Carolina Craftsman kit Rural Post Office.

[Oldguy]

Very, very well done!  I likey the flakey.

[sdrees]

Hi Tom,

this is a different way to do the peeling paint.  I also like the second sample.  Very nice.

Steve,

Thank you. I wanted to try something different and this is certainly different. I won't do it again. It wasn't hard, just very time consuming.

Tom

But Tom, sometimes that extra effort sure pays off as it did in this case

[ACL1504]

Tom, I know you know....

Donato,

I certainly appreciate the inference, but honestly I'm just one of the guys.

Thanks for following my friend.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,

Definitely some of the most realistic aged and peeled paint I have seen.  Most I see is out of scale IMO.  Yours looks great!

Jerry,

Thank you, much appreciated. It took me a few days to come up with how to make it look like that. Time well spent some would say. Not sure I'll do it for all future pealing paint.

Again, thank you.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Very, very well done!  I likey the flakey.

Bob,

Your kind and generous compliment is most appreciated. I likey the flakey as well. This time something worked.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Hi Tom,

this is a different way to do the peeling paint.  I also like the second sample.  Very nice.

Steve,

Thank you. I wanted to try something different and this is certainly different. I won't do it again. It wasn't hard, just very time consuming.

Tom

But Tom, sometimes that extra effort sure pays off as it did in this case

Steve,

Agreed. But not sure I'll do it for all pealed paint effects.

Tom

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Prior to painting the walls, I wanted to distress the walls some.

I started with a side wall in case it didn't turn out or I ruined it.



For the bottom skirting I used a wire brush and a metal straight edge. I brushed along the edge of the ruler.

When finished, it did the same on the walls only I brushed vertically along the boards and batten.



No pictures as it doesn't show that well.

More in a few.

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I was satisfied with the results so I did the other three walls.

I then applied a coat of Hunterline Light Gray to all four walls. I set them aside to dry.







More in a few.

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When the A&I was dry, I applied the first coat of white paint to all walls.





I set them aside to dry prior to adding the second coat of paint.

More in a few.

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While the walls were drying, I moved on to the screen doors. As I mentioned earlier in the thread these doors are fragile. Jeff did a great job in the designing them.



As you can see from the photo below, the screen door is smaller in width than the door. The plastic door has a frame around it.



Well, it's Diet Pepsi time, back in a few minutes while I grab a cold one.

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Ok, that's better.

I used scale 2x2's and framed the screen door.



I added the 2x2's to the top and each side but NOT the bottom. Fast forward and finished.



More in a few.

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The problem now is that the screen door sits to high/far from the wall and doesn't look natural or correct.



More on this later this afternoon.

Jeff includes with the screen doors a small three bar portion that I only assumed could replace the small horizontal bar in the middle of the door.

This next photo shows that I cut out the center of the door and installed one of these three bar portions.



Continued in a few.

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I decided to try a little experimenting with the plastic door included in the kit.

I used a new #11 blade and cut the door from the frame. A couple of passes using moderate pressure and the door came out nice and clean.




I put the door in the door opening and set the screen door on top. I did not use the plastic door frame in this test.





As you can see in the photo above, the door alone is short so the frame is needed for it to look correct.

More in a few.

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I put the door back in the frame and glued it in place.



I need to load and crop a new set of photos for this thread. I'll be back in about an hour or less.

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I noticed when I had the door frame out of the wall door opening, the screen door fit flush against the wall.





This of course looked much better to me so I got to thinking. Yea, scary isn't it?

More in a few.