the paint. I have to discard the building and remade a new one with plastic sheet as surface. A lesson learnt!

I painted and weathered the roof. The effect is quite good by my standard.

The engraved brick plastic card received a layer of brick red paint. I then applied a layer of  plaster powder solution to the red brick in order to simulate mortar. I used this technic before. The solution should be as thick as full fat milk.

After the surface became dry overnight I used cosmetic cotton buds to rub the surface with some force. The movement is vertical mostly but sometimes the bud moves horizontally.

 The garage is also painted and weathered. It looks pretty good with a lovely small car in front of it.

Our actors cannot wait to start :~)

The three-story building is painted. I added some crack on the top of the building and near windows. And a TV antenna.



Sinful alley 2: the first get-together

I put all the components of the diorama together for the first time. As you can see the alley is wide enough to pass two small vehicles. The park fence is from Vollmer (HO5133) which I bought in Germany for about 8 euro. The engraved stone ground is from Slaters, very good value and effect.

In the next picture you will see the other side of the diorama. There are several corners for our actors to hide and play!

A small project: sinful alley

The project started a few months ago. I was inspired by the dark back alley in the city where dirty things take place. The original drawing is missing so I have to describe the diorama with words. It is a U-shaped end of a cul de sac. If you are facing the alley, on you left is the back of a small factory house; to your right is a three-story residential building. Further down to the alley on the left is an wall with a wood gate to the factory. To the right is a double garage. The bottom of the alley is a line of stell fence supposing to be the border of a park. The ground is cobble stone road. Why I decided to put a fence rather than a wall at the bottom of the alley? Because I want to have an additional camera angle to shoot the activities in the alley. A wall may block the view. The idea is to create a sense of being encircled, a sense of security which allows our actors to do what ever they like. The diorama is going to depict a sense may be found in a French city or any Western European city in general.

Now let's look at all the components of the diorama. On the top are the walls of the factory house. They are made from Slaters engraved plastic card. On the cardborad is the frame of the garage and to its right are the three-story house made with 3 mm foam board. Down to the left are windows made with Evergreen plastic rod and clear plastic card. I only want to create one face of the each structure so as to make it as simple as possible.

Here is a picture of slate roof for the factory building and the three-story house.

The roof tile of the three-story building is made from 3mm*3mm cardboard pieces. Thses pieces are laid in a line first, then the second line of pieces are placed on the edge of the first line to created a 3D effect. The work took me about one night and one morning to finish! The roof of the three-story building is much simpler as you can see from the picture. 

Next is the garage. The roof is a small panel of Wills corrugated iron plastic card. See my another post for a review of the material. The garage doors are made with cardboard. The design comes from some web pictures of old French garage door.

Finally the walls of the factory house are put together, with window fitted.



NOCH sexy scenes (lovers in action) : rear entry

This is the another set of lovers in action. It depicts a couple having sex in a rear entry position. It comes with a white chair.

NOCH sexy scenes (lovers in action) : man on top

Hi, I think I probably am the first person to post the uncensored photo of content of NOCH's ho scale sexy scenes series on the web : ). I had searched on Internet for such photo very hard for the past one year. However, most of the photos I found are censored so you cannot see the most interesting part of the figures. I did came across a few uncovered photos on Flickr of NOCH's n scale sexy scenes figures. But they are less detailed like the ho scale figures.

Ok here you are. The No. 15954 figure set: man on top. I bought this set in Germany for 7.5 euro. The box is designed in the way that you cannot see the figures at all unless you open it. This set depicts a couple having sex in a conventional way on a red sofa. The details are really good. As you can see in the third photo clearly the woman's breasts. According to NOCH, the figures are made of resin and hand-painted. My inspection tells that the male and female are separately moulded and then sticked together. I do not attempt to separate them.

Stay tuned and more to come. I have another two sets of lovers in action. : )

MKD 1/87 building components - windows, doors, shutters and water downpipes

I recently bought these MKD building components from http://www.ontracks.co.uk/. I am very happy with the kits because they are well made and also reflect genuine French building styles.

Hornby became the distributor of MKD products last year I believe. Before that it is quite hard to find MKD products in the UK. At Ontracks' website it indicates that you have to wait 14 days for the MKD products to be delivered. I placed the order in 9th January and the parcel arrived in 24th January. Two sets of kits each costs £4.60.

This is the package of windows, doors and shutters. Fairly simple. Next picture shows all you get in one pack - three identical sprues moulded in different colours. There are 6 full size doors on each sprue. But according to the sample picture on web there were only 4 doors. So it is a pleasant surprise! However, the number of windows is only 6, including one very small window. There are 8 separate shutters to match 4 windows. The quality of moulding is excellent, with absolutely no flash. Detailes are also very good, for example the texture of wooden doors.

The next picture is a closeup of the sprue.

The other side of the sprue are flat and with no details at all. All doors and windows come with a rim around them. That means they should be fitted to the hole on the wall from inside. But I am going to use 5mm foam board to make walls and cut holes on it. So it is too thick to mimic a real wall and hole. I have to cut the rim out so the windows and doors can be fitted in the hole from any side of the wall and leaving a desired gap between the wall surface and the window or door, that is 2-2.5 mm. Fortunately the plastic is a bit soft and it is very easy to cut the rim with a sharp craft knife.

I give some measures of the components here.

Window                  9*15.5mm          X2

Window                  10*16.8mm        X1

Window                  8*13mm             X1

Window                  9.5*16.5mm       X1

Window                  4*7mm               X1

Door with single vertical separator                10*25mm           X2

Door with vertical and horizontal separator   10*25mm           X1

Door with slat and window                           10*24.5mm        X2

Tall door with no window                             10*26.5mm        X1

Small wood door                                          8*13mm    X1 

Next we look at the water downpipes. Each pack contains two identical sprues moulded in light grey. Again it gives adequate details but no flash. But in some parts the injection pins are visible. The length of gutters ranges from 74.5mm to 8mm and most of they are around 50 to 60mm. The downpipes are from 87mm to 40mm and you get two styles of downpipes.