SierraWest O'Neills Fabrication

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Karl.

I made a bit more progress this weekend. I added the roof and rafters, I also made a terrible mistake and I cut the main roof pieces too long and added them to the roof card. I ended up fixing it as best I could but it was very difficult to remove the pieces once they adhered to the backing board. It was a silly mistake, I must've misread the directions and once I caught it it was too late.


After I pulled the roofing material off I had to glue everything back together but it really damaged the roofcard. I has also already weathered the roof so I had to try to blend everything. This is my gluing setup.


I ended up respraying to roof with gray again and starting over, I couldn't get the division line to disappear. This is the finished result after redoing it. I used Rust-Oleum Gray auto primer as a base coat, I then coated the roof with different rust colored chalks. I wanted the roof to be a bit darker with less gray so I used rubbing alcohol to make a rust wash over the base gray with the chalk powder. I used Rembrandt Mars Violet powdered over the whole roof to give it a reddish color as per the instructions. I didn't use any alcohol for the Violet just dry chalk.









Next step is adding the main sign, some chimneys and other details. I hope to get most of those things done tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks for checking in.
-Steve

[Polux]

Nice work Steve. I like how it looks

[ak-milw]

Looks perfect to me.

[Steve]

Very inspirational & beautiful work!
You didn't make a mistake on the roof....you had a "happy accident" as Bob Ross used to say. It looks great 

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

As I said before. Really like your weathering. Can't wait to see the details added.

Karl

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the feedback.

Progressing along, I added most of the roof details today.


I added the 2 small chimneys and the L shaped chimney on the addition. They were all blackened with Jax Pewter Black and buffed with a dremel.
I also added a ladder to the roof. I thought it could use a little something extra on this side and I needed to cover a little kink I made in the roof material when I
repaired the roof earlier.


I made the ladder on the left first. I made it out of scale 2x4s and it's a bit out of scale for my liking, I've made this mistake half a dozen times now I think.




I added the sign to the main roof. It was weathered the same as the tower sign.



Thanks for checking in. Next step is the Repair and Welding Shop

-Steve

[cuse]

Beautifully ugly work. Brett would be proud!


John

[ACL1504]

Ditto to all the other comments. Extremely well done.

Tom

[martin.ojaste]

Steve, You have done well with the kit (considering the challenges).

[sierrawest]

Beautifully ugly work. Brett would be proud!
John

Hah! Very proud!

Excellent recovery Steve. Roof looks great. That roofing card adhesive is crazy strong and I know from personal experience how hard it is to peel corrugated panels off... just saying.

Brett

[donatode]

Beautiful work Steve....even the error is beautiful.

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!

-Steve

[ak-milw]

Steve, the whole build just screams OLD!

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Andy.

I finished the walls on the welding shop this weekend. One of the nicest parts about this kit is the laser cut interior framework. I always find framing out the interior of a board on board structure to be the most tedious part, these laser cut pieces make it very easy.


This is how they come out of the box, the detail is excellent.


I weathered them by scraping some brown chalk over the walls, then I flooded the walls with straight rubbing alcohol.


I was a little nervous using alcohol to weather these pieces. In the past I've have major issues with warping and laser cut sections like this, especially with my MC Minerva Casket kit. I had no trouble with these walls, they didn't warp at all.


I added the siding, this was colored the same as the main building only I used less white paint.


Here is the rear section all finished with all the excess trimmed from the walls.


This is the side wall, all finished.


Other side wall all finished. I cracked some of the windows with a razor.


I added some details to the wall. I added the little shelf and some bottles, on the shelf is a pipe wrench.
All the details are metal here, I used JAX Pewter Black to blacken them, I painted them all with Reaper Miniatures water based paint. I'm using the set that SierraWest sells. I'm making an attempt to get completely away from Floquil/PollyS paints on this kit. The quality of the castings in this kit are unbelievable. They are all crisp/clear with very little flash.


I detailed the other more plain wall. I added small brass hangers for all the chains and hoses. The chains are brass chain blackened with JAX, the hoses are very thin wire wrapped around a paint brush. The green and red hoses are meant to represent Oxy/Acetylene hoses. The brown hoses would represent an air hose.


Here is the front wall and side wall together.


Another side shot. I weathered the front sign the same as the other signs. I didn't slice through the sign for this one, I made a sign and did that and it looked bad to me so I made another.




I have to do something about that shovel, it looks wrong to me. I think I need to show some wear at the bottom (bucket?) portion.


I glued all the walls together.



Thanks for checking in. Next step is the dock for the workshop.

-Steve

[Janbouli]

Those details are great Steve and the weathering with chalk works really well.