freemans manufacturing co. by Railway Design Associates

[rustyfawcett]

thanks Dave for all the tips. I think the big problem most people face is the doors and windows not fitting but I have not got that far yet. Iwas also thinking on using bondo or epoxy sculpt for the joints And Recarve the stone.the bondo does work well it's easy to work And easy to carve as long as you do not let it set too long. I was also thinking about changing the roof as well.

[rustyfawcett]

Did manage to get the seams filled in. Going to get more done tomorrow.  Didnt have much time today.

[bparrish]

Rusty...

I'm guessing that the Tamiya putty is very much like some stuff that is widely available called squadron putty.

It works well and carves easily.  It has the same smell as the distillate based stuff called green stuff by the auto body people.

see ya
Bob

[rustyfawcett]

Dont know bob. 1st time using it. Ill keep you up to date on it. I am going to try to get some time in on it tonight.

[jerryrbeach]

Many years ago Testors made a white filler putty.  Excess putty could be removed by gently rubbing with a finger dipped in alcohol.  I am wondering if the Tamiya putty is similar to the Testors, or more like Squadron putty as suggested by Bob.

[rustyfawcett]

Many years ago Testors made a white filler putty.  Excess putty could be removed by gently rubbing with a finger dipped in alcohol.  I am wondering if the Tamiya putty is similar to the Testors, or more like Squadron putty as suggested by Bob.

After looking on youtube and the web. It is like the squadron. 

[jrmueller]

Keep at it Rusty. This is a "mission critical" thread because you are solving all the issues before I start my builds.  Guess I better think about some of your products as a "thank you" gesture.  Jim

[rustyfawcett]

Keep at it Rusty. This is a "mission critical" thread because you are solving all the issues before I start my builds.  Guess I better think about some of your products as a "thank you" gesture.  Jim

No problem jim. Thats one of the reasons that I am doing this build. There are alot of people here that say that they are only good for kit bashing and thats it.. I seem to think so far that they have never built anything but laser kits. So I wanted to do it and see for myself. So far its a normal kit build. Nothing to extremely out of the ordinary. Glad to see more then a few are following along.

[NEMMRRC]

Do the instructions provide painting suggestions?

Gluing the walls together couldn't be that difficult. Painting the shiny plastic to look close to the dynamite photos on the RDA website is altogether different.

I'm curious about the painting process.

Jaime

[bparrish]

Rusty...

Below is a photo of the corner of Jimmy's Fallberg station in hydrocal.  I did this building some years ago on the old forum as a kit build.  I used hydrocal to fill the seams.

A suggestion on your structure.  Take some super fine sand paper and work down your putty until you first see the original cast stone.  Then you can see what lines you want to use to connect over the seam.  Random works well in breaking up the straight line.

If you don't like something you can always hit it with another pull of putty.

Let me know how it goes.

see ya
Bob

[rustyfawcett]

Thats what I was planning on doing. I did start to sand it down a bit last night. Had to get some more sanding sticks today thought I had more I guess not.  Thanks for the tip at least I was on the right track.  The wall you did looks great

[rustyfawcett]

Sorry for the delay  in post updates. I have been working out of town the last week on and off.back to it i started to use multiple  sculpting tools to recarve the rocks and put a little to much pressure  on a wall. It broke the epoxy so i currently have 2 walls together. Now instead  of trying to cut new lines in the putty,i used a detail engraver that i picked up today. It made by Chicago  tools. Purchased at harbor fright  for 8 bucks.  I could not be happier  with the results. After playing  around for about 20 mins this is where i am at

[rustyfawcett]

[gnatshop]

Rusty, that corner seam looks super!
I got to get me one of them detail engraver tools - Harbor Freight makes me drool every
time I look at one of their ads or their catalog!!!

Now comes the tedious part - painting random stones in various shades of gray, tan, dull red,
and light blue will bring Rod Guthrie's fantastic rock work to life!!

I know that his wife and son miss him, but I hope it helps to know how much respect we still have
for his talent and skills!

[cuse]

Great joint...is that like a dremel tool?


John