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

[friscomike]

Howdy Mark,

The build is progressing well.  Nice work on cutting the different components.  The louvers are exceptional.

Have fun,
mike

[Mark Dalrymple]

Take a thin point permanent (black) marker and run it along the undersides of the scribes.  That adds shadow, and makes it look more like a vent.

Thanks for the tip, Dave.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Great looking progress Mark.

Thanks very much, Curt.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Howdy Mark,

The build is progressing well.  Nice work on cutting the different components.  The louvers are exceptional.

Have fun,
mike

Thanks, Mike.

I was finding them rather fiddly to build so I though I'd give my ptastistruct glue that I found on the shelf a go.  It just melted the plastic and quickly ruined my next louver, so back to fiddly and medium CA!

Cheers, Mark.

[Michael Hohn]

Cool looking building, Mark.

[Philip]

Looking great! One big bite for a challenge!   

[GPdemayo]

Very impressive scene Mark, looking good.....

[Mark Dalrymple]

Cool looking building, Mark.

Thanks, Michael.

It's been fun designing this scene.  I was back working on the trackbed surrounding the diorama today.  I should be back working on the structures this Sunday.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking great! One big bite for a challenge!   

Thanks, Philip.

I always take big bites.  I just have to find time to chew for long enough!

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Very impressive scene Mark, looking good.....

Thanks, Greg.

I'm looking forward to working on the scratchbuilt section.  I also have some scratchbuilding in the form of aerial walkovers and the large stack that will be fun.

Cheers, Mark.

[Larry C]

Mark that's coming along nicely.

[elwoodblues]

Mark,

Don't know how I missed your last update but the louvers look great.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark that's coming along nicely.

Thanks, Larry.

We have a modelling meet here the first weekend in March.  I'm hoping to make a big chunk of progress then.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark,

Don't know how I missed your last update but the louvers look great.

Thanks, Ron.

These is always lots to look at on the forum - sometimes things are easy to miss.  Thanks for the compliment!  We have a bit of a garden tour tomorrow so will be busy weeding today.  Hopefully back to some modelling on Sunday.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi guys.

We had another nice weekend modelling in my garage last weekend.  Of course, I was hosting, so there was a fair bit of preparing lunches and making sure everyone had what they needed.  Various requests came up during the weekend for items that inevitably got left at home, and I think I was able to fulfill them all.

Photo 1 - Shows the top section to the Walther's Front Street Building.


Photo 2 - For the long section behind the tower I needed to cut the walls and roof pieces down.  You can also see at left the scratchbuilt wall I fabricated to keep the end square and true.


Photo 3 - I assembled the two square towers.  The roof pieces were tricky to find, as they were done in Clear plastic and packaged with the window glazing.  I didn't look there for quite some time! I then measured and cut down the window walls and the roof sections.  I made a back wall to sit against the 5th story behind and to keep things square and true (shown in photo 2).  I glued together using medium CA, gave a wash with dishwashing detergent and warm water and when dry, sprayed with rattle can grey primer.  The next day I sprayed with rattle can moss green - the same colour as the windows.


Photo 4 - Shows the base for the towers (you can see the raised mounting pieces over which the rooftop towers and cupola sit).  You can see I have attached the main roof.  I made up trusses to keep the roof true and add strength.  There was a problem with the longer roof sagging so I glued in a styrene strut widthways underneath the sub roof to push the sag up.  This helped quite a bit, but I couldn't get things quite perfect.  I will address this issue in a later step.


More soon, cheers, Mark.