FOS Rust Rock Falls -- in progress

[cuse]

Great work George! Waterfalls are tough and you nailed it! I love all of the vertical elements and steep curving streets-thanks for sharing.


John

[carl b]

Nice work all around George.

[Lynnb]

I gotta add not only is the waterfall looking good, although I'm sure you will be tweaking more, the entire scene the way you're puzzling it together is going to come together when you fill the scenery portion.

[Opa George]

Thanks much, John, Carl and Lynn.

Both grandsons were here for the day and I got them both involved with a little scenery work.  I've been "stocking up" on some specialty scenery items for this area: some "big old trees" to hang out over the falls, and lots of static grass tufts and such.  I also bought some of Martin Welberg's products that I am eager to start with.

--Opa George

[Jerry]

George very nice on the water and the falls.


Jerry

[postalkarl]

Hey George:

the waterfalls look just great.

Karl

[Opa George]

Thank you, Jerry, and thank you, Karl.  Hopefully a little more work on it this evening, and a few more pics.

George

[tom.boyd.125]

George,
You made a lot of progress in two months now.
Looks great and your modeling skills are showing off well.
Tommy

[ACL1504]

George,

It is all looking very good. As Mark said, "Great composition". The water falls came out great.

Tom 

[postalkarl]

Hey George:

You are quite welcome. Keep the pic flowing.

Karl

[Opa George]

Thanks everyone for all the supportive comments.

Landscaping is getting a bit tedious so I decided to switch gears with this kit and continue on with the support structures. There are five to build, some of them quite large.  First up is the MD Garage.

This is a basic square low gabled structure. The walls will be stucco. I may or may not use the Durhams Water Putty method. I have gotten equally nice effects with spray on texture paint, and probably will use that method.

But first, remove the four walls, square them up, brace them and assemble.  The corners interlock, so this was easy.


Next came priming the walls. I used rattle can primer and it is now drying/curing.  No pic.

Til tomorrow
--Opa George

[Opa George]

Continuing on with the M.D. Garage.  So when I first saw it, I though "Maryland" (for MD) Garage, but it is actually m.d.  So I'll need to figure out what the M and D stand for. 

Anyway...I settled on Rustoleum spray texture paint to simulate the stucco. I'm just not very good with the Durhams water putty technique (see my stucco garage with my Bandit's Roost build), and I think this makes a very acceptable substitute and is so much easier.

So after priming, spray painting with the texture paint, and then painting the white and red wall colors with craft acrylics, I have the shell with garage door and stencil added.


Because the spray texture paint is thinner, you can still make out the interlocking corner joints.  I'll just need to add signs, vines, pipes etc to distract from that.  Not worried about that since the overall effect is nice.  Below is a shot of the inscribed exposed cinder block, simulating where the stucco has peeled and flaked away.  There are patches of this pattern on each wall.  I painted the block with a very light gray, and allowed the block joint lines to show.


While things were drying I assembled a few of the laser cut detail parts that Doug included.  Laser cut parts are getting to be one of my favorite advances in the hobby.  Below is an assembled car door, included just for fun, next to a toothpick for size comparison. It is made of three parts, and although it does not show in my picture, the door has hinges, a hole for the outside door handle, and the structural panel inside includes the hole for the inside door handle and it lines up perfectly with the outside hole!  I'm just blown away by the incredible detail and work involved to include this otherwise "throwaway" detail part. 


Here is where I quit for the day.  Door and windows installed along with the tilting transom windows.  I worked at a garage just like this in my youth and remember those tilt-out windows well.  Oops, some wood glue is oozing out under that front joint with the gable wall.  Need to clean that up!



Happy day to all!

--Opa George

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice George.

[vinceg]

Looks good, George. I also like the textured sprays although I use Krylon.

Do you really need to "hide" the corners? Couldn't it be the case that the original building had those interlocking cinder block quoins in the corners and then put stucco over them later like the rest of the building?

[Opa George]

Looks good, George. I also like the textured sprays although I use Krylon.

Do you really need to "hide" the corners? Couldn't it be the case that the original building had those interlocking cinder block quoins in the corners and then put stucco over them later like the rest of the building?

Thanks Curt and Vince,

Vince, I am actively looking to use all Krylon eventually. Rustoleum has broken my heart too many times when a full can of spray paint fizzles out for no apparent reason.  My local big box hardware store only had the Rustoleum texture on the day I visited so I bit the bullet and bought it.

I certainly like the idea that the interlocking edges are just the stacked blocks on the corners. 

--Opa George