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Acme Pawn & Eastside Mower Repair Shop Craig's 2023 MIK

The MIK - Annual Build Challenge
#41

One of the things I told myself at the beginning of this project was to use up scraps and try not to make more scraps…

That scrap pile of battens from last year was just enough to complete the short board and batten wall on the trackside.

I’ve got 3 more higher walls to cover this way so I’ll have to cut more strips. But right now the saw is setup for the wider shiplap strips. And I’m slowly remembering how I cut the strips last year. One of the keys to cutting the strips was making sure I “melted” the cut into the wood push stick.

If you’ve ever cut styrene with a power tool, you’ll know that you get those melted chunks. When cutting strips on the mini saw, those same melted pieces grab onto the wood and give a tad more grab while running it through. When the piece is cut all the way, the strip remains “stuck” to the push block. Then pop it off and clean the burrs. I have a deburring tool that works great. Don’t ask me what it is because I have no idea. But my great uncle who did plastic forming gave it to me for deburring plastic.

Edit: called a plastic edge scrapper. $15-20 depends on retailer.
According to Amazon has 4 functions… huh…

#42

An unexpected evening of workbench time was productive.

Got a short wall finished with shiplap, started covering the office bump out side, and even started building the window and door frames of the front wall.

I’m about halfway done with the shiplap siding in terms of wall completion. Still need to cut more but I have to start thinking about the interior. The tax assessor files says the exterior and interior are shiplap. With those big picture windows and doors with windows, the interior is definitely needed. The question becomes do I repeat the styrene shiplap on the inside or go the lazy route. Either just paint it and forget it, or try a photo texture (that will probably fade with the UV over time).

#43

Lazy route definitely, that’s what I plan for my Butcher Shop and I don’t want to be the only lazy one in the group:smiley:

#44

interior shiplap usually from what I have seen is just a slight gap between the edges, scribing it should be good enough for interior. More scribing for you!!

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#45

I think I’ll go lazy with paint

#46

Well major accomplishment on this building. I got all of the shiplap siding cut and glued.

Today’s goal is to get the remaining 48 or so strips of the board and batten cut and glued. Then the major wall framing is done, and I can start to glue it up.

This seems a tad bit to easy right about now and I feel like I’m making fast pace compared to last year, but then again this is 1 of 2 buildings. :thinking:

And no I’m not planning on doing the interior as part of the 30 day challenge. If I can get the shells of both buildings done, I’ll be happy.

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#47

Looking around at in the garage, I remember I had a tub of concrete patch stuff. Gave me an idea for a flat roof coating and/or a asphalt road.

I slapped a light layer on some scrap to see if it would even stick.

Then after it dried gave it a layer of black craft paint. I think it might work for a flat roof coating. Has a slightly smaller texture than the anti skid tape I used for shingles. The anti skid stuff has a little bigger texture than I wanted.
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​​​​​​​Now I’m wondering if I cut a cross profile of a roof, if I could skim coat this stuff in the shape of roof layers.

#48

That cement with paint looks like a tarred roof. Clever.

#49

Cutting and gluing all those strips, and you called me crazy :laughing:

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#50

Well let’s see Rick once I get going on my brick building. Then I’ll know I’m officially crazy.

Cutting the strips was only slightly painful. I really, really should buy a small knife cutter… He said a this after he just spent the same amount of money as a knife cutter on other hobby stuff like Kadee couplers… :thinking: oh why did I wait so long to convert to Kadee?

#51

Craig, the photos of the siding look great. . . except it serves as a reminder that I had better get to work cutting some strips for my lap siding.

#52

If I was modeling in a larger scale like 1:24 or 1.20.3 I’d probably just cut a groove with the table saw on some PVC. Too bad we can’t get sheets of PVC cheap like the east coast folks.

#53

And here I always envied you guys because you had TAP Plastics & Russ Miller!

#54

Bruce,
Funny thing is TAP Plastics is way more expensive than the plastic warehouse place! But the warehouse place won’t do anything under 2x4. :wink:

The plastic supplier does have PVC sheets available but its just not the convenient as its a hour drive away.

I asked once about PVC at the local big box store. Yah it was expensive! It was all special order and then on top of that it was extra pallet space shipping cost. I think the total was close to 1k for 2 sheets of 4x8.

#55

Great work Craig, as usual! Very methodical, and I can relate to all the materials questions and experiments… and also the price of plastic sheet.

I found it helpful to go to a couple of plastics warehouses, and see what they had. Some materials are relatively inexpensive, others out the roof.

On my first encounter, one place had a bunch of colored acrylic they couldn’t get rid of, and sold it to me very cheap. In another instance, another place had a pallet of 4x8 sheets of .03 styrene for $15 apiece, so I bought a couple.

In other words, it’s hard to know what you might encounter in the way of bargains with these kinds of places.

2 cents,
Cliff

#56

For sure Cliff,
This last load of styrene I got for a decent price. I asked about REM board. The plastic salesman said, I can get it for you, but it’s not cheap. He said in 20+ years I’ve only sold a handful of sheets. I got a free 1" SQ sample in the mail and this stuff is amazing but not 2k per sheet amazing. I need to go dumpster diving in southern California at the modeling shops like ILM. :joy:

https://www.freemansupply.com/products/machinable-media/renshape-modeling-and-styling-boards/renshape-460-medium-high-density-modeling-board

#57

Round 1 Slide glass vs Craig. Slide has the win.

Vegas odds against Craig are increasing for round 2…

And now we enter round 3… HE GOES FOR THE DOUBLE SNAP…

And the victory goes to the expected reigning champion.

Maybe Craig can pull out a victory with the help of a diamond grind.

#58

@ctown2 I have to ask, because I can’t tell from the pictures, are you scoring both sides of the glass? The ball end of this glass cutting tool is the key. You lightly tap it along the the score line, then turn the tool and grab the glass in the notch and snap it off.

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I received my scale rule, thanks again for the lead!

#59

Actually I’m using a tungsten scribe. I have that wheel, but I never seem to have the same success. I’ll keeping trying.

#60

That scribing wheel is key… yes, and the ball-tap. I can’t see a regular scribe point working…

They’re super cheap, and easily available at hardware stores or Amazon.