Friday 24 November 2017

Cliff 1

That excellent brewer of tea, bearer of tea cosies, and teller of tall tales (and occasionally long, thin ones), John Curtis, has kindly volunteered to tackle one of my more recent cunning plans.

I'm thinning out some books which will leave at least one shelf bare.

An ideal spot to display troops.

However, they do tend to get in each others way so that the spotty ones in the back row cannot be seen.

So I thought of a cliff face with troops in front of it, others high on a plateau and a further rank higher still, on the top of the cliff.

John has constructed and painted an excellent initial mock up, as shown here, measuring about 8 inches square.

The eventual cliff will be about 1 foot 9 inches, in old money, and about 5 or six inches high.

But isn't it good!

(What have you written on the back John?)


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

8 inches by 6 inches square, I believe. Whenever men talk of their favourite things the dimensions appear, in some strange way to increase. It's one of those mysteries of the univerese....and HE put it about that it was a BIG Bang................A statement of authemticity is pasted on the back of the mock-up model. It reads thus: 'Eroded Basalt Cliff Face, Laid Down In The Junkassic Era' Excellent snap. Makes it look good. John

Cotswold Bookstore said...

What's two inches between friends. Don't answer that.
It looks good because it is. And thanks for the inscription of authenticity.