the cabin was put into shape in 15 secs..and the angles areabsolutely straight of course, thanks PE.
let's put the border of the roof with a small evergreen rod..
then plenty of Squadron white putty
.. and some extra rod and here's a good bit of the diorama finished

While the Magic Sculp dries I need to do roof with roundcorners for my boat, it must also be very rusty with holes in it, so I thinneddown and made holes in the roof with a Dremel

Then I glued that roof on some round corners done out ofsome round plastic. I will sure have to use plenty of mastic on that one..

The big problem with photoetch is of course its lack ofthickness, never mind, let's create some. *

So i flattened some MS lumps at the right thickness, put onmy bits on the top and let the stuff dry a bit.

then I proceeded to cut the mastic. here are all the piecesdone with some thickness, including some "wheels" on my anchorthing..

Well after saving all the bits, it's really important to getrid of all the resin still on the photoetch bits or you can't solder it at all!I dipped all my bits in some Acetone bath and cleaned them with an old brush

Okay let me present THE bit that i suppose will be the mosttricky part, that's the engine to fetch the anchor, I don't really understandhow it works -with steam? there should be some gearing somewhere but I can'tfind where.

oh well, here's the real thing extracted from the plans onthe left.

On the right I have already soldered the cylinders on which

I suppose the chain of the anchor goes, It gives the rightoutline.

then I covered the bits with Magic Sculp and rolled itagainst some cylinder of the same curve to get some perfect shapes.

Note that the "cylinder" is actually some topssoldering paste that i bought after some recommendations I read on the MLforums.

After having made this nice plate, better actually etch the metal. So I built my homemade machine (the same old can for morning chocolate as ever) with an aquarium bubble maker plugged in it and an aquarium heater on the other hand to warm up the ferric chloride.

I took some risks actually : indeed the ferric chloride was *very* old, which means that it doesn’t etch so well andespecailly so fast, in the end I just knew the result would bot be extremely precise which was actually the case.

Indeed the during the time it took to, dig all the holes, the ferric also completely destroyed most of the tiny bits I had planned touse. Nevermind, in the end I have photoetch looking a bit rough but which will be perfect for a mostly completed rusty boat

It makes me weird to post the following picture like this,it looks like nothing but I spent hours and hours on that one, doing the plans for photoetch is REALLY time consuming.

Well, let's print it on some transparent foil, cut it at the right size and take a photoresist coated brass sheet in sandwich between the 2 halves.

Then let's close the light and dip the brass sheet in some can with the liquid revelant in it (is it "revelant"? that's bad translated French, I mean the liquid which will develop the fret)

aha success, on the background is the house of my über rich neighbour!