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Keyhaven - the facade

Andy Y

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The low relief buildings at the back of Keyhaven also serve to conceal a hidden storage road, one of which I've never been particularly happy with as it was a hasty gap filler at the time of the layout challenge. So, the 75% of the building in the centre is now a landfill contribution.? ? 

 

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I'd picked up a couple of Ten Commandments stone-cast low-relief buildings to hack about.? ? 

 

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And re-assembled as below, PVA giving a good bond between the sections.

 

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The building was then given an all over spray of a sandy brown. To paint all of the windows at first glance looked like a waste of an otherwise good afternoon at the same time as being unconvinced about their appearance. As it turns out the easy way is to fill all of the panes with a dark grey paint and then use a trusty old fibreglass brush (that and gaffer tape form 50% of my modelling life) to take the paint back off the frames, it turns out neat enough. However I wanted something more down at heel too so the window reveals were filled with sections of corrugated plasticard. ? ? The brickwork was dry brushed with darker and varied tones before weathering back with Tamiya weathering packs, the corrugated iron was finished with a variety of blue and grey acrylics, weathered down with a wash and highlights picked up from yet more Tamiya make-up palettes.

 

As it stood the building was overshadowed by it's neighbours the engineering factory and the salt works and need a bit of a lift. Keyhaven seems to be a study in corrugated cladding through different mediums so yet more wouldn't look amiss. This time it was asbestos sheeting! A framework was formed from foamboard and simply clad with strips of corrugated plasticard. This was spray painted with a mix of red oxide, grey and white primers before having a grey wash applied with a variety of tones built in with ground chalk pastels as weathering material.? ? 

 

So, more of the same but different and it seems to fit in quite well. Time for some basic rainwater goods and we're away.? ? 

 

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Pugsley

That new building looks much better there - far more imposing, and in keeping with the rest of the buildings to the rear of the layout. The previous building looked a little lost there :)

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Mikkel
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Looks good Andy - and thanks for the tip with the fibre glass brush, hadn't thought of using it for such purposes.

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Mikkel
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Looks good Andy - and thanks for the tip with the fibre glass brush, hadn't thought of using it for such purposes.

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Ravenser

Looks good indeed - much more scale and presence than its predecessor . Having struggled with white window frames the painful way on Townstreet castings , I'll certainly give the fibreglass pencil techique a try - it sounds a lot easier than multiple coats of white enamel

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Andy,

 

How well did the PH Brian Kirby hooks work at the Hull exhibition ?

 

Stu

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Andy Y
Andy,

 

How well did the PH Brian Kirby hooks work at the Hull exhibition ?

 

Stu

 

I had to revert to the plain BK staples Stu as droopy mounting pockets meant the PH designs wouldn't work well with the inset track.

 

 

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I had to revert to the plain BK staples Stu as droopy mounting pockets meant the PH designs wouldn't work well with the inset track.

 

That's a shame. Is it a problem with the stock, or the weight of the hook, and is it fixable ?

 

Stu

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