South River Modelworks 370 - Tucker and Cook Cotton Yarn Mil

[Janbouli]

Alan , Jaime like myself links to the photo's from his own site , you can also link from any photo site or any photo at all actually.


One of jaimes pictires is here http://www.myyehudaexperience.com/images/modelers/SRM_370_IMG_7286.JPG


Right click on the photo , click on Copy image Location , then I click on the Mona Lisa button , to the left above the smileys, then right click and paste , click okay. Et voila.

[NEMMRRC]

Hey Jamie,

   Thanks for sharing all the big pictures. How do you get them to show at the larger size? When I attach photos to my posts, they are small and require the reader to click on them to enlarge the image.

Thanks again!
Alan

Hi Alan,

I first upload the photos to my website, then I link to the photos from inside the post using the [ IMG ] [ /IMG ] tags (Mona Lisa icon when editing your post) like this:
[ img ]http : //www. myyehudaexperience .com/images/modeleres/SRM_370_IMG_7286.JPG[ /img ]

I've placed some white spaces so the forum software doesn't register the IMG command. If you take out all the white space in the italicized text above you get this:



Later.


Jaime

[oldbloodhound]

Very nice Jaime.   I'm not a fan of installing windows so that is a good job on your part.   And the shingles look good too.

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

The dormer roofs were a breeze.

Once again all the needed parts are found in one of the laser-cut chipboard cards. I like that.



I glued all the dormer roofs in place using the Titebond III glue.



I got to tell you, this craftsman kit gig gets easier and easier the more of these cool kits one builds.

Coming up - shingling the main roof.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

I won't go into all the detail about shingling the main roof since some of it overlaps the mansard roof shingling. There is however one clever tidbit about shingling the main roof. The main roof is shingled with random shaded shingles.

Here is what is needed:



- a template for laying out the shingles (provided in the kit)
- laser cut shingles
- 30% and 50% cool gray Prismacolor markers.
- not pictured is the 3M double-sided transfer tape

Here are the Prismacolor markers. Do no cheap out on this. Get the real markers.



Using the 30% grey marker one randomly colors about 40% of the shingles. One then colors randomly about 20% of the shingles with the 50% grey marker.



Once the shingle strips are cut out and mixed up they will provide a random effect once glued to the main roof.





By the way, all of this takes time. But, it is not difficult at all.

Coming up - finishing the main roof.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[ACL1504]

Looking good Jaime, well done on the shingles.

Tom

[cuse]

Masterful job on this kit, Jaime! Well done.


John

[ReadingBob]

Looks great.  It's all coming together very nicely!   

[Oldguy]

OMG!  Very well done.  But then, we would expect nothing less.

Waiting to see how you handle the ridges.

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

I appreciate everyone's comments. I hope some with the kit are building it already and will share their build (hint).

Finishing up the main roof here.

The large dormer gets a tad different approach.

First take a look at the shingling template for the hip roofs and the large dormer (from left to right below).



The large dormer's roof is cut out of the roof for its hip roof. Keep that in mind...

First one is to make a valley around the large dormer. The instructions direct the modeler to use masking tape for this and then paint it grey.



I did not take a photo of the valley painted grey so please use your imagination.

Here is the shingle section for the large dormer and its hip roof.



The shingle section for the other hip roof looks just the same.

Here is the back of the large dormer roof shingle section. Note how I had already cut out the dormer roof. I did that prior to putting on the 3M transfer tape. This way the dormer roof was already "cut out" without it being cut out. All I had to do was turn over the shingled section and sliced through the prior cut.



Voila!



And here I am test fitting the whole shebang.



I need to report that even though the whole shingling bit was time consuming it was easy and no trouble at all. Altogether I estimate I spent about 30 hours on shingling the mansard roof and the main roof combined.

Coming up - dormer windows.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[S&S RR]

Jaime


Enjoying the build - looks great - I hope Santa brings you lots of red and yellow boxes.  Merry Christmas to you and Lisa!

[bparrish]

Jaime.........

Did you do a PHD program in geometry to get to this ? ? ? ?

Thanx
Bob

[NEMMRRC]

Jaime.........

Did you do a PHD program in geometry to get to this ? ? ? ?

Thanx
Bob

SRM has done all the math for you already.

Jaime

[bparrish]

Jaime ....

You're deflating me ! ! ! !  Here I thought you were some sort of hero or something.

It really is a cool building none the less..

thanx
Bob

[NEMMRRC]

Jaime ....

You're deflating me ! ! ! !  Here I thought you were some sort of hero or something.

It really is a cool building none the less..

thanx
Bob

:-)

I'm afraid they don't make super hero suits in my size.

Jaime