Merchant's Row II - A Magnuson Kit.

[elwoodblues]

OK Tom, you need to slow down a bit and let the rest of up catch up.

This should be another interesting build with the turret involved.

Dave,

Very nice kitbash, you wouldn't have known the amount of putty involved in the finished product.

[ACL1504]

In the later Walthers version, the turret is also molded in Styrene.  It takes some work to get a good fit.  Now I changed the angle of the bays a bit, but even with a 'stock' layout, some crack filling would be necessary.


dave

Dave,

AH yes, I remember these from RR Lines. Very good kit bashed.

Tom

[ACL1504]

OK Tom, you need to slow down a bit and let the rest of up catch up.

This should be another interesting build with the turret involved.

Ron,

I did slow down the last couple of days for 1:1 stuff but I'm back on track now.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Merchant's Row II was not like MR I. This kit's walls were very very sticky. When I started to remove the flash from the windows, the flash stuck to the walls. I got the larger parts removed and used the box lid to catch the flash.

What wasn't in the box lid, was either on my lap or on the floor.



I decided to remove the sticky prior to doing any final and fine filing of the openings.

I used all my Simple Green on the first kit so I thought I'd try and use 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. I poured some in a square tin I use for baking brass locos.

You can see the darker yellow on the walls. This is the sticky crap coming off. Once I soaked all the parts for about 30 minutes, I rinsed them in warm water and padded them dry with an old soft bath towel.

Perfect, no more sticky crap on the walls.

[ACL1504]

Now I can start the assembly of the walls.



Done for today.

[deemery]

Depending on your era, you can back-date this a bit by adding a vertical piece (styrene strip) to divide the large storefront windows.

dave

[friscomike]

Howdy Tom,

The cleanup looks good. I'm looking forward to another great build.

Have fun,
mike

[elwoodblues]

Tom,

Great job on the cleanup and flash removal.  I think if it was me, I would have removed the sticky stuff first before removing the flash.  Now the question everyone wants the answer to.... will brass tubing be required to straighten the walls.

[Jerry]

Looks clean from here.   Now to see the good part you putting this together!!

Jerry

[ACL1504]

Depending on your era, you can back-date this a bit by adding a vertical piece (styrene strip) to divide the large storefront windows.

dave

Dave,

Great idea, I'll give it some thought as I get it built.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Howdy Tom,

The cleanup looks good. I'm looking forward to another great build.

Have fun,
mike

Mike, Howdy,

Thanks for following along. 

Still having fun.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,

Great job on the cleanup and flash removal.  I think if it was me, I would have removed the sticky stuff first before removing the flash.  Now the question everyone wants the answer to.... will brass tubing be required to straighten the walls.

Ron,

Thank you and you are right, I should have cleaned the sticky first. But you know how hindsight is?

Not sure about the brass tubing yet. I haven't had the kind of hot sunny day I wanted to put the longer walls out.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Looks clean from here.   Now to see the good part you putting this together!!

Jerry

Jerry,

Thanks, yes, getting this one together looks like it may be a challenge.

I've already had issues with the turret. I'll be covering this in the coming posts.

Tom

[ACL1504]

According to the plan photos, the top of the turret is supposed to be flush with the top of both wall sections.

It isn't as shown below. The two turret pieces are slightly higher than the walls.

I'll leave this as is for now.



Back in a few.

[ACL1504]

I also found the outside edges of the metal turret aren't perfectly straight.

I've aligned them with a metal ruler and you can see the gap at the bottom.

Left turret section -



Right turret section -