Fountain Brewery kitbash #2 - 2021 winter build challenge

[Mark Dalrymple]

Wow, Mark. That storefront and interior is lovely! Love that guy working away inside! Great work, Sir.

Thanks, Craig.

I was pleased how the printed picture worked.  I tried to find something in colour that would look appropriate in a 1930's shop.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark your usual beautiful work!!

Thanks very much, Jerry.

Next up is the roof for the shop and the loading dock lean-to roof.

Cheers, Mark.

[ReadingBob]

That store front is really neat looking Mark.  Very well done! 

[postalkarl]

Hey Mark:

Looks just beautiful.

Karl

[Mark Dalrymple]

That store front is really neat looking Mark.  Very well done!

Thanks very much, Bob.

Its been a fun build.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hey Mark:

Looks just beautiful.

Thanks so much, Karl.

Its been great having you cheering me on from the sidelines.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi guys.

Progress yesterday included making the loading dock veranda, installing and flashing the copula, installing and weathering the stack, and adding the roofing to the shop.

I cut a piece of black card that was a good fit for the alcove and covered it in masking tape, leaving the tape proud by about 1mm on the front and 2mm on the other 3 sides.  6"x2"s rafters were cut with plumb cuts on my chopper and added to the underside of the roof at 18" spacings.  I added a beam along the front and then added a 4"x4" along the back wall for the rafters to sit on.  Once the glue had set I added glue and pushed the roof into position.  The flashings were bent up at 90 degrees before sliding into position (and the front 1mm overhand was melded down over the edge), and these were pushed into the walls with my small steel ruler.  The roof was painted black and weathered with white pigment.

Photo 1 - shows the loading dock roof. 

I used Bar Mills shingles for the shop roof.  I marked the shingle spacings on the roof in pencil (must remember to use red pen next time, as after I had added the double sided tape the pencil was very hard to see) and then covered with double sided tape.  The shingles were added using glue as necessary.  I trimmed a couple of mm's off the back of the top row to keep the tile size consistent.  The roof was then flipped and the tiles carefully trimmed with a sharp knife leaving them slightly proud of the card roof.  I used my lighter copic marker to colour the edges of the shingles.  At this stage I glued the roof to the structure using canopy glue.  I had previously added four roof supports out of bracing timber, one each side of the ridge, and one each side just up from the side walls.  I folded copper tape, trimmed to about 5mm, over the ridge.  The bottom edge of this is at the same spacing as a new row of shingles would be.

Photo's 2 & 3 - show the tile roof on the shop.  I still have to paint the concrete step.

I added the copula including a bottom flashing from masking tape painted grey, folded over the tiles at front and back.  Lastly, I added the tall stack at the back.  I added thin strips of masking tape painted grey around the stack at even spacings to represent joins and weathered the stack with pigments.  I glued and propped to keep things straight.

Photo 4 - shows the whole structure as it looks now.  I'll get a close up of the stack and the copula flashings.

More soon, cheers, Mark.

[Oldguy]

Gorgeous.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Gorgeous.

Thanks so much, Bob.

I got out a couple of boxes of LBP's yesterday to paint up.  There are a few punks in one of the boxes - I thought I might have a go at hair cuts to make them look like 1932 LBP's.

Cheers, Mark.

[Keep It Rusty]

This looks fantastic. That brick work turned out really nice.

[ACL1504]

Mark, Cheers,

It looks really great. The brick and mortar look very natural to me. I love it, well done.

Tom 

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi guys.

Thanks very much for your comments, Craig and Tom.

Just thought I would upload a photo of my LBP I have painted up for this structure so far.

More soon, cheers, Mark.

[postalkarl]

Hey Mark:

Looks great especially the signs.

Karl

[Keep It Rusty]

Those figures look great. Are they the completely unpainted Preisers?

[Mark Dalrymple]

Thanks Karl and Craig.

Karl - the signs are always a lot of fun.  I was pleased with the pictures I found.

Craig - yep.  Bulk packets of 30 through to 120.  In NZ we pay around $20 for a five packet of painted figures whereas lest than twice that will buy you 120 unpainted figures.  I quite enjoy it, but can only do a couple of hours in a sitting.  And drilling holes in the bottom of their feet for pins is quite challenging!

Cheers, Mark.