Perplexing Puzzles Plus kits

[Janbouli]

Another new N-scale manufacturer ( well new to me )

The kits from Perplexing Puzzles Plus  come in plastic sealed bags. I ordered several at a time and they were shipped in a well protected box.


These are the parts , the lasercutting is crisp and well done , 2 small points of critic , the wood used for the windows, doors and trim is a bit on the thick side , I'll show later when installing the windows, and the connections to the sprue are left to wide , so you have to use more force then you would like to cut parts off the sprue, I would lasercut right down to just having the part barely hanging on to the sprue.


The next 3 photo's show the walls in different stages of painting after I had primed them with a tan/gray primer from the rattle can. I chose for milder color's then the fire truck red shown in the manufacturers photo.








The assembled windows , as I said the wood used is  a bit too thick , especially the frame sticks out of the wall a bit too much.


Windows assembled in the walls , It looks good to me , but with thinner material for the frames would look even better.


Arches for the doors.


Doors installed and glazing done , there is plastic glazing in the kit but I wanted to try out a new product I had bought , same principal as Micro Klear but thinner and the result looks better. The product is Glue 'n Glaze from Deluxe Materials

[Janbouli]

Assembling walls , very easy with the magnetic board.






Painted the chimneys.


Assembled signs and trim. There is a tower in the kit for on top of the roof , I left that away , but that is a matter of taste .





A couple of evenings fun and imho a nice addition to any N-scale layout.

[jimmillho]

Nice looking building Jan.

Jim

[PRR Modeler]

Nice looking building.

[Janbouli]

Thank you Jim and Curt , these are really inexpensive kits that are fun to build .

[GPdemayo]

Neat looking fire station Jan.....well done. 

[Janbouli]

Thank you Gregory

[Jerry]

That's are pretty nice looking fire station nice work.

Jerry

[jbvb]

They're less than an hour's drive from me and I see them at a number of local train shows, most recently Hooksett NH last weekend.  My layout is running out of places for kits (almost everything in Newburyport, MA will be scratchbuilt), so I haven't bought any of theirs yet.  Interesting to see how it goes together.

[deemery]

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dave

[Janbouli]

Thanks all , they are good value for money , and if Andy changes the windows a bit ( either a thinner material for the frame or the holes in the walls larger so the frame fits in the wall ) they will be great.

[Janbouli]

Another little kit from PPP
The real name is the Old West Hotel, it will be a restaurant on my layout.

The parts, as with the other kits from PPP the walls are great , but the details should be in somewhat thinner wood.


Primed with gray from rattle can.


Trim , doors , windows and walls painted with 2 different Vallejo greens.


Window frames and staircases assembled to walls.


Base and floor of porch assembled and painted white.


Assembling walls.





Roof drybrushed with black acrylic.


Walls fully assembled with window blinds.

[Janbouli]

Trim   
Trim assembled.


Porch and staircase assembled.











Stair steps assembled.


Flexible white glue for roof assembly, with strips of tape holding it together.


Fully assembled but still need finishing touches. Very impressed with my new camera and 30mm Macro Lens.

[Janbouli]

Filling the joints on the roof.


Roof looks much better now. Added several chalks and dullcoated it.





Still need to touch up the paint on the sides of the porch and such.

[jrmueller]

Nice build!  Jim