Hi everybody,
At the Begin of this Challenge, I've announced that I will build the Atlantic scale Models Dog Bar Lighthouse. But after 2 days to only see the content of the Box I've realised that I'm not in the mood to build a small Ocean seaside based dio. So I've return in my stash and found the FSM Houligan's Alley that I've Bought on E-Bay some years ago. I know that I will probably not finish it for February 2017.. But.... the purpose is only to make a thread ans build something isn't it ?
So let's begin the story : first here's the 3 traditional pictures without whom a building thread shall not be a good building thread
The Box :
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The Content of the box :
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ANd the Box of casting
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As usual, the instruction are very clear and print on several unpractical format sheet ... But it's the Tradition.... and traditions are good things
I've constat that the precedent owner of the kit have keep the Tips sheet of the instruction. Fortunately, I've a copy of this precious sheet from an other FSM KIt that I've built some years ago.
FIrst I've begin by priming the casting. I've choose to prime them in 3 colors ( grey, red Oxyde and Earth) regarding the material of the casting : Red oxyde for the brick work, Grey for metal part and earth for wood part. SOme chimney and metal part are blakened with blackening agent.
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Then I've begin the first building : Casey Woodworking Co.
The first task consist to glue the brick work casting in the whole of the wall. For those of us who still have bad memories of this Child game which consisted to put shapes in proper holes, and have stung crisis while the square refused to enter the hole in stars, there's nothing to worry about, the cast are perfectly identified on their back and on the template ;D ;D ;D
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then I've glu the bracing in place. As usual, the template are perfectly done and indicate the right position of each brace with some mesure that permit lately to assemble the wall easely
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to be continued 1/2
Times is coming to stucco the wall. the kit provide a package of water putty and Georges explain very clearly how to achieve this task, and call for doing some test and practice before stucco the wall. Unfortunately, I've don't like the technique, and can't achieve a good result. So I've let down this technique and work with Liquitex light mortar structure. I found that the principal advantage of this technic is that the wood don'T absorb the humidity of the stock and it don't dry as quickly as the water putty and can be work in very thin layer with a small spatula. Note that the liquitex light mortar structure can be colored with acrilyc paint (mudstone colour in my case). Once the stock is applied on a small surface of the wall I dip a very soft brush on this surface to texture it.
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Once dry, I've repaint the wall with a thin coat of acrylic paint (ceramcoat : mudstone) When the paint is dry, I've put some drop of AI solution here and there and around the brick work., and apply a drybrush the wall with Unbleached titanium white colour. Note that the drybrush was do apply with irregular strength. The I've paint the windows in grey (folkart grey sky colour) and once cure, apply a coat of AI solution, and finally drybrush them with Vintage white. The wood used for the door trim and facia board are paint in the same way.
Here's the final result of a wall
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ANd finally I've begin to paint the door casting.
First I've applied a coat of chalk and AI solution to make the wood base colour of the doors ( in fact I've applied technics exposed in sierra West scale models kit and excellent clinics that I've read here : http://www.craftsmankituniversity.com/vanforum/index.php?p=/discussion/344/advanced-painting-and-weathering-of-details-with-kevin-oneill#latest
Then I've paint the doors in the same way as the windows but only by dipping the pencil on the surface of the wall to have an irregular intensity of the colour.
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That's all for today.
Thanks for viewinf, and feel free to comment :)
To be continued...
Eric Québec city
You're off to a great start, Eric. The walls look very good. I'll be watching your progress with much interest.
Cheers, Mark.
Great choice and you are off to a very nice start. I will be following along.
Eric,
Great start. The walls and freight doors are fantastic as well as realistic looking.
Tom ;D
Have fun building this kit Eric. :)
Stay cool and run steam....... 8) 8)
That is good looking stucco.
Jim
Great start Eric. I love following your builds. This is one of those kits I missed out on but I really wish I had picked up.
I love FSM kit builds. Looks like a good start, Eric.
Jeff
You're off to a great start Eric .
You're making some great progress on this kit Eric. The stucco is excellent, and the "wood" doors look real. Keep the pictures coming
A very ambitious project, but one of my favorites. Good Luck.
Hey Eric:
Looks real nice so far. I'll be watching.
Karl
Hey Guys,
Thank you very much for all your good comments. I really much appreciate it.
This kit Is one of my favorite from FSM. the first time I saw it, I regretted having paused in this hobby and Having missed the opportunity to buy it. Several years later I'Ve see it a very reasonable price on e-bay with the «Buy it Now» option. the vendor have announced it since 10 minutes before I'Ve bought it.... I was so happy at this moment, but not ready to build it.
ANd Now.... a big fun begin and I'm very happy to share this fun with all of you.
Thanks for watching.
Eric Québec city
Hello All,
Here's an update of my effort on this kit during the last month.
First I've paint the metal door casting, and glue it in place. At first sight it look be a little be too rusted regarding the other part of the wall. But I think taht this effect will be attenuated once the corrugated metal canopie will be glue in place later.
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I choose to lightened all the building of this kit, so I've paint the backside of the wall in black.
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Once the paint is dry I've assembled the wall together, gluying two wall together at time, finishing be the small wall between the peak.
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/149-061116163606-179611681.jpeg)
And cover the edge of the wall with stucco, using the same method than previously, but in despite of all my efforts, there is always a slight mark at the join of the two walls
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The Next step is to add the ceiling.
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It's only one thing that I don't like in FSM kit or other brand : The fact that we neglect the parts that are supposedly not visible. And this ceiling is a good example of this fact. I Know that I waste my time to make some effort on a piece that virtually nobody will see it... But, imagine a camera on a loco or a wagon... what will you see under this ceiling.. a piece of cardboard that will break all the realism of your work. We can have an example of this on the excellent video that are realized on the FSM. There's a moment who the train enter on a cover station. Georges have make a lot of effort on the wall, there's a lot of details on the platform with a lot of little person, mini scene etc... but all this effort are ruined when we see the ceiling ... a simple white cardboard.... I know that with a layout of this size, it is impossible to tackle this kind of detail, and that is probably the first time that this ceiling was visible. But at this precise moment and place, realism was broken. This does not detract from the perfection of the whole work.
So I've decide to carve this piece of cardboard, paint and wheater it.
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After what I've doing the recessed Door. It consist of concrete stair, with two wall covered with stucco. In order to facilitate the final assembly I decided not to cover stucco the places where will be the stairs and the ceiling. The I glue some ad on the wall.
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To be continued in a few...
(2/3)
And finally assemble the recessed door
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And glue it in place. The next step was probably one of the hardest at this time : cover the edge of the recessed door with stucco. The location is narrow, and care must be taken not to smear the posters and stairs with the stucco, and try to make a perfect job to not have any line at he joint of the wall. I've redo the task two time, and I'm not ever really satisfied.
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The next step is to glue the roof in place. It consist of a piece of cardboard, that must be folded and glue centered on the top of the building. I never had a good result to centered a roof be using this technic. I prefer to cut the roof in two piece and glue them separatly. The effort to centered the piece is more easy. You have just to make a mark on the middle of the ridge beam, on othe on the middle of the top of the roof, and aligne the top of the roof on the ridge beam. The second piece of roof went against the first. But before I've paint the border of the roof with roof brown color and glue a thin strip of basswood on the edge of the cardboard. The strip of wood will be stain with AI solution a give a better effect than a paint cardboard. Its a very small details... but the evil is in the details.
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Then I've Glue the rafter in place. In the pictures you can that the edge of the ceiling are cover with stucco. The reason is : I wait that the sway bracing be construct and glue in place.
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Once all the rafter are gluying in place I've cover the roof with rolled roofing paper. The paper is stain with several layer of brown and black chalk powder and wash with alcool. Doug Focale explain this technic somewhere on his blog. On the final colour is achieve, the paper is cover with a thin coat of Dullcoat and dry brush with vntage white colour before to be cut in 3'(scale) large strip.
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To be continued in a few
(3/3)
Finally I've add some patch on the roof and and line the Hatch opening with a small strip wood.
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Then I've begin to work on the base of the DIo.
It consist of a 10 x 22" piece of blue foam. that I've sanded on large strip to glue the track.
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That's all for today.
feel free to comment and thank you for watching.
To be continued
Eric Quebec city
Eric,
A most excellent build. I really like how you finished the stucco on the walls. Well done!
Tom ;D
Quote from: ACL1504 on November 17, 2016, 09:24:05 AM
Eric,
A most excellent build. I really like how you finished the stucco on the walls. Well done!
Tom ;D
Thank you for your comment Tom, I much appreciate it
Eric Quebec city
Looking good Eric , nice stucco , great roof.
Really nice work Eric! Which Liquitex product did you use for the stucco walls?
Quote from: Janbouli on November 17, 2016, 04:29:15 PM
Looking good Eric , nice stucco , great roof.
Thank you very much Janbouli :)
Eric Quebec city
Quote from: rpdylan on November 17, 2016, 04:55:58 PM
Really nice work Eric! Which Liquitex product did you use for the stucco walls?
Thank you very much Bob.
For stucco I use The Liquitex Light Modeling Paste - Gel Medium
Eric Quebec city
Built it last year. Nice start! Great kit!
Hi Eric:
Looks great so far. Have one here to build for A friend.
Karl
Hey Thank you Raymond and Karl for your comment. I much appreciate it.
I will update this thread tomorrow.
Lot of progress on this kit.
Eric Quebec city
Eric very nice build so far. The detail / castings make this kit and all of Georges kits so awesome.
(1/4)
Hello all,
After two month, here's an update of this thread.
The next step for this buildng id to do the two canopies.
The first is cover with rolled roofing material. in the kit , the canopy consist of a rectangle of cardboard cover with the tar paper, and then glu on the structure with two weathered wire. In fact, I Never like cardboard canopy, Because I find them too thick. So I've recut the piece on a thin sheet of wood, add rafter and cover with my tar paper. Fo more details, I've add two small pieces of weathered paper against the wall between the stucco and the wire, to simulate a piece of metal where the wire is soldered, like suggest be Doug Foscale on his blog. Here's the final result
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The second Canopy is cover with corrugated metal. Like the first canopy, I replaced the cardboard pieces by a structure of rafter en battern (6), and used paper corrugated metal rather the real metal provide in the kit. I prefer work with paper stock, more easy to paint and weathered, and can be manipulated without making flash on the pieces.
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Once the canopies done, the next step is to do the clearstory that sit on the top of the roof. Once again I've make some minor change in the construction of this part. The instruction call for painting the wall with the appropriate color to simulate the tar paper. I'm not very happy with this technic because I found that the tar paper have no texture en deepness when drybrush for highlighting the details. SO I've cover the wall with tar paper that I've do previously on the same quality of brown paper provide in kit for rolled roofing. For to be sur to make perfect tar paper joint at the corner, I've begin by gluying a lare band of paper on the side of the clearstory, and then glu one peak side.
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then I've assemble the two part together, and glue the battern and windows.
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THe roof of the clearstory is cover too with rolled roofing material and battern
To be continued in a few....
(2/4)
The next step i to build the large water tank that sit on the roof. It consist of large piece of dovel that is cover with stained pieces of basswood. I don't want a greyish water tank, so rather than stain the wood with AI solution, I've prepare a new recipe of stain that I've found on the web. I call it 'Eddie mix' (Eddie is the modeler who had create this stain and publish the recip) stain and It consist of 70 % isopropyl alcool, 2/3 Sepia ink, 1/3 black ink. The stain give a more yellowish brownish color. You can see the difference of color between the Water tank, and the base of the water tan that was stain with my regular AI solution.
I'm not a specialist to simulate the wood color with chalk on a metal casting. SO I've prefer to redo in real wood the top of the Water tank rather than use the large metal casting provide in the kit. ANd finally Add the thread and plastic part to simulate the wire around the water tank.
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ANd finally add the last details on the roof like chimney and roof vent. Nothing special to tell about this high quality casting... they're simply awesome....
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Have you noticed that in the FSM kit, the first building is always the longest to build and the one that also requires the most work? This building answer to this rule and we don't have finish with it.
the next step is to build a small abandonned shed that sit on the sid of the building. It consist of four side shed cover with tar paper, and with an higly details door and windows that give a lot of character to the shed. following the technic previously exposed with the tar paper, I've add a little more details on the side of the shed. I've sanded a part of the cardboard, and remplace the lost stock with small piece of basswood before gluing the tar paper in place, after what I've tore the paper that was on the wood. Then I've weathered the wall with a ight drybrush, and a small touch of chalk.
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I've prime the door and window casting with earth color spray can, and then work the surface with calk as explain on a document found on the university page of the SWSM website.
then I've paint it with white paint.
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To be continued in a few
(3/4)
Finally I've ad the roof on the shed and cover it with corrugated metal, like descirbe earlier, and heavily rusted it.
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The shed is finally glue against the main building. there are still two step before finishing this building. The first is building a large platform that is sit in the space between the the main building and the abandonned shed, and a large sway bracing. For this two step I,ve follow all the instruction provide in the kit, and make absolutely no change ont them. Unfortunately, I've totaly forget to take pictures of this step... Ok I'm guilty. For the next Update, I promised, I will post a pictures of the finishing Building.
The second building of this kit is the «R.J. SKOOTZ and SON» building. It's probably my most favorite building of this kit.
The first problem I've encountered is the paint for the wall. Georges used floquil and pollyS paint, and describe a technic with Diosol for painting the wall. I don't have the color used, I don,t have any floquil or pollyS paint and I don't have diosol. So after many try, I've choose to use ceramcoat acrylic «Mink tan» color, and light AI Solution to recreat the effect that Georges describe in the instruction. With my material, the technic consist to paint the wall with the acrylic paint, and before the paint is dry, to stain (don'T brush) the wall with with an Heavy coat of Light AI solution. I will pass over the usual steps common to all kits like bracing. The door casting, and the widows are paint with Eggshell white paint, weathered with AI solution. I've sanded the sign before gluing them. The only one details I've add is 8 rusted small hole which simulates the nails that hold the Sign on the wall. I've two holes in the wall, the first against a door,is needed for a casting, the second, ont the bottom of the wall is fore the wiring needed for the light in the fish store that is against the main building
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The roof is cover with shingles, and you know that I don't like paper shingles. The roof consist of a piece of cardboard, but the cardboard is too thick to be used with my wood shinles. So I've recut the roof in a thin sheet of wood, glue the rafter tail in place, glue the shingles and stain them with my Heavy AI solution
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Finally I've glue the last details casting in place. It was not a very complicated building, but it was for sure a very funny building to do :)
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Continue in a few.....
(4/4)
A last pic of the R.J Skootz and we sill be ready to do the fish store.
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The fish store is not a difficult building too. But it has a lot of character. It consist of three wall cover with half tar paper and Battern and Half shingles. the shingles are paint in white.
the technic used for the building are exactly the same describes previously. And I must confess that I have a lot of fun to do this three wall.
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The roof is cover with shingles and corrugated metal. The only one difficulty encountered is to take the corrugated metal at level with shingles, because they don't have the same thickness.
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That's all for today, as always, feel free to comment. If you have any questions, feel free to tall them, I've a lot of pictures of the step by step of all this building.
Thank you for watching.
Eric Quebec
To be continued.......
Eric,
That is an absolutely beautiful build.
Jim
Eric....
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Eric,
I agree, it is just wonderful to see your talent at work.
Tom ;D
Those shingles!!! Roof and siding are perfect!
John
Always great to see your work Eric , your weathering is absolutely top of the bill.
Eric
I just spent a half hour studying your work. Fantastic! And what everyone else said too. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you Jim, John, Donato, Janbouli, Tom and John S for stopping and for your good comments. I much appreciate them.
Eric Quebec city
You do really nice work Eric. Thank you so much for sharing here- your photos are great and I will use them for reference. BTW, I have traveled to so many places in the world, but some of the best food that I have ever had was in Quebec! (and its only a 6 hour drive for me!)
Looks great Eric. The shingles are excellent.
Very well done sir. Very well done!
Quite simply beautiful work, Eric!
Cheers, Mark.
Quote from: rpdylan on January 15, 2017, 06:25:26 PM
You do really nice work Eric. Thank you so much for sharing here- your photos are great and I will use them for reference. BTW, I have traveled to so many places in the world, but some of the best food that I have ever had was in Quebec! (and its only a 6 hour drive for me!)
Thank you very much Bob.
Just for said... I was cook chef during 16 years in Quebec city :)
Eric Québec
Quote from: Oldguy on January 15, 2017, 09:21:55 PM
Very well done sir. Very well done!
Thank you for your comment Bob
Eric Quebec city
Quote from: SteveCuster on January 15, 2017, 09:09:19 PM
Looks great Eric. The shingles are excellent.
Thank you very much for your comment Steve
Eric QUebec city
Quote from: mark dalrymple on January 16, 2017, 03:32:40 AM
Quite simply beautiful work, Eric!
Cheers, Mark.
Thank you for your comment Mark, I much appreciate it
Eric Quebec
Eric, I'm not too sure I could build the kit the way you are building it. It is truly unique! Keep up the good work.
Quote from: Mkrailway on January 17, 2017, 10:27:58 PM
Eric, I'm not too sure I could build the kit the way you are building it. It is truly unique! Keep up the good work.
Thank You Marty for your comment, I much appreciate it
Eric Quebec
Hey, I was thinking about starting on Houligan's when I finish my Bailey's Produce so I found this thread, seemed like the build got off to a good start but then the thread fizzled out.
Did the build as well? Or did it get finished?
Just curious...thanks!
Quote from: Slappy Mac on January 24, 2018, 11:37:16 PM
Hey, I was thinking about starting on Houligan's when I finish my Bailey's Produce so I found this thread, seemed like the build got off to a good start but then the thread fizzled out.
Did the build as well? Or did it get finished?
Just curious...thanks!
Thank for your interest about this thread. Yes the dio is finish, but I've don't found the time to make upgrade. So I will take an effort, and stop to procrastinate and make right now an update.
Eric Quebec city
For begin This update, Here's a picture of the sway bracing that I've forget to post in a previous update. The pictures is take once the building is in place on the dio.
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The Next building is the Phineas Perkins CO.
There's virtually no story to tell about this building, No particular difficulty or skill needed to make it. But this building have a major place on the dio and have a really great character.
First I've brace the wall and then distress the wood with a wire brush, and altered some plank with a sharp blade, then I've make the nailhole and stain the wall with AI solution, and finally paint them wit acrylic golden brown color from Delta. I 've found that this color is pretty close to the color used by George.
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Then I've glue the wall together and glue the roof in place
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And cover the roof with gravel.
i like this technic exposed by Georges that consist to paint the roof with a coat of oil black paint and before the paint is dry, cover it with dust.
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/149-250118200903-281952137.jpeg)
Then I've build the small shack that will take place on top of the roof
(https://modelersforum.com/gallery/149-250118200903-281941215.jpeg)
Once the paint and gravel have cure overnight, I'Ve remove the excess of dust, and stain the roof with AI solution. Then I've glue the shack in place and add some details.
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Finally I've build stair and some details on the structure
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ANd build the last shack that will take place on the left side of the structure
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Picture from the finish building will come later, with picture of the finish dio.
The fourth and last building of this kit is Watson tool sharpening.
I Really like this building and have a lot of fun to build it. I've make some modification such as real shingle wall, and main plank wall.
The back wall is a simple cardboard piece that is paint in black. SO I've decide to cover it with tar paper and battern, just for my pleasure, this details will be never seen once the building is on the dio.
here's two pictures of the wall during construction.
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Finally I've glue the wall together and add the roof that is cover with rolled roofing paper.
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That'S all for today. as usual feel free to comment
To be continued...
Eric Quebec city
Very nice modeling.
Eric
Very nice work!
Thanks for the reply...and the inspiration!!!
Can't wait to start on it...
Quote from: PRR Modeler on January 25, 2018, 08:42:52 PM
Very nice modeling.
Thank your for your comment Curt.
Eric
Quote from: S&S RR on January 25, 2018, 09:13:29 PM
Eric
Very nice work!
Thank you you John for your comment I really appreciate it.
Eric
Quote from: Slappy Mac on January 25, 2018, 09:53:36 PM
Thanks for the reply...and the inspiration!!!
Can't wait to start on it...
Your Welcome, don't forget to share with us your effort on this kit :)
Eric
Well done Eric. Nice weathering effects on the roof.
Jerry
Nicely done Eric.
excellent Eric!!
Especially the shake wall!!
Eric, Love the work that you have done so far. Have you written somewhere on how you do the shingles. In HO scale the shingles are some of the most realistic I have ever seen
Mike Sigmon
Quote from: Jerry on January 26, 2018, 09:04:52 AM
Well done Eric. Nice weathering effects on the roof.
Jerry
Thank you for your comment Jerry
Eric
Quote from: Rail and Tie on January 26, 2018, 10:38:20 PM
excellent Eric!!
Especially the shake wall!!
Thank you for your kind word and interest Darryl
Eric
Quote from: MASIGMON on January 28, 2018, 11:20:32 AM
Eric, Love the work that you have done so far. Have you written somewhere on how you do the shingles. In HO scale the shingles are some of the most realistic I have ever seen
Mike Sigmon
Hi Mike,
I've explain how I make the shingles on the old forum.
It's a technic that I used since 20 years or so.
the technique consists in cutting irregular strips in the wood of strawberries chopine sold on farmers' markets. The color of the wood cover a large variety of hue between the pale yellow to orange. the width of the strip varies between 4 to 8 scales inches, Once the strip are cut, I cut the shingles with the chopper.
The I glue each shingle on the support, when a raw is done, I make a bevel from the top to the middle of the raw, and glue the next raw on this bevel.
Once all the surface is cover, I stain the shingles with strong AI solution and make a very light white dry brush to Higlight and fade a little bit of the shine due to the AI solution.
The only one problem of this shingles are there thickness. there are twice more thick than real.
Eric
Hello Eric, I rarely see modeling better than that. Wonderfully done. Thank you for sharing the pictures and detailing how you did the roof and more. It is appreciated, we all improve because of your generosity.
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Quote from: engine909 on January 28, 2018, 12:00:32 PM
Hello Eric, I rarely see modeling better than that. Wonderfully done. Thank you for sharing the pictures and detailing how you did the roof and more. It is appreciated, we all improve because of your generosity.
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Thank you for your comment Ed, I muche appreciate it.
Sharing with each other is a great part of our hobby and in my opinion, the best way to progress. I've learn a lot here and on the old forum, and I continue to learn each day
Eric