Small Water Mill

This started as an attempt to make a simple 2” x 2” water mill that would fit inside a little house plant. It didn’t go as planed and morphed into this 6” x 7” building on a 10” x 10” base. So technically it is a “failure”, lol. But failure has never bothered me much. I still like it and have had fun photographing it. Now back to the original plan…

Drawn in Illustrator and cut from .125’ MDF, .06” MDF, .06 acrylic, 24 pt. Card-stock, and scrapbook paper. Ground cover and figures were store bought.

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Kinda speechless. Just wow.

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I wanted to just say OMG.

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I can’t believe it was that small. The last picture put the size in perspective. Your design and paint job is so accurate that everything looked bigger. That was definitely not a failure.

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I am astounded at how quickly you are producing these. Very impressive.

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We should have a whole section for just miniatures! These are so amazing!

I love your work!

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Oh this is nice!

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Drool. Another absolutely gorgeous build!

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Another amazing building!

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Impressive doesn’t even begin to describe this, I don’t even have words! Except…WOW!!

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You NEVER cease to amaze me. What a gift!

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It’s incredibly beautiful. So many details. I love it.

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That’s gorgeous!

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Wow!! I love it!!

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Amazing! How long did it take you?
How did you do the brick wall?
You do an amazing job of painting as well!

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I’d guess around 10-12 hrs. to draw everything and make sure it fit together. About 45 min. to cut everything and about 3 hrs. to paint and assemble.

The “bricks” are just score lines (maybe a little deeper than normal) in the wood. Two things that I’ve learned help with bricks. 1. When designing the file, concoct every other horizontal line so the laser doesn’t go back and forth without cutting anything. 2. Add tiny little cuts, maybe .04" lines, on the edges in between each brick.

Like this…

Brick Sample copy

The bricks are all just painted with “spray paint”. I paint the whole thing Grey, then spray a light coating of Red, White, and Black. Painting is NOT my favorite part. :wink:

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Holy Toledo!! That is incredible!! :clap::clap::clap:

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We would all love to have such failures. Your attention to detail is just wonderful. Thank you for all the photos!!

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As ever your detail, your construction, your staging and your photographs are impeccable

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Wow! That is just amazing work. The attention to detail is just stunning.

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