minutes, most of which was cleanup. I learned the hard way (as always) to clean the airbrush thoroughly immediately af- ter use. While the paint was drying, I cut out squares of clear styrene for window glazing. There were eight pieces, so it took only a couple of minutes. The paint was still too tacky to handle the mod- el, so I hand-painted the stovepipe and rusted it up while I waited. I dry-brushed the windows and doors a lighter gray to give them a little contrast. I then dusted some brown, black, and gray chalk on the whole shebang. I ended up dusting in a bit of mineral red to warm things up just a tad (whatever that is). Notice that I have not yet added the window and door castings, instead concentrating on the final weathering process. I wanted the glazing on the windows to be unmolested by the weathering process. The weather- ing took 18 minutes. Actually ACCing in the windows and one lonely door took only five minutes since I cut the holes to the right size. Buildings like this were built on some
pretty stout timbers, so I chose scale 8x8 lumber for this task. Dice up four appro- priately sized strips of 1/8 square, and “grain” it up with that Zona saw blade dragged across only the show surface. We want the other surfaces smooth to glue to the building and sit down flat on the layout. I used ACC here to attach the dissimilar materials together. The foun- dation took nine minutes start to finish. The India ink/alcohol weathering was a one-minute dip job. I “dry” the sticks on my pant-leg. My modeling clothes vague- ly resemble bad modern art. All that remained was the window
glazing, which, for seven windows and a door, took only another seven min- utes because the window material was already cut to size. Wow! I was done. By stopwatch, it was 236 minutes (just under four hours). The reason for the stopwatch was the photography, which added another hour to the project. Most folks don’t have to stop and fumble around with several pounds of camera equipment while they are building a model. That was kind of fun. I think I will do
another building next month. No darn stopwatch and it will, for sure, be more than a four-hour job. I’d better start now!
Dust on several complementary colors of chalk, and scrub them into the paint sur- face. Check your work under layout light- ing conditions to avoid nasty surprises.
It may seem a bit awkward (because it is) to add the glazing after the model is assembled, painted, and weathered, but it keeps the “glass” pristine.
Notch the lower bracing to allow the door molding to sit down flush to the outer wall. I seem to forget to do this and end up fussing with it after the walls are together. It is much easier with those walls flat on the bench.
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