My choice for the build challenge is this version of the company house with the left hand addition. You can buy this kit with the addition either on the left or right. My plan is to change a few things to the kit to represent a home that has had a few improvements over the years. I'll add a double window to the front wall, an extended front porch, and shingles instead of the tarpaper roof.
Dan,
Looks like a fun build, I'm in the crowd looking in.
Tom ;D
I've also purchased some Rail Scale Miniatures Dragon Scale Shingles, a package of Bar Mills N-Scale fencing that will be used on the porch as a lattice, and the new double windows from Tichy.
Quote from: ACL1504 on January 01, 2020, 11:49:16 AM
Dan,
Looks like a fun build, I'm in the crowd looking in.
Tom ;D
Thanks..
Looking forward to your changes, Dan.
Cheers, Mark.
I'll be looking in Dan..... :)
I'll be following along as well Dan. :)
I'll be following.
Dragon scales! A magical build.
Jaime
Thanks for following along everyone. After cleaning up the work space, I started with modification #1, the front window replacement. I centered it over the window opening.
The window was measured and it was roughly 3/4" X 9/16". The opening was marked out on the back of the front wall. I cut it out small and filed it out till the window fit.
The second modification will be extending the porch roof across the front wall. A new hole was cut out for the clapboard roof piece. A scrap piece of clapboard was made to fit the old opening and glued in place. Hopefully this won't show when the roof is installed.
The few pieces of stripwood were soaked in some Hunterline Driftwood Stain and allowed to dry.
Bracing was added to the walls. Walls will be sprayed black and allowed to dry overnight. I need to figure what colors to paint it. I'm thinking beige and brown, or blue and white. Decisions, decisions...
Magical dragon shingles?
No open flames around this project: you wouldn't want it to go "puff".
Dan, I am following along, too. Nice ideas for modifications. I had to look up "dragon scale" shingles to see an example of the style. They should add huge visual interest.
--Opa George
Quote from: BandOGuy on January 01, 2020, 10:47:04 PM
Magical dragon shingles?
No open flames around this project: you wouldn't want it to go "puff".
I think buildings only catch fire in Florida.. Just sayin..
Quote from: Opa George on January 02, 2020, 06:27:34 AM
Dan, I am following along, too. Nice ideas for modifications. I had to look up "dragon scale" shingles to see an example of the style. They should add huge visual interest.
--Opa George
Thanks ..
So I cut the windows and doors from the sprues and cleaned up the nibs and have them ready to paint.
Before getting horizontal for the night I painted the insides of the walls flat black.
Then this morning I gave everything a coat of the Hunterline Driftwood Stain.
The colors I chose for the build Tamiya Desert Yellow for the main color and Linoleum Deck Brown for windows and trim.
First coat applied as a stain using George's thinner, then paint method.
Looking good Dan! I've got my eyes on this build.
Looking great so far.
Mark and Curt, thanks for following..
On my last couple of builds, I've applied HunterLine Driftwood, and after that dried, applied the actual paint (relatively thinly.) That gives a weathered, but not decrepit to the paint coat.
dave
Dan,
Looking good my friend.
Tom ;D
Quote from: Raymo on January 02, 2020, 05:19:11 PM
Quote from: BandOGuy on January 01, 2020, 10:47:04 PM
Magical dragon shingles?
No open flames around this project: you wouldn't want it to go "puff".
I think buildings only catch fire in Florida.. Just sayin..
What a coincidence, Tom lives in Florida....."Just sayin"..... ;D
Quote from: deemery on January 03, 2020, 11:10:29 AM
On my last couple of builds, I've applied HunterLine Driftwood, and after that dried, applied the actual paint (relatively thinly.) That gives a weathered, but not decrepit to the paint coat.
dave
I actually thought of leaving it alone after the 1st coat of paint, but I decided to make it look a little more respectable. I might build a 2nd kit and do it more run down.
Quote from: ACL1504 on January 03, 2020, 11:33:34 AM
Dan,
Looking good my friend.
Tom ;D
Thanks Tom! You're the master of build threads.. ;D
Quote from: GPdemayo on January 05, 2020, 12:44:20 PM
Quote from: Raymo on January 02, 2020, 05:19:11 PM
Quote from: BandOGuy on January 01, 2020, 10:47:04 PM
Magical dragon shingles?
No open flames around this project: you wouldn't want it to go "puff".
I think buildings only catch fire in Florida.. Just sayin..
What a coincidence, Tom lives in Florida....."Just sayin"..... ;D
;D ;D
So I added a 2nd coat to the walls, I wanted this house to look taken care of , but just a little weathered.
Windows and doors were painted brown along with the trim stripwood.
The walls had nail holes litely added, a few clapboards lifted, and a dry brush of Floquil SP Lettering Gray.
I also dry brushed the windows and doors. Problem was they looked "whitewashed" when I was done. A little drybrushing of the brown toned it down some. They don't look as gray in person as they show up in the photo.
I added the corner trim to the end walls except for the front left (looking at the house). That trim was added to the addition wall. This is done because these 2 walls abut when glued together.
A coat of light A&I solution was applied and allowed to dry over night.
The walls were assembled to make your basic box.
The small piece for the end of porch roof was glued in place and the building was set aside to dry.
Foundation pieces were cut.
The roofs (rooves?) are supplied laser cut, but there is no relief cut for the bend. I measured, marked and lightly cut the addition roof, and tried out it's fit.
That's it for now. Next up, the foundation, windows and roof.
Looking good, Raymo.
Depending on the roofing material, you might want to mark parallel lines on the roofs before you glue them on.
Cheers, Mark.
Quote from: Raymo on January 05, 2020, 07:44:11 PM
The roofs (rooves?) are supplied laser cut, but there is no relief cut for the bend. I measured, marked and lightly cut the addition roof, and tried out it's fit.
An online dictionary noted "rooves" is an old secondary plural for roof and is used only in analogy with "hooves." Except for reindeer, I don't see many instances where you would have hooves on rooves.
Nice work on this build, by the way! :)
--Opa George
Dan,
Your build is coming along nicely. Well done.
Tom ;D
Dan,
Really like what you are doing with this kit, love the colors you chose.
Jim
Mark, George, Tom, and Jim, thanks for the follow..
So I'm back at it and I have glued some 1/16 stripwood to the inside of the roof to stiffen it up and hold it in place.
The package of double windows had enough of the laser cut clear styrene to do all the windows. I'll do this as filler work while the glue dries
I've taken the 1/4" X 1/16" stripwood and built the foundation. It wasn't quite wide enough so I added a piece to one side (I screwed up gluing it together, I'll admit it.. :D )
I had bought a couple different sheets of embossed stone sheet from Foggy Mountain Models, I cut strips of a grayish one to represent a fieldstone foundation.
I glued the strip to the foundation, hopefully the seam will be hidden behind one of the porches.
I found some metal castings in my casting box to add to the structure. The chimney and bulkhead came from Jimmy ( They're polished with walnuts :D ), the steps from Wiseman Models, and I don't know who made the stack.
All were painted appropriate base colors
I cut a piece of cardboard to make the porch roof.
I added some more 1/16" stripwood to the edges of the roof to help strengthen the joint and act as decreative trim on the roof edge. A little thin ACC helped with securing the joint
The underside of the roof was painted brown before it was attached to the building.
I need to resize some photos, I'll be back..
Looking really nice! That embossed stone paper looks great in the photo. Does it look that good in person?
--Opa George
Looking good Dan! ;)
Dan,
I agree, this is looking very nice.
Tom ;D
Dan:
It's coming along quite nicely.
Karl
Quote from: Opa George on January 31, 2020, 06:48:43 AM
Looking really nice! That embossed stone paper looks great in the photo. Does it look that good in person?
--Opa George
It actually looks surprisingly nice. I plan on using it more.
I marked the roof with pencil lines about every 1/4 inch to help with the shingle locations. As noted in the beginning over the thread, I replaced the rolled roofing with Rail Scale Models Dragon Scale tan shingles. The 1st course was applied upside down and then staggered up the roof.
The addition/porch roof shingled.
The finished roof attached to the building. I wanted to cap the seam with the shingles but couldn't get it to look right, I ended up using a strip of the shingle paper. From the constant flexing of the roof at the peak, the card board started to de-laminate. I clamped it and glued it with the thin ACC, but it leaked through. Hopefully I can hide it with weathering. I also dry-brushed it with some Grimy Black, although it doesn't show up in photos.
I measured, marked, and cut the main roof bend. This time, I hit the seam with the ACC before doing any work on it.
I like using the Robert's Brick Mortar on my bricks. I apply 1 heavy coat, let it dry, and rub of the excess with my fingers.
I also finished the windows and applied shades with some Polly S Dark Green. 8)
That's it for now..
Quote from: Raymo on January 30, 2020, 07:16:14 PM
I had bought a couple different sheets of embossed stone sheet from Foggy Mountain Models, I cut strips of a grayish one to represent a fieldstone foundation.
The Foggy Mountain (https://foggymountainmodels.com) brick and stone sheets are way cool. I got some at Springfield and have a spot for them already.
Jaime
Nice work!
Dan
Looking great! Another wonderful build thread.
Just a quick update to the build thread tonight. The mortar was rubbed off the casting and the top was painted with Aged Concrete and Grimy Black. When that dried it was dipped in some medium A&I.
Some 1/16" square stripwood was glued to the edges of the main roof.
A couple of pieces of 1/8" stripwood were glued in as stiffeners and the bottom edges were painted Brown.
When the paint was dry, the roof was marked with some pencil mark for reference when applying the shingles.
The cast metal details were painted the trim color and given a coat of A&I
That's it for tonight, time to shingle...
Dan, really nice build.
Love the mods you made, and the color scheme.
Great to see a more 'common' type structure being built, they tend to get over shadowed by all the big 'interesting' type kits.
Jim