Long time lurker here and haven't built anything in a long while. I browse this forum frequently and I'm amazed at some of the builds I see, beautiful work and will try and do this kit justice. Now onto the kit and the cardboard walls.....they have to go and will be using some 1/32nd bass wood sheets and 1/16th strip wood for bracing and that is where the fun begins. Had to do re-adjust everything to take into account the new thickness of the walls so hopefully figured it right. First picture of all the contents and 2nd picture of the new floor for the upper levels.
Regards, Gary
Look forward to seeing your progress.
This ought to be fun to watch
Good to see someone building that kit.
A few pointers:
Watch the white metal parts fit!
The cornices and the parts around the tower are especially critical.
I built it a few years ago, I'll see if I have a pic of it.
Will surely follow this. :)
Found the pics.
Quote from: Graffen on December 11, 2021, 08:57:50 PM
Good to see someone building that kit.
A few pointers:
Watch the white metal parts fit!
The cornices and the parts around the tower are especially critical.
I built it a few years ago, I'll see if I have a pic of it.
Will surely follow this. :)
yes I know what you mean by the cornice metal pieces for the tower, had to measure everything from that point for all the thicker walls.
I've always wanted to see this kit under construction. Will be following along. Mark
Gary, that is one incredible looking kit. Happy to join in and watch. Looks like fun!
--Opa George
Welcome to the forum Gary, I'll be looking in on your build. I've always liked the SSL kits and loved all the details they included in their kits years before there was South River Modelworks, Sierra West and others. :)
Gary,
Welcome to the Forum.
Looking forward to your build.
Tommy
Thanks everyone for the welcome and following along. Today I was able to build the upper floors and roof flats doing away with the cardstock pieces, scribed one of the floor flats and stained with brown AI wash. The tower was a bit more challenging with the angles and making fit into the upper cast cornice piece but I think I got it. Next up are the walls and deciding on the interior, found some wall paper patterns on-line and printed one of them for the drug store walls.
Great progress Gary.
Nice, solid build!
Hey Gary:
Looks good so far. Can't wait to see more.
Karl
Managed to get the front upper walls cut and glued together today and next will be to glue the larger wall section to the tower and cover with the embossed sheet of brick. Back to work tomorrow for a few days then off until next year.
Looking good Gary.
Off until January and hoping to make some good progress on the Drug Store. Been working on interior details, walls and furniture and found my helper sleeping on the job. Not sure on what the kit manufacturer was thinking on the embossed brick sheets but the embossing stops short by about 1 1/2" of the end of the sheet. If they would of embossed the whole sheet there is enough material to be able to cover the wall assembly in one long continuous piece, instead you have to splice on a piece....oh well. Not real happy where the brick joins together but looks some better after I rolled the seam down.....glue was still wet.
hey Gary:
You are progressing right along. Great work so far.
Karl
Those SS Ltd kits are a challenge but they do produce nice structures! Keep with it, you're making good progress on what can be a tough build.
dave
Very nice interior.
A few more pieces to the puzzle have been assembled for the first level walls and entrance for the apartments above. I replaced the brick embossing where I tried to tooth the brick together and moved the joint to the tower....much happier now. Graffen hope you don't mind if I go with a color scheme close to yours, the lighter colors show the details better in my opinion. The re-designed layout for some of the walls that have been changed from cardstock to bass wood.
Nice!
That building almost tells us the paint scheme itself! 8)
The light color scheme I used actually makes the details more obvious.
Hey Gary:
That coming along nicely. I'm following along.
Kaerl
Interior details for the second floor are now finished, completely scratch built and it's only 1 out of 3 to do....at least the pharmacy interior has cast detail parts.
Wow! Great progress Gary!
That is exceptionally nice detail work, Gary. I'm enjoying watching your progress.
--Opa George
Hey Gary:
What can I say but beautifully done.
Karl
Excellent interior details Gary..... 8)
Very, very nice.