07-31-2009, 09:43 PM
Earlier today I managed to do some interior bracing (good old bread clips!) on the main distill er, bottling building :? I'm preparing the brick walls for a coat of georgia clay or some orangy-brown brick color. The windows & doors will be an aged white, almost a light tan color.
I am also thinning down the windows for the loading building (former engine house). I have found that if I sand down the back side enough, it thins the mullions nicely. It's a bit more time consuming, but they already fit the openings and I don't have to purchase any from Grandt line or Tichy, etc. then wait for them to arrive in the mail, or be back-ordered from Walther's.
It's another step like the shingle thinning that makes a plastic kit that much closer to looking like a craftsman kit, and that's one of my goals when kitbashing. I am willing to trade time and skill for the price and prestige of owning an FSM, SRM, etc. (No judgement implied, just a rationale for doing an insane thing to achieve a result!
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Maybe I'll get some pictures of before & after on these winders.
Galen
I am also thinning down the windows for the loading building (former engine house). I have found that if I sand down the back side enough, it thins the mullions nicely. It's a bit more time consuming, but they already fit the openings and I don't have to purchase any from Grandt line or Tichy, etc. then wait for them to arrive in the mail, or be back-ordered from Walther's.
It's another step like the shingle thinning that makes a plastic kit that much closer to looking like a craftsman kit, and that's one of my goals when kitbashing. I am willing to trade time and skill for the price and prestige of owning an FSM, SRM, etc. (No judgement implied, just a rationale for doing an insane thing to achieve a result!
)Maybe I'll get some pictures of before & after on these winders.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!