white butressed church in O

[hairball]

Sometimes when you build a lot of structures you get the hankering to build something you have not done before..........aka.........a white clapboard church.  I hit google search looking for an interesting old wood clapboard sided rural church.  BINGO..........the one I used as my model is located in California , san simeon ?  As picture #1

I only had the picture dead on from the front ,  so I had to imagineer what the sides looked like.  So I grabbed my northeastern scale lumber siding with the 1/8" space clapboards in their aged version with deeper claps.  After pencil marking the wood I cut it all out and laid the grandt line windows in the correct to me places.  I like those windows and had been dying to create something to use them in.

After using wood blocks to stand the walls up, I got the idea to cut out 2 more and build 2 more . Of coarse I will make each one slightly different as you can see.  But keeping the same windows and doors .

The paint on this is all floquil enamels...............I used 3 white shades and used floquil driftwood stain as the base. Lifted claps with wallpaper knife, pounce wheeled walls for nail impressions .

About 6 months after I had build these I ended up in the old section down by the waterfront of Whitby.........holy mackerel..........down there is a stone and brick buttressed small church.  I also ran into another in Whitevale ont on a visit to see Rick Fendley the welder.

mike lynch.................MADMIKE3434..........NOW.....HAIRBALL

[hairball]

SOME MORE PICTURES.

I think I did not find all the original pictures of this as I am only showing 2 roofing coverings......VERIAGATED GREEN COPPER , its real........and the mind crushing one at a time birch veneer shingles.  The missing one should have been tar paper or raised seam metal or rusty corregated, but not sure would do a church in that.

Could not buy O scale or bigger tower bells so used a vent system.  On the wood shingled tower I used BIS raised seam copper ,  on the corners underneath,  to control water runoff.

I sold all of these on ebay.

mike lynch ..............madmike3434.............HAIRBALL

[Janbouli]

Again excellent modeling

[postalkarl]

Hey Mike:

Just beautiful. Love the coloring.

Karl

[GPdemayo]

Great job Mike.....