Challenge build #2. FOS Freebie.

[Zephyrus52246]

Painted the walls with Depot Buff and trim with Zinc Chromate Primer.  Two of the few Pollyscale paints I still have.  I then used a small amount of medium gray on a technique I call "dry sponge painting".  Using a grout sponge, I get some paint on a torn off small piece.  I then get it fairly dry by blotting on a card.  Then blotting and dragging across the trim/siding.  Not quite a peeling paint effect, more a diffuse wearing off of the paint. 

Jeff

[postalkarl]

Hey Jeff

Looking good so far.

Karl

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, Karl.  I managed to cut out all the signs last evening.  First I rough up the signs a little with 1000 grit sandpaper.  I then used a very dilute A&I solution on them to take out the starkness of the white.  Then taped to my cutting mat.  Using a new #11 blade and a straight edge I cut them out.  I will then dry brush some unbleached titanium paint if I want it to look really weather beaten.  I didn't do that here but may change my mind when it's all together.


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

The roof sign needs backing, so I glued it to a piece of thin cardboard and cut it out later.


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Today I lined up the signs on the blank walls.  The one fit very well, the other not so much.  It's a square sign, but the roof is not parallel to the ground, it's a little sloped.  These are glued on with full stength elmer's white glue.  I was about 1 mm off on the one that's already sloped, but I figured it would tear if removed.  Though I did a back up of the signs, the top slope remains, and I didn't think it would make a great deal of difference to do it again.

Jeff

[NEMMRRC]

No instructions means you can do whatever you want and you won't be wrong 


Fos makes the most expensive free kits out there 


I wonder do they sterilize those tattoo needles by running them over the cigar ashes....


Jaime

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks for stopping by, Jaime.  Today was engineering day on the structure.  The front piece would only attach with the thin top and sides.  Also the front top piece needed bracing as it was warped.  I I added a piece of posterior bracing, but there was still a gap, a scrap piece of stripwood fit perfectly.  A similar treatment was used for the bottom.


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

The next issue was the angled door on the corner of the structure.  the thin sides wouldn't have enough gluing area.  So some 45 degree bracing wood was used.  When I tried fitting the next wall it didn't fit, as the top of the wall pictured was warped, so the top piece of bracing was added.  Everything then fit.     


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Cripes a mighty, how does one small kit make such a mess?

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

The roofing material was sprayed black, and the pieces cut up.  The rest of the pieces were braced and the corner trims added so that tomorrow I can put the thing together.  This is the most productive modeling day I've had since the last challenge.   


Jeff

[PRR Modeler]

You're making great progress Jeff.

[postalkarl]

Hey Jeff:

Nice workbench. The model is coming along nicely.

Karl

[Zephyrus52246]

Oooh!  It's a structure.  Notice the nailholes and raised clapboards?  Neither do I.  I did that before staining and painting the walls.  And of coarse they swelled and filled in the holes.     That's what happens when you wait a year in between structure builds. 


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Putting the walls together took awhile.  I added bracing, took bracing off that was in the way of walls/bracing.  I made some 45 degree pieces to hold the angled door in place. 

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Another problem I seem to have with buildings with common walls, is they don't always turn out square.    The larger building is square, the smaller, just slightly off.  Also the ends of the structure don't line up.  The sign wall is a little bit taller than the other in the back.  I just pulled the front piece apart and re glued it so it now lines up. 

Jeff


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