Workman's and Son by CCK

[Raymo]

Back during the summer Jeff Grove contacted me asking if I had any photos of buildings that would give some ideas for new kits. The first pictures I sent were of this building a couple towns over in Georgetown Mass. It's used by a local contractor as a woodshop and at the time it was receiving a large addition off the back. I told Jeff that I thought the original building would be a great build because it wouldn't need to be put near a siding,it could be anywhere. In less than 24 hours he already had test cuts of the building and sent them out to be built. This build was started back in July and I've been trying to put my 60 minutes a night  in on it as much as possible.

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Here's what I received from Jeff, the 5 walls, tichy windows and doors,laser cut shingles and the stair stringers.

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Jeff has the kit available now with everything packaged to build the complete kit. Before I start,I had to go to the local McDonalds to find some of Gnat's relatives to remind us why we like this forum

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I also swung by Northeastern Scale to pick up some lumber to help with the build

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A couple of problems popped up as soon as I started on the kit. The 1st was the attic windows don't match up. I think the problem is with the rear window not being where it needs to be as seen in the photo. It's to close to one side of the point. No one is going to see the difference from front to back so it wasn't a big deal. The other problem was one wall was about 1/16th to long. Marked it,cut it ,then sanded it,problem fixed

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I tend to over brace but I've had a couple kits twist up with the waterbase paints. I also had to leave room for the end wall of the larger building as seen in the lower photo.

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The back of the wood was painted flat black and a couple days later I A&Ied the face.

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I wanted to paint this kit in similar colors to the original building so I used Folk Art Butter Pecan for the walls, PollyScale Aged White for windows and trim, and GTW Morency Orange for the doors.

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Here's the walls after a coat of paint

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Time for the windows. Jeff must be enjoying his retirement drinking the local brew because he sent me the windows on the right instead of the windows on the left that I stole from a FOS kit for the attic windows. All the windows were painted the Aged White

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Back to walls,I lifted some of the wood, added nailholes and drybrushed some Reefer White to bring out the details. I also painted the doors orange and gave them a bit of drybrushing with the white.

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At this point a second coat of A&I was applied to the walls and a coat was applied to the windows and doors.

[gnatshop]

The Ledbetters are mighty glad that you included a bunch of pichers!
And glad that you found a bunch of our relatives at Mickey D.'s - when the gummint check
come in, they figure that it's Big Mac time again.
Forgive that Groovy boy - he just uses Carolina logic when he's rummagin' aroung in his stash -
'A winder's a winder, ain't it!!'.

[Raymo]

My new favorite item on the workbench is Frosted Gallery Glass. I used it on all the windows and after it dried,I painted in window shades with TruColor NP light green. These were attached to the walls.

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At this point I built a foundation from 1/8th inch stripwood. I'll cover it with the Minuteman Scale Models brickwork.