Hello everyone,
It's been a while since I've done a build thread so I decided to do one for the next kit.
Next in line for the layout is Weiry and Sons Drilling from Builders in Scale. This kit came out in 1983 and I believe is the first limited run kit made by BIS. I'm a big fan of BIS kits and I have built a few so far.
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First step of course was laying out all the parts and familiarizing myself with the instructions.
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All the individual sub assemblies are bagged separately. This kit looks like it's basically a stand alone main structure with the building from Getz Gas and the trailer from Flybynite construction. I've already built Getz Gas so I'll need to make sure I show a different angle than the one already on the layout.
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The castings included in the kit are excellent. They are much nicer than most of the castings offered in some of the newer kits and on-par with FSM quality. Clean, crisp with very little flash, I cleaned and prepped all the the castings in less than 5 minutes. All of these are what I would consider "foreground" quality castings.
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One of my favorite parts of BIS kits is the blueprints. They are super detailed and if you have a little experience with craftsman kits you can pretty much build the whole kit from the drawings alone.
That's all I have for photos now, I've already primed the "wood" castings and blackened the ones that represent metal last night. I need to spend some time thinking about the color scheme I want but I hope to dig into the wood parts later today. The hardest part of picking a color scheme is making sure I haven't used the same colors too close to the placement of this kit on the layout.
Steve I'll be following along for sure!!
Jerry
Lots of fun. We have a couple of BiS kits in progress on the forum now. I love it.
--Opa George
This looks like an interesting kit Steve. Count me in as a follower as well. ;)
Steve
Very interesting kit, I will be following along.
I'll be following.
I picked this kit up a couple of years ago from a freind who was selling some of his inventory. So I will be following your progress.
I've never seen a build thread on this kit. I'm looking forward to it, Steve.
Cheers, Mark.
Great looking kit Steve.....looking forward to seeing what you do with this one. :)
Hey Steve:
I'll be following along.
Karl
Ooh, will be watching this one closely. I have been thinking of changing mine over to a garage/gas station with living quarters up and store down.
Glad to have everyone following along.
Today I got some of the bracing done and started to try to get an idea of how the building goes together.
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The kit was supposed to include 2 of the walls on the right but it only had one. I couldn't find any clapboard sections that matched the spacing of the one included in the kit but I decided to use one that doesn't exactly match. I'll plan on covering it up with the door as I put everything together.
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The front wall is to be assembled over the template. I made a copy of that section of the template and secured the pieces with double sided tape. You can seen where the left clapboard is a little different from the right.
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Lots of little clapboard pieces butt-glued together. I'm concerned with warpage but I'll address that when it comes up. Seems like this is the only way to manufacture a wall like this in 1983 pre-laser.
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The rest of the structure is board and batten. None of the windows are fully cut out only scored.
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I added my usual mess of bracing to all the side and back walls. The front wall needs a different approach due to the false front.
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This is the back-side of the front wall. The side pieces are pre-cut and will be the core of the pillars. The horizontal pieces will support the board on board vertical pieces that go across the top.
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This wall is directly above the roof and will need some battens trimmed plus they have you glue some roof supports to the wall. This piece will provide an overlay to score the areas that need trimming.
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Here it is laid over the wall. I will be scoring across all the roof lines and removing battens below the score lines.
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You can see the score marks where I cut through the template.
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The battens are removed and I marked where the roof card will sit. I'll be gluing some supports along the bottom of the lines but leaving the space for the roof card.
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The final main building wall assembly is the clerestory. This wall will sit above the roof between the front wall and the back section. It gets built over this template using some rectangle pieces and 1/16 wood.
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I made 2 of these using the same method as the front wall (copies of the template with double sided tape). I don't see any way that this piece will not fall apart as soon as some coloring is applied to it. Windows go into both openings so as long as the castings aren't deeper than the walls I'll just run some bracing all the way across the back and make sure you can't see it through the windows. Once these assemblies dry I'll start working it out.
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Before I was done for the night I gave all the wood and wood colored parts a wash of A&I.
Thanks for following along. I need to figure out a color scheme and then I'll start putting some color to the walls and windows.
Making a lot of great progress.
Thanks Curt!
A bit more progress was made to the walls yesterday..
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The rear of the front wall got covered in vertical boards. Surprisingly it didn't warp too bad.
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After the glue dried I used thin chisel blade to cut away to boards matching the profile of the arch.
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Here they are all trimmed away.
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I decided to go with a light gray color for the walls. I washed the walls in mineral spirits before I covered them in paint then when the paint started to dry I used a wire brush to rough up and take off some of the paint. Once it completely dries I'll give it a wash of A&I.
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Same color for the other walls...same technique also.
I painted the doors and windows a green color also but I didn't take a photo.
Thanks for following along, more to come..
Steve it is really braced well! I like the coloring and the method you used to put it on.
Your usual fine work shows up again in this model.
Jerry
Thanks Jerry, I really appreciate it!
I made a bit more progress last night...
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I added the windows, acetate, the blinds and some corner trim.
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These kits have a good way of guiding the cutting of the acetate to the correct size by providing a scale template for all the windows. I taped the acetate over the template and cut them out with a #11 and a ruler.
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I started gluing the wall sections together.
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I added the green trim to the front wall and glued it in place also.
Everything is coming together pretty good so far. I'm anticipating some challenges with the roof and the clerestory between the front wall and the taller mid wall.
Now that the walls are mostly together it should start to get a bit more interesting.
Thanks for following along.
Loving the progress, Steve. I don't have this kit, so I'm interested seeing how it goes together.
I'm mid-stream on a scratchbuild and only just realized I'm not doing a build thread for it. Doh!
Thanks Craig! I try to do a build thread on the less common kits but it does hinder my progress a bit and I have a hard time remembering to take photos as I go. Sometimes I get in the zone and I don't even think of it.
I'd recommend any of these limited BIS kits. They can be had for pretty cheap (I think I paid around $60 for this one) and the kit is really excellent. It's unfortunate that BIS didn't make too many kits that work for my layout or I'd grab more.
Looking good. I think you'll find that Jim used Northeastern Scale lumber in his kits. At least the clapboard is a perfect match.
The build is looking really good. The grey is a great color and the green goes well with it.
Thanks guys!
Moving along yesterday...
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I glued the clerestory between the 2 front wall sections. This assembly would've been much easier if it had spacers between the 2 walls to keep everything even both top and bottom and side to side. I used the roof cards to check my positioning.
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The instructions would have you cut all the roof cards into 2 pieces and glue them between a piece of 1/16 sq wood. I'd much rather score and fold than try to line everything up and fight it that way. If I didn't cut this card and use the wood spacer at the peak I wouldn't have had enough overhang for the rafter tails so I ended up making my own roof card just a little bit wider.
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Here is the card I made glued into place.
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I glued both the side roof cards and started the rafter tails.
That's where I finished last night, tonight I hope to get all the rafter tails in place and start to work on the large vertical supports for the roof overhang on the back section.
Thanks for following along.
Steve really coming along. Fantastic work!!
Jerry
I really like the look of that rounded false-front end.
--Opa George
Looking really nice. I never thought much of the 1/16" ridge beams. I like using my bracing material, cut to the same length as the bottom measurement to aid in ensuring my end walls are more vertical than not. The more I see, the more I like this kit.
Thanks everyone!
George, that was one of the features that drew me to the kit. Gives it a real unique feel.
Bob, That's typically how I approach it as well. Measure the bottom and make the ridge brace match to pull the walls in or push them out. I didn't on this one because I was afraid it would interfere with the roof itself since its pretty small.
What a cool building and very clean build of it. I hope you are resisting gluing the pointy egg, detail cap thingies that go on top of the front corner columns until last. I have a tendency to want to glue them on early in the build to see what they look like as a great little feature and then later in the build..."Ting!"... as I break them off muttering to myself that I should have waited until the end of the build!
Nice color choices as well.
Thanks Darryl, I also have a tendency to add the more fragile pieces too early and I break them off a dozen times before I'm finished. My plan is to try to wait to all any of the fragile bits until after I glue it down. The rear roof has a decent overhang support by large beams that looks perfect for breaking off a few times too.
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I glued the rear roof card in place. The overhang gets supported by some trusses and beams, looks very fragile.
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I made all 3 trusses and let them dry last night.
I also put together the rest of the supports but I didn't take a picture of it last night.
Next step will be gluing the trusses under the overhang and shingling the roofs. Then I may end up gluing it down so I can start adding the more fragile pieces.
Thanks for following along.
Hey Steve:
Wow!!! it's coming along very nicely.
Karl
Looking good Steve..... 8)
Hi Steve,
I was unaware of this offering by Builders in Scale. Love what you're doing with it. Thanks for the updates. I'll be following along.
Mark
Steve,
Will follow along.
Your builds are always top notch with great photos and the coloring is well done.
Tommy
Thanks Everyone!
I made a bit more progress on the main structure over the last couple days.
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I added all the shingles. I substituted the Campbell's that came with the kit for these from Bar Mills.
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I added the trusses under the overhang.
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I used chalks to weather the shingles.
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Next step was adding the doors. These are made with scribed siding and a few pieces of scale lumber.
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Back door..
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Gluing the truss supports in place. This was pretty tedious and difficult to get straight. At first they were too tall so I took a little off, then they were too short so I used this business card to bring them to the right height while they dried.
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Both in place. I did break the rear one off after taking this picture.
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The cast finial post caps.
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Front sign is added and I added the metal track for the door. It was made with 2 pieces of scale 2x6 glued to make a "L" then I sprayed them black and weathered with chalks.
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Everything started to get too fragile so I thought it was a good time to glue the building down. I added a few simple details right inside the front door to give the illusion of a detailed interior.
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After knocking the rear support off a few times I decided to remove it all together until I could get the rest of the porch and stairs completed.
That's all for now. Next step will be adding the stairs, railings and re-gluing that rear support for the last time hopefully.
Thanks for following along.
Wow, fantastic detail work. You're really bringing it all together here. Looking good.
--Opa George
This is looking great, Steve.
There are some really nice details in this kit - the open trusses, the beams made out of two pieces of 10x3"? with blocking between and metal plates and through bolts - lovely! I'm very impressed.
Cheers, Mark.
Nice rendition of a classic. Great work .
-- Rich
Thanks George, Mark and Rich!
Mark you're right this kit has some really nice details especially in this side staircase area. I ended up turning the whole scene so this area is facing the front of the layout.
Yesterday I added all the railings and staircase to the main structure. It was probably the most tedious part of the whole kit.
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The kit calls for a little corrugated metal shed for under the landing but I haven't built it yet.
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The staircase is a one piece casting.
The main building is done for now. Next step is starting on the other building in the diorama.
Thanks for following along.
Nice work in matching the color of the cast staircase with the weathered wood. That is always a challenge for me.
--Opa George
It lookscgreat Steve. I totally agree about stairs being tedious.
Lookin' good, Steve. Nice work on the roof. Siding as well.
Jeff
Beautiful. I love those "double posts"...small detail, but so much more interesting and unique than the norm. Great finish all over.
John
As usual Steve great job
Doug
Thanks everyone!
George, The way I usually color them to match is first a priming of khaki spray paint, then a wash of A&I followed by a wash of Rembrandt chalks mixed with alcohol (In this case is was Rembrandt 408.3, my favorite color). After the alcohol/chalk wash dries I go over it with a dry brush to blend it together. Works pretty well for me and it's super easy.
Steve
First just love the way those shingles came out!!
Second just the overall paint on the building and trim top notch.
And the addition stairs, posts great detail and deck just shows your patience.
Jerry
Thanks Jerry! I have to admit my patience was tested a bit on the supports. I had to walk away after the second or third time knocking them off.
That is very nicely done. Anticipating the other structures.
Thanks Bob!
I started work on the warehouse this week. I used the same colors and most of the same building techniques for the walls as I did on the main structure.
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All the walls all colored and glued together.
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Other side of the structure.
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The base gets built around this cardstock template. The kit came with scale 6x6 bracing but I know from experience this vertical scribed material warps like crazy once it comes in contact with the glue and water used for the ground cover so I beefed it up to 12x12s.
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Test fitting the base under the structure.
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I thought this building felt familiar....I already built this structure but in a different kit by BIS. On this one the side is just mirrored but otherwise it's pretty much the same. I just need to make sure I display a different angle on the layout.
Thanks for following along.
Everything looks great.
Hey Steve:
Great build and I love the colors. Looks just great in place on the RR.
Karl
Steve...
Great build....
Thanx
Bob
Nice work on this one Steve!
Great looking build and scene Steve..... 8)
Steve,
Really like the colors of this build.
Just found out that CC Crow sells all the Builder in Scale kit plans and some parts now since he purchased the company a while back.
Tommy
Thanks everyone!
Tom, I saw that CC Crow took over but the last time I was shopping on the site it said he wasn't taking any orders for a while. I just checked it now and it looks like he's shipping the BIS stuff. I'm going to see what items are interesting to me and put an order in this week I think. Thanks for the tip.
I moved forward a bit this weekend with the kit.
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I colored and glued the foundation to the warehouse, added the roof and glued the whole thing down.
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I added the docks. As you can see the scenery is wet. I also filled in the difficult to get to areas with scenery so I can start detailing them.
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I added a few detail parts and some wood scraps under the stairs.
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The little bit of scenery and docks are dried. I can start planning the flow of the scene.
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I placed the whole scene on the layout to get an idea of entrance, exits and fencing. This should give a little idea of how it will sit. I liked the wood supports and the staircase so I wanted that facing the front, the other side is pretty plain and boring. You can see the pencil marks where I'm planning the fence.
Thanks for following along. Next step is building the little tow behind trailer, the fence and adding the details.
Steve great build your perfect coloring fits in perfect with the other buildings.
Is the rabbit the guardian of the RR?? ;)
Jerry
Thanks Jerry! That's funny but the rabbit is porcelain music box one of my kids broke. My wife asked me to glue it together. 3 young boys and any porcelain ornamental things are always a bad match.
That's an all-around beautiful job on this kit, Steve. Congrats on how nicely it turned out. Thanks for sharing the build. Looking forward to the detailing pics.
--Opa George
Excellent modeling Steve. I look forward to how you finish the build.
Thanks everyone!
It's starting to wrap up now. Spent some time working out the fencing and just the flow of the diorama as well as painting and adding some castings.
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I started out trying to use a plastic Tichy fence for the whole perimeter of the scene. I completed it but I really didn't like the way it felt so I pulled it. Then I toyed with no fence but that wasn't right either.
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I added some details and then I added this simple fence. I always like this type of fence because its super easy to do and it boxes in a scene but still allows everything to be viewed unobstructed.
To make this fence I just cut a bunch of scale 4x4s 5 scale feet long and poke a hole every 8 scale feet with a toothpick, then I glue them in place. I try to get the heights fairly even but it doesn't matter that much. I cut scale 2x4s a little longer than 8 ft and start gluing them. I prestained everything also. This whole fence took me about 10 minutes.
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Shot of the "front" which is actually the side. The little trailer was part of the kit but also sold separately as "Flybynight Construction" I believe.
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More shots..
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Most of the castings were included with the kit.
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I blackened 3 different vehicle kits last night so at least 2 will be added to the scene here. Still a bit more detailing to go but I expect to be done by this weekend.
Thanks for following along!
Excellent modeling.
Extremely well done.
You aced that kit, Steve. Nice job!
This is one of those kits I've seen on Ebay and might even remember when it was new, but BIS didn't really show it off to it's potential. I had no interest in it. But seeing the beautiful job you did, which shows it to it's full potential, now makes me want to build it. But I have no room for another kit of that size, so I'll content myself with looking back at your work.
Thanks for sharing!
--Opa George
Outstanding scene Steve.....well done. 8)
Thanks everyone!
George, I think most of the BIS kits didn't really get properly displayed in advertisements. They always seemed similar to Campbell's when in reality I think they are closer to FSM in quality and design. The FSM ad photos are always taken at a good angle that really makes the structure look big and interesting. BIS ads that I've seen are small, black and white and taken from a birds eye view. They really are great kits that are mostly overlooked. Master Creations has to opposite problem, terrible kits that look really great in the ads.
Quote from: SteveCuster on December 12, 2021, 09:16:48 PM
Thanks everyone!
George, I think most of the BIS kits didn't really get properly displayed in advertisements. They always seemed similar to Campbell's when in reality I think they are closer to FSM in quality and design. The FSM ad photos are always taken at a good angle that really makes the structure look big and interesting. BIS ads that I've seen are small, black and white and taken from a birds eye view. They really are great kits that are mostly overlooked. Master Creations has to opposite problem, terrible kits that look really great in the ads.
Steve,
Agreed! Builders In Scale turned out some of the most detailed kits with the most comprehensive instructions I have ever built. Simply a joy to work with. Although I did build one Master Creations kit, The Watt Moreland Waxworks, and although the instructions had some gaps and areas that really challenged me, it turned out as one of my most awesome kits that draws the most visitor comments. So personally, I don't think their kits were terrible, per se. I think anyone attempting a Master Creations kit has to go in with the mindset of solving a puzzle, and if you succeed, it give great rewards.
That being said, solving multiple puzzles to build a quite expensive kit is not exactly a great business model! ;)
--Opa George
Hey Steve:
Beautiful job as usual. great colors on the structures.
Karl
Thanks Karl!
George, I agree with the puzzle description of their kits. I built Minerva Casket a while ago and it was the most challenging kit I've built. You are right about them giving you something unique if you can get through it.
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I added a light pole and 2 trucks before calling this scene ready for the layout.
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Both trucks are from Wheel Works.
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Here it is glued down.
This scene was the missing piece to completing the rear portion of my layout. I started laying out the landforms for the area surrounding this, check my layout thread for more details.
http://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=2968.0 (http://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=2968.0)
Thanks for following along and thanks for all the feedback along the way.
Hey Steve:
Looking just beautiful.
Karl
Steve,
Extremely well done and it looks very natural in the setting.
Tom ;D
Very nice, and those trucks, by the way, look fantastic, too.
--Opa George
It looks awesome Steve. Did you use natural dirt or a purchased product?
Thanks everyone!
George, vehicles are something I always struggle with so I appreciate that, not the assembly but the finish.
Tom, the dirt is just PA soil baked, ran through a coffee grinder and sifted.
This is a great looking addition to your layout Steve. I also have this kit that I want to add to my layout.
Thanks Steve! Look forward to see what you do with it.
Steve I bet your coffee tastes a little dusty after a good grind of dirt!! :)
The setting perfect! You've really know how to make a scene come to life.
Jerry