FOS' Gusano Loco Build.

[ReadingBob]

Following along as well.     Neat little structure and great overview of the build process. 

[ACL1504]

Tom,


I'll be following along to see what I can learn this time.  Nice job with the dry brushing to blend the sign into the wall.

Jerry,

Thank you for the comment and for following along. This has been a fun, quick build.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Great work Tom. The way you were progressing I thought you were going to complete it in one day.

Curt,

Thank you, I did move on this one pretty quickly. I'm actually finished and will post all the photos this afternoon.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Crazy build.


Jaime

Jaime,

Yes, very clever of you. Maybe I should have titled the thread - "Construccion loca".

Tom

[ACL1504]

Following along as well.     Neat little structure and great overview of the build process. 

Bob,

This is a neat little structure and a fun build as well. This isn't as nearly detailed as my normal builds. I just used this one for a workbench time filler.

Thanks for joining the adventure.

Tom

[jimmillho]

Boy, take one day off and I all most missed this Build.

Keep it going Tom.

Jim

[ACL1504]

Boy, take one day off and I all most missed this Build.

Keep it going Tom.

Jim

Jim,

You almost missed it. I'll finish the build thread later this afternoon.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Just caught up with this build Tom.....I'll be watching too. 

[ACL1504]

Just caught up with this build Tom.....I'll be watching too. 

Greg,

Good to have you follow along on this one.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Once the water putty dried I applied the first coat of red paint. I used Polly Scale DTI Cherry Red.

Don't be fooled by the brightness of the red. It will get toned down later in the thread.

I mentioned I applied two very light coats of water putty to the wall section. Well, the same was true with the paint. I basically dry brushed the wall in two separate coats.



This was done as the two coats of water putty were applied in two very thin coats and I didn't want to fill the void with paint.

The red paint  almost hides the stucco.



More in a few.

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Once the red was dry I applied some dry brushing to bring out the stucco effect.

I used Polly Scale Aged White for this.  I took my time and applied 3-4 coats to get the desired effect.



As you can see the aged white also toned down the bright red.



More in a few, Diet Pepsi time.

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The windows and doors were painted with Floquil Reefer White. When dry they were dipped into Hunterline Light Grey A&I and set aside to dry.

When dry, I added window glass using Canopy glue. Floquil Reefer Yellow was used to give the windows some shades.

The windows and rear door were installed and the four walls were glued together.





More in a few.

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While the four walls were drying I assembled the front bay window sub assembly per the instructions.

I set this assembly aside for later use.



Continued in a few.

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I glued some scale 8 X 8's to the underside of the roof.

I then used an Elmer's glue stick and applied glue to the top side of the roof. The roof section was then pressed on some 180 grit sandpaper.



I like using Elmer's glue sticks for paper to paper as it gives you time to make adjustments. When dry, it is as good a using white glue.

The sand paper was cut around the edges for a nice roof top.



I then took this roof section outside and sprayed it with Ace Hardware rattle can Premium Primer Gray.

You'll see the roof later in the thread.

More in a few.

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I then painted the two metal stacks with Model Master Jet Exhaust. When the paint was still tacky, I dipped them into some Hunterline Creosote Black A&I.

When the black A&I and jet exhaust were dry, I dipped them into Hunterline Rust and held them with clothes pins until dry.



Taking a break, back in about 45 minutes.