Build Challenge 2016: Bar Mills Dock House at Cundy Harbor

[jrmueller]

Hi Bob - I'm several years behind trying to finish Cundy Village.  You noted the some kind of composition paper used for the buildings.  I was less than with it.  I found it to be very unforgiving and also tended to swell.  I hope Bar Mills doesn't continue to use but it may be a production cost issue vs wood.  Enjoyed watching you deal with the various issues.  Jim

[Mike Engler]

So who said kit-building was a perfect science? I really like your threads Bob.


I also use a lot of 3M transfer tape- what do you use to clean the gummy stuff from your scissors?

[jimmillho]

Beautiful work Bob.  Can't wait to see this one finished.

Jim

[ReadingBob]

Hi Bob - I'm several years behind trying to finish Cundy Village.  You noted the some kind of composition paper used for the buildings.  I was less than with it.  I found it to be very unforgiving and also tended to swell.  I hope Bar Mills doesn't continue to use but it may be a production cost issue vs wood.  Enjoyed watching you deal with the various issues.  Jim

Thanks for the comments Jim.  I agree with your assessment of the composition paper used for the walls in this particular structure.  I was careful when I painted the inside of the walls black.  I didn't get the walls wet with paint and made sure to spread the paint out as much as possible.  That seemed to work.

[ReadingBob]

So who said kit-building was a perfect science? I really like your threads Bob.


I also use a lot of 3M transfer tape- what do you use to clean the gummy stuff from your scissors?

Thanks Mike!  I'm glad to see you're back at the workbench.     Yep.  Some kits present some little challenges that you have to figure out how to work around.  That Corner Punch really came in handy on this one.

As far as cleaning the gummy stuff from the scissors one thing you don't want to do is try to rub it off with your thumb.  The edge of the blades on those Fiskar Micro Shears are deceptively sharp.  Have a band aid handy if you try it (don't ask me how I know).  I scrape the bulk of it off with either my single edge razor blade or a chisel blade in an X-Acto handle.  It balls up on that blade and I can wipe it off with a paper towel.  After that I'll rub a little fine steel wool over the scissor blades to get rid of any small spots I missed the first time around. 

[ReadingBob]

Beautiful work Bob.  Can't wait to see this one finished.

Jim

Thanks Jim!  It was good to see you the other night at the bowling alley (we ended up winning 5 out of 7 that night).   

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice work Bob.

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Excellent build, excellent tutorial, excellent narration, excellent work! Did I mention this was excellent/

Last one on Cundy Harbor, right? After your break, I have 150+ unbuilt kits for you to pick through.


Just saying and all that comes with it.


Tom

[tct855]

Tom,
           Beautiful last 2 new videos there.  Love the Zep-4 what beautiful highly detailed and lighted equipment.  All your trains.  Hey let me know if you need me to fix that uncoupling issue on the lead loco.    KP out!

[postalkarl]

Hi Bob:

Looks great so far. I will be following along.

Karl

[ACL1504]

I just realized I posted one of my videos to Bob's build thread. My bad. It was to go on my layout thread.

I removed the video from here and will post it later on my thread.

Sorry Bob for crashing your build thread.

Tom

[cuse]

Forum/SBG custom is to relinquish one of your slots in the "Reading Bob build my kits" rotation to the kit's intended recipient...that's me 

[ACL1504]

 


Tom

[JimMooney]

Hi Bob, sorry I just this, was on travel for work.
There are fixed parts for this, not sure why you don't have them unless this was one of the very first kits sold...contact Art and they'll send you out the correct parts. Sorry for the boo boo's

[ReadingBob]

Very nice work Bob.

Thanks Curt!  Much appreciated.