This is my first laser cut craftsman kit. I got this kit with a gift certificate that I won in a contest. I've actually been a little nervous about building it. I'm not sure why. Perhaps because the cost is about a third of what I spend per year. My hobby money is very limited. I probably spend about $100-$150 a year, most of that goes for paint, glue, building materials, a few people, and cars. So, having a craftsman kit to build is something kinda special for me.
I was really impressed with the kit. It's made by Best Trains. The box is really nice. Embossed printing and its like something that jewelry would come in. The picture of the finished model is really clear, which makes it nice when you need to see small details on how things go together. This was a really nice kit to build. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Inside the box there's a couple pages of great instructions and all the pieces have been carefully packaged and thoughtfully arranged.
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This is a simple kit. All the pieces are cut perfectly. The windows and doors at made by Titchy and fit in the openings without any problems. The metal castings are nice. They do need a little bit of clean up, but nothing major. Mostly just a little flash.
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The are two ways to build the kit. A short version and a long version. I chose the long version with the addition on the back. The wood for the kit is color coded which makes it really easy to use the right pieces in the right places without having to measure anything. Only the corner pieces and the trim around the roof need to be cut. That was done quickly with a razor blade. I used Titebond wood glue and had the building together in about an hour. Most of that time was waiting for the glue to dry. I added 45 degree pieces in the corners to help keep is square.
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After the walls were together and cleaned up a little from some excess glue I gave them a coat of ink and alcohol.
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I sprayed the building with Aqua Net hair spray and threw salt all over it.
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I sprayed it with coat of Folk Art Antique white.
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Next a heavy coat of Folk Art Black Cherry.
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I rubbed the salt off with a small wire brush and painted the trim Antique White.
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The windows and doors went in easy. I did run into a bit of a problem with the "glass" that came with the kit. It has a printed outline on it and I cut it on the wrong side of the line, so they was all too small. I ended up using Scotch Tape for the glass. Sticky side out and then a coat of DulCote to keep dirt from sticking to it.
The roof is card stock and it's cut to fit. It fit perfect. The tar paper is peel and stick stuff that works really nice.
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The roof shingles are peel and stick too. They're in strips. A little tedious, but I love them. They look really great.
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So this is finished until I get it mounted to a base.
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After I get it glued to a base I'll do some weathering and add the signs and the castings and all that other little stuff. I'm planning to have those Woodland Scenic painters painting the building. I'll have a small section with fresh paint on it. I'm thinking about having some other construction going on too. Sort of like the building is being rehabbed.
Nice job Dave..... 8)
It's great to see you tackle one of these kits, and Brian does nice work on BEST kits and instructions.
dave
Quote from: deemery on December 01, 2014, 08:34:51 AM
It's great to see you tackle one of these kits, and Brian does nice work on BEST kits and instructions.
dave
I'll be following this build. I've seen the salt trick on vehicles but not on structures.
Tom ;D
Dave....
I like your solution to the window problem.
Consider this for your next build. One of my maxis in coaching modelers is that nothing looks like glass except glass. You might want to go back on this kit but the scotch tape is really cool.
You can find microscope slides and covers at most hobby places and in some camera places tha stock microscopes. The slides are 7/8ths by 2 1/2 inches. The covers are 7/8s square. Thickness does not matter as that cannot be told by viewing when the model is done. Do not use super glue as it puts up some blue color when it kicks. Plastic glue or walthers goo will work.
Cut the glass with a carbide tip machinist scribe available at the big box home places. Use a straight edge and a single pass will do it.
Let me know what you think.
See ya
Bob
Thanks Bob, I'll have to try that.
Dave,
I really like the way Plewak's / Dave's Antiques is coming. Add me to the list of those never having seen salt used for structure modeling. It certainly gave you an interesting peeling paint finish. I'll be following along to see what details you add.
Nice looking build so far. I've not seen the salt used, either. Of course, with my high blood pressure, I'm supposed to avoid salt. ;)
Jeff
Hi Dave, nice job. I have two questions. Why the first coat with spray white? And did you use regular table salt? Thank you in advance.
Larry
I painted the first coat of white because I was hoping that where the paint chipped off there would be a different color under the red color. It worked in a few places. It doesn't really show up in the pictures.
I just used regular table salt.
I started on the building that's going to be next to the antique store. I started with this kit.
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It's got a lot of stuff in it. Lots of little castings and details. Seems like a pretty nice kit.
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The side walls are board and batten on the bottom and horizontal siding on the second floor. I glued studs on the inside of the bottom walls and then glued the top walls to the studs so that I wouldn't have a glue seam between the two different sidings.
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The kit comes with stuff to make a flat roof with exposed rafters. I though it would look strange so I made a roof out of illustration board.
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The roof looked a little empty so I made some dormers.
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While I was waiting for paint and glue to dry I painted all the windows and doors dark green.
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The dormers got siding that I made by gluing on overlapping strips of card stock. Then I put on Campbell's paper shingles. So, the whole roof is made out of paper. I gave it a coat of medium gray and painted the siding on the dormers antique white. The building got the salt treatment and I coat of antique white. I'll start chipping the paint tomorrow.
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Here's a link to more pictures: http://public.fotki.com/daveinthehat/davetown/daves-antiques/
I used this wire brush tool to knock the salt off. Going with the grain of the wood. It takes a little bit of the paint off. Rubbing it with firm pressure changes the color of the paint a little bit.
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This looks a little better. I want it to look old without giving it that "haunted house" look.
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I'm still going to do more weathering with paint and pastels.
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I got a little more done. Progress is slow because my hands are bothering me a lot.
I used real glass for the windows. I never did this before. I like the way it looks.
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I'm close to being finished this building. Details need to be added and weathering. I replaced a few of the laser cut parts with my own version of them.
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Dave,
Great job so far (as usual). Never in my life would I have ever thought to paint a kit with hair-spray and salt. Cool idea
Kinda slow progress here. I've gotten a little weathering done on the buildings and work done on the base.
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I made some trees. I don't enjoy making trees.
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Impressive! Could we have a "refresher course " on the salt technique? Thanks Jim
Quote from: jrmueller on January 08, 2015, 09:53:29 AM
Impressive! Could we have a "refresher course " on the salt technique? Thanks Jim
I don't feel like I've really got the hang of the salt technique. What I did was use a base color. Then I use hair spray to get the salt to stick to the buillding. After that dries paint it the final color. When the paint is dry chip all the salt off.
There are a lot of other model builders that seem to have really mastered this technique. I need to play around with it more to get the results that I'm looking for.
Thanks I'll give it a try. Jim
The buildings are now mounted to the base.
I've been spending time working on the landscaping and painting all the little stuff.
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Beautiful work and I am hook on the idea now using hair spray and salt.
I'm getting close to being finished this diorama. I spent a lot of time working on little things and adding details. I had sort of a change in my plan. I decided to make the bigger building the antique store and the smaller one something else. That didn't really work out ether because I ended up with more stuff than I thought.
This is just a portion of the things I came up with.
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Just to give a perspective of the size, here's a tea cup in my hand.
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I made a sign for the front of the building out of wood and paper.
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I must have rearranged everything about 100 times. Here's a couple pictures with all the stuff in place.
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That's a great scene. You could study it for quite a while and keep enjoying new finds...nice work Dave!
John
Nice work. 👍 I, too, am a recent convert to using real glass. What program do you use to make your signs? 🚂
Dave,
Wonderful stuff and you really captured antique look in front.
Tom ;D
Wow!
Mega-clutter............... Wow! ! ! ! !
Very cool
Thanx Bob
Quote from: Dave K. on February 03, 2015, 07:01:52 AM
Nice work. 👍 I, too, am a recent convert to using real glass. What program do you use to make your signs? 🚂
I use Adobe Illustrator.
To the two Dave's
I'll take no credit for perhaps being an influence on you or anyone else around here having gone to using real glass...........
But.........
I'll say it again............
Nothing looks like glass except glass.
Great model.
thanx
Bob
Thanks for the response, Dave. How's the learning curve on Illustrator? And yes, Bob, you're the "glass pusher" that coaxedme into trying it again. 👍 😁
I guess if you've never used Illustrator it might seem a bit complicated. I shouldn't take too much time to figure out the basic stuff. It's a very powerful program a lot of features. I've been using it since the early 80's and I still find things that I didn't know about. I do like it better than Corel Draw, but that's just personal preference.
👍
Dave, this looks really interesting. The parts are so small that your breath could make them fly away.don't sneeze, LOL.
Marty
Here's the final pictures.
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Here's the link to all the pictures I took while I was building this: http://public.fotki.com/daveinthehat/davetown/daves-antiques/
What a spectacular job !!! Great work !! Love the kit bash on the JL kit
I made a slide show of this build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829KYJaM518
Dave ...... marvelous !!!! I wish my castings looked half that good
Quote from: DaveInTheHat on January 07, 2015, 07:53:24 PM
Kinda slow progress here. I've gotten a little weathering done on the buildings and work done on the base.
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I made some trees. I don't enjoy making trees.
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For someone who doesn't like making trees, those trees sure look like they are real. Great stuff. I am itching to try that salt technique.
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On the ground flanking the steering wheel, are those craftsmen kits in their original boxes?????
I love this antiques scene. Something for everyone, body of a hot rod waiting for some gear head, fine china, a bird house, a couple of clear topped gas pumps. This is quite a build. Nice going Donato.
Wonderful work, Dave. So many details. 8)
Jeff
Quote from: UP Fan on April 12, 2015, 11:43:07 PM
I love this antiques scene. Something for everyone, body of a hot rod waiting for some gear head, fine china, a bird house, a couple of clear topped gas pumps. This is quite a build. Nice going Donato.
UP fan, Dave did all the "going" I just sat back and enjoyed .... :)
Quote from: Donato on April 12, 2015, 07:49:29 PM
On the ground flanking the steering wheel, are those craftsmen kits in their original boxes? ??? ?
The boxes are vintage 1/25 and 1/32 model car kits. I found pictures on the internet and sized them down.
Quote from: DaveInTheHat on April 13, 2015, 10:48:20 PM
Quote from: Donato on April 12, 2015, 07:49:29 PM
On the ground flanking the steering wheel, are those craftsmen kits in their original boxes? ??? ?
The boxes are vintage 1/25 and 1/32 model car kits. I found pictures on the internet and sized them down.
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WoW !!!!! That is neat.
Hi Dave:
Very nicely done. Love all the antiques. Looks like the Fleamarkets I used to go to back in the day.
Karl
Dave, truly amazing. Even the coke machine has a power cord.
Dave
Great work! I love the details.