Bar Mills - Sokol's Furniture and Mattress Company Build

[ReadingBob]

I peeled off the backing for the 3M Transfer Tape.


Then positioned a sheet of the roofing material in place and pressed it down so it would stick to the adhesive.


Then I trimmed it to fit with a pair of Friskar Micro Shears.


That's it for today.  I also started a separate thread, Lighting Bar Mills Sokol's Furniture and Mattress Company, over in the Lighting Your Model board if you're interest in how I'm going to go about lighting up this kit.

Thanks for following along! 

[ACL1504]

Thanks Karl!  It's been a fun one overall.  I hope it's worthy of a place on Tom's layout when I done with it.

Bob, are you kidding me? All your structures get prime real estate locations on the Atlantic & Southern RR.

Beautiful job on the kit.

Tom

[postalkarl]

Hi All:

WOW!!!! Bob isd using double faced 3M tape. I wondwer how he likes it.

Karl

[Janbouli]

Great build Bob. Just a note on the extra dabs of glue on the peel and stick , it doesn't stick better with the glue , actually I found the opposite , the 2 glues don't work well together. Plus I have never had peel and stick let loose.

[ReadingBob]

Karl - I like the transfer tape for applying roofing.   

Jan - I have had peel and stick stuff come loose but typically it's the peel and stick shingle material that comes in some of these kits.  I guess that stuff is made with a different 'sticky' material.

Back to the build.  Speaking of peel and stick that's what the main roof is made from.  I peeled off the protective material.  You can see where the shed and skylight are supposed to go based on scribed lines in the roof. 


You can see where the shed and skylight are supposed to go based on scribed lines in the roof.  When I got further along it the build I noticed that my shed is in a different location then the one pictures in the instructions. 


Next I positioned the shed in place (following the guidelines  ).


After the shed and skylight were in place I sprinkled the black roofing material included in the kit over the exposed sticky surface and pressed it in place.


The black roof looked a little too black and uniform so I went over it with some powders and a spray of Dullcoat to tone it down and make it a little less uniform.


Moving on to another part of the build I constructed the supports for the overhang.  This is a fairly straight forward assembly done over a template.


More in a moment... 

[ReadingBob]

The loading dock has four notches built into it that the overhang supports fit in.  They're a little bit long (on purpose) so I positioned it in place and used a razor blade to mark where each support needed to be cut for a proper fit.


Egad!     That's a lot of windows and glazing.  Per the instructions I saved these for last.  The frames are already installed in the structure but some of these will be installed in an open position so it's recommended that they be put in last lest they be knocked out while handling the structure during the build.


I've never used this stuff before but the instructions (and Bob C. if I'm not mistaken) recommend using 3M 77 Multi-purpose Adhesive spray glue to coat the back of the mullions and install the glass panes. 


I did four at a time.  I sprayed them with the glue (outdoors).


And then positioned the panes of glass (Dullcoated side down) onto the mullions while the adhesive was tacky.


I ran the back of my curved tweezers over the glass to make sure it was seated on the mullion.


I have to admit I was bit apprehensive about this step but it went smoothly and everything held together quite well.     

More in a moment... 

[ReadingBob]

I installed the windows and then glued the rest of the detail parts in place.  I added some scraps of strip wood and did a little touch of weathering powder here and there and declared this one finished!   

Here are some final photo's.

[ReadingBob]

Thanks for following along!         Time to move on to the next build!     

[jimmillho]

AWEESOME

Jim

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Unbelievable build, wonderful looking structure and the lighting is fantastic. I'm speechless.

Tom

[donatode]

Bob,


All I can say is .....





WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL.....

[coors2u]

Mighty fine work Bob. I would expect nothing less.

[Janbouli]

Awesome  Bob, absolutely great looking building.

[rpdylan]

Very nice build, Bob! I love the shape of this structure, my only problem is that each side looks so cool its hard to choose which way to face it!

Bob C

[Zephyrus52246]

Great build, Bob.  Thanks for letting us follow along.

Jeff