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(I remember you also missed that step on your build).
That is the way the template was designed and tried out several times to ensure a great and easy fit, every time.
If you don't follow the template and instructions correctly, yes you will run into issues.
Either way, you both got your roofs looking good in the end despite your minor missteps.
Looking good Kevin and a great colour on those shingles.
Only ones I notice that don't come in the kit are the gas can sitting on the black/red 55drum next to the pallet on the outside corner and maybe the burn barrel with a hole in it and the crushed drum next to it?
Did you hide a few more jewels that I missed?
terry
Just send my 1k prize money to Brett and I'll let him know what I want... haha
Looks great, they fit in perfectly with everything else and it took me a while to spot them.
Keep on with the updates !
i knew i'd need to be dilated so i asked a buddy if he could take me, and he said yeah but i'd have to go with him to his eye doctor appointment in the morning, and then we could go to mine in the afternoon. ah getting older.....
back in the instructions of o'neill's i think, brett tell us how to make two imprtant washes. an oil wash and a grime wash. i ran out of both batches, so today i figured i would try to duplicate them with acrylic craft paints instead of the way more expensive reaper paints.
first the original recipes:
OIL WASH
50/50 adamantium black
ruddy brown
(i don't remember what brett thinned it with but i used window washer fluid
GRIME WASH
ruddy brown
roof brown
rubbing alcohol
acrylic substitures
OIL WASH
50/50
chocolate brown
lamp black
washer fluid
GRIME WASH
chocolate brown
asphaltum
alcohol
the jury is still out cuz i need to keep thinning it until it has the right properties, but colors are pretty much right on the money. i'll see what it looks like in the mornng. it'll be worth a trip to michaels if it works. the original versions looked really nice. hopefully these will too.
i haven't powdered anything yet, bit this is pretty much finished detail-wise.
thanks all on the stone work comments. i had a lot of tan based paints, and i might've used em all!
Jerry
The details all flow well even though, as you say, they arent chalk blended yet which will only improve it more.
Don't sweat the bottle tops, we all miss something, just lean in there carefully with a silver brush and touch them up, no big deal.
The scene is coming together so well so far.