Winter Challenge 25-26 - Fiordland Lobster Company - Tellynott Depot

[Michael Hohn]

That looks really nice, Mark.  The cupolas and clerestory add a lot of industrial style.

[elwoodblues]

Mark,

Great tutorial in how you did the roof, the finished result looks great.

[Mark Dalrymple]

That looks really nice, Mark.  The cupolas and clerestory add a lot of industrial style.

Thanks, Michael.

I agree.  I figured they would change things up a lot, but for once I didn't do a full mock-up, so I had my fingers crossed.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark,

Great tutorial in how you did the roof, the finished result looks great.

Thanks, Ron.

I tend to favour pictures and captions for telling my story.  It's just a matter of remembering to take those pictures!

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi guys.

Photo 1 - I measured my walls and cut out a base and top piece from 1.5mm styrene.  I will likely cut the centre out of the base to give some access inside.  Either that or make the back removable.


Photo 2 - Here are some of the walls.  It will be quite a tricky assembly, and I'm note quite sure how I will go about it yet.  I have cut out all the openings, with the exception of the high vent on the right front wall.  I have saved this until after painting as the omission of the cladding for the vent will make the wall quite fragile until it is assembled.  The walls were weathered by using Golden titanium buff with splodges of Woodland Scenics stone gray.  I then applied my leather dye and isopropyl and alcohol mix and pressed to dry.  I painted both sides to help alleviate warpage, but with water based products this tends to only help so much, hence the pressing.


Photo 3 - Here are the same walls with their vents and doors in place.


Photo 4 - Here is the last double door for the small tower down on the wharf.  I added door hardware to this one .I still have to add that to the others and tone down the hinges.


More soon, cheers, Mark.

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice Mark. Would using strip wood on the inside for a gluing surface and bracing work?

[Larry C]

Mark really nice work. I agree with Curt, bracing could go a long ways with assembly.

[Jerry]

Mark just outstanding work all around.

Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Very nice Mark. Would using strip wood on the inside for a gluing surface and bracing work?

Mark really nice work. I agree with Curt, bracing could go a long ways with assembly.

Thanks, Curt and Larry.

What I mean is I'm not quite sure what order I will assemble this structure in, not how to go about it.  Once painted I will add the 6x6 corner trim and then start gluing the outer walls to the base and each other.  But it might be worthwhile adding horizontal bracing before assembly for the top styrene section.  That will then give me a flat, level surface to build the tower on top of.  I can then cut the roof around the tower, rather than cutting the tower walls to the pitch of the roof.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark just outstanding work all around.

Jerry

Thanks very much, Jerry.

I might write to Don Tichy and suggest he makes up a sprue of door hardware, runners and perhaps some smaller and different types of hinges.

Cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

Mark just outstanding work all around.

Jerry

Thanks very much, Jerry.

I might write to Don Tichy and suggest he makes up a sprue of door hardware, runners and perhaps some smaller and different types of hinges.

Cheers, Mark.

I've found Don to be very receptive to suggestions.  Even better if you send him detailed pictures/drawings of what should be on that sprue, so he doesn't have to do a lot of research.

dave