Hilltown Entrepreneurs, Build Challenge 2016

[tct855]

Jeff,
           John S. is right!  It is looking good, keep building bossman.  You're on a roll.  Thanx Thom...

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks Thom.  I've got some ground cover up against the structure, and used a conservative amount of static grass.  I've also removed the dirt from the window sills and grass from the roof that's visible in the pictures.     Next up need to paint the garage doors and install them.


Jeff

[ak-milw]

Looking great Jeff, all the different roof angles make it stand out.

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, Andy.  The smaller diorama has initial dirt/ground cover.  I had masked off the area for the pavement and the general store, not for Little Lou's.  The store fits, as you can see there's a white gap, but once the building is in place, I'll just put some dirt in the gap.  Had to scrape off some of the dirt/sculpatmold from the Little Lou's area with a chisel blade, but it fits now, too.  Some of the earth paint seeped under the tape and needs to be touched up.


Jeff

[Powersteamguy1790]

Nice build Jeff.

Stay cool and run steam.........

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks for watching, Bob.  I've built a fence to stretch between the two structures, touched up the asphalt paint and added some growth against the buildings.  Now back to the other diorama to add the garage doors.

Jeff

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

The little diorama looks good. Neat little scene.

Tom

[Twopoint2]

Jeff, nice job on the dio.

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, Tom and Jim.  I wanted to pose the doors at least partially open, but didn't want to "waste" good vehicles that wouldn't be seen.  I had ruined a Sylvan kit years ago with poor priming.  I also had a Stony Mountain car (they are solid resin) which I didn't think looked as good as the Sylvan's.  I tried painting these with some red spray paint I had and they came out an odd dark pink, so I repainted them with red primer.  I then tried painting some of the chrome with a brush and a wide pen I have, which didn't work very well.  Again, since they were going to be hidden, it didn't make too much difference.  I then sprayed them with Glosscoat.  I then applied some A&I which did weird things to the Glosscoat on the Stony Mountain car, but not the other.  I brushed some Vallejo gloss varnish on it and it looked passable.  Dusted with some dirt and glued them in place.  The yellow car is a Woodland Scenics vehicle.  Avert your eyes, Raymo, these cars don't look anywhere near as good as yours.  But they look OK hidden in the garages.   


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

I've spent the last couple of weeks building the road that goes in front of the dioramas and building/painting detail parts.  Today the detail parts got placed on the garage diorama.  Need to add some figures and the power pole and some bushes and maybe a tree or two and it will be finished. 


Jeff

[rpdylan]

Your dio came out great Jeff! I love all those roof lines. Awesome work, thanks so much for sharing and posting your build. I always learn something from these build threads!

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, Bob.  I'm back at the general store.  Rigged up the power pole.  This is not my favorite modeling challenge.  But it's done.  I didn't use the dowel and crossarm from the kit, This is a Rix pole and crossarm.  I need five or six of these for the overall scene and didn't think they would match well.  Next up rigging up the one for the garage, but I can't finish it as the power pole won't be on the diorama.  The figure of the woman with the baby is probably the most difficult figure I've ever painted.  I couldn't put a wire into her foot/leg as they are too thin, and the shoe area was too small to hold glue well.  Kept rubbing the paint off her shoes/pants while trying to paint the rest.   


Jeff

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

Very well done. Looks great.

Tom

[rpdylan]

Great work! I need to copy your electric lines on the pole so i do it right!

[jerryrbeach]

Looking great, lots of eye catching details.