timbowales
Western Thunderer
Ordered, paid for and despatched!
It's now down to Royal Snail
It's now down to Royal Snail
daifly
Western Thunderer
Kensorry Chris , just carried on from my comment on your build
If you "Report" your own post and ask nicely, one of the Mods will move it to where it should be. Don't forget to tell them where that is!
Dave
mickoo
Western Thunderer
One could also delete one's erroneous post and write a new one in the right place
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
The continuing saga if the SR Provender Store erm, continues...
I've deviated from the intended build a reasonable amount on the roof...
First, I've made it a separate module, which has definitely been a benefit to the way I work on and paint buildings.
Second, I've introduced a slight lap effect on the horizontal rows of cladding material by putting a spacer underneath the lower edges.
Third, I've introduced an extra eaves edging detail made from paper overlays. These have been soaked in superglue to stiffen them up. These were stuck on top of the original MDF eaves pieces. Looking at photos they seemed to be a scale 6' long for this size of store.
Fourth, I removed the original MDF cap to the ridge ends and replaced them with a plasticard circle that sits proud of the eaves. And whilst I was at it, I added some joints to the ridge line from plasticard loops.
Fifth, I've trimmed back the lower edges of the corrugated roofing by about 3mm. To my eyes it went a little too much beyond the wall. There's another reason for this amendment, but that's a later post...
Anyway, this is what the roof currently looks like.
And on the building.
I've deviated from the intended build a reasonable amount on the roof...
First, I've made it a separate module, which has definitely been a benefit to the way I work on and paint buildings.
Second, I've introduced a slight lap effect on the horizontal rows of cladding material by putting a spacer underneath the lower edges.
Third, I've introduced an extra eaves edging detail made from paper overlays. These have been soaked in superglue to stiffen them up. These were stuck on top of the original MDF eaves pieces. Looking at photos they seemed to be a scale 6' long for this size of store.
Fourth, I removed the original MDF cap to the ridge ends and replaced them with a plasticard circle that sits proud of the eaves. And whilst I was at it, I added some joints to the ridge line from plasticard loops.
Fifth, I've trimmed back the lower edges of the corrugated roofing by about 3mm. To my eyes it went a little too much beyond the wall. There's another reason for this amendment, but that's a later post...
Anyway, this is what the roof currently looks like.
And on the building.
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Another, very minor amendment I've made is to cut some narrow strips from the same thing MDF board that the eaves boards came from. These have been stuck onto the horizontal beam that runs along each end to make it slightly proud of the vertical columns.
The tip of the pencil is touching the the widened beam.
This adjustment does however mean the the MDF eaves boards supplied with the kit need cutting back to just touch the top of the beam. I was happy doing this as the area would be covered by the new paper eaves capping pieces.
This is a snippet of the photo in Southern Nouveau that I've been working from.
The tip of the pencil is touching the the widened beam.
This adjustment does however mean the the MDF eaves boards supplied with the kit need cutting back to just touch the top of the beam. I was happy doing this as the area would be covered by the new paper eaves capping pieces.
This is a snippet of the photo in Southern Nouveau that I've been working from.
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Turning back to the 3 little huts, all have been primed in grey and have had an initial coat of off-white over the top to start off the concrete painting.
The GWR hut has door and window temporarily fitted for the photos.
I couldn't decide if the roof should be concrete or if it had some sort of roof felt placed over the top. In the end I decided that the SR staff at Pencarrow decided to slap on some roof felt, as well as apply a lovely shade of green to the door and window.
The SR hut is also coming on too. There's a slight cut in still in the underside lip where I bodge filled the missing piece gap. That will get sorted out.
The SR tool shed is most progressed in painting.
The GWR hut has door and window temporarily fitted for the photos.
I couldn't decide if the roof should be concrete or if it had some sort of roof felt placed over the top. In the end I decided that the SR staff at Pencarrow decided to slap on some roof felt, as well as apply a lovely shade of green to the door and window.
The SR hut is also coming on too. There's a slight cut in still in the underside lip where I bodge filled the missing piece gap. That will get sorted out.
The SR tool shed is most progressed in painting.
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
The Halfords grey primed roof of the SR Provender Store has now been lightly over painted with Vallejo grey primer 70.601. This was applied neat but quickly brushed out so that it was quite a patchy finish. It's supposed to be grey but is closer to white in practice.
This was they followed by a diluted wash of Lifecolor Green Stone 1706. Strong enough to leave some colour behind but thin enough to flow. The combination of the two gives a patchy, mottled effect. I'm going to leave it for now, but will be applying further subtle paint splatter in the future.
I like how the ridge ribbing and eaves edging extras have come out.
This was they followed by a diluted wash of Lifecolor Green Stone 1706. Strong enough to leave some colour behind but thin enough to flow. The combination of the two gives a patchy, mottled effect. I'm going to leave it for now, but will be applying further subtle paint splatter in the future.
I like how the ridge ribbing and eaves edging extras have come out.
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
I'm calling this one done for now.
Further location specific dirt will be added as and when it ends up on the layout. I know the concrete should really be whiter but, having tried that, I decided it just looked wrong.
Nice little kit. Straightforward to build and finish. The only deviation I made was to add paper overlays to the roof.
Further location specific dirt will be added as and when it ends up on the layout. I know the concrete should really be whiter but, having tried that, I decided it just looked wrong.
Nice little kit. Straightforward to build and finish. The only deviation I made was to add paper overlays to the roof.
Compton castle
Western Thunderer
Very nice, they are great kits
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Yes, they all come together very nicely and look the part. You certainly get the finished product significantly earlier than a scratchbuild. I've not worked with MDF much in the past for buildings and it's different in many respects to working in plasticard. For the time starved modeller, or one who has little interest in buildings, these kits are a big help.
timbowales
Western Thunderer
Well, my 4mm GWR concrete hut has arrived!
As requested by @BrushType4 I will detail my build over on my new thread Cwm Gwendraeth Bach.
As requested by @BrushType4 I will detail my build over on my new thread Cwm Gwendraeth Bach.
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