Kanthima's Scratchbuilt Structures

[friscomike]

Wow, the house is amazing.  Excellent work.  ~mike

[jbvb]

Thanks, Dave, Karl, Jerry, Mark and Mike. Here's what it looks like after another few hours.  Nid isn't being picky about the corner joints because they'll be covered by flashing and shingles.



Not sure how much progress there will be on this house. Nathi (who's almost 18 now) wants to build a house too. He and his mother picked 121 State St., much smaller and simpler but... At least its mansard roof has straight (for HO models 2 feet from the fascia) corners.



My priority this afternoon will be places to put their efforts (my life would be much different if I hadn't learned when and how to delegate).

[jbvb]

Nid mentored Nathi's work on 121 State St. while continuing to build 114 High's roof. A good deal remains to do, but the end is in sight.



Nathi got the walls of 121 State in place. with the bay and the stoop outside.



They were talking in Thai the whole time, some of it was probably modeling Q&A, some was Thai politics (results from their national election were released today) and some just mom and kid spending the afternoon together.  Meanwhile I worked on the layout. 121 State St. will have a place tomorrow, maybe also 114 High. But that job really ought to include putting in the remaining length of State St.

[jbvb]

Nid is through with the styrene exterior of 114 High St.  The mansard corner joints don't need to be perfect, as they'll be covered with shingles.



Nathi made some progress on his build of 115 State St.  His next step is the relatively simple 2nd story mansard. Meanwhile I ordered more shingles from B.E.S.T.

[ACL1504]

James,

Wonderful, just perfect for the area.

Tom

[elwoodblues]

James,

Mansard roofs are complicated to build and the Mansard roof on the building looks near perfect. I used to enjoy seeing Nathi's work on the Railroad-Line Forum and I'm glad to see it here.

[Jerry]

Beautiful work!!

Jerry

[Michael Hohn]

Simply outstanding modeling, James. 

[jbvb]

Thanks, Tom, Ron, Jerry and Mike.  My wife has started a second house, #115 State St.  This has apparently been a 2-family, side-by-side, for many years.  I asked her to do it without the present-day porches to reduce the width.



Here's her model so far. We had to guess at two back doors (no photo, no plan because it's a condo) and the locations of the side doors before porches were added nearly the full length of each side.



A shot of all three houses. 114 High St. is awaiting a shingle order that USPS tells me is 35 miles away but won't arrive till Thursday.

[friscomike]

Howdy James,

Nid's work is just amazing.  I can't wait to see it completed.

Have fun,
mike

[Yannis]

I just went through this thread! Wow. Great work there and impressive accuracy.

Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to seeing more of this.
Yannis