Nevada city fire station in HO

[M Graff]

Starting a new project...

A really old kit that I bought a while back.

It´s going to be fun to build a really old craftsman kit. Printed cardboard, some stripwood and a lot of instructions....

[brianusa]

Spent many an hour or two in the Gold Country while we lived in Calif. and remember it before the tourists came when it became overcrowded and too busy.  There was/is a good pasty shop in nearby Grass Valley thanks to the Cornish connection!

 

Brian.

[M Graff]

That would have been good Brian.

The fire station kit build has begun...

Cutting the windows and doors. A new blade was definitely a must

The walls was a pain to cut out in 1/8" cardboard.

I have glued the brick faces to the cardboard, and they are now drying under a ton of lead weights....

 

[M Graff]

 

Been building the wall details.

 

The brick surround is cardboard.

 

Doors....

 

The gables are almost finished.

 

Painting bricks.... The walls are quite large, so it's going to take a while.

[M Graff]

This is how I did the walls:

 

 

 

I primed them with burnt sienna and then picked some bricks in lighter and darker colors.

 

Note that they are way to strong in contrast at this stage.

 

 

 

 

I then lightly Airbrushed some of the base color to tone down the bricks.

 

 

To make the mortar, I painted the walls with warm gray oil paint straight from the tube.

 

 

I then wiped it off while wet.

 

I lastly used a towel that was very lightly damped in mineral spirits to remove the oil paint from the brick surfaces.

 

 

 

Just the way I liked it.

[brianusa]

Now all you need is the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad!

 

Brian.

[M Graff]

The fire station build continued.

 

 

I've assembled the walls and built the windows and doors.

They are mostly made out of cardboard with printed plastic glass.

 

 

The embossed brick walls were a real chore to work with....But it worked out okay.

 

 

 

[M Graff]

Finished!!!

The HSM Nevada city fire station is done!

It was a real challenge, but it went really okay I think.

The bell tower has 28 parts.... Fiddly, to say the least.

The interior light is a led mounted above the ceiling and has an orange colored diffuser to make it resemble gas light.