South River Modelworks 370 - Tucker and Cook Cotton Yarn Mil

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

Let's get started on the mansard roof.

First I had to paint and glue the architectural ornamentation casting. It gets painted turquoise. Because it glues to the walls I added some cleats to the top of the walls to give more gluing surface area plus it helps line up the casting.



I test fitted the casting after the turquoise paint was dry and weathered.





I glued the casting to the walls using thick CA glue. And, I weighed down the casting with some real heavy weights to make sure the casting made contact all around the walls.



While the glue on the casting was setting I prepared the chipboard forms for the mansard roof. These chipboard forms are already laser cut for the modeler. That is a nice touch and it helps greatly to make sure the roof forms are the exact dimensions. All one needs to do is find the appropriate forms, cut off the tabs that hold them in the chipboard card and brace the forms with 1/8" square strip wood provided in the kit.



Once the casting was all glued in place and the mansard roof forms were ready, I CA glued the forms to the casting starting at one corner as directed in the instructions.



I worked my way around the perimeter of the building to finish out the mansard roof.



I have to admit I had some difficulty with the mansard roof. I studied the diagrams in the instructions as well as some photos that depict how it all goes. I was puzzled as to how it all went together. The only way I was able to make sense out of it was to dry fit the mansard roof like a jigsaw puzzle in order to match it to the photos in the instructions. I'm glad it all worked out in the end.

Coming up - the main roof.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[gnatshop]

Mansard Roof ??
Jaime is well on his way to earnin' his 'Apprentice Carpenter Certificate' !!!! 

[S&S RR]

Looks good Jaime.

[Mike Engler]

Sweet!

[jlgrove]

...I think you need a few more tie plates to weight it down while the glue is drying....


...great job on this one!!

[Jerry]

Very nice indeed!  Very nice!!

Jerry

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

It is sooooo nice to have the roof forms already laser cut in the roof cards. Other kits have the modeler do the cutting. I like saving time where possible.

I test fit the coping (?) on which the main roof will sit.



To ensure I had an even overhang all about the building and good contact with the mansard roof underneath I turned the building upside down and added some weight while the glued form dried. I used Titebond III glue for this task.



Once all that was done I proceeded to glue on the main roof forms.



As Lisa and some of you would say, it's starting to look like a building now.

Thanks for keeping up. I'm hoping someone else will join in the build. With Christmas fast approaching I won't have as much free time to spend on the build so it may get a tad boring here. As it stands this evening we have a Christmas party to go to and tomorrow afternoon we have a Christmas concert to go to. Modeling time will be a tad scarce for me until all the Christmas buzz is over.

Coming up - dormers.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

[S&S RR]

Howdy.

It is sooooo nice to have the roof forms already laser cut in the roof cards. Other kits have the modeler do the cutting. I like saving time where possible.

I test fit the coping (?) on which the main roof will sit.



To ensure I had an even overhang all about the building and good contact with the mansard roof underneath I turned the building upside down and added some weight while the glued form dried. I used Titebond III glue for this task.



Once all that was done I proceeded to glue on the main roof forms.



As Lisa and some of you would say, it's starting to look like a building now.

Thanks for keeping up. I'm hoping someone else will join in the build. With Christmas fast approaching I won't have as much free time to spend on the build so it may get a tad boring here. As it stands this evening we have a Christmas party to go to and tomorrow afternoon we have a Christmas concert to go to. Modeling time will be a tad scarce for me until all the Christmas buzz is over.

Coming up - dormers.

Jaime
www.myyehudaexperience.com

The build is looking great - and you are not kidding when you add some weight. We know your glue joints are sound.   And Bob uses the best/strongest materials for his kits. I love your build threads!!!!

[Mike Engler]

This is a great thread- I hope Bob VG is watching.


Why do you put glue on the back of your credit cards?

[NEMMRRC]

This is a great thread- I hope Bob VG is watching.


Why do you put glue on the back of your credit cards?

'Cause I dip a toothpick into a glue puddle on the plastic card in order to apply small amounts of glue where needed. The plastic cards don't soak up the glue so it takes a while for the glue to "kick" while on the card. When the card gets all gunked up with glue I have to clean nothing since I toss the card in the garbage bin. I must have 100 or so hotel key cards and/or used up gift cards waiting to be used as glue and paint palettes.


I did email Bob VanGelder earlier before I began building the kit. It seems a couple of castings did not make it into my kit's box so he mailed the missing castings to me. By the way, I got the missing castings before I knew they were missing. That's pretty nice of South River to provide that level of customer service.


Jaime

[MAP]

You're doing a great job on this build Jaime!  Thanks for all of the photo updates.  It will be very helpful when I start mine sometime next year.  Keep those updates coming!

[EricQuebec]

Very nicely done. Yhank you to take time to share your experience with us.
Eric QUébec city

[gnatshop]

This is a great thread- I hope Bob VG is watching.
Why do you put glue on the back of your credit cards? 

Lisa makes him do it so he can't use 'em to buy more kits!! 

[ACL1504]

I like it, Jaime, I like it!

Tom

[ReadingBob]

Great coverage of the build but dude......your workbench is way too neat and clean.