Time to work on a family compound. This little building will be perfect (I hope) to be front and center.
The kit I bought was on special, so I ordered it with both the interior and the motorized rocking chair.
This will be a break for me, as these instructions are also illustrated. Something new for me lately.
Kit contents. A decent amount of different woods and a small package of resin parts for the chimney and flue. I don't think that I have built a kit with a minimal amount of strip wood to deal with.
As for the additional bits.
The interior kit has all the furniture, 3-D printed plates and bottles, a couple of milk cans and a magic smoke generator.
The rocking chair kit has the battery pack, on/off switch, and mounting brackets, Perhaps more, but I haven't opened the bag yet.
And oh, I forgot to mention that the kit has self-adhesive aluminum tape and a jig to make your our corrugated roofing.
So far so good.
Well, this is different. First step, build a door. Okay, one has to start somewhere. Glue 1 to 1b to 1c. Then add "glass" a "latch plate" and a round thingy for a door knob. Hmmm, maybe the round thingy is 3-D print. I'll look for it later. But the issue has to do with the door knob hole. What future illustration show, this door is a right-handed door, so coming in form the outside, the hinges are on the right as the door swings away from you. The first step is building a left-handed door. It makes more sense to have a right-handed door, that will swing to the wall on the right towards the window. Minor issue.
With everything on carrier sheets, I needed to determine what the interior colors are to be. I already know that the outside is "unpainted", but the inside? Meh.
So I weathered everything and moved on. I did use some Minwax Golden Oak for the floor. Once "dusted" it'll tone down. I hope. The board ends are more pronounced than I wanted. The bit out front is small enough to have used full flooring. The porch doesn't get good flooring.
So now comes the making of board and batten siding from flat sheets. Very clever.
Then on to the double hung windows. Very nice, but a pain to get the "glass" in place.
Looks like a interesting build.
To make the board and batten walls, I need a way to glue the teeny batten strips to the walls. I found a can of Elmers Spray Adhesive. Maybe. I found that one has about 15 to 30 seconds of work time to do any adjustments. The way the parts ate cut, just align the vertical ends, apply, and do some quick adjustments around the window/door cutouts. When dry, cut off the excess. Easy peasy with a bit of queasy.
The newspaper wallpaper is provided for all but two walls. Follow the guidelines and no problems. I didn't like the bare other walls, so I did add some other newspaper wallpaper and wallpaper for the two long walls.
I got the chimney parts and included foundation pieces painted. Once dry, I'll spray them with Dullcoat and add the mortar.
Here's something I have never seen - window sills for both exterior and interior. They have a very fine notch for the exterior window frames. Cool. But, they don't fit. The width of the sill gap is smaller than the thickness of the wall by 0.01". Not much in the real world, but here it's a bunch. I simply stole from the exterior sill on both sides and they fit.
Looking forward to seeing this build come together. There is a build on YouTube of this kit, that is pretty detailed. The guy actually points out a mistake he made, in which he had to order another kit. I plan on ordering their Tobacco Shop kit in the near future.
Link to the 5 part build - https://youtu.be/ZJ33cSQYg2o
-Steven
Very neat. I'll be following along. If I recall correctly (always questionable) this cabin is based on the one seen in the movie "The Untouchables". The one Elliot Ness and his crew waited in near the bridge that crossed the border into Canada. :D
Bob,
Interesting build so far. I'll be looking over your shoulder on this one, too.
I'll be watching too Bob..... :)
Quote from: WigWag Workshop on October 22, 2020, 06:38:03 AM
Looking forward to seeing this build come together. There is a build on YouTube of this kit, that is pretty detailed. The guy actually points out a mistake he made, in which he had to order another kit. I plan on ordering their Tobacco Shop kit in the near future.
Link to the 5 part build - https://youtu.be/ZJ33cSQYg2o (https://youtu.be/ZJ33cSQYg2o)
-Steven
I have seen several of this guys videos, but missed this one. And yes, those two walls can get confused, but he also missed that the window in each are offset differently. But thanks for the link.
Well Bob, Jerry and Greg great to have you all along.
I used light weight Spackle for the grout and it came out fairly decently.
I too did not like the chain link sized screen door material. I had previously scored about a half a yard of a tighter weave tulle. I cut off a 4" swath and spray painted it with Tamyia gray primer. It does look a lot better than what was provided.
Next up adding corner posts. It would have been a lot easier with out the window sills, but it still worked out. Then came the interior window frames. Another first for me. Interior window frames.
Getting closer finishing the walls. Next up bracing at the upper edges. These are to be placed "slightly" below the rafter notches. 0.08" slightly below. Then a following page shows these braces, but they are either covered with wallpaper or painted. Although, the braces go on each wall section, the following page doesn't show the two short walls with them. It will be a simple matter of wrapping the brace material before installing.
I did manage to get the cabin base pieces glued together. There is a very pointed note to make sure that the grain direction of is opposite of each other. There will be a small offset that the foundation wall will set into.
Hi Bob, thought I would chime in if you don't mind. You are doing a great job on this little model. Thanks for doing the build here and I will pass the link on to other customers as you have some great tips about building this challenging but hopefully rewarding kit.
I checked the instructions and see that 5i should be reversed on the parts sheet. My bad!
I see that you have on of the early release kits (we put the wrong tulle fabric in the kit for the screen door as you have found out). I thought we mailed out replacements to everyone, but seem to have missed you and a few others.
Another thing you might want to check when you get to it is the rocking chair motion arm doubler (98). The old instructions say to glue it to the arm(97) prior to setting the arm through the hole in the front porch floor. This should be done after installing through the floor and is optional. I added it(98) to help long term wear, but it is really not needed as I have been running the animation for many hours with no wear and tear on the slot. This got changed in later kits, but the early ones had this error in the instructions.
The rocking chair is the most challenging part as the pieces are tiny and need to be accurately shaped and placed. I have been trying to put out a tutorial video with some tips on this and just trying to get caught up.
Keep up the good work and your constructive comments go to helping us better our kit(s).
Cheers!
Quote from: Rail and Tie on October 23, 2020, 02:14:26 PM
Hi Bob, thought I would chime in if you don't mind. You are doing a great job on this little model. Thanks for doing the build here and I will pass the link on to other customers as you have some great tips about building this challenging but hopefully rewarding kit.
I checked the instructions and see that 5i should be reversed on the parts sheet. My bad!
I see that you have on of the early release kits (we put the wrong tulle fabric in the kit for the screen door as you have found out). I thought we mailed out replacements to everyone, but seem to have missed you and a few others.
Another thing you might want to check when you get to it is the rocking chair motion arm doubler (98). The old instructions say to glue it to the arm(97) prior to setting the arm through the hole in the front porch floor. This should be done after installing through the floor and is optional. I added it(98) to help long term wear, but it is really not needed as I have been running the animation for many hours with no wear and tear on the slot. This got changed in later kits, but the early ones had this error in the instructions.
The rocking chair is the most challenging part as the pieces are tiny and need to be accurately shaped and placed. I have been trying to put out a tutorial video with some tips on this and just trying to get caught up.
Keep up the good work and your constructive comments go to helping us better our kit(s).
Cheers!
Thanks for the tips and shout out. One item that I didn't mention is that there are two #11's on the parts ID page. There is a #11 for the interior window frames and another #11 for the long wall which should be 3b. I think.
I need to look and see what I did, but could have missed the reversed 5i. It is a cool little kit that is busting my chops. But in a good way.
This has a slightly different (at least to me) foundation build. I found that I could better control the angles by sanding them. My sander has a decent 45 degree setting. Take it slow and keep and eye on the shoulder and where it lands on the under card. The angle shoulder should hit the corner.
I managed to get the bracing wrapped and glued. So whie that stuff was drying, I worked on the biscuit boxes. Damn, but these are tiny. I got them bent, but the teeny glue ears were too teeny for my fat fingers. I did use a piece of scale 8x8 as a core and it went together fairly easy. I probably could have used a 8x10, or possibly a 10x10, but I have neither.
Prior to adding the walls, I checked the door sills. And yep, I didn't have the clearance. It's like 0.015"and I used it up gluing in the doors. So, a little judicious filing and I should be good to go.
Nice job so far Bob.
Jerry
Thanks Jerry.
It's time to build a cabin. But first I need to get the shutters installed. That and sand down (or up?) the bottom of both doors in order to get the thresholds installed in a couple of pages. So here's what the inside looks like with the braces installed.
So while the shutters are drying, Time to build some furniture. First up is a cupboard. It looks a lot like one we have upstairs. One of the few pieces left from the original 1:1 cabin. Construction is straight forward and everything fits like a glove. This got painted a blondish oak, as will most wood furniture pieces.
Next up was to be the dresser. It consists of the front and 2 number 31 spreaders. I got no 31's. I got a 13, 15, and 17 that don't seem to go with anything, so maybe . . . .? The easiest thing to do is to build everything else and see what is left over. Just in case I can't read so good. So I'll work on the stove. There are four spreader blocks for this piece. The lower ones, easy enough. After I cut out the teo teeny ones, I could easily figure out which way they go. So it became a simple matter of looking at the top and bottom pieces for the upper range section. Careful to note one is deeper than the other, I figured out block direction and got most everything glued up. The upper panel is a paper cutout seen on the let corner of the machinists block. I need to paint his little beauty black and let dry before tackling the paper panel.
I did get the walls up, but found another issue. There are two short walls, 5 and 6. Number 6 gets a corner one piece and 5 no corner posts. The instructions shows the corner piece on the left part of the wall. These are wall views from the inside. However, wall 6 corner trim actually goes on the right, so that when assembling the cabin, the corner trim is on the left looking from the outside. I was able to remove the offending piece and glue it to the other side. And now I have cabin walls installed
Nice modeling so far.
Hello Bob, I had previously watched the 5 part video of this kit build so I know how much work is packed into such a small kit. Can't wait to see how you do with this build. I see that you also bought the interior and the motorized rocking chair add-ons. Oh boy. Jeff
That's quite a project Bob! It sure looks like a fun little challenge and it's coming along great. :D
Jeff and Bob, yep, this little beastie is kicking my butt.
First up was getting the door thresholds in place. Slid right in after all my pre-installtion sanding/filing. I decided to add a small handle on the sscreen door. That sucker doesn't even show in photos. I decided to add door handles on the entry doors. I don't have anything close to a door knob, so I just used some wire and make door handles/latches.
Prior to installing the wall panels, I removed a roof rafter and test fit all the wall notches. It jut took a bit of folded 200 grit to get them nice and clear. So, now with the walls all good to go, time to start on the roof rafters. The first two are the critical units and they didn't fit. Rookie mistake. The two main roof beams are a lot thicker than the rafters. I didn't check on these bad boys. It just took a lot longer to widen their notches. I do want to make the roof removable, so a good fit and alignment is critical. I'll start to add the roof components tomorrow.
I did get the stove finished. I had to cut away the two side paper panels as it appeared to be too long. Any trimming would have cut off the end vertical gold trim. So I just cut the side pieces off, gently curved the center panel, got it glued in and then added back the side panels. Do not use a Sharpie to cover the white paper edges, unless you can be real quick and dab it on. Otherwise, the Sharpie fluid gets soaked into the paper.
Plodding along. Decided it was time to work on the roof rafters. As I would like the roof to be removable, only those parts that attach to the two main roof beams get any glue. I needed to remove a bunch of material in the corner (per instructions) and thankfully, it was the same width as one of my files. The corner piece and it's companion needed to go in before the others. And while they were drying, I made a bed.
The bed went together fairly easy once I realized that it needed to be in it's side to keep it square. I need to see if I can find some bedding on line and make a pillow (not provided).
The remaining rafter went in fairly easily, except in one area and that could be a problem when the roof cards are glued on.
I have 4 chairs to make, and it didn't go so well. My first chair broke in half, so I glued on the seat to two sides and will try tomorrow to get the other half glued to it. I'll need to find a better way to bend these delicate parts to get a square corner. And I noted the dreaded rocking chair seat. That'll wait for a bit.
Really enjoying watching this build come together. I appreciate you sharing the minor issues you are having has I do plan on building this kit.
-Steven
Good job Bob. I made this kit awhile ago. I did not post it as I encountered a few too many problems. I agree the chairs are a chore. I think I managed three out of four! The rocking chair bit is going to be fun.......not. I finally managed to get mine running courtesy of my brother an ex. aero engineer. Here a couple of pics of the model.
Mike
Quote from: madharry on October 27, 2020, 12:51:29 PM
Good job Bob. I made this kit awhile ago. I did not post it as I encountered a few too many problems. I agree the chairs are a chore. I think I managed three out of four! The rocking chair bit is going to be fun.......not. I finally managed to get mine running courtesy of my brother an ex. aero engineer. Here a couple of pics of the model.
Mike
I can manage one chair a day. They are so well done, but my fat fingers get in the way. I think the solution would be a non-gluable core that the chair could be built around. Much like the Campbell brick chimneys.
I agree that could work quite well. Keep up the good work.
Mike
Bob,
Seems to me that Jaime said, "This hobby takes the patience of a saint". After following your build of this one I think you might be close (to sainthood, that is). I admire the way you have persevered and definitely overcome all obstacles you have encountered. As good as this is coming together no one would ever guess it was anything but a straight forward build. it simply looks awesome! Thanks so much for taking the time to post so many photos and explain any steps or places that caused issues.
My hat is way off to you! Caution: do NOT look directly at my head on a sunny day, could be harmful to your vision. 8) 8) 8)
Jerry,
You are doing a fantastic job on the build. I like the fact Darryl followed up with a few comments. This is why our kit manufacturers are special.
Again, fantastic job on this one.
Tom ;D
Quote from: madharry on October 28, 2020, 11:18:48 AM
I agree that could work quite well. Keep up the good work.
Mike
I tried and failed. Back to the old method.
Quote from: jerryrbeach on October 28, 2020, 07:04:41 PM
Bob,
Seems to me that Jaime said, "This hobby takes the patience of a saint". After following your build of this one I think you might be close (to sainthood, that is). I admire the way you have persevered and definitely overcome all obstacles you have encountered. As good as this is coming together no one would ever guess it was anything but a straight forward build. it simply looks awesome! Thanks so much for taking the time to post so many photos and explain any steps or places that caused issues.
My hat is way off to you! Caution: do NOT look directly at my head on a sunny day, could be harmful to your vision. 8) 8) 8)
Sainthood? Don't look at my CV. What it has helped is my anger management. There was a time when I'd have thrown it across the room. But this little bugger is growing on me. It is really cute.
Quote from: ACL1504 on October 28, 2020, 08:07:47 PM
Jerry,
You are doing a fantastic job on the build. I like the fact Darryl followed up with a few comments. This is why our kit manufacturers are special.
Again, fantastic job on this one.
Tom ;D
I agree. About the manufactures, not me.
The moment of truth for having a removable roof. How bad did I install the roof trusses? The roof panels fit just as close as everything else, so any missteps will show. I started with the two winged panels. So far so good. It was nerve racking to make sure that the glue didn't get on any wall tops. Just enough glued to keep the rafter in place. I will add glue to each later on. The last piece, requires the chimney top to be added. Nothing in the instructions said do it here, but it made sense now. The funky shaped piece needed a bit of trimming as the roof has to clear the chimney for removal. I did note it's orientation while trimming.
In the mean time - kitchen chairs. The instructions give the impression that the seat should remain with everything else, but they are a separate piece. What I have found that works, for me, was using the sharp end of fine tweezers to et one leg bent. Once it was done, I added a thin bead of Canopy glue to hold it. Once it has set for 20 or so minutes, I move to the next leg. There is a small valley where they get folded. And move around until I get to the end. I found that setting the chair upside down with the back being held. I can get the last leg section in position and held by a piece of Ribbon Rail track gauge. Then ad the seat. There is a texture to the seat, so watch for orientation.
With all these under my belt, I can tackle the rocking chair, shortly. I made corrugated roofing instead.
Luckily, with a table, I can hide the first two under the top.
Wow! Cool looking chairs. Great job Bob. :D
Bob,
I've seen pics of a couple builds and noticed that getting the roof to fit precisely and still be removable is difficult. Yours looks good so far, looking forward to more photos as you progress thru the roofing phase.
Quote from: jerryrbeach on October 29, 2020, 07:39:14 AM
Bob,
I've seen pics of a couple builds and noticed that getting the roof to fit precisely and still be removable is difficult. Yours looks good so far, looking forward to more photos as you progress thru the roofing phase.
I haven't seen anyone do it after the cabin has been planted. May not be possible. I have had the roof off several times, and it is a bit fiddly. A bit fiddly? More like a whole lot fiddly. I haven't dug into the rocking chair package yet. I'm not sure how the three light LED thingy is going to work. I'm guessing there are thin wires that'll need to go to something, somewhere, which could make fiddling with the roof being even more fiddly. We'll see.
Great modeling Jerry.
For those who like doing everything scratch, thekit includes a DIY roof corrugator. Operates easily enough and one can make corrections, just by going back over it. The metal tape is true duct tape. Metal foil with peel off backing. Once one has produced enough strips, give them a shot of primer, then weather away. It will be easier to just leave them on the stick. Or so they say.
In the meantime, chair number four is curing it's back legs.
Got the counter piece put together and painted. In the background is the companion cabin - Campbells Farm House that keep me busy waiting for glue to dry.
I got the corrugated roofing made and primed using a Krylon primer. I wasn't all that good in making straight lines using the jig, so I fell back using some left over material.
I did use the valley flashing from the kit provided material. Then it was a small matter of drawing lines for trimming the roofing pieces.
I find that Canopy glue works well with the metal, but I started with the four end panels and let them set up a bit. Then come back at start adding panels. I had done some test painting on a short length of roofing, so, that's why some pieces are painted. I found that I can make more consist cap shingles using my Folwer micrometer. the jaw thickness is about 1 scale foot; perfect for each side of a cap piece. It was a simple mater of placing the roofing panel in between the jaws, one end flush, bending the panel, then moving it so that the long end is sticking straight up and cut it to length using flush cutters. I should note part of the roof is a bit dirty from using a weathering sponge (it was handy) to settle the cap shingles in place.
The kitchen table and the chairs are now finished. Considering that there are two different chair backs, I painted the seats accordingly. Over the years we had plastic seats of blue, green, and red. I settled for the blue and green for these.
I did print a bed spread and a couple of table cloths on tissue paper. My hope was, that the tissue paper would be flexible enough to bend and form decent corners. The down side is that there isn't a lot of material for the ink to land on and the image is a bit washed out. I'll probably just lave off the bed spread as it doesn't look half bad as it is, but I haven't given up on the table cloth yet. I need to make a table top pattern as the kit table is a bit fragile.
Then there are are all the 3-D printed bits that I need to paint and place.
Bob,
More nice progress. I really like the roof caps, IMO pretty close to the real thing. Printing on tissue paper, who'd have thought. Gotta try it for myself.
Opened the tube containing the 3-D printed parts. There is even some eating utensils on two of the plates! I found cutting the base eased in my handling and painting.
I did manage to get the table cloth formed and glued on. I used some ancient tissue paper, the type that they used to wrap lingerie in. Once I found a suitable image, I put it in Word and resized it. It helps if you figure out what size is needed first and then trim as needed. I cut a small piece of the tissue paper and taped it to regular copy paper. I taped the leading edge then the sides. Just make sure that you keep track of the print margins. Ink doesn't stick to tape very well. :o I did make a template of the table top and just Elmer glued the corners so they look like a draped corner.
Then started on the "chair". I decided to keep the upper chair seat separate from the lower to build it. The back needed just a light curvature and the posts and stiles fit perfectly. The fiddly part was the lower rockers. But I got'er done.
While the "chair" parts were drying, I got the roof rusted up. I was surprised how easy the roof goes back on, considering all the thru-wall rafters.
With the "chair" being done, I wanted to take a photo but it wouldn't sit right. So I placed in on the porch. A little filing and it sat right down. One cold have used the porch slots to ensure that the rockers were properly spaced. Oh well. I lucked out. I just need to paint the "chair" and get ready for the cabin placement for all the gizmos under it.
One issue that I did have was one rocker lost it's extension in the back. I managed to get it glued back on and then added superglue over the entire rocker assembly. I may yet add a bit of wire along the inside edge as a stiffener/brace. One thing that I did notice is that on rocker is a little more fragile that the other. Since the kit has two sets of these parts, just use both of the good ones. The bad one is the right side rocker parts. Maybe there was a minor earthquake when the laser got to the ear? One can see where the cut heads back up a bit. Just a bit, but enough to make this part extremely fragile.
I continue to be amazed how well all the itty bitty parts fit.
Well done Bob.
Mike :)
Enjoying the build! I appreciate you sharing all the fine details of the build. I will be ordering the Tobacco Shop Kit soon.
-Steven
Steven that kit is great ............
Mike
Hey Bob:
It's looking really great so far.
Karl
First up a mea culpa. I messed up on "the chair". There is a spreader that is to go only half way up the legs. I put mine all the way up to under the seat. The diagrams show it only half way up. So my bad.
I got the interior details painted and placed. Then the furniture placed pretty much as suggested.
Work started on the motor bracket. Again, instructions clear and straight forward. Here is where I caught the chair spreader mistake.
The interior looks awesome , what a great little kit.
Great interior.
Jan and Curt, I concur, great furniture.
Got a little done working on the motor. I just Goo'ed the motor to the bracket being careful not to get any adhesive near the rotating bit. After that had set, one adds a cam. This bit needs a spacer, so I used a parts carrier sheet. Seems to work.
This little motor is really quiet, but then I was using a single AA battery to test it out.
With the bracket being glued to the cabin base, it is now time to figure out how and where this cabin is to be located. I have a decent location, on the inside of a curve, so access to the battery pack and installation for the on/off switch will be easy.
Incredible job so far, Bob. I have that kit too, and am watching with interest. Will put your build in my links for later reference.
Nice how the interior comes together and how you give it your personal touch. Only thing missing is a rack with Moonshiner bottles/jars ...
Urs
Quote from: swisstrain on November 06, 2020, 09:43:42 AM
Incredible job so far, Bob. I have that kit too, and am watching with interest. Will put your build in my links for later reference.
Nice how the interior comes together and how you give it your personal touch. Only thing missing is a rack with Moonshiner bottles/jars ...
Urs
Thanks. And yep, no mason jars. It did have two milk cans though.
I'm not sure if I'll do an actual moonshine operation as I hadn't planned on a cold spring in the scenery area where this will be planted.
Because this has the rocking chair, I need to glue the cabin to it's base board. Before I can do that I need to figure out how this will be placed on the layout as a hole has to be cut for the motor and provision for mounting the toggle switch.
So basically, this is how it will look. Really bare bones, but I need to draw some lines and don't want to do it with the cabin glued on. The farm house is by Campbell.
Then the scene will get set on the inside of a curve. It'll be a decent focal point at the end of an aisle. With the track 2" above the baseline, this will be either 4 or six inches high. I still need to play with height so I don't block access to the track for maintenance. And yes, my track roadbed is 1/2" foam spline, topped with cork.
I did mix up some epoxy to mount four rare earth magnets that will be used to attach the cabin base board to the 1/2" foam core. I'll see tomorrow how well it works.
Postal Karl discussed "the chair" assembly and he's right. It is a it fiddly. Then one has to cut the provided aluminum tubing to given size and glue it between the rocker ears. I found it was easier for me to have the bronze wire pushed through the tube to ensure that it is perfectly aligned while the glue sets.
Hint - on the deck, test the chair rocker/ear fit before gluing it to the base piece. This way if yo have to do some trimming, it would be a lot easier. Also, Darryl mentioned that the actuating arm doesn't need the lower doubler. Just as well as the deck slot is cut for a single thickness.
By some miracle I got the rear earth magnets epoxied in place, all correctly oriented.
Fiddled with the porch slots and working up the nerve to glue the bearing rods in place. I did find one figure whose butt will fit in "the chair". Seemed rather weird not to have someone seated while "the chair" is rocking. Once "the chair" gets set, I can start to actually work on the porch post, railings, roof, etc.
Congrats on successfully finishing the rocker. It sure sounds like it would be very easy to mess it up.
"The chair" is driving me nuts. With the aluminum tube placed between the rockers and the brass/bronze rod inside of it and out the other side, it took several attempts to get the tubing glued to "the chair" and yet have the brass/bronze axle free to rotate. I placed some oil, as per instructions, which should keep glue from seizing up the whole thing. But now, I have such globs of ACC, Hypo Cement, that the axles really don't fit in their slots. I did some surgery, never a good idea, but I am going to make this work on the porch deck. So while the glue(s) were setting up, I worked on the steps.
These were different in that one is to glue one riser, add one tread (two are provided), then add the other risers. I needed to find something to rest the tread on while the glue sets. ThenI measured the porch height and decided that I needed two steps. Rummagging around the left over carrier sheets and parts, I found two pieces that were perfect. Glue on one riser and let it set up a bit. Stack the two rectangular bits and glue one the upper step. Let that set up, Just use the smaller bit and glue on the lower step. When set up enough, glued on the other riser. Easy peasy.
Hint - When screwing in the provided self-tapping screw and grommet, watch your depth. Most of the screw sticks out. The actuating arm winds up a little loosey goosey, but it works because the upper slot is tight.
Soooo, it finally became time to decide how this thing wold work after my fat fingers got involved. I will need to make a set of upper bearing surfaces to hold "the chair" down. I am way too nervous about gluing everything together to keep the original clearances. I could have just as easy made the axle rod a lot longer than called for to move any glue well away (relatively speaking) from the rocker. But this would have to have been planned on before I glued the upper and lower porch sections together. So, I am using some left over cut offs to make an upper bearing surface. First though, I need to put some thin material to gain some elevation, then add a short piece of material over the axles to hold them vertically. The other piece should hold them horizontally.
I had also handled "the chair" way too many times and had to add a metal wire to replace the left rocker arm that broke off.
While this was going on, I put the railing together. Only slightly easier than "the chair".
It looks great Bob.
Bob,
Simply beautiful modeling. Once again, I admire your persistence in staying the course with the rocking chair assembly.
Hey Bob, after all the work involved with the working rocking chair I hope that you will place it front and center so that viewers will be able to see the result of all that work. Jeff
Quote from: nycjeff on November 12, 2020, 05:42:08 PM
Hey Bob, after all the work involved with the working rocking chair I hope that you will place it front and center so that viewers will be able to see the result of all that work. Jeff
It will be in the front at the end of an aisle. I posted a basic shot of it's placement.
Quote from: jerryrbeach on November 11, 2020, 06:07:28 PM
Bob,
Simply beautiful modeling. Once again, I admire your persistence in staying the course with the rocking chair assembly.
Thanks. I wasn't going to let it mock me. Well, it did, but it does work.
The side risers have set, so I used a strip from one of the carrier sheets as an upper bearing. Then it was a matter of adding a couple of dogs to somewhat hide theses added parts.
In hind sight, I should have mounted the actuating arm so that "the chair" would have been sitting backwards a bit. I had mine centered, so now when it rocks, it comes too far forward.
With "the chair" now in place, I can build the front porch. First up, the posts, These are to be cut 1.24" long. Not an inch and a quarter mind you, but 1.24". That is some dry sense of humor. I used the tail piece of my calipers to dial in 1.24" and then double checked against the jaws. Yep. 1.24" ;D
With the posts in place, I can add the front railing. This was just a bit easier than "the chair. I made it a bit rustic looking. Not on purpose mind you, it's how it came out.
Bob love the use of the dogs. great thinking outside the box.
Mike :)
Now I can cover up the porch details. First up, adding rafters to be covered over by the roofing. Now I can finaly place it on the scenery base. Again, I am using super magnets to hold it in place.
I will use a necessary from a Campbell's farm house kit for this cabin.
While building this, I also built Campbell's farm house kit. I have had around for a while as the price tag says $5.50. Pretty much stock except for the window curtains and the concrete block overlay on the foundation.
Beautiful build.
Hey Bob, there sure is a lot going on in a little space with this kit. Great job on all of it. Jeff
Thanks.
One thing missing a trailer. I did build Inter-Action's 17' camper, but decided that I needed something bigger. So I dug out City Classic's Robert's Road. For this, I need to break out an air brush. Not my most favorite tool, but I really need to learn to use it. Them, there is the need for trees. Another item nowhere in my skill set. Sooooo, I have three kits of Woodland Scenics original tree kits that included the metal armatures and fabric mat that would make some great Kudzu. Got them sprayed with rattle can brown. Tomorrow is going to get interesting
Great looking building. I really like the interior details.
Jeff
Hey, this is Nate, the guy with the video about this model build. I wanted to come by and say what a fine job you did on the model. The fact you were able to keep those flimsy rocking chair runners in tact is a testament to the care you took in detailing this model. Great job!
Quote from: LTM_Nate on December 17, 2020, 11:12:51 PM
Hey, this is Nate, the guy with the video about this model build. I wanted to come by and say what a fine job you did on the model. The fact you were able to keep those flimsy rocking chair runners in tact is a testament to the care you took in detailing this model. Great job!
Thanks much. That chair was a pain, but when finished, looks good and works.