Nevada city Fire station in HO

[Graffen]

Hi all!
I got my hands on this:



A really old kit from HSM?!?
I would say that this must be considered a Craftsman kit... 



The build has begun...
Cutting the windows and doors. A new blade was definitely a must
The walls was a pain to cut out in 1/8" cardboard.
I have glued the brick faces to the cardboard, and they are now drying under a ton of lead weights....

[Zephyrus52246]

Wow,that certainly qualifies as "craftsman".  We sometimes forget what kits were like in the "olden days" before laser cutting.   


Jeff

[ACL1504]

I remember this as a kit and have seen it built. Very nice fire station.

I'll be following your progress.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

I have several of their neat kits.....one is partially finished that I started in the 80's. I'll be watching. 

[Graffen]

I hope to finish this in a week or so... 

Been building the wall details.


The brick surround is cardboard.


Doors....


The gables are almost finished.


Painting bricks.... The walls are quite large, so it's going to take a while.

[Graffen]

This is how I did the walls:



I primed them with burnt sienna and then picked some bricks in lighter and darker colors.

Note that they are way to strong in contrast at this stage.





I then lightly Airbrushed some of the base color to tone down the bricks.



To make the mortar, I painted the walls with warm gray oil paint straight from the tube.



I then wiped it off while wet.

I lastly used a towel that was very lightly damped in mineral spirits to remove the oil paint from the brick surfaces.





Just the way I liked it. 

[Graffen]

The fire station build continued.



I've assembled the walls and built the windows and doors.
They are mostly made out of cardboard with printed plastic glass.



The embossed brick walls were a real chore to work with....But it worked out okay.

[Graffen]

Finished!!!
The HSM Nevada city fire station is done!
It was a real challenge, but it went really okay I think.
The bell tower has 28 parts.... Fiddly, to say the least.
The interior light is a led mounted above the ceiling and has an orange colored diffuser to make it resemble gas light.

[deemery]

VERY nice!


dave

[donatode]

VERY nice!


dave

I'll second that (or is it third or fourth.....) VERY, VERY nice.