High Street Bollington

The scheme to build houses at the top of High Street in Bollington met with local opposition as the proposal involved building on a pub car park and on open, tree covered land.  I was commissioned to build a model and the photographs below show some of the construction stages.

 

The "context" buildings are finished in white. windows and doors shown simply as recesses. 

The new buildings are to be fully detailed and finished in colour

 

Most of bollington is stone built and the models reflect this.

 

 

Some of the topography is formed from card, particularly the roadways.

 

The remainder of the terrain is formed from material such as expanded polystyrene and covered with smooth plaster. When complete, it is finished with simulated grass.

 

The completed model includes a number of large trees which are fashioned by hand. Foliage is a commercially available product.

 

A few other details such as cars and a phone box add a splash of colour and a sense of scale.

 

Narrowboats

 

These 1:76 scale narrowboats were built as a "labour of love".  The models are entirely handbuilt and the hulls are carved from solid plastic. These boats are highly detailed and perhaps the hardest job involved hand painting the lettering and "rose and castle" decoration.

 

The boats carry fictitious names but are finished in traditional working boat style.

 

Adobe Photoshop allowed me to "launch" a boat into our local canal, the Peak Forest. In the photo below "Gazelle" approaches Bang's footbridge in Furness Vale.