Bar Mills Four Fingered Tony's Build

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Priming is always better, particularly for acrylics.  My favorite primer is (was) the Floquil spray light gray figure primer, it has a very fine grain to it.  I have a couple cans that I'm reserving for (HO scale) figures.


dave

Hold on to that Floquil primer.  It will be worth it's weight in gold someday.  I've been using Tamiya Fine Surface primer.  Very fine pigments and it really gets into the nooks and crannys.

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Well, Tony finally paid his utility bill and the lights have been turned on.  It's always a milestone when the lighting is added to a structure.  The first picture shows the adhesive-backed copper foil I used instead of wire.  The strip wood next to the package of foil has  copper foil mounted on both sides.  The next picture shows the lights and the lead wires soldered to the foil and notches have been cut into the interior walls to mount the light strip.  After that, some pictures showing the lighting.  It's on the layout but not in it's permanent home just yet.

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And a few more.

[martin.ojaste]

Bob,


I like your idea of the copper tape lighting the structure. With a bit of paint the wiring is make near invisible.

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So true, Martin, once the foil is painted, it becomes almost part of the structure.

[postalkarl]

Hi Bob B.:

Looking great sofar.

Karl

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Had a little time to work on Tony's adding a few more people and details.  The first pic is the flashing installed on the roof.  Made it from manila folder cut to size and painted silver.  Will add some grimy black and white glue mixture to simulate the tar to seal the flashing.  In the 2nd picture one of the fork lift operators got distracted and ran into the side of the building running a load up the new ramp.  And just after Tony had a scrape shield installed above the ramp.  In the 3rd picture, Tony is giving the errant fork lift operator what for.      The last pic, Mrs. Tony is talking with a customer about the new meat display case.