RSM Delwins Boat & Net Storage build.

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Here is how Delwin's looks with the water base color painted on.




I finished gluing the small net storage office together.

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This is approximately where it will go on the dock.

[Polux]

That's a really beautiful work Tom.
The small office looks very cool

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That's a really beautiful work Tom.
The small office looks very cool

Thank you, much appreciated.

Tom

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I've resumed my work on Delwin's. I'll have some updates and pictures in the next few days.

Tom

[postalkarl]

Hi Tom:

Look just fantastic. Can't wait for more pics.

Karl

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Hi Tom:

Look just fantastic. Can't wait for more pics.

Karl

Karl,

Thanks for checking in. I should have some tomorrow evening.

Tom

[postalkarl]

Hi Tom:

Cool sounds good.

Karl

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I started work on the office roof.



I have a tendency to over brace if one can over brace a structure.



I cut the roof card stock per the instructions, placed it on the office and marked the interior walls. This will help me line up the roof to the building later when glued.




Continued in a few.

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The kit comes with Campbell shingles and I'll use them on the office roof.



After taking the picture of the shingles and roof section, I noticed the dotted lines on the roof card are the same width as the shingles. Each row of shingles will fit between the dotted lines. Not sure if this was done on purpose or by accident but I won't be using the roof section that came with the kit.

I purchased some lined card stock at last years Expo (Danvers) and used the kit card stock as a pattern to cut a new roof section. This section has the proper spacing for Campbell shingles.



I left the roof for later at this point and decided to make a billboard sign for Delwin's

More in a few.

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I wanted a large company billboard sign for Delwin's and I wanted it to be seen from the road. It will be located where the Schaefer Beer sign shown below is located.

Reading Bob built the Schaefer Beer sign for the A&S RR. The sign is a Vectorcut sign. Dave Krakow has some fantastic stuff on his site. Lots of great details no one else has. Check out his site, its wonderful.

http://www.vectorcut.com/





The sign will be at the intersection of the County Road (to be named later).




Yes, my planning is much further than the actual build and scenery you now see and hopefully enjoy.

More in a few.

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Notice the road looks off in the above photo? This is due to the angle of the view. When viewed from the road direction, all appears normal.



I plan to fix the scenery around the road to force the viewer to see the road from the road angle so it will look normal.

Continued in a few.

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I scribed and stained some scale 1X10s and glued them to 4X6 posts.



I scanned and saved the original signs in my sign file. I copied the pumpkin colored sign, resized it to fit a bill board. I then applied a coat of full strength matte medium to the front of the 1X10s. I then applied the new sign to the bill board and set it aside to dry.



Diet Pepsi time people. Back in a few.

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I framed the sign with scale 3X3s. I thought 2X2s were to small and 4X4s were to big.



I forgot to mention I cut the sign in four sections as if it were a bill board sign. You can just barely see the separations in the photo below. I used a #17 Xacto blade to peal back a corner at the top of one of the sections.

I also used the front of an Emory board to weather the sign.









More in a few.

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Postalkarl turned me on to some dry brush weathering brushes. I got them from Micro-Mark.



I made an extra sign and did a little practicing.




I used the small #2 to apply some dry brushing of Floquil Antique White to the sign and frame.

I added some dark gray Pan Pastel to the cut lines.




Continued in a few.