Morning all

Hope your procedure goes well, Jim.

Sorry to hear about your friend passing, Marty.

I hope I can focus as well as you are in your last week, Bob.  I'm already tuning out administration and I have 2 years left.  

Hopefully over 60 degrees here today, maybe a walk later.  Some bench time as well.

Jeff

Morning all.

Mowed yesterday, but some more outdoor work today.  Need to continue work on the ITLA kit as well.  

Jeff

I did remove the top piece, so I'll make some wall toppers from styrene.  Next was making sure the pieces fit back in the walls.  These were cut to be "friction fit", but with the paint coating, they didn't quite fit back in.  If you force the brick pieces in it may affect the piece between them, so some gentle sanding with the Ultimation sander to all the pieces got them to fit back correctly.  Need to do some touch ups on the brick pieces, then glue them in.  I'll take the windows back out, then everything will get a spray of Dullcoat or equivalent before oil washes.  

Jeff

Morning all.

Might get to 60 today, but warmer tomorrow, so I'll probably mow and do some other outside work then.  

More work on the ITLA kit today, hopefully.

Jeff

The other two sides will be gatorfoam.  With some trial and error, I managed to cut these to fit.  I admire how you kitbashers and scratch builders get this stuff to work.  The gatorfoam is just slightly wider than the supplied pieces for the top of the wall.  I don't think it will be noticable, but I may just cut some styrene slightly wider than the pieces supplied and fit them when the kit is together.  This will require removing the one piece that's on now, but that's not a big deal.  I'll think this over. 

Jeff

I added the top pieces and they didn't meet at the corner the way I thought they would.  So I cut the end off one and removed the other.  I don't think I'll do the top pieces until the kit is together, and I want to do all the windows/brick areas etc while they are separate.  

Jeff

I have a Vallejo color that's a near match for the spray camo tan, but I decided to mask off all the brick areas, respray the tan and it turned out well.

Jeff

I managed to get most of this pulled back, but the wood started to tear, so I reglued it and it's more reasonably closer.  The brick pieces dried nicely.

Jeff

So things started to go a little wonky.  The corner pieces on the mock up didn't line up.  One set is absolutely even with the edge and the other isn't.  

Jeff

Thanks, Dave.  It does look better than the cardboard box.  

Jeff

Morning, all.

Cool tower, Craig.  I may just have a spot for that one.  Neat that you can split it into two parts.  Interesting concept.  

Tom, I'd never heard of dippy eggs and had to look it up.  I only like my eggs scrambled.  I will take some of all the meats, however.  

Not even going to get to 50 here today.  I'll hide out in the basement as my wife's sisters are coming over for a couple of days.  My wife makes a T Shirt quilt for all the nieces/nephews when they graduate high school, and her sisters come and help.  The last one is graduating this year.  

Jeff

Well sited on the layout.  Nice scene. 

Jeff

Morning, all.  

Cold and grey here.  I have a four day weekend and hope to get more work done on the ITLA build.  

Hope the oil wash technique works well for you, Bob.   

Jeff

It's hard to see, but in the corner, one edge of the front wall didn't get painted.      This will require some touch up.  I also forgot to put on the "cap" to the wall.  For this you use the left edge of the pieces the pilasters were removed from.  Pretty good fit.  Clever of the ITLA folks to think of this.  That's why I save all the "leftovers" until I'm finished with a kit, many of the pieces come in handy. 

Jeff

The concrete areas were sprayed with camo tan.  I couldn't resist putting them together to see how it looked on the layout. I think this will do.

Jeff