Question for DIYer's with medieval overtones....

[Ultraviolet]

All


I have created a home-made play fort with tasteful plywood walls... due to my hamfisted efforts with the circular saw, the edges do not fit exactly - where the walls meet in a right-angle, there is a gap.

Any idea where i can get some form of largish right angled edging (not the decorative stuff you get in Homebase) to fix over these corners? Ideally if it also had some sort of brick type motif to add to overall medieval effect, that would be great...

over to you, PH DIY massive

cheers,

UV

[mgtony]

For the corners why not screw and glue a piece of say 3x1 to a piece of 2x1 to make a corner piece, you wont be able to buy anything like this and it will be cheap to do. As for the brick effect you either need to glue and pin brick sized pieces of ply onto it or use a router to groove brick lines into the walls, although if your circ saw cuts are a bit off then skip this option!;)

[Maxf]

when I was a nipper my fort was covered in 'brick' wallpaper! Maybe you can still buy such stuff in this age of playstations and knives?

[mgtony]

Just another thought, why not paint a brick effect.Paint it grey, use masking tape for brick lines then paint whole thing brick red, remove tape = hey presto!
Good Knight!

[speedchick]

Anywhere that sells things for making dolls houses will usually have paper that is decorated with bricks/stones etc, also places that sell model railways, as they sell it for railway layouts (though it will be a smaller scale)

[Maxf]

here is a place: http://www.sandasupplies.co.uk/productspage.asp?co...

[TWSTEEL]

Just bodge up the gaps with anything you can then finish the whole thing off with this http://www.plasti-kote.co.uk/Product/pcode---4651/... and brush over lightly with grey and green acrylic with an almost dry brush to get an authentic stone effect and very roughly outline the stone shapes with a coctail stick. Finish the whole thing off with a coat of acrylic matt spray and I can assure you the finish will be brilliant.

[renrut]

Is it only me that thinks typical red bricks didnt come about until long after people stopped building castles?

[Ultraviolet]

good ideas so far.... keep 'em coming

I'm now thinking - cut a pattern out of some thin stone-effect lino, score it with a knife, fold it over the corners and No More Nails it in place.


thoughts?


UV

[mgtony]

I thought we were talking about a huge play centre in your garden (reasoning for replies). Is it the size of a dolls house? Hopefully this is for your kids and not a pastime!

[Ultraviolet]

mgtony said:

I thought we were talking about a huge play centre in your garden (reasoning for replies). Is it the size of a dolls house? Hopefully this is for your kids and not a pastime!

yep... for the kids I'm pleased to say... its around 8'x8UV'x7' (hwd) on two floors. Needless to say it dominates the garden!


UV

[Saskia7]

Ultraviolet said:

All


I have created a home-made play fort with tasteful plywood walls... due to my hamfisted efforts with the circular saw, the edges do not fit exactly - where the walls meet in a right-angle, there is a gap.

Any idea where i can get some form of largish right angled edging (not the decorative stuff you get in Homebase) to fix over these corners? Ideally if it also had some sort of brick type motif to add to overall medieval effect, that would be great...

over to you, PH DIY massive

cheers,

UV

Look on 'Dolls House' websites, I know this after making a mess of the self-made dolls house I made for my friends daughter...they have the answers to everything

[Autonotiv]

2x2 up each corner fixed from the other side with the paslode (if you don't have one then screw it)

paint as others have said

jobs a good un

[V8mate]

Why do you have to use something so heavy. Just use 25mm white plastic right angle edging - fixed either internally or externally to your gapped edges, ahead of the decorative wrap

[Dover Nige]

Expanding foam...!!

It'll look like rough castle rocks type things when it's dry...!

[Zad]

renrut said:

Is it only me that thinks typical red bricks didnt come about until long after people stopped building castles?

Many Roman buildings which appear to be stone are, in fact, brick faced with stone or concrete! But yes, they weren't as good as quarried stone for castles as they can't take such big impacts.

[Uncle Fester]

Does the castle have to come apart?

If not, then maybe some tube of a suitable size to look right with the scale would do.

Cut a 90 degree section out of the tube lengthways. Then glue over the corners.

The effect would be like a round corner turret.

[renrut]

Zad said:

renrut said:

Is it only me that thinks typical red bricks didnt come about until long after people stopped building castles?

Many Roman buildings which appear to be stone are, in fact, brick faced with stone or concrete! But yes, they weren't as good as quarried stone for castles as they can't take such big impacts.

I genuinely didnt know that. Learn something new everyday.

[dilbert]

Gripfill!

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/10261/Sealants-Adhes...
Hi tech, space age, product of precision (sniff)

Edited by dilbert on Saturday 9th August 03:09

[Munter]

dilbert said:

Gripfill!

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/10261/Sealants-Adhes...
Hi tech, space age, product of precision (sniff)

Edited by dilbert on Saturday 9th August 03:09

Oh indeed. I highly recommend this product. It's a bit like that precision DuckTape