A mans home is his CASTLE

MorgansRmine · Advanced Member

Took a little over 8 months, finally finished.

Dick · Expert Member

Kit, or your creation?
I ask because I see one thing there that reminds me of something I made for my wife, several years ago. I'll post a picture, (if I can still locate it). I found them:

the top is the whole house, and the bottom shows the birdies on the teeter-totter.

My wife is a topiary painter
Dick

MorgansRmine · Advanced Member

Not a kit Dick. Small building are made of balsa wood. Walls are pieces of 2x10. Towers are veggies cans glued on to of each other. Stone is broken tiles, thumbled to smooth edges and dull finish. Gaps between stones filled with concrete driveway sealer and applied with iceing bags.

eagames · Expert Member

Neat!

Did you ever make a train set?

Dick · Expert Member

Lots of creativity, and talent with your hands. Have you ever shown any of your work?
I have no sreativity, but it you have a machine, I can rebuild it, and make it as good as new. I found I had talents in this area, when I "inherited" a Cincinati, overhead arm milling machine, that had been torn down, and they couldn't figure how to put it back together again. I worked on it for a while, and kept coming to the same block. Then I began checking serial numbers. From then on it was easy. They didn't have a service manual, so they were stumpped. I enjoy rebuilding machine tools. I was born with a "monkey-wench in my hand. While I was in the fourth grade, I found an old engine that had been trown away. I asked my Dad if I could use his tools. He said if they don't go back where they came from, then no.
Ed, If you are asking me, the answer is no. I had a train, that I got for Xmas, but my baby sister didn't like it, so she stompped it to pieces! She got blistered, but the damage was already done. The next train I worked on was as a fireman, on the AT&SF RY. Worked out of PHX, and the "extra-board in Prescott. Didn't get to Ashfork, to do a little Hostleing. That was nice, until they brought in those stinking diesels. I went back into the Navy again, in Dec.'47.
BTW, that teeter-totter is funcional.
Dick

KurtS · Senior Member

Great work! You could store your coin collection in that castle...it looks well-guarded. Very Happy

Dick · Expert Member

kurt, I agree. The only thing I think would be missing are the catapults. They usually were used to assault the castle, but why not use them for defense, as well?
Dick

KurtS · Senior Member

Good question! I suppose a castle was an easier, fixed target than ranging a catapult for troops? Confused

If I had wall-mounted cannon, I'd stuff them full of bags of corroded Zincolns--that might be an effective anti-personnel weapon Laughing

Btw, how is your plumbing repair--all done? That sounded like a messy project.

Dick · Expert Member

Kurt, I have finished the kitchen cabinetry, except for making a door for the one I stole from another cabinet, to fill the new facing. It turned out pretty nice, I guess. my wife gave me a thumbs up. I have a small leak, just a slow leak, which was most likely due to water on the fitting,, and didn't make a good seal. Under the house same thing, but it wasn't a faulty seal, more like not enough penetration. it was a doubtful one at the time, because I couldn't get a good position to push the joint together, and it sets up pretty fast. I'll just pull it, and put in another section,and put a "roustabout" in that joint. I am in the cleanup stages, now so it is about finished. I'll give it another check over, thru-out, and then button it up. The carport skirting has been open all thru the operation. I had "Corkey's" come and spray uinderneath to get rid of the black widows, and grey recluse spiders. I figured it was worth the money, because I spent the better part of the week, under the house, for most of the day, each day. Now the dirty part of the job: I have to clean out the ttool-shed, so I can get the tools, and other parrts and materials back where they came from.. I was tired of having to replace bits, and pieces of the original plumbing, and decided the next one will be a full installation, from the main input shut-off valve.. But, it is done, for the most part. I wonder what is next on the "honey do" list?
Dick