Sometimes when you build a lot of structures you get the hankering to build something you have not done before..........aka.........a white clapboard church. I hit google search looking for an interesting old wood clapboard sided rural church. BINGO..........the one I used as my model is located in California , san simeon ? As picture #1
I only had the picture dead on from the front , so I had to imagineer what the sides looked like. So I grabbed my northeastern scale lumber siding with the 1/8" space clapboards in their aged version with deeper claps. After pencil marking the wood I cut it all out and laid the grandt line windows in the correct to me places. I like those windows and had been dying to create something to use them in.
After using wood blocks to stand the walls up, I got the idea to cut out 2 more and build 2 more . Of coarse I will make each one slightly different as you can see. But keeping the same windows and doors .
The paint on this is all floquil enamels...............I used 3 white shades and used floquil driftwood stain as the base. Lifted claps with wallpaper knife, pounce wheeled walls for nail impressions .
About 6 months after I had build these I ended up in the old section down by the waterfront of Whitby.........holy mackerel..........down there is a stone and brick buttressed small church. I also ran into another in Whitevale ont on a visit to see Rick Fendley the welder.
mike lynch.................MADMIKE3434..........NOW.....HAIRBALL
SOME MORE PICTURES.
I think I did not find all the original pictures of this as I am only showing 2 roofing coverings......VERIAGATED GREEN COPPER , its real........and the mind crushing one at a time birch veneer shingles. The missing one should have been tar paper or raised seam metal or rusty corregated, but not sure would do a church in that.
Could not buy O scale or bigger tower bells so used a vent system. On the wood shingled tower I used BIS raised seam copper , on the corners underneath, to control water runoff.
I sold all of these on ebay.
mike lynch ..............madmike3434.............HAIRBALL
Again excellent modeling
Hey Mike:
Just beautiful. Love the coloring.
Karl
Great job Mike..... 8)