Ray
Did you find a paying job yet?
I don’t understand some of the west coast materials you are mimicking. Is the base wall stone color a real stone color out there. If so what kind of stone is it. That tiger colored stone is beautiful!
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Rooster, I’m trying to make it look like some sandstone I’ve seen in parts of Utah and southeastern Nevada. Kind of has reddish, orange, and white bands running through it. Once I finish painting them all, I want to see how it looks, and may decide to make adjustments to the colors, or tone down the bands, etc.
I like it as it is. I have seen that strata sandstone before. I mean, in real life.
OK …they call it Schnebly Hill Sandstone from what I found . (ya’ see I learned something)
Looks great and I like it the way it is also.
Here’s a photo that will give you some idea of the kind of stone I’m trying to depict:
That looks photo shopped!
Sean McGillicuddy said:
That looks photo shopped!
I have a brick fire[lace that divides our living room from our kitchen and on the kitchen side I have a slab of this sandstone hanging on the back brick wall of the fireplace. I bought it in Arizona over forty-five years ago. Gorgeous stuff!
This particular piece is 10 X 20 inches and about 5/8 inch thick. All the colors are natural. It’s called Kanab Sandstone, named after an area in Utah where it is found.
Ha! Fascinating. I could never paint something like that and get a sale…in art, we have a technical term known as the “What the f IS that?” factor.
Ray’s photo of the Kanab sandstone is from a fairly famous area of Zion NP ( about 4 hrs drive from me). That picture is a little over saturated, but after a rain the colors intensify, and it really does look like that.
when i saw the modell with the painted stones, i thought: what the … is Ray doing? that does not look real.
but after seeing the pic of that wash out, i must say, yes, as always, he captured reality.
I finished painting the stones, but still have to add the weathering, so no new pics of that yet. In the meantime I did some work on some detail stuff.
A few years ago fellow modeler Bob Santos gave me a few of his custom made, cast resin detail parts. I’ve been saving them for the right spot, and this depot is the perfect place for a couple of them. One is a pay phone. I was going to just hang it on the wall in the covered waiting area of the depot, but then decided an old-fashioned, wooden phone booth would be pretty neat.
I built up the walls from various sizes of styrene strips. The panels are scribed siding:
A 3mm warm-white LED was perfect for the small, domed light inside the booth. The top of the booth is held in place with tiny stainless steel screws, #0 x 3/16":
Here’s how it looks so far. I still have to put glass in the windows and add some signs:
I had a lot of interruptions while I was painting the phone, and kind of messed it up, but it’ll do:
Now there are a couple decisions I have to make. First, should I put doors on it, and if so, should they be open or closed? Open would show the interior better, but closed be easier and would also solve my second problem, namely, how to attach it to the floor? I could just glue it but I try to avoid that, in case it ever needs maintenance or repair. I’d prefer to run a screw up through the floor, but to do that I’d have to glue a block into the interior of the booth for the screw to go into. That would only work if the door is closed so you couldn’t see it.
What are your thoughts?
Personally, I’d keep it closed, if for no other reason than to keep the wee critters and bugs from making a home in it. (which is a big problem around here. Just ask Ric…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif))
I do not know about the old wooden phone booths, but in the more modern aluminum ones, the overhead light came on when the bi-fold door was closed, and went off when the door was opened. So, for the light to be on, the door has to be closed. Problem solved. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I love the phone booth. I would keep the door closed. You have plenty of window to still see inside. Your missing one thing on the wall. Roosters phone number.
Cluck 812?
Doors GONE! Ripped off many years ago… Screw it down and cover the screw with the well tattered phone book laying on the floor…
Or a well inebriated wineo.
Another great build Ray, maybe have the door partly open.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Well, the light would probably come on when the door closes and that would mean someone would have to be in there using the phone or… changing in to his Superman costume!!!
Look… up in the sky… it’s a bird… it’s a plane… NO… it’s SUPERMAN!!!
-Kevin.
I thought it was Underdog.
