FOS Harbor Master Office build.

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Hi Tom,
Another fantastic looking structure.  I love how everything is coming together.  Out of curiosity, do you do concept sketches to plan out your scenes or does it just come to you as you build stuff?
The reason I ask is that you always seem to come up with things that look so natural to me.

Cousin Brucie,

Thank you for the generous compliment on the build. I can't draw anything so I just let it come to me as I go. This build has been a lot of fun but I've also drawn on some great memories of structures like this on the St. Johns River here.

Tom

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I used the same roofing shingles to add a ridge cap to the small building.

I carefully cut the rows apart using a sharp #17 Exacto blade. I then cut individual shingles from the strips and glued them in place.





More in a few.

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The original roof panels are to thick for me so I used a very much thinner cardboard for the roofs.

Original roof card -



I cut two small pieces of 10X10 and braced the underside of the cardboard. I also tried something different for the flashing on the roof. I cut a thin strip of rolled roofing paper. I added a little glue to the top edge of the roof card and then glued the paper to this portion.



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The over hang was removed. Now you can see the colored rolled roofing flash.



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I used the edge of the cardboard roof panel and folded the paper up at a 90 degree angle.



I used 3M transfer tape and added it to the top side of the roof.



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The excess transfer tape was cut off and the rest of the rolled roofing paper was added. I also edge glued an exterior rafter to the roof panel.






More in a few.

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Here's a river side view.





Next is the weathering of the roofs and added details.

[PRR Modeler]

Great job Tom.

[WigWag Workshop]

Outstanding build, I really like the No Wake sign.


-Steven

[ACL1504]

Great job Tom.

Curt,

Thank you.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Outstanding build, I really like the No Wake sign.


-Steven

Steven,

Thank you, appreciate it.

Tom

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking rather spectacular Tom!

Your tile caps and tar paper flashing both worked very well.

Cheers, Mark.

[WigWag Workshop]

I really like those shingles, I can't wait to have a go at shingles again, after my first failed attempt.

[Jerry]

A wonderful build Tom.  This is going to be a beautiful scene when all is complete.


Jerry