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Jerry
Took me a little nap today while the dirt was drying and woke up to see everything was pretty much looking good at this 'stage 2'.
A few things to fix looking back at the pics and a journey still ahead, so I decided to start with the work shed.
I'll go back and reply/answer any specifics later, and TomMich, I'm not ignoring your question from page one, I really will 'circle back' and give you that info.
So, the tar paper shed, I popped off the epoxied support wires for the crooked smoke stack from the roof and straightened that sucker out.
Next I added the flashing to the porch roof and fixed those marks on the wall above the window and to the right of it.
I started adding the next level of detail to the shed porch, a few more things to start filling out the spaces.
Now that the dirt was dry I also started weathering the dirt and adding some shadows and blending in some of the details that stood out.
Thanks for your keen eye and honesty Phil, you were right, fairly OK in person but they do stand out in pictures, and honestly, under these lights in person too. I put a few coats of dark A&I on the tarps today to darken them down, I'll probably try a few more coats and some chalk tomorrow. After that if we're still not happy I'll pull them off and just start over.
As always your comments are valued and appreciated, keep them coming.
There are 17 things that I fixed/added/changed.... can you spot the differences ?
Last night...
Tonight...
Thanks Alan.
Worked on another area a little this afternoon, I think it still needs 'something', but, I'm going to leave it alone and move on for now, hopefully an idea will hit me.
I like adding the shadows, (it is in my detail painting thread too), I just finished adding them around the pipe pile on the dirt, nicely adds some depth.
I painted and weathered some things for under the bench, here you go Tom...
Damn thats a close up shot... haha
Much better, thanks Tom.
(Wider shot is much better for my comfort zone....
I've darkened down the tarps ALOT with a&i following some great advice confirming my own niggling feeling, thanks Phil !! They are now looking alot better, they still look a little light in the pics under all these work lights, but in person much better, we'll see how they look in some outdoor shots and adjust some more if needed, thoughts?
Two things to ignore in these pics, the funky look going on with the porch decking, that's some strange lighting effect caused by my work lights. Also all the little white flecks, that's just grout dust as I'm working around, that will all get dusted off as I get closer to finishing the area.
There are 7 immediate things (which is all I see) that I should redo on this last close up pic of the bench, well, 8 if I'm honest with myself. Maybe I'll go back to it, but I doubt it, well, maybe after I finish everything else, that whole bench is under only 2" long, take my glasses off and it looks perfect.
I'm gonna go grab a snack, but, here's my project area for tonight...
The corrugated roofing.. did you post how you do that anywhere? I havent had much luck and need to figure that out pretty quick if i plan on ever making any industrial...
Practice:- When you're lucky enough to have painted thousands of Brett's incredible castings, they don't seem to take so long.
Planning:_ Work out the area with bare castings so you know what you need and exactly where they are going, take a pic or 5 so you know where to put them back later at the final stage.
Preparation:- Paint and pre-weather what you need so they are ready to be placed when you work on the scene.
Don't be afraid to go back to an area or detail if you're unsure about something and redo it if you need to, don't let that stop you starting.
(I need to redo the ground infront of the shelf unit, it should have been bare, dry dirt... no biggie)
If you have the O scale BlueSky kit my method is outlined in the manual for the tractor shed roof.
If you don't, SteveCuster also asked earlier in this thread, I replied that I'd post the process next time I do it.
Thanks for the initial input on those items Tom and Phil, extra eyes are always helpful, and gratefully received, good thoughts Alan, no space for a burn barrel on this one, some empty coronas may be appearing soon.
The most humbling thing about doing an upscale scratch build is realising that I'm just copying.
Remembering that Brett has already originally done this scratchbuild, but in HO...
This always hits home when I get to a tricky item and think, "How the hell can I do/replicate that ?". Then I remember that Brett has already done it, half the size !!! Also he designed it in a way that makes it posible for hundreds of modelers to buy the kit and also do it, just as well.
Sharing my thoughts as I hit a tricky spot, and a quick nod of appreciation and admiration to "the big guy".
I took last night off from this, working on something else, back to it tonight and hit a wall, hence my thoughts, up dates later.
"Git 'er dun"
The starting point tonight, and actually right now.
A quick, different view of the scrap yard, from the front of the dio
Template for the concrete area.
Template transfered to stiffer card and curb stone added
Planning out the details, some left over from other areas, some scratched, and some new.
I'm not happy with the sidewalk right now, time for some adjustments...