Winter Challenge 2024/2025 - Flat Iron Corner Building - Tom Langford.

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As educational as it's entertaining, this thread.

Critter,

Thank you for the comment and for following along on the adventure.

Tom 

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Tom, you've definitely mastered cutting those angles.

Thanks Rick, I like the template cutting vs the cutting once on the model. Makes life much easier.

Tom 

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It's always great to watch a craftsman at work.

Curt,

Thanks, your check is in the mail. Oh wait, darn, I forgot to sign it! 

Tom 

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A great addition to Tahope Tom.....

Greg,

I think so and I'm ready for this one to get more lighting.

Tom 

[Philip]

Look like the roofer will be working soon.

Nice precise work!   

[Jerry]

Tom those angles cut perfectly.  Always a good learning experience watching you model.

Jerry

[Larry C]

Tom your build is moving along nicely. Great job figuring all the roof-wall angles. This will be a very unique building when finished; enjoy.

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Look like the roofer will be working soon.

Nice precise work! 

Philip,

Yepper, the roofers will be here in a couple weeks.

Thank you for the compliment.

Tom

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Tom those angles cut perfectly.  Always a good learning experience watching you model.

Jerry

Jerry,

The angles came out perfect for me. I'm very pleased with the alignment. Thank you for following along.

Tom 

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Tom your build is moving along nicely. Great job figuring all the roof-wall angles. This will be a very unique building when finished; enjoy.

Larry,

Thank you for the comment. I think it will be one of the structures viewers will like.

Tom 

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I needed to have some interior on the ground floor so I made some table items. I'm sure there are interior kits out there somewhere but, hey, this is a scratch build.

The next photo shows ketchup and mustard bottles.



Okay, maybe they do look a little like tooth picks. Where is your imagination?

I dipped one end in Floquil Signal Red and the other end in Floquil Reefer Yellow.

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For a couple of beer bottles, I dipped a plain tooth pick in Tamiya Clear Green. I used one of the yellow tipped picks and dipped that in the clear green as well.

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For the booths, I used some I made from a Stella Scale Models (long out of production). The booths came from the Erie Cafe KIt.

I made a RTV mold of the booths from that kit several years ago. I mixed some two part resin and made three for use here.

The table tops are small squares cut from a thin sheet of Evergreen Styrene. The tops were painted with Floquil Oak Stain. I used a clean tooth pick dipped in Floquil Old Silver and rimmed the table edges with the silver on the tooth pick.

No photo here but I also used the end of a tooth pick dipped in Floquil Reefer White for the coffee cups.

The thin silver piece is a sugar jar and also made from the tooth pick.

I added a few customers.



Back in a few.

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Here is how it looks in the cafe.





Done for today.

[Mr. Critter]

Reminds me of Edward Hopper and Tom Waits, both.  Nighthawks.