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The Main Street Warehouse #206 - in O scale. Karl.A
Putting the finishing touches and final few things onto my Main Street hotel build
http://www.craftsmankituniversity.com/vanforum/index.php?p=/discussion/1265/the-main-street-hotel-206-in-o-scale-karl-a/p1
and yes, I'm looking at my shelves again thinking about the next project to work on.
Hopefully finished pictures of the hotel sometime later tonight.
Here's some pic's of Brett's incredible HO kit of the Main Street warehouse, once again I'll be trying to replicate this as closely as possible, but in O scale.
After all, the only way to make Brett's kits any better, is to make them bigger...
http://www.craftsmankituniversity.com/vanforum/index.php?p=/discussion/1265/the-main-street-hotel-206-in-o-scale-karl-a/p1
and yes, I'm looking at my shelves again thinking about the next project to work on.
Hopefully finished pictures of the hotel sometime later tonight.
Here's some pic's of Brett's incredible HO kit of the Main Street warehouse, once again I'll be trying to replicate this as closely as possible, but in O scale.
After all, the only way to make Brett's kits any better, is to make them bigger...
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I like the roof texture, I guess I'll stick a vent pipe or something where that white spot is on the roof that wont come off, no biggie.
If I remember correctly I sat out on the deck with some 'refreshments', the block of plaster, a dull exacto and a straight edge, just enjoying the sunshine while I worked.
Not enough demand to make it worthwhile Art, also not enough good/interesting/viable designs of structures to make it interesting enough to hold my attention.
Made some progress on this build this afternoon though...
One thing that made me shelve this project way back was that I wanted the porch lit and couldnt figure it out, so, I got that out of the way first today with just some basic lights to illuminate the 'wrap around' porch. Also tidied up the tar paper edges.
After that I completed the full rafters for the porch roof.
I sanded the doors to fit correctly, touched up the bare wood and installed them.
Next I fixed the door and windows on the office area and glued that on to the structure.
After that I rebuilt the porch posts and framing, not glued, just placed.
I'm going to detail the porch/loading dock before I glue the posts/roof on.
Dont forget alot of this was built a while ago, I'm just going back over things, fixing things, finishing things, putting things back together, and then assembling.
Although I'm just about at the point now where I'm actually going to have to start modeling and building things and doing some real work...
I'd be interest to see some pics though, and some smaller aesthetic structures.
and of course your progress/results when you get there.
working on some details to go on the loading dock and glue some dock legs back on...
Test fit...
Some details.
Now, I know, I haven't done a great job on the details but I still hesitated to cover them up. I guess it was a point of no return...
(everything's fixable)
So, I glued the porch posts and framing in place and just sat and looked at it like this for the last two hours or so while watching the news/TV.
Time to stick that sucker down... I guess...