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

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Screen doors, protection from Florida's state bird 

dave

[PRR Modeler]

The screens and doors look great Tom.

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Screen doors, protection from Florida's state bird 

dave

Dave,

An absolute necessity in the state here to keep out all types of blood suckers. Many Mosquitos should be the backup state bird.

Tom 

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The screens and doors look great Tom.

Curt,

Thanks very much Butty.

Tom

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Soon after the walls were cut and the door and window opening were also cut out, I worked on the windows.

I'm using the Tichy plastic windows.

I used a fine tooth Exacto saw blade to roughen up window exteriors.

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This left the windows in rough shape and needed to be cleaned and deburred. To change the look of a few windows, I also cut out some lower window sashes.



I used an Emory board to clean the exterior portion of the windows. The Emory board was to large to fit into the window opening.

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I cut the Emory board down the center and this gave me the perfect sanding stick to clean around the interior part of the windows.

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I've covered these next few steps in other builds but I'll repeat it here as well.

The plastic windows are gray in color and this is perfect for helping to weather the windows and helps with the pealing paint effect.

Using Floquil Antique White, I used a stiff paint brush and stippled on the paint.



Painted and unpainted window.

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While the paint was still tacky, I dipped the window in Hunterline Light Gray A&I stain.



I then set the window on a paper towel to dry. Here is how the window looks when dry.

You can clearly see the difference.



I repeated this process of all 24 windows and the three doors.

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When all the windows were dry, I added Canopy Glue for the window glass. The next day I used Gray, Yellow and Green paint to color the back of a few windows to represent shades. I used a fine cloth paper napkin for some curtains.

A paper cloth napkin can be found in the better restaurants. A friend grabbed a bunch of them when he visited the upscale restaurant. Most use cloth napkins. I have a life time supply of the cloth paper.

I guess I should say it a cloth like paper napkin. Anyway the windows were installed this morning.

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For the second landing support, I used 4X4s. I cut two to length for the supports.



Fast forward and I let them dry over night and then added 1X4s for the "X" bracing and the one horizontal brace.






Done for today.

[deemery]

Those stairs came together really nicely.  They look "correct to scale."  

dave

[Rick]

Tom, I don't remember seeing anyone rough up plastic windows before.
That's some attention to detail.
All the windows installed with their curtains and shades look very good.
Nice job finishing the stairs too.

[friscomike]

Excellent structure, Tom.  mike

[PRR Modeler]

Tom, thanks for the how to on the window frames. Everything looks great.