Large Scale Central

2011 challenge - THE GREENBUCK HOTEL

Modeling
#38

i really doubt that i’ll get done in time. between sorting, cutting and sanding coffeestirrers plus cutting and placing the pieces of fishing line, the walls take much time. anybody got a better idea, how to raise one side of the boards?

edit: i blame McDonalds! their quality control is shitty at best! about every fourth stirrer isn’t straight! (well, somebody has to be blamed. why not them?)

#39

if i were a carpenter…

#40

You mean a G scale-sized carpenter?

What technique are you using to make windows? I need to make about 30 of them for the gold/silver mill.

#41

Dough, i just cut some plastic stripes and glue them upon plexy. measuring the first one of each size, then laying a made one under the plexy for the next. the frames are plastic stripes too. when the wall is painted, i will glue on some counterframes or blends to hide the gaps between windows and walls. the worst part is to cut the plastic stripes all to the same width.

#42

one wall ready for painting at last. i put it against another building for an eyeball test:

#43

i declare myself defeated.

if i discount time for work and sleep, i’m left with about six or seven hours till the deadline.
but if i build the model like i want, i will need more than 40 hours to finish.

so i accept defeat in front of this challenge and finish my model after i finish my temporal job.

Bill’s first Mik entry 2024
#44

Korm thats is looking great.

#45

I don’t set my coffee cup on my desk. Sometimes I can’t locate the thing.
So I’m with Jon I wont post a pic of my desk either.

#46

the deadline well in the past finally i find a little time to go on with my hotel. i got a question. from the pic below - which color would you think adequate for a cattletown hotel in the 1800s?

#47

Honestly Korm,
I can’t see a difference between 1 & 2, or between 3 & 4.
But I like 6 or 8.
Ralph

#48

the difference is, that one and three let the color below them shine through. see the diagonal stripes.

1 and 2 are toothpaste. (2 was applied twice)
3 and 4 are crackfiller (4 as double application)
6 is two drops of black ink (stamp-pad refiller) with a squirt of alcohol.
8 is just one drop with a squirt.

all were pinselled on with a stiff brush.

#49

I have to agree with Ralph.
6 or 8

#50

I’ll go with the 6 or 8 but has anyone looked at a late 1800s color chart? I know I’m counting rivets but…

#51

I like 10 or 11. It has a more natural look to it.

#52
Geoff George said:
I have to agree with Ralph. 6 or 8
Me too. Ink/Alcohol will be my next color experiment. It's way simple and looks good too.
#53

10 is polish repair liquid for furnitures. (just one application)
11 is the same, with a wash of the ink-alcohol mix over it.

so you all seem to be in favour of going for a look of aged untreated wood.

edit: Doug, where do i find that colors?

#54

Korm,

I think that a hotel in the 1880s would have fairly new paint, not unprotected, weathered wood.

Take a look at this photo from the 1880s. It is well painted.

#55
Steve Featherkile said:
Korm,

I think that a hotel in the 1880s would have fairly new paint, not unprotected, weathered wood.

Take a look at this photo from the 1880s. It is well painted.


I tend to agree…
However your building your RR Korm
:wink:

#56

Ya,
But that’s a resort in Hot Springs.
Hotel in a mining or logging town might not be so pretty.
Ralph

#57

Still think in 1880 it would have been painted when built to protect the wood.