RSLaser Bain & Mitchell Wagon Co. Tom Schwarz Build Challenge

[madharry]

Very nice work Jan.
Mike

[rslaserkits]

Dang Jan the lighting turned out great.
rich

[postalkarl]

Hey Jan:

I'm following along. Looks great so far.

Karl

[Janbouli]

Thanks Mike , Rich , Karl, appreciate it.

[ACL1504]

Jan,

Ditto to all the other comments. Great job on the interior and lighting. Well done my friend.

Tom

[Janbouli]

Thank you oh so much Tom.

[Janbouli]

Next was assembling the posts of the porch, cut them from scale wood provided in the kit along with a small jig for the size.







Then it was time to assemble the Peel & Stick outer walls , everything fits perfect so this was an easy task.













Next up the roof , and a mistake I made.

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling Jan.

[postalkarl]

Jan:

WOW really fine modeling. Love all those signs.

Karl

[chris.mincemoyer]

Great idea with the lighting

[Janbouli]

Thank you Curt , Karl , Chris , Rich did well on the signs , besides the porch they are what make this structure stand out. They are decals , and until I sprayed them with Dullcote you could see they were decals , now it's only visible on the photo's because they still reflect a tiny bit , but not visible to the eye.

[Janbouli]

So on with the roofing. There are printed corrugated roof sheets in the kit , each is a single piece so you put them on using transfer tape .

So I did the larger piece first and thought that had to be made to size to fit through the slit in the wall on one side , which has been done here. That was my mistake.


While fitting the smaller piece of roof base I found out that this wasn't large enough, and after looking in the box more seriously I found a small strip of roof with slots in it . Oooops , the smaller piece of roof and the strip together should have made the roof that goes through the wall.


I had already cut away the little beams in the slit of the wall , so I decided to just leave that roof as I had done it and make a new piece of roof for the other side . Here you can see me doing the last row of corrugated roofing on the piece of cardboard I used.


I then brightened down the printed paper as I had done with the Regal Cinema , used artists markers in various tones to blend and tone down . Later I will be using pastel chalks to even further brighten it down. I then glued the roof pieces in place.


Here is the roof before finishing it with a cap , you can see that I used moss green markers to simulate moss and fungus on the roof.


This is the other side it's a bit darker because the sun shines on the other side.


Roof cap on , next is trimming.

[rslaserkits]

Your doing a great job Jan. I really like how it's coming along.
rich

[Janbouli]

Thanks Rich , it's a great kit , of an awesome building, someone with a modern layout could easily use it as a museum or such.

[madharry]

Nice work Jan. Mike