Warehouse Row - Building #1 - Painting Doors and Windows

Another week of trying to fit in modeling makes progress very slow. With the walls basically finished I felt like I could spend time getting the windows ready. While I tried to be as precise as possible I figure there will be some shimming necessary to get good fits. There are 30 tall 12-Pane double hung windows, 12 short 12-Pane double hung windows, 2 display windows, 1 double door entrance and 3 sets of warehouse doors.

Most of the components are from Tichy, but the smaller 12 pane windows are Grandt Line. I cleaned everything up and headed to the spray booth. I mounted everything with double sided tape to popsicle sticks and then glued those popsicle sticks to the top of the cheap lazy susan I use as a spinner in the booth. I primed everything with Badger Grey Stynylrez grey primer, followed by a brown (Vallejo Panzer Aces but the label is to worn to read the actual color) and then an off white (Vallejo Panzer Aces German White Tanker Crew).

Now everything is ready to install into the walls, just need to find the time to do it.

Popsicle sticks glued to the spinner. There is so much paint built up over the years that they can be pried off without to much effort

Everything in place with double sided tape.

The final color an off white, I would almost call this an antique white.

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Warehouse Row - Building #1 - Sills and Lintels

Work progresses slowly. Over the last few days I cut out sills and lintels for the rail and street side walls. There was frustration there as I simply could not get my NW Chopper to cut accurately. Cutting all those small pieces took longer than expected. Everything seemed to be going okay as I glue the pieces into place but for some reason everything seems to be just a bit off kilter. I'm not happy with the result at this point, but I'm going to continue to move forward. My next step, before I do anything else, is to apply a layer of dullcote. As I was cleaning a brush a large drop of water hit the street side wall in the upper right corner, I'm beyond upset with myself at this point. So when I get to another working session the airbrush is coming out. Hopefully that will stop any other water accidents from taking place. My new rule for working with paper is to seal it before I glue to to a substrate, both sides of the paper!

Rail side

Street side

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Warehouse Row - Building 1 - Exterior Brick Finished

I was able to finish getting the rest of the brick paper glued on and the windows and doors cut out. This was on the creek wall and the street wall. I'm not happy with the creek wall right now. Somewhere an error crept into the measurements and the buttresses are not centered correctly, that is going to bother me a lot. Hopefully I can disguise it a bit with some exterior details and weathering. On top of that it looks like the buttresses are not straight up and down. I have checked it with my square and measured the gap between them (9' in HO scale) and that measurement is the same all the way up and down. Right now I'm chalking that up to a perspective issue. On a positive note the creek wall cannot be viewed straight on, it will be angled away from the viewer so whatever mistake has crept in shouldn't not be noticeable to the casual viewer.

Creek wall before cutting out the windows. Looks pretty good here.

Creek wall after cutting out the windows. This is where it starts to look out of kilter.

Street side wall ready for some decoration.