Sanded the edges flat to remove the “draft” from the mold and allow the edges to set up square against the sides. This is explained in the instructions. Used jigs and clamps to hold the corners square while the plastic welder set. Helped some, but the entire building came out sort of catty cornered (parallogram instead of rectangular)
I installed a floor with the idea of making the building look better, you can look in the upstairs windows and see a floor instead of a yawning pit into the basement. Floor had the addition benefit of forcing the building square.
This is the bottom view. There are 1/8" styrene strips glued to the walls to give the floor something to sit on. The floor is made out of a styrene For Sale sign, otherwise known as 0.060 styrene. I cut the floor as close as possible to size and forced ii into place, and under protest the building straightened out and became square. Also much more rugged.
Very nice indeed. What did you do about mortar lines in the brick? I was going to rub some powdered chalk over the red auto primer I use for brick color. No Dullcote, 'cause Dullcote marries with the chalk and makes it invisible.
What did you paint the lintels and door frames with? I was going to use PollyS “Concrete”.
And how did you make the signs in the windows? Especially the “Fresh Fish Dinner” sign.
Mine became the “House of Haggis” Scottish restaurant.
Katie’s School of Dance and Max’s School of Rock, named after a couple of my daughter’s classmates, are upstairs. The sign is a copy of my own family crest.
This bldg was done eight years ago and memory kind of fades about paint but if I do remember right it was “Polly Scale Roof Brown”. It was not sprayed but hand painted before gluing walls together, after washing walls in a pan with dish detergent and warm water and letting dry for 24 hours or so the Polly Scale lies pretty flat on the brick. 24 hours later I then sprayed the four walls with a can of “Testors Dullcote”. I did not bother painting the stock color lintels or door frames as the dullcote did it’s job.
I always paint my building walls flat on the table before assembling, much easier.
All the signs were applied to the outside of the clear plastic windows using “Dry Transfers” from “Woodland Scenics”. The “Granny’s Cafe” sign was also a “WS Dry Transfer” put on a .010 piece of styrene.
Roof is made of 150 Grit Emory cloth. We have a vent stack and a roof access hatch on the roof. We have a sign over the door, and a base/concrete sidewalk made from a For Sale sign from Walmarts, a fine source of 0.060" styrene. The wires are for the building lights. She is just sitting on the layout, I haven’t decided upon my village street plan yet.
By the Way, anyone have suggestions for making small town streets, asphalt, single white stripe down the middle?
Front view. The people are from an unpainted set of passengers I got from MicroMark. The EAT sign is a dry transfer, done letter by letter, and only sorta OK. I was unable to find any decals for window lettering.
And the side view. The sidewalk is painted in PollyS “Concrete”.
