The detailing parts are a mixture of card,plastic and resin,the pipe work is made from platic tube or left over spruce's from kits, A/C uints and vents are mostly from a uk firm, you can find them here <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.unitmodels.com">http://www.unitmodels.com</a><!-- m --> ,door canopies are made from card.The building signs are from bit from that craft shop (again),the owner is a great help, when she starts to restock the shop,she's started looking out for things that could be used on model railways (now she knows what i mean when i say "in scale"). Yo've really got to have a open mind when looking round these type of shops.
Next and last thing to do is the weathering,this is something you like or don't like,personally i think it makes a building,i've seen some good layouts,but whats let them down is the shine you get of plastic buildings,even a dark wash would do wonders, (thats my rant over).The first thing was to seal the buildings, for this i used hairspray (cheap,non-purfumed) just a light coat,then i used some acrylic paints (craft shop again) and drybrushed where i wanted stains,rust marks etc.
When all this was dry,out came the womens makeup,from my local pound shop,(you guest it a £1) four boxes with different colours,this was then used to tone down the acrylic paints and make them all blend in,i also used some pastel chalks for colours not in the makeup boxes and charcoal,(from you know where).
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Last thing to do was fix them to the layout using small self tapper screws,once in postion grass,soil and other rubbish will be glue a long the bottoms,some buildings are set in, some are on top (one of my pet hates gaps under buildings).
Here's a shot looking down Rust st to 59th.(grass still to add)
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Hope you enjoyed this "how to" and it's been of some help,if one person uses one part of this it all been worth it,we can all learn of each other.
Ray