FSM Bailey's Produce for Cuse - Here we go again!

[Dave K.]

Safe travels...we're holdin' 'er down for ye.

[ReadingBob]

Thanks to all who have been following along and patiently waiting for me to get back to this one.  I hit the workbench as soon as I got back from vacation and I've made a little progress on this one.  Not Postal Karl speed progress but progress none the less.   

Starting on the walls of the main building.  The first step is to draw a line, using the template as a guide, across the walls to denote where the bottom of the shingled upper half should be.  I taped a ruler to the template, lined the walls up against the ruler and used a second ruler to draw the line.


I then cut out the upper wall sections from the template.


These get glued directly onto the walls using the previously drawn line as a guide.  I simply smeared Elmer's white glue on the back of the templates to glue them in place.


I used my finger to spread the glue on the back of the template.  I wanted a fairly thin coat of glue.  I keep a paper towel handy to wipe my finger clean before I try positioning the template on the wall.


Line the template up on the wall and press it in place.  No need to worry about the door and window openings.  Those will be taken care of later.


Next I applied 3M Transfer tape to the upper half of the walls where the shingles will go.  If you haven't used this stuff it acts like the sticky side of tape except there is no 'tape' per se.  It just makes whatever you apply it to act like tape.


More in a moment...

[ReadingBob]

Gee, I forget to take a picture of applying the shingles.  I removed the backing from the transfer tape to expose the sticky wall surface.  Then I ripped off a strip of shingle slightly longer than needed and applied it across the bottom row using the glued on template as a guide.  I worked from the bottom up.  When finished I flipped the wall over and trimmed off the excess as well as the window and door openings. 


Next up I glued some 1/16" square strip wood to the ends of some of the walls (per the templates).  This doesn't need to be stained/painted/weathered.  It'll be covered up later on.  The pieces I glued on overhand the ends of the walls.


I trimmed the excess off using a single edge razor blade after the glue set.


I lifted individual shingles, here and there, using the tip of an X-Acto knife.  I jumped the gun a bit on this step.  It's supposed to be done a little later on but I don't think that matters much.


Then I started adding bracing the backs of the walls.  This is 1/8" square strip wood.  I ran a thin bead of flue along one side and position the strip wood where needed per the templates.


Some had to be cut to fit before gluing it in place others, like this one, were glued with excess hanging off one end.


I weighed things down until the glue set.  I'm using Northeastern's Pink Flamingo Glue with sets up pretty quick.  My weights are marble blocks salvaged off of old bowling trophies. 


Again, the excess was trimmed off using a single edged razor blade.


More in a moment...

[ReadingBob]

Oops.  Last picture for today.  I guess I should have just added this to the last post.   

Here are the walls all braced.  I 'pre notched' where the walls meet one another.  That's actually a step that occurs later on in the instructions but I went ahead and did as I was bracing the walls.  The position of the notches is based on where the bracing on the mate is.  It took a little bit of thinking to figure it out but I got there.  All in all it took me several hours to brace the walls.  Okay, I was watching Gettysburg while I did this so I had to look up when the 20th Maine was defending Little Round Top as well as for Pickett's charge.   



Thanks for following along.  Next up will be painting, stuccoing and weathering the walls prior to joining them together.

[GPdemayo]

Glad to see you back at it Bob.....

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Wonderful build and very well documented as well as usual. I'll be looking in on the stucco job.

I watched Gettysburg and then I had to watch Gods and Generals. Can't get enough of those two movies.

BTW, you are welcome to come over Saturday and go to lunch. Greg, Jim and Curt are planning to come see the new stuff.

Tom

[PRR Modeler]

Great looking progress Bob.

[ReadingBob]

Glad to see you back at it Bob.....

Thanks Greg!  Glad to be back at it!   

[ReadingBob]

Bob,

Wonderful build and very well documented as well as usual. I'll be looking in on the stucco job.

I watched Gettysburg and then I had to watch Gods and Generals. Can't get enough of those two movies.

BTW, you are welcome to come over Saturday and go to lunch. Greg, Jim and Curt are planning to come see the new stuff.

Tom

Thanks Tom!  The stucco will be coming up shortly.

I'd love to come down this weekend but my better half just booked a cottage in Mt. Dora for the weekend so I'd better go spend the weekend with her.     Keep me posted though, I want to get down there soon.

[ReadingBob]

Great looking progress Bob.

Thanks Curt!  Fine Scale Miniature kits are my all time favorites to build.    Not that the others are bad.  I just love building these.

[S&S RR]

It's looking good so far Bob.

[postalkarl]

Hey Bob:

Looks like you are moving right along. I'm following along with much interest.

Karl

[ReadingBob]

It's looking good so far Bob.

Thanks John!  Much appreciated.  It's been fun so far.  Shingles and stucco for the wall are certainly a departure from the same old same old.   

[ReadingBob]

Hey Bob:

Looks like you are moving right along. I'm following along with much interest.

Karl

Thanks Karl!  Always great to have you following along.  Even more so than usual given that you just finished this one yourself.   

[ReadingBob]

I've been working on this one but just haven't updated the thread lately so there's a bit of catching up to do.   

I painted the shingled portion of the walls with Floquil SP Lettering Grey.  That's what George used in the pilot model and I had a bottle handy so I took the easy way out and with the color choice of the Master. 


Now it's time to stucco the walls.  I followed the instructions on this one and used the included powder (Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty).  I mixed it with water and a drop of Elmers White Glue until it was the consistency of heavy cream.  Actually I made mine a little too thin.  It worked but it gave me a lot more working time than needed and I had to wait for it to set up a bit to get a texture finish on the walls.  I used a stiff, round brush to work the putty onto the walls.


While waiting for the walls to set up I figured it would be a good time to stain the strip wood.  I filled my little stain tub with Hunterline Light Gray Weather Mix.


Then gave the strip wood (by size) a little soaking in the stain.


I moved them around and pushed them down into the stain with a tweezers.


Then I pulled them out and propped them up in an old box to dry.


More in a moment...