Interaction Hobbies - The Ventoura Mobile Home with interior detail kit

[ReadingBob]

Hello Bob, that's some great work on the detail parts for your mobile home build.

Thanks Jeff!  Gotta gets to work on the mobile home now.  Should be an interesting looking interior with all this stuff in it. 

[GPdemayo]

Wow, any more of these little things and you'll need a seeing eye dog.....great work Bob. 

[ReadingBob]

Wow, any more of these little things and you'll need a seeing eye dog.....great work Bob. 

Thanks Greg!  The old 10x Optivisor got a workout. 

[ReadingBob]

Moving on the mobile home kit (finally).  I painted the walls the first of two colors using a makeup sponge to dab on the paint (Valejo Iraqi Sand).  I did this while the parts were still in the carrier sheet.  Normally I'd remove them first but this time I opted not to.



I used some masking Tamiya Masking Tape to mask off the areas I wanted to protect so I could paint the second color (Americana Sable Brown).  I also painted some of the other things, like the skirting (white) and flamingos (pink, of course).



I got a little out of sequence here but no biggie.  After gluing the outer wall to the inner wall, I went back and cleaned up the skirting by dragging the back edge of an X-Acto blade through the joints to clean out any accumulated paint.  I should have done this before gluing the inner/outer wall together.



Like I said, there's an inner wall and an outer wall that have to be glued together.  Here's the two that make up an end wall being glued together.



More in a moment....

[ReadingBob]

When gluing the inner wall to the outer wall I made sure to clean up any glue that oozed out where the windows would go.



Now it's time to apply the inner wall coverings.  This was a bit interesting.  The mobile home kit came with a sheet of graphics for this purpose and the meth lab detail kit also came with a set of its own.  Naturally I used the sheet that came with the meth lab.  I had to match the wall coverings to the ones in the photos.  In one instance, I had to trim one to fit but for the most part I used them unaltered.  I used a glue stick to apply glue to the back.



Just had to make sure they were positioned correctly.  There are opening for slots that help make aligning things a bit easier.



Next came the windows.  The 'glass' (acetate) is placed into the opening first.



Then the window frame (painted aluminum) is inserted into the opening after applying a tiny bit of glue around the outer edge.  This glues the frame in place and pins the glass between the frame and the wall.



Before assembling the walls, I added some streaks of gray from the top edge downward and then some moss colors to the skirting at the bottom.



More in a moment...

[ReadingBob]

Next up was gluing the floor to one of the long walls.  I kept everything square.  Then the two ends were attached.  At this point only one long wall has not been glued into place.



Time to assemble the kitchen sink.  This is made up of three pieces (layers).  The bottom is glued to the middle than that assembly is glued under the counter.



Gluing the counter over the sink.



A piece of bent wire, painted silver, serves as the faucet.  All in all, a pretty neat little detail.



Here's the kitchen in place.  Note, the walls that would normally go in the rear of the mobile home (for the bedroom, bathroom, etc.) are left out.  Our crew ripped them out to make room for their lab.



Here's all the lab equipment in place.



Next up will be adding curtains to keep those pesky DEA agents from peeking in and then gluing the other long wall in place.  After that the roof gets assembled and then I'll make a little based to put it on.

Thanks for following along!

[deemery]

Looks great!  

dave

[ReadingBob]

Looks great! 

dave

Thanks Dave!  Aside from a few small vending machine kits this is my first time with a 'structure' kit from Inter-Action Hobbies.  I'm really impressed with it.  They put out some nice stuff.

Again, this one doesn't fit the era I plan on modeling.  Most definitely not the one you model. But it's been a fun diversion.

[tom.boyd.125]

 Bob, your model with all that interior detail looks amazing...well done !
Tommy

[Zephyrus52246]

It's almost a shame to hide all those details behind a wall and curtains.  Nice work.

Jeff

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Fantastic job on the trailer build and the meth lab. Darryl does a great kit and the results are always well worth the work and effort. Very well done my friend.

Tom 

[cuse]

Wow...quite a detailed and fun little scene!

Nice work as always!

[ReadingBob]

Bob, your model with all that interior detail looks amazing...well done !
Tommy

Thanks Tommy!  It's been a fun challenge. I'm quite pleased with how it's coming together.

[ReadingBob]

It's almost a shame to hide all those details behind a wall and curtains.  Nice work.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff!  I agree.  I have to make sure the roof is removable after putting that much effort into the lab. 

[ReadingBob]

Bob,

Fantastic job on the trailer build and the meth lab. Darryl does a great kit and the results are always well worth the work and effort. Very well done my friend.

Tom

Thanks Butty!  I certainly agree that Darryl puts together a great kit.  I'm half tempted to move on to his moonshiner's cabin kit (with interior details of course) after this one but I think I'll pick a small FOS kit instead.