Petite Properties

[madharry]

I have found a nice selection of 1/76 scale (British OO) wooden kits from a company called Petite Properties.

Here is my first attempt - Crimple Cottage

Mike

[postalkarl]

Hi Mike:

That's pretty cool. Do they have A Website?

Karl

[ACL1504]

Mike,

Neat build.

Tom

[madharry]

Hi Mike:

That's pretty cool. Do they have A Website?

Karl

Yes they do click on to railway models when you get there............

www.petite-properties.com

Mike

[madharry]

Mike,

Neat build.

Tom

Thanks Tom, this a low relief or background model, It cost the princely sum of just £3.99 (under $5). The walls are laser cut of 2mm MDF. You get the carcass and need to provide your own wall treatment and roof tiles. I thought they were so good I bought 19 different ones ( low relief and full-size)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike

[Vilius]

Mike,

Good job on the kit.
Did you buy them online? They list good number of 1/48th kits but only few 1/76th. The Memory Lane is neat.

Vilius

[GPdemayo]

Good job Mike.....that is a really small building, I wonder how the get up to the second floor? 

[madharry]

Thanks Villius and Greg,

I bought these kits direct at the biggest model railway show in the UK last weekend. There are 20 models in the OO range and I have 19 of them.

We Brits are very small Greg. Some of the staircases in old houses were very steep indeed. I think building regs have changed a bit!

Here is the little row of houses I am building.

Mike

[madharry]

So the next one in the row is No.10 Station Road. Before I start a build here are the parts etc.......

Mike

[JimF]

I have built a couple of their 1/48 doll house version kits (the DH ones have either a removable front or back, to access the interior for decorating and detailing. Ther are very nice kits, and Bea Broadwood (The co-owner with her husband) has a very good book available on exterior finishes.

The 3 Mike shows he is working on, I believe, are the 1/76 scale versions of the Memory Lane set. If they follow through, over time, the Memory Lane set will be available in UK N (1/148), OO (1/76) in both full and low relief versions, UK O (1/43) as low relief, and finally in 1/48, as doll house versions.

Jim F

[madharry]

Continuing..........

Here are the front and two side walls glued together. The rear wall goes on later to allow access to the inside to install the door, windows and window display.

I am now going to spray the building white to match the cottage made previously to suggest they are owned by the same person.

Mike

[madharry]

Here is the completed shop which I have named J. Yelland (my wife's maiden name).

It is a florist and I have printed a sign on my computer and added Noch flowers in vases cut from plastic tube to the window display. There is a hole in model's base which will be used to add a LED to illuminate the display.

I decided to paint it in the same way as the cottage to suggest that the same person owns both buildings. The roof tiles are from Northeastern and the brick surround was cut from a Redutex sheet.

On to the next one The Lumbard Arms pub..................

Mike

[MAP]

Very nice buildings Mike.

[ACL1504]

Mike,

Very nicely done my friend. Looks great.

Tom

[madharry]

Thanks very much Mark and Tom, I appreciate it.

Here is the start of the next one...........

I have glued the front and two side walls together with ordinary white glue. I then worked out how far up the store front would be and drew a line. Above the line I carefully applied Redutex sheet to depict brickwork. The sheet I am using is Brick Flemish Bond Light Mortar. Redutex is made in Spain. It has relief so I prefer it to plain paper coverings. It is rather like an old product I remember from the 60's/70's called Fablon. It is sell adhesive. It is a little expensive so I use it carefully.

I have also tiled the roof. The product is unknown as I just found it in my spares box. I never throw anything away!!!

Mike