After working on the O scale Aladdin store it's good to get back to building in HO again. I got Design Preservation models Emery lane kit of the 'bay for about half the price that it would normally retail for and I've always left a place for it on my layout for it.
The Emery Lane kit is two victorian houses and accompanying details. Both houses are quite small but I have found most DPM structures to be at least slightly 'compressed' so you can get the impression of a larger city or town in a smaller area. I would consider both of these houses to be almost improbably small in real life but they will be going on my layout abut 3 feet from the front so they could be considered background structures. I have also noticed that these are the only gold kits where the structures can not be bought seperatly as basic kits.
I started with the houses. I wanted the colors a bit on the brighter side since I model the late fifties. One will be blue, the other yellow.
The buildings are typical DPM with the windows and doors cast into the wall and must be hand painted along with any trim. I airbrushed the yellow and blue, using Humrol paints. Humrol has an excellent line of flat paints that i like to airbrush on structures.
I then carefully brush painted the windows, doors and trim using a water based acyrilic white. The kit I got had been started with the previous owner who assembled one house, tried to paint it assembled, then gave up. I perfer to paint while everything is lying flat.
While I was painting I went through all the white-metal details (there's lots of them) and separated all the parts that would be painted white. These included the house trim, propane tanks and over thirty pieces of fencing. There was lots of Flash to clean up off the fence parts
I don't know if this was an early kit of if all the kits have this much flash on the castings but it took me a couple hours to get the white parts ready for painting.
I airbrushed all the white or predominatly white parts in testors white primer.
The Emery Lane kit is two victorian houses and accompanying details. Both houses are quite small but I have found most DPM structures to be at least slightly 'compressed' so you can get the impression of a larger city or town in a smaller area. I would consider both of these houses to be almost improbably small in real life but they will be going on my layout abut 3 feet from the front so they could be considered background structures. I have also noticed that these are the only gold kits where the structures can not be bought seperatly as basic kits.
I started with the houses. I wanted the colors a bit on the brighter side since I model the late fifties. One will be blue, the other yellow.
The buildings are typical DPM with the windows and doors cast into the wall and must be hand painted along with any trim. I airbrushed the yellow and blue, using Humrol paints. Humrol has an excellent line of flat paints that i like to airbrush on structures.
I then carefully brush painted the windows, doors and trim using a water based acyrilic white. The kit I got had been started with the previous owner who assembled one house, tried to paint it assembled, then gave up. I perfer to paint while everything is lying flat.
While I was painting I went through all the white-metal details (there's lots of them) and separated all the parts that would be painted white. These included the house trim, propane tanks and over thirty pieces of fencing. There was lots of Flash to clean up off the fence parts
I don't know if this was an early kit of if all the kits have this much flash on the castings but it took me a couple hours to get the white parts ready for painting.
I airbrushed all the white or predominatly white parts in testors white primer.
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