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.

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.

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.

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.

Very nice, I swear I can smell sawdust.....

Great looking buildings, very nicely done.

Great looking details and really like the stone work.

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.

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.

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

Great looking scene 

very nice, great weathering job....old and rustic 

Great looking building, really like the colors.

Nice shay, how many loaded cars can you pull with it 

Some great pictures Bob.