I will be kitbashing this Walthers Row House plastic kit for the Build Challenge 2016:
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My plan is to modify the kit to more closely resemble a group of Baltimore Row Houses. I would like to grow the group from 2 units to 4. Ultimately this group will form a portion of a module that I am (slowly) constructing for the Four County Society of Model Engineers Layout. This will be my first build thread of any kind, so we will see how it goes....
Matt
I'm looking forward to it.
Jaime
Narrow Gauge Convention photos (http://www.narrowperspective.com)
Great!
Looking forward to your build Matt..... :)
Matt,
I'm following along also. Any up dates on the build?
Tom ;D
Matt
I will also be following along. Very interested to see what you do with this.
Quote from: ACL1504 on October 06, 2016, 09:16:10 AM
Matt,
I'm following along also. Any up dates on the build?
Tom ;D
Ahh, fall in the construction business. The 1:1 construction world has been a bit crazy recently meaning the 1:87 construction world has taken a backseat. I hope to have an update this weekend.
I have done some work to make up my cardstock mock-up.
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More later,
Matt
Yea, funny how life gets in the way of our modeling efforts.
Tom ;D
So, let's see if we can't get this going in earnest.
Here are the parts all laid out:
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Previously I mentioned that I was constructing a mock-up. Well, I did to a point and then pushed forward towards work on the actual model. I will likely return to the mock up as I proceed to figure out further details.
Here is my current mock up, a little worse for wear and, admittedly, unfinished.
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Here is the front wall. I want the two right units to drop down a grade by about 3 feet.
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And here is the end wall. I wasn't happy with the look of the kit supplied wall with its double wide window, so I am going to combine the two end walls to eliminate that feature. The paper mock up will allow me to try the cut before knife hits plastic.
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And here is is the cut and join in the plastic wall. Notice I am also eliminating the block style foundation, more on that later.
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In order to create four homes out of two, I need a new front wall. First I cut a piece of styrene to the proper over all dimensions.
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Then I slice it up vertically and horizontally at the openings.
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Then reassemble it without the window locations. Some modification of the openings will be an order. All those little parts are slippery!!
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Next I laminate on some brick sheet. This is Plastruct HO Sheet that I had.
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And add a little weight.
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Meanwhile I cut out the windows and doors and set them up for a quick paint job.
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A shot of gray primer.
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And some sponge applied white.
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A test in the opening shows I may need to revisit this paint job.
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So that's where the project sits today. More later.
Matt
Matt,
I'm looking forward to this one, great start. By the way, nice "little" weight!
Tom ;D
Great progress on this Matt. I'll be following along since I've got a few plastic kits to be built and am always looking for techniques to paint & weather. Keep the progress pics coming.
Matt
I'm following along - your off to a great start.
You've made a great start Matt. have fun building that kit. :)
Stay cool and run steam........ 8) 8)
Thank you for following along, Tom, Mark, John and Bob. Hopefully I can keep up my end of this bargain.
So, while I waited for the wall laminate to dry, I began on of the trickier portions of this build: how to fill twice as many openings as are supplied in the kit. The first challenge was the front doors. The kit comes with two rear doors that are slightly different, but the same size as the front door leaves. So I began by gluing them together.
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Then I built a frame around them to match the dimensions of the existing frame.
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Some primer and paint and it is a rough approximation of the original.
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The door will not be that visible once the building is completed, so I will probably not worry about adding any more detail to the transom, but we will see.
Once the laminated brick had dried (and loose portions glued again and dried), I added a little bit of detail.
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Trying to exactly match the kit supplied front facade wasn't going to happen, so I used the always awesome Baltimore prototype to create the new rowhouse fronts. Many of you Baltimore fans are aware of the mid-century Formstone fad. This is my take on Formstone:
First some Camouflage primer
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Then some multicolor details
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Side by side with the kit facade:
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And attached to the kit facade:
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-191016051929-172721182.jpeg)
What! No windows in the Formstone?!
Well, I planned on using the windows from the side and rear walls to fill in my new front wall, but, it turns out, they are ever so slightly smaller...
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:P
Have no fear Rowhouse Fans! I have a plan.
More next time,
Matt
Next up I began work on the diorama and foundation for this model. I laid out the scene based on the limited space that I have to work with in the ultimate module location.
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I am building the foundation out of wall castings from a custom stone wall I built a while ago. The original was built from individual Sculpey stones.
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I then made a mold and cast some walls.
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Now to begin fabricating the walls.
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A little primer:
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A quick ink wash:
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And that's where it stands. I also fabricated my rear brick walls. The one wall will face the backdrop, and so it does not need a lot of detail. I decided to save my limited windows and leave the wall blank, but I couldn't resist adding a little something to that big brick expanse:
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Anybody have any experience working with the Silflor MiniNatur ivy. I had more success gluing it to my fingers and the tweezers than to the building... :P
'Til next time,
Matt
I just finished a wrestling match with that Silflor Ivy ;) . It looks awesome, but I will definitely look for the opportunity to place it on a wall that's not yet vertical in the future. I used significant blobs of Aileen's Tacky glue, which seemed OK, but it definitely required a significant weight to hold it down while drying. My theory, for next time, is that weighting the heck out of it is ok since it looks to me like the detail is so delicate it wouldn't really look "flat". You could probably pick at it with tweezers too after drying.
The stuff looks great but application is trickier than I expected.
GREAT sign by the way!
John
Hi Matt,
I'm just catching up on this one. It looks great so far. Love the sign and your technique for making the foundation. Keep the pictures coming. I can't wait to see how this turns out. :)
Thank you for following along John and Bob.
More progress has been made.
Now that I had a base, I needed to think about the additions in the rear that will make up for more of my "one kit into two" situation. I am using the original rear kit wall for two of the rowhouses and an offcut portion of one of the side walls for one other rear wall. In between I am constructing wood additions to hide the gaps. This also allows me to use different windows, as I don't have enough for the additional walls. So I have built a one story shed addition to cover the lower portion of one bay, a two story addition to cover the entire rear of another bay and then a two story porch to cover the rear of the other two bays. The porch necessitates door access, so I have cut new door openings, buying myself two additional window castings to use elsewhere. I found myself without the transom door openings I wanted for these new doors, so I cut out regular door frames and left them attached to the sprues. These sprues will form the transoms and, buried behind the porch, it shouldn't be too obvious.
Frames with sprues:
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New door openings:
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-311016055747-17777576.jpeg)
The clapboard additions were built with wooden clapboard material that I had on hand. So now the model has wood, plaster and plastic components. Following assembly, the siding was washed with india ink/alcohol and then "dry-sponged" with acrylic paint.
Close up of the two story addition:
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Both additions:
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-311016055746-177731261.jpeg)
With doors and windows and placed on their brick foundations:
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The porch was constructed from a couple of pieces that I have had for a long time left over from a Tyco Railroad Hotel kit.
I added a new floor of v-grooved styrene, a styrene roof, rafter tails and a small railing to separate the two units. I also added a rail cap later to add dimension to the rail.
Assembled and primed:
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Primed, washed, sponge painted and with the cap rail.
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For the problematic front windows, I installed the smaller kit supplied units into my too-large openings and added new Formstone sills to fill the gaps.
Windows installed without sills:
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And with the sills:
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-311016055944-177862015.jpeg)
So the above picture shows the front facades. Front porches will now follow. I have also built up the road bed to have my sloped topography.
The one side wall still needs the two story bay window to hide the two window openings that will be buried so that I could steal their window castings. That will also cover the brick seam created from combining the two wall sections.
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The other side wall as seen earlier, now with some mortar in the stone joints.
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And the rear wall with its additions. The two story structure appears a little catawompas so I may try try to adjust that. I have to add piers the bottom of the porch and some stairway access to the rear doors. Oh, and maybe some roofs.
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That's where it all sits for now.
More soon,
Matt
Matt,
Wow, very well done. The back porch and clapboard additions are wonderful.
Thanks for sharing.
Tom ;D
Beautiful
I'm still working. I hope to have a more comprehensive update soon. For now, here is a shot of one of the back yard fences:
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Matt
Matt, very worthy work!
One more teaser pic. Hopefully I have time to give a full report later this week.
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Matt
OK.
So I did adjust the slightly out of plumb back wall and then did some landscaping. I covered the styrofoam lightly with spackle and then painted it with an ugly yellow/brown paint from the Home Depot return shelf. While the paint was wet I sprinkled on some tan/brown powdered grout. I then applied ground foam over top of that.
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I built a board fence for one yard and added a porch and some backyard details.
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I also added some landscaping along the sides of the building.
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Moving around front. I added the streetcar track and "buried" it in cobblestone. I also built up the street and sidewalk. My height transition proved to be a bit complicated as I wanted to use the kit supplied steps to access the front porches. The original front porch steps and the rear steps were two different heights. I glued the two rear steps together with a scrap of styrene between to match the double wide front porch steps. I poured my first sidewalk layer and set the shorter step on top of that layer and set the taller step down inside of that layer. I then added another layer of sidewalk, burying the first steps of each and allowing for a non-code compliant, but OK looking transition from sloping sidewalk to steps.
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Now I moved on to the front porches. I painted the scribed styrene ceiling with a light blue green color. It is a lot more subtle in the end, but you can take my word for it. The ceiling was glued to the building first and then the roofs were added. I followed that with columns built from bamboo skewers. The railings are from Tichy. MB Klein only had one set of turned baluster railing and one set of square baluster railings so I mixed it up. The Formstone renovation guy apparently was a carpenter as well. I added the sidewalk details a little soon, so the porches had to be built while reaching around the streetlamps and the figures. ::) I am not sure I like the scale of the streetlamps. I have had them kicking around for a long time and used them, but i may replace them for a better looking product. The tree is still removable, so that hasn't been in the way.
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So here is where the project sits now:
Front:
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Side(still needs a bay window):
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-161116053704-18058512.jpeg)
Back(perhaps more fences and one more porch/steps):
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-161116053704-18057294.jpeg)
Other side:
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-161116053703-180551855.jpeg)
And viewed from above(No roof!!):
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-161116053704-18056304.jpeg)
Onward and upward!
Matt
Very nice work Matt!
The structures and diorama are looking great.
Jeff
Great looking building, Matt
Jim
Happy New Year, everyone. The craziness of the holiday season is behind us and I am now able to update this languishing thread. I have been working on the rowhouses during the past few weeks and I am nearing the finish line.
When last we visited the model, I was in need of a bay window to finish the one side of the structure. After mocking the bay up with cardboard, I began the construction with layers of styrene and wood strip.
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The design is based on the Tichy windows that I had on hand and their height relationship to the windows in main structure. The stone base is fabricated from the same custom stone that the rest of the foundation is constructed from. After adding enough trim to create the typical Victorian look of these types of bays, I still required some kind of detail to add some pizazz. I tried a couple of ideas, until, during one of our pre-Christmas trips to pick up gift supplies at Jo-Ann Fabrics, I came across some beads that would fit the bill. I filed the backs of the beads to get them to sit back into the building a bit and glued them in place.
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Now it just needs a roof. Which bring us to the next part of the project.
The most daunting task in front of me over the last month was the installation of the glazing. I hate installing glazing and it obviously can't go in to the building until all of the painting and weathering gets done, but it also has to go in before the roofs get installed. I should have done it when the walls were flat, but I didn't. So I had to wrestle that on (against the laws of gravity) and also install curtains and shades to block out my empty interiors. I used a combination of materials for this including the printed window curtains, shades and blinds that came with the kit. I photocopied the original and got some extras for my additional windows. I also stained some paper with coffee to create shades. The windows being glazed and blocked I could start to install the roofing.
I began with the small shed addition in the rear. I used printer paper to make a small strip of wood shingles. Once those were glued in the center of the roof, I used additional paper to replicate the newer tar paper roofing, tearing it to show the old shingles beneath. I then used alcohol and india ink, black acrylic paint and Bragdon powders to color the paper. The stove pipe was made from a piece of sprue and a paper hole punch. This assembly was painted with a flat black primer and then colored with the Bragdon powders.
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For the next roof, I wanted to use a different material. I had a piece of plastic corrugated roof material from some place, but I didn't like the largeness of it.
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So I grabbed a piece of aluminum foil from the kitchen and set out to make my own sheets. I rubbed the foil over the plastic piece with my finger, transferring the pattern.
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Then I cut the foil into 4' x 8' pieces. They were glued to the roof, painted gray and then colored with the Bragdon powders. A shot of Dullcoat should help keep it attached to the slick surface. The chimney came out of the scrapbox and black acrylic "roofing tar" completes the look.
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The double-decker porch got a similar tar paper roof as the shed roof, fabricated and colored in the same way.
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Meanwhile, I decided that the larger backyard area required additional detail, perhaps a tree. To create the detailed, stately tree I had in mind, I tried my hand at twisting one out of floral wire. I used 20 strands of wire, about 7" long. After the basic shape was achieved, I coated the whole tree in Ailene's Tacky Glue. I used about three coats of glue and then sprayed it with gray/black primer. A little bit of drybrushing with grays and browns gave me a descent colored trunk. For the foliage, I mixed polyfil pillow stuffing with india ink and alcohol. I held the polyfil in my gloved hands and dripped in the ink, slowly working it to a uniform color. This was attached to the wire trunk, and then various shades of ground foam were attached to the polyfil using hairspray.
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Overall, I was pleased with how the tree turned out. I designed it to be large, and it is, but when I placed it in to the back yard, it covers up a fair amount of the building, so I am not sure that it is the solution that I was looking for.
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More updates soon. We're in the homestretch!!
Matt
WOW!
I'll second that WOW.
Jeff
Anyway you look at it.... "WoW" .... !!
Quote from: Donato on January 10, 2017, 12:55:52 PM
Anyway you look at it.... "WoW" .... !!
Yup, what he said!
I had not paid attention to this thread somehow I missed it until now. Glad I caught up. Really great work and some cool ideas to follow up on.
Ditto to what they all said and I'll add just fantastic modeling. Well done sir.
Tom ;D
Thank you, Bob, Jeff, Donato, Darryl and Tom, for your kind words.
I hope to have some further roofing updates soon, probably after the weekend.
In the mean time, here is a picture of a Baltimore "Arabber" shopping fresh watermelons, cantalopes, pumpkins and corn in front of the Rowhouses. These horse powered merchants have (barely) survived into the 21st century in Baltimore. They have an important role in supplying fresh fruits and vegetables into areas of our city that otherwise wouldn't have access to fresh produce. They have struggled with financial and regulatory difficulties, but there are people working to preserve unique tradition. I built this model to represent a memory that generations of Baltimore residents, including my kids, have of the horse drawn wagons on our streets.
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-100117142454.jpeg)
For those interested, more info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabber)
https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreArabbers/ (https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreArabbers/)
Matt
Hi Matt:
What can I say But WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful job. I really like the beat trick you used on the bay window.
Karl
Thank you, Karl. The bead seems to have fit the bill.
Matt
Matt,
Nice work on your project build. Really well done sign on that building and great job on the stonework too ! 8) 8) 8)
Tommy
Thanks for your comment, Tommy.
I have been continuing to pick away at this project. I am currently working on the main building's roofs. I used the kit supplied roof piece for the brick portion and cut a new styrene piece for the Formstone section. Both plates were covered with roofing paper as previously describe, however this time I painted the seams to simulate roofing tar. I have added a few details.
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I used the kit supplied party wall detail to simulate the divide between the first two units.
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I used an extra piece, included to divide the walls if two kits were used, to simulate the other party wall, adding a balsa chimney, painted to look like stuccoed brick. Bits of coffee stirrers were used for the chimney flues.
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-220117122823-194221272.jpeg)
I am now working on creating models of the stairwell skylights that are seen on many Baltimore Rowhouses. I am using 1/2" door bumpers, that I picked up for a cabinet project at some point.
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I made a little pyramidal top for them using square strip wood. I sanded the pyramid shape, trimmed it off and glued it to the flat of the bumper.
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I have tried a couple of things to detail the little buggers. The brown one has small paper framing around the glass. The others used various colors of Sharpie permanent markers to outline the glass. As much of a pain as the paper detail was, I think it works a little better, but it is really hard get the paper glued in the right spot and then keep the paint under control. So still a work in progress.
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And the trial pieces sitting on the roof.
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So I need to finish the skylights, clean up some of the details on the roof, get rid of that glue drip, and roof the front porches. More later.
Matt
I have set the skylights aside for the time being and focused on completing the remainder if the model. That entails roofing the last three surfaces, which are now complete.
The front porches are paper painted and weathered with chalks to simulate tarpaper:
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-290117115458-195141201.jpeg)
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-290117115500-195171139.jpeg)
And the bay, made with diamond shingles (pinking shears) and metal hip and perimeter flashing. this also is all paper.
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-290117115502-195182487.jpeg)
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My wife doesn't like the silly little tree next to the bay, and so, in the interest of matrimonial harmony, that is being switched out.
So aside from the skylights and some other small details, this project is done. I will get some overall completed photos in the next day or two. Nothing like coming right up to the deadline!
Matt
Great modeling!
John
Very clever skylights!!
dave
Like everyone else said - great modeling!
Matt,
It amazes how and what you use to make your models look more individualistic. Thanks for sharing your ideas and "how to's".
Tom ;D
Here are some finish pictures. I will revisit the skylights, once I have worked out the kinks. I also plan to add the static model of the streetcar and some additional figures and details, but, for now, it is done.
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Thanks for following along,
Matt
Beautiful work!
John
Magnificent work, Matt. Great diorama.
Jeff
Wow , awesome, contest winner material.
Very well done Matt.....you get my vote for 1st prize for the best looking built-up roofing. 8)
Unbelievably great, great work. You've got my vote. Outstanding. Phil
Great Great Great work ! Absolutely love it !
I added this picture of the skylights in place earlier, but it got schwept in the forum shuffling, so here it is again.(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/303-020317142142.jpeg)
Thanks for all of the nice comments above.
Matt