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

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 02:42:48 PM

I cut several pieces and you can see they all broke apart. This is not a problem as I can glue them flush to each other. I just wanted you to see that I was right, the piece of old strip wood was fragile.

Back in a few, Diet Pepsi time for sure.

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 02:47:40 PM

I cut a piece of cardboard for my brush to apply the glue for the wainscoting.

I dipped the end of the cardboard brush in the glue and applied the glue to the wall on the line and below.

The reason I used the cardboard is due to the flat end so the glue can be applied evenly from the line down.

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 02:56:39 PM

You can now see why I kept the broken pieces of beadboard together. I glued them to the lower sections of the walls.

Question - Can you spot the break in the wainscoting? If you can, you win the prize for spotting it. Hint, you won't be able to.

The walls were weighed down overnight so the glue could thoroughly dry and not warp the walls.

I used my cardboard brush and applied an even coat of glue to the rear interior wall.

It was also weighed down overnight. Now the rear wall is now braced with a laminated wall to it.

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 03:00:20 PM

Here is a look through the window at the wainscoting. Again, the rear wall is not glued in place.

I stained a piece of HO scale 1X3. I cut it to length and glued it to the top of the wainscoting.

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 03:06:44 PM

Now that the rear wall is double in thickness, the Tichy windows don't look right from the inside.

I will admit that the difference really can't be seen from the front or from the inside. However, I know there is a difference and it needed to be fixed.

I stained some scale 2X6s for the door and 1X6s for the two windows. I glued the pieces to the walls as shown.

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 03:10:34 PM

I trimmed the 2X6s around the door flush with the wall. I then cut and added trim around the door and two windows.

ACL1504 · February 09, 2025, 03:12:48 PM

Done for today.

PRR Modeler · February 09, 2025, 04:16:11 PM

That is truly outstanding modeling Tom.

Bernd · February 09, 2025, 05:40:16 PM

Quote from: ACL1504 on February 09, 2025, 02:56:39 PMQuestion - Can you spot the break in the wainscoting? If you can, you win the prize for spotting it. Hint, you won't be able to.

I'll take a stab at it.

Bernd

Mark Dalrymple · February 09, 2025, 11:29:59 PM

Looking good, Tom.

My guess was the same as Bernd's - because I thought I saw a slight step in the line at the bottom.

If you are going to all the trouble of trimming out the interior of the windows, are you going to paint the inside of the mullions to match the trim - i.e. timber colour?

Cheers, Mark.

ACL1504 · February 10, 2025, 08:14:41 AM

Quote from: PRR Modeler on February 09, 2025, 04:16:11 PMThat is truly outstanding modeling Tom.

Curt,

Thanks very much Butty.

Tom

ACL1504 · February 10, 2025, 08:18:24 AM

Bernd,

Great find but, no! It does look like a gap in the wainscoting for sure. The reason I said you won't find it is because it is all one piece. Following your circle in the photo, I looked at the wall and can't see what the camera picked up.

Honestly, it is one piece.

Tom

ACL1504 · February 10, 2025, 08:20:59 AM

Quote from: Mark Dalrymple on February 09, 2025, 11:29:59 PMLooking good, Tom.

My guess was the same as Bernd's - because I thought I saw a slight step in the line at the bottom.

If you are going to all the trouble of trimming out the interior of the windows, are you going to paint the inside of the mullions to match the trim - i.e. timber colour?

Cheers, Mark.

Mark, Cheers,

Yes, I will paint the inside of the mullions. I'm also experimenting with gluing wood mullions to the backs of the plastic windows.

Tom

Bernd · February 10, 2025, 12:12:08 PM

Quote from: ACL1504 on February 10, 2025, 08:18:24 AMBernd,

Great find but, no! It does look like a gap in the wainscoting for sure. The reason I said you won't find it is because it is all one piece. Following your circle in the photo, I looked at the wall and can't see what the camera picked up.

Honestly, it is one piece.

Tom

I believe you. What caught my eye was the crevice was dark and not lite up like the rest. That's usually what you'll get when putting to pieces together like that. And that's what I was looking for.

Got me. I own you the prize.

Bernd

ACL1504 · February 10, 2025, 02:52:12 PM

Today I experimented with the inside of the windows. Mark asked if I was going to paint the mullions and I decided to take it one step further.

I got out my HO scale 1X2s and started to cut and glue them to the mullions. I certainly won't do this to all the windows, just the two on the cafe level.