Bar Mills Cundy Village Hotel

[ReadingBob]

Wonderful job and thanks for some great tips.  I'll have to pick up some of that Krylon Clear Matt.   

[Keep It Rusty]

Great modeling here, Jim. Truly.

My kit has moved in the pile thanks to your wonderful thread.

[Jerry]

A fine job your doing!!


Jerry

[Jim Donovan]

Wow , Jim , great modeling , and thank you for that incredible how to on the chimney , looks absolutely amazing.

Jan;

Thank you. With all the laser cut parts having deep lines as well as resin kits now popular I found this method works well. I did forget to mention that once all is dry and clean I again sprayed it with the Krylon Clear Matt finish. If you don't do this in time the grout will fall out. I need to mention that in thread. The grout does not work with plastic, at least I can't get it to work.

Jim

[Jim Donovan]

Wonderful job and thanks for some great tips.  I'll have to pick up some of that Krylon Clear Matt.   

Thanks Bob. I got the tip on the Krylon from a war game article of all things (I don't war game but I find their modeling amazing). Next time I will make sure the wall is NOT warped before I close up the building and can't get to it!.

Jim D

[Jim Donovan]

Great modeling here, Jim. Truly.

My kit has moved in the pile thanks to your wonderful thread.

Thanks Craig. I hope to list some of the issues I ran into or things I would have done different at end. Hopefully that will help. Glad you like the thread, the kit has been challenging.

Jim D

[Jim Donovan]

A fine job your doing!!


Jerry

Thanks Jerry. I feel like I have been working on this kit forever, mostly through my own fault. However the end is in sight, at least for now.

Jim D

[Jim Donovan]

At this point we are pretty much done except for clean up, touch up and fiddling stuff, at least as far as the directions go (roof railing still needed). I think there is a lot more that should be done and then there is what can be done. For now I am going to go with the what should be done.



The back of the building is blank in the original design. I added the windows since I knew I would be turning the back of the building into a must see hotel grounds (that will fall into the 'can be done'). In addition trim is a must. If I did not have the ability to create necessary parts using the Cameo 3, I would use green painted 1 x 12 boards to match the trim found on the front and side clapboard/ roof joint. I would also put painted 1 x 6 boards in the areas where the upper trim is located on the front and sides of the roof edge. Where the two back wings come together I did place sanded 1 x 6 trim painted yellow.



However, the Cameo 3 cut printer opens up possibilities to better match the fancy trim on the front and sides. I first imported scanned images of the upper and lower trim using the scan feature of our copy printer. Using the Silhouette Design program that comes with the Cameo 3 I was able to quickly make outline versions of the designs and have the Cameo 3 cut them out of the Vellum paper I like for trimming items. You can get it at Amazon:   

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y24GZPG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not all Vellum paper is the same, this one is strong, translucent and the Cameo cuts it very cleanly even with tight patterns. I brush painted the cut trim parts in the green I have been usings (Folkart Crocodile Green), the paper eliminates any paint lines. While these were drying I took 1 x 12 strip wood, lightly sanded it and then brush painted copper color on one side of the board. I painted the edges  in the green color. When dry I thin smeared Elmers across the copper painted side and carefully placed the green paper trim on top of the stripwood. When completed I cut the trim strips apart from each other and as you see we have finished trim!



Next I did the same to make Corbels to go with the trim. I will talk more about Corbels at the end under 'things I would do different'. With the parts now fashioned I copied the pattern found on the front of the building and this is the result:



I had previously done a version of trim for the front of the building where the railing post and the tower meet. I am reporting this out of sequence but wanted to keep the description of trim making to one area.



This is how to posts next to the tower are done per the directions. I did not feel the look was right  or 'complete' so I made a vertical version of the trim in a size that allowed the rail and tower to be glued together.



Here is the result.

The  last piece of the trim puzzle was the area under the tower top. Here I modified the image so that the front was 42mm wide by 4mm high and either side was 40 mm long x 4mm high. This allowed the front trim to cover the side boards from the front view. No trim was placed on the back as a splash plate had previously been placed between the tower wall and the roof.


Here is how it turned out.

Another item placed out of actual sequence is the tower roof railing. You may have noticed the railing appeared and then disappeared. It was fragile, I wanted to take cool pictures so I placed it and then I broke it while working on other parts of the kit. Lesson learned. So I scanned a part of the destroyed railing, edited it and printed it out. I glued 1 x 2 strip wood to the cross rails and put small 1 x2 strips as 'feet' on the bottom of each section. After gluing everything together and making sure it was right size I painted it using Vallejo dark tin color, painted the roof top charcoal gray (Delta Ceramcoat) and glued the railing in place. I like it better then the original but it was another opps item that needed doing.





So at this point roofs and floors have had trim installed as needed. More in a few.

[Jim Donovan]

Last up is to finish the chimneys. The resin castings are well made and neat but someone on the forum mentioned chimneys need to be at least 3 feet higher and way from any part of the structure. I confirmed that on the web so I decided to add ceramic vents to the stacks to improve the ventilation. I began by cutting the tips off of four used disposable plastic eye droppers I had. I cut them right where the tip begins to flair wider to the body of the dropper. Painting these first charcoal gray and then terra cotta (both Delta Ceramcoat) gave the look I wanted. Using four plastic stirrers as anchors I placed the vents onto the chimneys.





Finally I decided to paint the squared off parts of the chimneys Ceramcoat Hippo Gray to make them look more like stucco or concrete.

[Jim Donovan]

So Welcome to the B. Alan Inn (named after my brother) in the year 1912. First Hotel in NW Ohio with Electricity.

[Jim Donovan]

I will provide a observation post in a little while. This kit, together with all the changes I added, made this by far the most complicated structure I have attempted. It was a lot of fun but given my level of experience it took a long time to 'finish'. I plan additions to the backside in the future and will post them here when done, but for the moment I have gone as far as I want. Hope you enjoyed the posts and found them helpful.

Jim D

[Mark Dalrymple]

A beautiful model with lots of spectacular extras you have created there, Jim.

A pleasure to follow your journey.  I'm hoping Bar Mills release that chimney as a separate casting.

Cheers, Mark.

[JimMooney]

WOW from July to now I was following this one......glad you got it done! I never have finished mine, did a prototype build up up, but never finished my painted version. Beautiful job, send some pics to Arte. I was a little scared with all the interior you were doing , thinking, there's no way this is ever going to go together (ha!) But holy cow , there it is in all of of it's amazing glory ! Great job on those porches, they are the trickiest parts I think.
Thanks for building it!

[Zephyrus52246]

That sure turned out nicely.  Great work!


Jeff

[Jim Donovan]

A beautiful model with lots of spectacular extras you have created there, Jim.

A pleasure to follow your journey.  I'm hoping Bar Mills release that chimney as a separate casting.

Cheers, Mark.

Thank you Mark, it sure was a journey but I learned a lot and I have a bunch of ideas for the future.

Jim D