Old Squid Brewery Project

[jimmillho]

Outstanding!!

I agree with the comment.

Jim

[Mark Dalrymple]

Beautiful workmanship, Eric.

Also very interesting to watch you working and dealing with problems.  The stencil work was very interesting.  I always look forward to your posts - as you always present something a little different to the norm.

Cheers, Mark.

[ak-milw]

WOW, nothing like really painting the sign on the wall.  excellent job!!

[EricQuebec]

Outstanding!!

Thanks for your compliment Donato.
Eric Québec city

[EricQuebec]

Outstanding!!

I agree with the comment.

Jim

Thank you jim
Eric Québec city

[EricQuebec]

Beautiful workmanship, Eric.

Also very interesting to watch you working and dealing with problems.  The stencil work was very interesting.  I always look forward to your posts - as you always present something a little different to the norm.

Cheers, Mark.

Thank you very much Mark,
For me, trying new technique or something different in each project is an important  and probably one of the most funny part of the hobby.
Eric Québec city

[EricQuebec]

WOW, nothing like really painting the sign on the wall.  excellent job!!

Thank you for you comment ANdy, I much appreciate it.

Eric Québec city

[ACL1504]

WOW, nothing like really painting the sign on the wall.  excellent job!!

Eric,

Yep, ditto from here as well.

Tom

[Mike Engler]

Eric, I really like this thread. A lot of different techniques and ideas regarding a lot of different building methods. I see you are combining the methods of the masters with your own creative touches. The stenciled "Old Dutch" sign is a beauty. Don't cover any of the brick with stucco- the brick looks too good to do that. If the fix doesn't work, cover with a downspout, vines, etc.


Great job and thanks for sharing your work so we can all learn.

[EricQuebec]

WOW, nothing like really painting the sign on the wall.  excellent job!!

Eric,

Yep, ditto from here as well.

Tom

Hey Tom,

Thank you very much for your comment
Eric Québec city

[EricQuebec]

Eric, I really like this thread. A lot of different techniques and ideas regarding a lot of different building methods. I see you are combining the methods of the masters with your own creative touches. The stenciled "Old Dutch" sign is a beauty. Don't cover any of the brick with stucco- the brick looks too good to do that. If the fix doesn't work, cover with a downspout, vines, etc.


Great job and thanks for sharing your work so we can all learn.

Thank you very much  for your compliment Mike, I much appreciate it.
I"ve begin to re-paint the part of the brick work that was filled with the compound. pictures comes later.

Eric Québec city

[EricQuebec]

Hi everybody,

There's long time since I've update this thread. The reason is simple, I've do a two week trip in France, and since my return to work I had to do a lot of over time.
But, there're a lot of progress on this project.
First I've glue with epoxy  the last plaster wall on the structure. Wall that fit almost perfectly after some minor correction with sanding paper

Then, I,ve glue a 4x8 strip wood on the top of the first floof brick work to make a kind of footing for the clapboard wall.

and finally I've glue the wood wall on the plaster base with epoxy glue.

As you can see, the top of the clapboard piece was sanded to make place for the cornice.
For the cornice  I've used  several size of wood strip ( 8 x 14; 4 x 4 ; 4 x 8; 2 x 6) and some pieces that I've found at  my hobby store  severals years ago in the wood Boat models section.
Once the cornice assembled, I've stain it with AI solution and paint it in vintage white. Here's 3 pictures of the progress of the work. FInally, I've cut the cornice pieces at 45 deg. with my electric small miter saw.

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To be continued (1/2)

[EricQuebec]

(2/2)

Once the pieces of cornice are cutting, I've glue them in place. here'S some pictures of the wall with cornice. On the first pictures you can see that the right portion of the cornice is topped with a large  strip of 1/32 thick wood.

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Then, I,ve paint a large sign on the last wall.
After  some reflection and meditation I've decide to finally change the name of the brewery. The name, that was «Old Artic Squid Brewery» is now Know as « The Great Old Ones Brewery», that reflect a little more the «Lovecraft» approach that I want for my futur Layout. The second benefit of this choice is that need little less letters to be paint on the wall a let more place to paint a logo. For the Logo I've found a very stylish Squid on google.  After few test, I've constat that I don't be able to make the lettering by using the stencil method, so I've decide to draw the letters on cigarette paper

and the logo was paint with an home made stencil. Here's the final result of the sign on the wall

Once all the cornice and wall are in place I've make the flat roof that Ive cover with Tar paper. The tar paper is made as describe by DOug Foscale in his blog.


That all for today
Feel free to comment, and thank you for watching.

To be continued

Eric QUebec city

[ak-milw]

This build is really getting out of hand. That is some fine work Eric.

[jimmillho]

I agree, That is some fine work.

Jim