Freelance 2014-1

[faraway]

The second building placed at the corner to show the side wall. The side is made from Vollmer 6024 with a wash of concrete paint and an alcohol black wash (water based wash might harm the cardboard to much).
The concrete wash made everything far to light or was virtually without any effect due to the very flat structure. The black wash cleaned most of the bricks off and pushed the mortal wash into the gaps. A very welcome effect. I wanted to get an irregular wall and applied both wash patchy.


More Vollmer brick sheets are on order for former side walls. I used the last one today. The left and rear walls are plain plaster walls.

The cardboard ensemble


Most easy job is relabeling. There are plenty of signs to grab around Cermak Rd.

[Gary S]

That turned out really good. Your dedication to the hobby is always inspiring. And... you have been doing awesome work.

[torikoos]

The side walls are a bigger problem than the fronts. This little photo shows the front bricks on the left and the bricks used at the side wall on the right. I can not find any commercial available bricks on card board or styrene to mimic that kind of wall. Styrene is more robust and gets closer to the prototype if treated real harsh but printed brick card board is far to beautiful.

The side is often in a much worse condition making it even more complicated to find reasonable sheets of brick to be used.


The building from last night has sides made from Faller N 2568 (right side) plus massive black wash. I will use Vollmer 6042 (left side) today

A mortal wash on the Vollmer bricks. The card board bricks are not a good ground for mortal wash because they are to flat. Anyhow is adds the light gray touch typical for the side walls.


ps. There is one extreme expensive wood and and one molded brick wall available that would match much better. But the price can not be justified for simple side walls only.

Have you tried the Clever models Website, they have concrete walls , brick walls etc , along with complete buildings for paper/card modeling available for download?
It might have the brick pattern you're after?

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Koos

[faraway]

Have you tried the Clever models Website, they have concrete walls , brick walls etc , along with complete buildings for paper/card modeling available for download?
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Koos, that looks interesting. I will have a look at it. I had a similar link some years ago but it managed to get lost. Thank you!

[GMO-Frisco]

Hi Reinhard,

I think you mean this Site

[faraway]

Hi Reinhard,

I think you mean this Site

That's it! Thanks a lot

[jonte]

Hi Reinhard,

I've been following this thread with interest and the techniques you've adopted are giving great results.

With regard to one or two little problems you've mentioned regarding side walls and further to some of the excellent suggestions already posted, I just wondered whether you'd be interested in the following: quite simply this involves scribing (with a needle or dart or other fine pointed instrument) the surface of one of those common or garden polystyrene food boxes or trays, like those in take away pizzas of burgers, to create the mortar courses of a stone, brick or concrete wall or whatever effect your trying to create. Then rub over the whole surface with a suede brush or other abrasive instrument to distress it. Then paint up in watercolours or other water based paints that won't attack the surface, before finally rubbing over with finely sieved ash from a fire to represent the mortar ( a dab of glue here and there in the courses might help it to adhere properly).

The results can then be glued to your card former using PVA (if you haven't done so already) remembering to place PVA on the reverse to prevent it all from warping (teaching my granny to suck eggs, no doubt, but just thought I'd mention it anyway!).

I've seen some excellent results with this, and I fully intend to adopt it - or at least give it a go - on my latest project.

If you do decide to give it a go, I'd be interested to see the results.

Happy New Year,

Jonte

[faraway]

Jonte, that reads a little bit more complicated... Do you have an example how it is done? May be in RMweb etc.?

[dave_long]

I suspect Jonte maye refering to the polystyyrene techniques that Emmanuel Nouaillier uses, with his series published in Continental Modeller.

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[jonte]

Yep, that's indeed the method I was talking about, Dave, although I had in mind an article in the 'Model Railway Journal' from some years back.

As you can get back copies of these excellent mags plus loads of second hand copies on ebay, I've been and looked it up for you just in case you want to try and get hold of one:

Article by Roger Merry in MRJ No. 196, 2010. Generally in black & white, there are couple of coloured photos provided.

However, the methods are as per Mr. Nouallier's blog- excellent stuff!

Jonte

[faraway]

Jonte, Dave, thanks for the pointer. I am afraid that method is far beyond my skills (no to mention my extreme limited patience).
Anyhow the model at militarymodelling.com is breathtaking.

[jonte]

Jonte, Dave, thanks for the pointer. I am afraid that method is far beyond my skills (no to mention my extreme limited patience).
Anyhow the model at militarymodelling.com is breathtaking.

I think you underestimate yourself, Reinhard, but I respect your wishes.

I'll probably make a right cock up of it, but still, I think I'll give it a go

Jonte

[faraway]

This is the place you must go to get all the really important features for your car

[Painkiller]

The new buildings look great like there have been there for ages. I especially like the car part store as I am a car nut and that kind of dealership is seldom modelled and yet looks great! Like this edition of transformation a lot!

[faraway]

There is another car related shop on the other side of the road. The spanish language advertising is quite common in the area behind Cermak Rd. in Chicago.



I do not understand what "MARCHAS Y ALTERNADOR" means. A word by word translation might be "gearshift and power generator". Any spanish help here?