Morning all,

T.G.I.F!  Looking forward to the weekend and some workbench time.  I'm roughly 70% of the way through painting all the detail castings on the current build (there are a lot).  I hope to finish that task up this weekend though it's becoming a little more challenging.  The old A&I wash after painting has to be abandoned.  It'll just wash off some of the newer paints I'm using.  I'm going to try Dr. Jeff's trick of hitting the castings with a flat finish (DullCoat or similar) and then using an oil paint wash in lieu of the A&I.

Have a great one!

The windows in the back are plastic, but the front is made of layers of chipboard, as is the big door.  Add some signage and the whole effect is pretty good. ( The roof has not been glued in place yet.)

More positioning in the magnetic jig gets all the walls:



You can see how the little extension joins the main building with a tab into a slot on the wall

Hello Matt, add my name to the list of people that are very impressed with your build. The turret looks amazing and thank you for the tutorial on building it. I also like your method of placing newspapers in a window. That's something we've all seen many times in the real world, but rarely see in the modeled world. Good job.

The gas station has been put into it's place and I have done some basic scenery around the edges to blend it into it's new home.







I'm very happy with how my "new" gas station looks on the layout. I still have some more scenery work to do and some more detail castings to add, but for now I'm going to call this build finished.

This Showcase Miniatures kit was a pleasant surprise for me to build. This was my first all fiberboard , slot and tab kit. I was very impressed with the laser cut accuracy of the parts. Everything fit together very well, with only a few minor adjustments that I'm sure were my fault. I would recommend this kit to anyone who has some prior experience building craftsman kits. This is not a beginners kit.

Jason Jenson did the build for the manufacturer and the pictures that come with the kit are of his build. He did his usual fine job. I was looking at pictures of Cliff Powers new layout and came upon his version of this kit, if you want a look at another modeler's version.

That's it for now, on to the next one.

Continuing on...



This gas station is a styrene City Classics kit and this is an area that I have wanted to upgrade with a craftsmankit for some time. I've looked longingly at many gas station kits, but when I saw Fred's One Stop, I knew this was the one for this area.



So the gas station and scenery are gone- down to the plywood shelf.



I cut a piece of Homosote, or as Home Depot calls it here in the desert "sound deadening board", to fit the space and glued it down.



I used drywall joint compound around the perimeter to blend the edges into the contours of the surrounding area. The blue tape is placed on the edge of the road to protect the road surface.



I also put some blue tape along the top edge of my fascia board and then painted everything with a brown base color.

 

Bob, you can feel free to "sprint out the door" for that next PI :-) :-) 

Cloudy today in SE NH, but still very spring-like.  We're at or near peak-daffodil, reminding me that I really need to dig up and separate the clumps of bulbs this fall.  I finished the morning PT, there's a geology talk I'll go to late afternoon, but in a bit I'll head to the train room to get something done.

dave

I love the look in the mock-up.  Like you, I can't resist tacking wall parts together to see the result on the layout....

dave

I was going to start eating healthy until I saw Marty is serving cinnamon rolls this morning...oh well, start tomorrow morning
Terry