no idea what the building is, my dad had it, I felt it was the best candidate to be painted. The color was UGLY yellow and green. I didnt fix the gaps or seams becasue this was just a cosmetic paint job but still
Not really wrong forum, if your house has a base then it’s a diorama. In my opinion, railroad & scenery layouts - whatever scale - are dioramas. Nice paintjob, by the way.
thanks, I think I overdid the brown weathering a lil bit in some places. After I finished, dull coated, was happy with it (happyish) I was suprised by my dad with a box saying 'oh! I found all the missing pieces for that house…
yyyaaaayyyy…
That’s pretty cool Smeag. There’s several variations of that house, just like military kits.
Here’s a couple more. They make up part of the village (dio) under the Christmas tree.
I made the bows with tape and the garland by running a bit of stretched sprue through CA and sprinkling flock grass on it and painted.
And the “Model Shop”, right next door to the ice cream shop…location, location, location…who’s the future of our hobby…kids!!! Kids love ice cream!
Nah, I think you did great job redoing the house. It is usually difficult to keep white house that clean! You have made me curious about the train scale… I am not into train thing… HO scale equals to what scale for plastic models?
I think it’s 1/87…pretty sure.
I’m glad this finally got some feedback. The hardest part was a two fold thing. The windows were the hardest, because I couldn’t mask them because of the not straight parts so I had to do it by hand, ALOT of touching up the white, and (if they were molded on or not I dont know) the kit was given to me already assembled so there was no doing separate parts.
Fermis, I LOVE how we used the same colors on the house.
also, I forgot to mention, there used to be alot more ivy on the house but alot was old and peeling off so I took MOST off, except what is seen there. That was on before painting, so I had to re-paint the plant life too, so that’s not stock color
I wana do more of these, they were incredibly fun. The problem is, no cash for new ones, and all of my dad’s old ones are either broken here or there, missing parts, or have the decals and stickers already attached and are glued together tightly.
These kits are a lot of fun, but for what you get, the $$$ is a bit on the steep side. The simple houses range from $12-$18 and the brick buildings, around $25. All the houses that I’ve come across have seperate windows/door. Making them easy to paint without a bunch of PITA masking. For the windows, I use Testors clear parts / window maker glue. The stuff works great on any windows under 1/4 inch. It also takes a bit of practice to figure out how to make the windows without making a mess of things.
I had to take the clear parts out of the window, and in the process destroy them. My dad had glued sheets of clear white plastic on the inside to cover all the windows, he used like a tube of glue on each building side, I couldnt get them up to paint without tearing them up. (I did multiple coats over the whole ting, the whole building got ABed a wood brown first to allow for a bit of natural wearing, using a paper towl to hit edges over the paint instead of dry brushing it at times