It’s been quite a long while since I did a build thread. Looking at all the fantastic thread on Brett’s forum has inspired me to start modeling again. I thought I’d take a shot at the railroad camp because it’s going to sit across from my Truck repair on the same Styrofoam base.
I’ve never tried modeling a masonry building and after looking at the fantastic resin casting, I thought I’d start there.
After minimal cleaning up to make sure I had a good fit, I epoxied the 4 wall together and then filled the gaps with a lightweight spackle.
I then primed the entire casting with the Kilz primer.
After that dried, I mixed up 5 colors of thinned paint and started painting the stones. To my chagrin, I think I thinned the paint a bit too much because it took quite a few coats to start seeing the colors.
I really liked how it turned out and then I took a picture. Yikes. To be honest it looks a lot better in person, the camera really washed out the color.
I started to add more coats and it’s gotten better but I’m still not satisfied how it looks to the camera.
I’m going to set this aside for a bit and concentrate on the upstairs office building.
I grained and stained the siding according the Galant method that we all know so well.
I decided to veer from the manual and give the office building a little color. I chose the blue that you see here because that’s what I had on hand.
I used Brett’s “damp brushing” technique, that I learned while doing my O’Neills project, to prepare the siding.
I also wanted the corner boards and the window trim to be a “vintage white” accent color because again, I had it on hand. Once again I used the damp brushing technique to get a peeling paint look.
When the siding dried, applied the corner boards along the scribed line, and then I started applying the siding paying attention to make sure the siding butted up to each other where the studs would be as scribed into the milled clapboard siding.
The windows are laser cut and they are “stained” with the same chalk/alcohol technique I used on the siding. I was very impressed at how well they stained. I then used a foam “q-tip” type applicator to “dry brush” the windows. I dip the applicator in paint, wring it out and then rolled it over the windows while still in the sheet.
Once dried, I started adding the window trim and the windows.
Here’s where I’ve left off.
Thanks for looking, more later.
