Patrick
Alien Attitude.
Well, As I posted the first picture in the coffee shop (June 2020), I'll still repost it here:
I changed my mind to start on the more delicate kit and started with something a bit easier. in the early 1990's I exchanged all my Lionel stuff for new HO stuff. This is one of the 3-4 building I got and actually started painting the mortar on one panel before putting it away for the past nearly 30 years. (and I kid about picking up model kits at auctions that have receipts form the 70's and had never been built). This is actually the first model I've worked on since a year or so pout of high school.
I separated the building walls and completed the mortar work.
Then I didn't care for the way I had dome it, so mixed a red to rewash over the bricks. I then painted and set the window frames into the walls.
More to do. I did decide that it will be a flat roofed building as there are accommodations for it in the inside wall tops. I just don't like the Victorian style of the original roof. I'm still tossing whether to paint the doors white or some other shade. I also painted the "cement" base for the building. I also need to figure out the roof color. I'm assuming a post war flat roof would be grey (faded asphalt) instead of a white or pure black. The plastic fire trucks won't be used. I'm tossing some sort of interior before I completely enclose the building. More to come!
I changed my mind to start on the more delicate kit and started with something a bit easier. in the early 1990's I exchanged all my Lionel stuff for new HO stuff. This is one of the 3-4 building I got and actually started painting the mortar on one panel before putting it away for the past nearly 30 years. (and I kid about picking up model kits at auctions that have receipts form the 70's and had never been built). This is actually the first model I've worked on since a year or so pout of high school.
I separated the building walls and completed the mortar work.
Then I didn't care for the way I had dome it, so mixed a red to rewash over the bricks. I then painted and set the window frames into the walls.
More to do. I did decide that it will be a flat roofed building as there are accommodations for it in the inside wall tops. I just don't like the Victorian style of the original roof. I'm still tossing whether to paint the doors white or some other shade. I also painted the "cement" base for the building. I also need to figure out the roof color. I'm assuming a post war flat roof would be grey (faded asphalt) instead of a white or pure black. The plastic fire trucks won't be used. I'm tossing some sort of interior before I completely enclose the building. More to come!