Five down, two to go.

[Zephyrus52246]

I started this building back in September, and it's finally finished.  Between Christmas, too many hours at work and general burnout on the kit (with some issues along the way), it took a long time to finish this one.  In fact, i finished the next building in the series before this one.     Here's a pic of the building along with it's place on the layout with the others in the series (I'm not using the first and seventh buildings in the "block".  The raw clapboard piece on the end is the width of the next building.  Thank goodness it all fits.   


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

There were three areas where this build were very irritating.  The first was when I used A&I over the Vallejo acrylics on the storefronts.  I used a very dilute application, yet it still ended up looking like this:

[Zephyrus52246]

I use the A&I on the clapboard siding, which is also painted with acrylics, but even though it pulls of a small amount of the paint (even after drying for weeks, the storefront had been painted at least three weeks before), it looks fine.  Not so on the flat surfaces.  I later used very dilute amounts of vallejo washes to get a dirtied effect, after repainting the storefronts.  I'll try the PanPastels in the future for these surfaces as well.  It looks a little better than the pic, the flash washes out some of the dirt effect.

[Zephyrus52246]

Later came the dormers.  The instructions tell you to glue them even with the top.  They'd be way to short then.  I looked back to Bob's build, and his dormers are the same size, mounted a little lower and then sanded to even out the angle with the front wall. I'd forgotten that you can lower them due to the roof angles.     Thanks again, Bob, for the detailed build thread, it's been a BIG help.


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

The final major hurdle was the shingled area.  The instructions say to glue the dormers on the roof first.  DON'T.  Just put the shingles on and then glue the dormer over it.  Otherwise you have to custom cut each line of shingles so they line up, and then up the layer above the dormer lines up.  I was lucky and this worked out fine, but it took longer than finishing the entire rest of the roof.  On to the next two structures!


Jeff

[GPdemayo]

You're doing great working out the kinks Jeff.....I'll be looking in for the rest. 

[PRR Modeler]

It looks great Jeff.

[bparrish]

Very cool... sir

thanx
Bob

[ReadingBob]

Looks great Jeff!  Glad to hear you found my thread useful too.      I really like the way you split this up and laid it out in your town.

I had a similar experience with the Vallejo paints.  Mine was with some detail castings I had painted.  The A&I washed away some of the paint. 

[Lynnb]

Looking very good.

[JusticeCity]

Yes, dormers and shingling is a real pain. It gets easier if slope of the dormer roof and main roof are matchy matchy. I guess there is some heavy math to get it line up exactly. Maybe there is a mathematician here who can figure it out. I would but I'm on vacation.