Bar Mills Majestic Hardware 2021 build challenge

[Oldguy]

I'm working a bit slower since I am waiting for some matching bottle paint to show up.  With the recent snow/freezing rain/freezing mist, I haven't been able to make it up to the mail box. 


The front wall.  Not only is the stencil work lousy, but there is a canopy that has yet to be added so the lower half of the lettering would have been obscured.  I finally got the R/W checker stripe done and applied.  The scene of the crime has been covered up.


Included in the kit is a piece of pressed paper.  After being primed, it reminds me of Transite panel material.  To save some from web search time, Transite is a cement/asbestos material that was pressed into roofing and siding material.  All I need to do is check my references as to sizing.  I'm sure it was a bit over 2 foot wide and cut in various lengths. 

[Mark Dalrymple]

Nice progress, Bob.

I'm interested to see how you paint and weather the asbestos roofing.  I was thinking about having a go at this only yesterday.  Here in New Zealand the corrugations were wider than those on corrugated iron.  I was thinking S scale material would probably be about right.

Cheers, Mark.

[PRR Modeler]

Nice job on the cover up Bob. The checker board looks like it belongs there.

[madharry]

Good recovery Bob. Well done!
Mike

[postalkarl]

Hey Bob:

Love the colors and the signs look just great.

Karl

[Oldguy]

Nice progress, Bob.

I'm interested to see how you paint and weather the asbestos roofing.  I was thinking about having a go at this only yesterday.  Here in New Zealand the corrugations were wider than those on corrugated iron.  I was thinking S scale material would probably be about right.

Cheers, Mark.

Actually, I'm using it as siding and if possible, for the roof as well.  S scale?  Probably could work to get the wider rib spacing.

[Oldguy]

Good recovery Bob. Well done!
Mike

Thanks.  I seem to always need a plan B, or C, or . . . .

[Oldguy]

Hey Bob:

Love the colors and the signs look just great.

Karl

Thanks,  I got real lucky.

[jerryrbeach]

Bob,


Great progress and interesting to see how much different your kit and materials are than those in my (very) old plastic box kit of Majestic. 

[Oldguy]

The corrugated material scaled out to 11 foot high, so I cut it to a 6 foot and 5 foot pieces and then cut them to a scale 2' 3" width.  As it turned out, a 5 foot piece for the bottom row works, followed by two 6 foot rows.  I started on the back side, followed by the side sides(?), and then did the front side in an effort to minimize the seen edges.  I tried to get the overlaps to hide the corner seams.  Wasn't perfect, but I got close.

I decided to add a wrap around loading dock.  First up was to make a template for the frame and decking.  The Shenandoah Crossing has a good idea of having the 4x4 for the roof supports also form the dock support legs.  I'm going to frame the dock with 1/8" bracing material.  It will be set back 6 scale inches from the outer edges as this will allow for the 4x4 roof posts to stick through the decking to also form the dock supports.  The 1/8" material should aid in keeping the supports vertical in one direction.  Then, a 2x12 front board will be added to hide the 1/8 material.  Building the dock in a prototypical fashion seems to be a waste as it will be completely hidden.  To aid in keeping the frame square, I salvaged corner pieces of wood fret material.  And yes, I did double check to ensure that they were in fact square.  The 5x8 note card used for the template itself wasn't square.

[Janbouli]

One of the few kits I did in H0 , you can find it here http://janbouli.com/?p=/H0%20Scale/majestic.html

[postalkarl]

Hey Jan:

WOW!!! You are really going to town on this kit. Love the colors and the roof look great.

Karl

[Oldguy]

Jan, very nice.  Interesting to see that over time, they redid the castings and some siding/roofing materials.  Thanx.

[Janbouli]

Thanks Karl and Bob, I still have to finish this , one day I will . I remember having slight problems with the smaller templates Bob , I tried them with a spray can , didn't work , I think stippling or with a much preciser airbrush would work better.

Oh , and Karl , where do you think I got the idea of using those colors from 

[Oldguy]

Started gluing the building together.  With one wall having a long step to it and the front wall having a bit of wave in it (door issue) I needed to start with the back wall and the full side wall.  Then I could move to the other wall.  Once that all set I could move on to the front wall.  The front wall was just used as a spacer to aid in keeping everything square.

While that was setting up, I moved on to the wrap around dock.  I use 2x8 for the entry area and 2x10 for the dock area.  So far so good, I like the color differences from the left over A&I stained material and unstained wood.  I got really lucky that this section ended perfectly as the remaining dock deck will be oriented 90 degrees to these.

With that started, I can move to gluing on the front wall.  Kinda hard on figuring out where the step wall should align up with the front wall, but I cut out the long step piece left on the carrier sheet.  Then it was easy to ensure it was properly placed.  Normally, I try to use and tabbed roof pieces to aid in alignment and holding walls in place.  But I ran into a problem.  I'm off by a half a corner trim.  The roof cut out for the little dormer does match it's width.  So it looks like I need to cut out a bit more off the roof deck.  But then that will throw off the tab that is aligned with it.  I'll just save this for tomorrow.