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Jerry
Jerry
Have been working on the walls for the main structure. Absolutely love the amount of "wall work" that is entailed in the main building. Such a nice design. The bottom wall sections are all built over strip wood framing, which I illustrated earlier. The second floor walls are strip wood siding over cardboard templates. The upper and lower walls are built separately and then glued together, save for the front which the upper level is beautifully cantilevered over the lower wall section. To top it off, when the main building walls are put together, there is a Tool Shop addition, rear shed, stairway, and roof yet to be added! Modelers dream.
As you know, I am doing the "paint peel" with crackle paint. I have done this method, to a limited extent, in a few of my other builds but nothing of this magnitude. I was a bit apprehensive based on the shear amount of wall "square footage"! I decided the way to do it was to remove a good bit of the paint, as experimental pieces with a large amount of the paint left on did not look good at all! (illustrated in the following pics...Lol) This of course fit well with my style of Grunge and afforded lots of detailing opportunities.
Below is a picture of the upper wall sections with the coat of crackle paint applied
Upper walls with the crackle paint applied...YUCK! Easy to imagine the look with only a small amount of paint removed.
Below are the walls with the upper and lower sections glued together and the paint removed to my taste.
If I were to do it again, I would detail the walls without applying the paint until the upper and lower walls were married together, then apply the paint. I'm not totally happy with the transition of the upper and lower walls. The most obvious is the right side of the top picture which is the left wall. Fortunately this area will not show as the stairway construction will hide that seam. This would have been a "no issue" had I painted them as one unit. Not a big deal once things are done and detailed...just a good "note to self" for the future. Note: Purists may notice some subtile changes in the walls above...more on that later.
I'm now working on the wonderful windows included in the kit. Despite this kit being almost 25 years old, the window design is still just beautiful. The filigree of the framing and in particular the mullions is wonderful.
Original window...note the short width grain.
Same window after detailing with some long width grain and dry brushing after. Perfect example of how versatile and detail ready these windows are!
Reminder of the size of these guys in 1:87...least we forget! Lol.
Just had to say that!!
Jerry
Jerry
Yup, can't easily go back! Thanks Jerry.