PNKFLOYD
Mikey
Birdie's Place - An O scale building set in 1935, part of a timber and Tie company town in rural southern Alabama. It will be added to the club On30 layout.
This is a very basic DPM kit consisting of cast polyester walls, inset door and windows, a sheet plastic roof and clear plastic sheets to cut out for windows. Three square plastic roof support pieces were not used.
Part clean up, sanding and painting required several hours of time.
Since this is such a basic kit without any accessories or signage, I had to scratch build a few things. The signage, pool tables, table and chairs, stove pipe, lean-to roof, trash barrel and work bench with saws were all made. The HO barrel and junk pile are commercial details. The saws on the work bench are pieces of a scroll saw blade glued to small pieces of dowel.
The windows are cut and installed before the walls were assembled together. Curtains and shades were easier to glue to the windows before assembly. A light weathering wash was app[ied to the walls and painted surfaces.
A thin piece of plywood was cut for the base/first floor, pool tables and chairs placed and glued in place. A metal figure from the club layout had fallen to the floor and been stepped on, breaking off the head and right hand. I rolled a glue ball for a head and glued it and a piece of flat toothpick to the wrist as a pool que. Is that a commercial or scratch built detail?
The second floor is a piece of heavy cardboard spray painted gold. The table and chairs glued into the front of the room so they will show through the front windows when the roof is installed. The roof was cut, painted black and covered in light gray ballast before being glued in place.
Surprise. surprise! The side walls are slightly warped and had to be re-glued and clamped to close up corner gaps.
This is a very basic DPM kit consisting of cast polyester walls, inset door and windows, a sheet plastic roof and clear plastic sheets to cut out for windows. Three square plastic roof support pieces were not used.
Part clean up, sanding and painting required several hours of time.
Since this is such a basic kit without any accessories or signage, I had to scratch build a few things. The signage, pool tables, table and chairs, stove pipe, lean-to roof, trash barrel and work bench with saws were all made. The HO barrel and junk pile are commercial details. The saws on the work bench are pieces of a scroll saw blade glued to small pieces of dowel.
The windows are cut and installed before the walls were assembled together. Curtains and shades were easier to glue to the windows before assembly. A light weathering wash was app[ied to the walls and painted surfaces.
A thin piece of plywood was cut for the base/first floor, pool tables and chairs placed and glued in place. A metal figure from the club layout had fallen to the floor and been stepped on, breaking off the head and right hand. I rolled a glue ball for a head and glued it and a piece of flat toothpick to the wrist as a pool que. Is that a commercial or scratch built detail?
The second floor is a piece of heavy cardboard spray painted gold. The table and chairs glued into the front of the room so they will show through the front windows when the roof is installed. The roof was cut, painted black and covered in light gray ballast before being glued in place.
Surprise. surprise! The side walls are slightly warped and had to be re-glued and clamped to close up corner gaps.
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