Bar Mills Tribute Kit 1

[Opa George]

Thanks, Jan, and also thanks, Jerry. Typically I will paint the windows a different color in whatever paint scheme I am working with, and it is a non issue. But this one presented the challenge of making them all match.  I am happy with how it turned out after trial and error.
--George

[Dave K.]

I find the hardest thing for me is to match plastic windows to heavily worn siding paint. 

Me too, Jerry.  Looking good, George.👍🏻

[Lynnb]

Moving along nicely, the walls look fantastic.

[Opa George]

Thank you, Lynn!  Here are the walls pretty much "finished" and ready to assemble. I weathered heavily with chalk, added window glazing and shades cut from manila-colored paper. My signs are now on, identifying the business as Seaside Symphonium & Nickelodeon Company. In my world, this company (completely fictitious) manufactured symphonium machines and nickelodeon machines for the nearby waterfront resort, as well as making smaller, consumer-sized music boxes and stereopticons for the tourist trade. Later, during the onset of the depression, they added upright pianos to their products.


Below, the walls assembled and clamped, sitting (not attached) on top of the stone foundation to check square and fit.


Next up are roofs. The kit supplies stick-on roll roofing. I primed the sheets with black and am letting them dry completely before painting a roof color. I'm leaning toward dark green or a brick red. Still thinking about that. To keep the strips aligned--I don't trust my ability to just "eyeball" them to keep them straight--I took a tip from Mike's earlier build and drew guides on the cardstock roofing at 1/4 inch intervals. That will give me about 5/64 overlap, enough to simulate the raised seam.


Time to let everything dry and cure.
--Opa George

[PRR Modeler]

Really nice job George.

[vinceg]

Yep - the walls are fantastic! Really shaping up beautifully.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking great George!

I really like the back story too.  I think creating every structures history, along with the LBP who live their, really helps to give a layout its own personality.

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

George


Very nice work. The walls look fantastic. And like Mark said having a story to the build really adds character.

[cuse]

Same here...Fantastic! I love the colors and weathering and character. Two thumbs up!


John

[Lynnb]

George, again the walls look fantastic , what manufacturer of chalks are you useing?

[sdrees]

George, the walls look fantastic with your weathering and signs.  Very nice.

[Opa George]

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. Lynn, the chalks are an artist set I picked up years ago with a half-price coupon at a big box craft store. Pic below. There are colors I will seldom use, but the set price was right. Since purchasing, I have noticed the same brand selling just earth tones. But at the rate I am using these, it will be many years until I need to buy more.  I just use my razor saw to produce as much powder as I need.  They also blend nicely.


Working now on the various roofs. I primed the strips of roll roofing with Rustoleum flat black primer, then oversprayed with Rustoleum satin "Hunter Green" for the final color. Of course I would have preferred flat, but I get my rattle cans at the hardware store and although they have a huge color selection, the finish of the most interesting colors are all satin. No worries, though, as the chalks will remove the sheen.

Artie's instructions recommend overlapping the strips, then burnishing to bring out the slightly raised portion where they overlap. This really works well, and I think the raised highlights are visible in the picture below before any additional dry-brushing to emphasize the highlights. I used the blunt end of a small paintbrush as a burnisher.  Plenty of peel-and-stick roofing is supplied. I used only two full sheets, plus one strip, for all of the roofs to this first structure.


I found that both of the non-peaked roofs did not join neatly to the bottom of the top wall--light was visible. I solved that problem by cutting extra strips from the original wall carrier sheets and gluing to the bottom of the walls, extending them just a bit lower and hiding the gap. Never throw anything away--even the "junk" until done!  Below is the structure with the "raw" roofs in place.  No weathering or any other treatment  yet--I want them to cure overnight. You can see some white where I cut the paper strips--something that will be easily solved with a black ink and alcohol wash.


And below, the other side.  The actual color seems to have washed out slightly in these photographs, but you get the idea on the roofing.  Lots of things to do with the roofs yet:  trim, painting the exposed underside, and of course rafter tails!


George

[PRR Modeler]

Nice job George.

[Dave K.]

Looking great, George, and really enjoying your thread. Walls look super. Tell us about your signs...created in Photoshop?

[ReadingBob]

Looking good George.  Looking very, very good!     Two thumbs up!  Thanks for taking the time to share the build with us.