South River Modelworks 370 - Tucker and Cook Cotton Yarn Mil

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

This year Bob VanGelder of South River Modelworks announced that he is making no more large kits. Tucker and Cook is the last large kit from SRM.

When I first saw this kit at the South River website I knew I had to have it. I began working on it during the Thanksgiving holiday.

South River kits need no introduction so I'll shut up.

The kit box and its contents.







Isn't it cool!

Coming up - I start the build.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

One of South River Modelworks' signature items is the number of windows its kits' buildings have. Tucker and Cook has 80 windows. 80!





I "primed" the styrene castings with cheap Walmart white spray paint.

There are 80 windows folks. 80!

Coming up - the main building's walls.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[Janbouli]

Oh boy oh boy , a new kit being built by Jaime , that means a great thread in the making, you got me hooked Jaime.

[MAP]

All right Jaime!  Looking forward to this build.  I also have it, and your builds are always informative and fun to follow.  80 windows?  Egads!

[ranny9]

All right Jaime!  Looking forward to this build.  I also have it, and your builds are always informative and fun to follow.  80 windows?  Egads!

To paraphrase Jaime, "We love windows".

[Zephyrus52246]

Woo-hoo!  A Jaime build thread!


Jeff

[Dave K.]

Looking forward to this, Jaime! Just curious...how many windows are there?

[cuse]

what a great looking kit! I'll be following closely...who knows, maybe someday urban renewal will come to the N scale section of my layout in the interest of a SRMW masterpiece.


Love a Jaime thread!


John

[jlgrove]

...ha..80 windows...how many doors?.....I'll be watching...

[S&S RR]

What a great way to start the morning - a Jaime build thread.   I will be following along.

[EricQuebec]

80 windows... are you planning to do them with real glass ?
Anyway I will follow too
Eric Québec city

[ACL1504]

Add me to the followers!

Tom

[NEMMRRC]

80 windows... are you planning to do them with real glass ?
Anyway I will follow too
Eric Québec city

Eric, the kit includes acetate for glazing. I'll be using that. I'd like to finish the kit before the next comes out.

Thanks for the feedback gang. Anyone else out there with this kit, join in.

Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

OK. So I said I'd discuss the walls next. I lied.

Before I proceed I want to point out a couple of things I found noteworthy.

First thing:
- South River Modelworks does an outstanding job with its instructions book. Yes folks, SRM kits include a spiral-bound book (8.5 x 11) that not only includes instructions on how to build the kit and the scenery around it, this book also discusses in depth the tools and materials needed to build the kit plus a history of the prototype the kit is based on. Furthermore, there are in-process photos all throughout the instruction book to guide the modeler through the entire process.

Second thing:
- I would have never chosen turquoise as a trim color for a building. But, this is what the instructions call for and it is what I used. As I was painting all 80 windows (yes, there are 80 windows for this kit. I counted them... All 80 of them) with turquoise I kept thinking to myself, "Jaime, this does not look right. But it looks fantastic on the photo on top of the box lid. I wonder did they fire the guy that chose the Penn Central's livery colors."

Anyway, here is a shot of how I painted the trim color, turquoise.



I'm still puzzled as to how what is pictured above will end up looking good when it is all said and done.

Coming up - the main building's walls... and the 80 windows soon thereafter.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[ReadingBob]

   I'm really looking forward this one.  That's a lot of windows.       That's a lot of turquoise windows!