Good morning all you happy little forum people.
I have started building CCK's Trundle's bakery kit. I am going to be making it into a waterfront version. That is was how it was originally designed when Jeff was sent the drawings that some nameless person who lives in my mirror designed. So without further ado, let's get busy with some pictures. I appologize that these aren't Jamie quality pictures but I'm stuck with using my phone camera as my regular camera won't play nicely and come out of hiding
As is forum law, here are the beginning pictures. The box and it's contents. I didn't take a picture of the instructions but it does come with them for those who feel the need to use them. I think I may have used this set to clean up a paint spill.
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I started off by bracing the walls. I didn't do any bracing on the attic window because there isn't really any room for it.
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While the glue dried on the bracing I painted the doors and windows. I chose to use Polly scale light freight car red. I also painted the columns and store front wall section the same color as well as the corner trim. Might as well do it all while I am using that color.
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The next step was to assemble the walls. It went very quickly. To make sure I got the second story part of the front wall in the right location I held the store front wall in place then glued in the second story.
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Once everything was dry and solid, I gave the walls a coat of Hunterline gray stain. Then I started with painting the walls Pollyscale depot buff. I didn't get the paint on too heavy because I wanted the gray to show through in some spots. When the depot buff had dried I went over the walls again with the gray stain to age everything a bit.
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Now I moved on to the store front. It goes together quite easily. After I had the windows and doors glued in I used mircoscale kristal klear for the glass. It probably would have been smarter to do that before the windows were glued in but I had a brain fart. I glued the posts in place and decided it needed to have something added. I glued a piece of bracing across the top which I think gave it a more finished appearance. I know it will be obscured by the awning but it made me happy.
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The next step was to glue the store front in place and start adding the windows and doors around the rest of the building.
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And that is where I am going to stop for now. Tune in next time for the fun of roofing and making up the base for the building.
Espen L. Marsh
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Very nice. Thanks for sharing Espen. I really like the design of the structure and the job you're doing with the kit. :D
You guys build fast.
Jaime "glad there is no minimum speed limit on the forum"
Neat structure! Looking good.
Cheers, Mark.
Great job Espen.....I'll be following along. 8)
Espen
Looking good - I will be following along.
Espen,
Great job on the structure, I'll be following along as well.
Tom ;D