Build Challenge 2016 - FSM Water Tank kit #240

[MAP]

Nice progress!

[Polux]

I made a bit more progress today on the kit.
Pol.lux - It does not come with the figure, I believe it's an older Weston figure sold by Campbells. I think for a long time Weston figures were a favorite of George's, most of the kits and dioramas have one on them.

Thank you very much for the info Steve.

What a lovely build are you doing.....

[donatode]

Nice .... !!!  A+

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Mark, Pol.lux and Donato

[SteveCuster]

Good morning everyone.

Made a bit more progress this morning, worked on completing the roof on the tank.


For this model I glued the roof card on first, then added the shingles.


I decided the use individual cedar shingles for the roof. The kit comes with Campbells shingles but they need to be cut down to 1-4 shingle strips anyway to work the curve of the roof. It was just as easy to use the individual shingles.






Thanks for checking in.

-Steve

[Twopoint2]

Steve

Nice job on the build so far.

Jim

[NEMMRRC]

I love the individual cedar shingles. Love them!


Jaime

[S&S RR]

I love the individual cedar shingles. Love them!


Jaime

Me too!  Great work Steve.

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

Great progress so far. Colors look great. I'm following along.

Karl

[Polux]

Clean and tidy work. This roof looks excellent!!

[SteveCuster]

Thanks for the compliments everyone. Individual shingles are a relatively new thing to me, I just started using them on my O'Neills Fabrication build. I'm getting faster with them and I like the results so Ill probably use them more often. Plus they go a really long way, I used about half a sheet for this roof. They are $3.95 for a 5 sheet pack from http://www.sierrascalemodels.com



I used chalk and alcohol to color the shingles. After the wash dried I dusted on dry chalk to dirty it up a bit more.


I wanted to make them a bit more sun-bleached so I drybrushed them with Antique White craft paint. You can see the difference pretty well in this photo.


I will probably go back and add a few more colors to the roof to give it some depth. I usually like to walk away from something like this for a couple hours before I weather any more. It's easy to keep going and ruin a model.


Here is the overall shot. I will add the rafter tails, the finial and the rest of the details tomorrow.

Thanks for checking in.

-Steve

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

Great looking roof to go along with the well done stone walls.

Karl

[Vilius]

Nicely looking roof, Steve. What thickness shingles did you use?

Vilius

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Karl, Vilius.

I used the standard .018 thickness sheets

-Steve

[SteveCuster]

I pretty much finished up the model today aside from planting it and adding scenery which I will do once I install it on my layout. Overall this was a very fun kit to build, lots of cool detail in a small model. It measures less than 2" x 2". I wish I still had the original I built when I was a teenager, would be interesting to compare my coloring and weathering techniques.






This was the most tedious part. The lead castings are always tough to glue in place, especially when you are as impatient as I am. I almost always try to work in the area before the glue is dry and I end up knocking the castings off. I'm a big fan of resin castings due to the weight difference.




I added a drop of epoxy in the barrel to simulate water.



Thanks for following along. Now to clean up my workbench and get back on my SW Quincy Salvage/O'Neills Fabrication diorama.

-Steve