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#1441
Thanks for the running commentary on the convention - I'm really enjoying following along!

That new kit from Bar Mills is a real winner!  I'm sure it will sell out in record time.  I took some good photos of the original back in 2015 - its always been a favourite.  Have fun spending all your hard earned cash - I am a little jealous!  Any $16 FSM kit purchases yet?

Cheers, Mark.
#1442
Looks good, Tom.

Volume three is kicking along nicely!

Cheers, Mark.
#1443
Layout Tours / Re: Holland Odessa R.R.
August 31, 2018, 07:09:24 PM
Nice job, Jim!

The veranda looks much better.

Its nice to see a kit changed up like this.  I'm looking forward to your future efforts.

Generally, when I build something like this, I would build the veranda separate from the building complete with rafters, purlins, and corrugated iron roofing.  I use a thin piece of black card, which gives a fairly good impression of black building paper when glimpsed from underneath when installed on the building.  I cut this to the shape of the roof, then work upside down, gluing on the purlins to the card, then the rafters to the purlins (cut to the correct angle and length - slightly longer than the card at the front).  I then turn the roof over when dry, draw some lines on the card to help keep things square, and add the double sided tape.  I then start at the bottom adding the sheets of iron.  These, too, I overhang slightly.  In this way I find the roofing much easier to put on straight and square.  I have a process before this where I add small indentations to the iron which, when flipped over, look like lead headed nails.    After installing the roof I then make up a flashing out of aluminum foil which I smooth out and then attach a piece of double sided tape.  I then cut this into strips for the size of the flashing, carefully bend it in half longways using a metal rule and my thumb nail, and then peel off the tape backing.  This can then be worked in at the junction of the cladding and the roof.  You can use a tool to work the flashing into the roof undulations.  In this way any gaps between the roofing and the cladding are hidden.  Its pretty painful and tricky, but the results are worth it.  I particularly like the lead headed nails on the roof as in the 1:1 world these are always visible on structures, whereas the nail holes on timber cladding are usually not.

Thanks for your thorough commentary on your work - I enjoyed reading through it.

Cheers, Mark.
#1444
Looking good, Tom.

I will be interested in seeing your 'borrowed scenery' views across the peninsula.  I have no doubt you will beat me in its completion!

Cheers, Mark.
#1445
Big boys - that made me laugh!  I like the way you think!

Cheers, Mark.
#1446
Layout Tours / Re: The Clearwater and Little stone RR
August 30, 2018, 06:26:17 PM
Looking forward to more, Eric.

I see where some of your talent comes from.

Cheers, Mark.
#1447
Some amazing progress, John!

Your layout is looking wonderful!

One detail I thought you could add - some sort of lifting device to get the stones up to the scaffold.  I can't see those being carried up a ladder!

Cheers, Mark.
#1448
Brave, Tom - very brave!

Nice job and well worth the effort!

Cheers, Mark.
#1449
Thanks you very much, Tom!  Much appreciated.

George - I have had a few photos and a couple of short articles in NZ mags, but nothing in the Gazette.

Karl - I'm itching to get back into the heart of Tellynott - structure building and scene creating - but at present I'm still busy with bench work and ceilings for the layout.  I'm determined to get this finished before I get back into the good stuff!

Cheers, Mark.

#1450
Kit Building / Re: Builders in Scale "The Waterfront"
August 30, 2018, 02:23:50 AM
Coming on nicely, Opa George.

I, too, like the visible stairway - a nice feature.

Cheers, Mark.
#1451
He is another example.

This is my sketch of a wonderful scene from a New Zealand book - in Hamilton, which no longer exists.

The base assembled showing the road roughed in and the sites of the different buildings.

A view from the top with the buildings in place.

The scene coming together with a combination of mock-ups and buildings under construction.  I modified a DPM kit for the end front and the kit 'Gruesome Casket' was used for the second front.

Cheers, Mark.

#1452
Hi George.

Mock-ups I find to be a huge help.  Even to begin with, placing boxes and cans and bits of this and that to help visualize shapes and the flow of a scene is very useful.  From there the shapes get a bit more fine tuned - carved out of polystyrene or built of MDF or cardboard, and then photocopies of kit walls 'bashed' together, paying no attention to how the kit was meant to be put together or even what kit it is.  In this way I splice together kit walls from different kits, along with scratch-building materials.  At the same time as this I have many different pictures of scenes in mind, collected over the years by camera or from books and magazines - both models and prototypical.  I also try to work from the outside in - mocking up the entire layout to get an overall feel and then honing the smaller scenes.  Super kits are no exception to this - they get chopped and changed just like the smaller kits - always with the overall scene in mind.  If it doesn't fit - make it fit.  I also like to have all my roads, track-work, rivers and land-forms roughed in place, so I actually have a building site to build on with specific heights and boundaries.  In this way you build a lot more like you do in 1:1 scale - planning levels and foundations, retaining walls and vehicle access.

Photos 1-4 show my Tellynott corner diorama coming together.  Planning, roads and land-forms, mock-ups, the scene nearing completion (with many changes along the way)

Another thing I do quite a bit is to use walls from a kit (or several kits) that resemble a prototypical building and use them to create an impression of that building.  I try not to get too caught up on the finer details.  Also - adding extra bits can change the appearance of a kit dramatically.  Different roof shapes, decks, porches, steps, large signs, walk-overs - all change the feel of a structure.  They can also be used to visually join structures into a complex.

Photos 5 & 6 - A Magnuson kit chopped into four separate 'fronts'.  Three have been reconnected curving around a road at grade with  hip roofs added to two - one in corrugated iron, one in tiles.  The forth front has been built as a stand alone structure with lots of add-ons - steps, second story deck and roof, sign, walk-over.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Mark.
#1453
Looking great, Bob!

Enjoying your thread.

Cheers, Mark.
#1454
Kit Building / Re: Builders in Scale "The Waterfront"
August 20, 2018, 03:08:33 PM
Looking good, Opa George.

I, too, like your colour combination.

Cheers, Mark.
#1455
Kit Building / Re: Rugg Manufacturing - SRMW Kit 170
August 19, 2018, 03:43:38 PM
Looking good, Vince.

I think the improvement by getting rid of the angled pieces of tar paper roofing was definitely worth the effort.  The flashing also looks very good.  I've seen Greg Shinnie do some pretty flash flashings in the past - I don't know if that is who you might be thinking of?  His 'Troels Kirk cannery' build thread showed some pretty extensive flashing work.  The flashing 'how to's' start on page 8.

http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26677&whichpage=8

Cheers, Mark.
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