Kibri and Walthers kitbash - formerly the long arm of the law

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4 hours ago, Portchullin Tatty said:

Looking grand!

 

Something that is catching my eye is the free-standing gables.  They almost certainly would have a roof enclosing on them both because the window head otherwise looks as if it might be at the gutter line but really because they would be very slender otherwise and prone to collapse.

 

I am a building surveyor and we had to do some emergency works to a building next to Harrods a while back where the roof was found not to be tied into a gable a bit like this.  It would have been exciting if we had not found it before it went!

 

 

Thanks, Tatty.

Yes lots of work to do on the roof, including tying those gables to the main roof.

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Roof shaping up

 

 

Roof at the back still to shape up, and I'm thinking of some kind of spire/cupola on the corner and perhaps some ornamental dormers.

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So roof all shaped up,skylight left over from Walthers Union station added. 

 

I'm going to try the redutex self adhesive slates, a first for me so wish me luck.

 

Chimneys bought from one of the 3d printers, Model Railway Scenes, if any knows them. 3d printing has made me lazy.

 

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So made a start with the redutex roof slates. Not much done as I only bought one sheet to use on something else.

 

I'm quite pleased with it. Cuts easily and is nice and flexible, allowing it to be pushed into awkward corners and the trimmed.

 

Other projects in the pipeline, the towns monument to Admiral Lord Nelson, made from an old cast clock column and a delivery prado figure.

 

 

Just a pedestal to knock up to put it all on and of course a coat of paint.

 

 

I've long yearned to get the Walthers Milwaukee Station and finally succumbed last September. With some modification such as new arched central entrance and ground floor shops this will become the front of the town's market hall

 

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A parade of chimney stacks and crown pots.

 

These arrived today from Model Railway Scenes.

 

Nice crisp prints and beautiful dainty pots.

 

I've added a stone cap to the stacks 

 

If I have a complaint it's that the odd dimensions of the stacks. There are two wide for a single flue and not really wide enough for a double flu.

 

I think they are intended to be one flue wide by two deep, but again the depth is just a bit two deep for two flues by half a brick.

Anyway I don't think the six pots look two crowded on top.

 

The do a range of stacks with various angles depending on the pitch of your roof, of these that you can cut to your own angle.

 

Now I need to finish of the slates and finally decide where to place the stacks so as to serve the notional rooms below.

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More slates arrived today so lot more roof done. Will finish that off tomorrow and fettle some chimney stacks to match the roof pitch.

 

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Why finish one project when you can start another.

This is the back of the Kibri townhouse used to create the building above.

Bit of cutting and shunting and we have another kitbashed city building. Sides are from an auhagen kit.  This I think will either be a bank, a pub or an in insurance office. 

 

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This is the city's major department store, name yet to be decided. I've drawn up some shop windows and doors for 3d printing. It's ideal for mass production of identical items.

 

Here printed off on card so I can mock up the facade.

 

 

 

Not sure on the central roof structure yet. The present one is intended to be similar to the roof shape on the corner pavilions but it's not doing it for me.

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A little work on the Insurance Company offices. 

Painted to resemble one of the many Victorian terracotta faience buildings, with a granite faced ground floor.

 

 

The lettering was something that was everywhere before the war but seemed to disappear in the sixties.

 

 

Oh by the way, Middleshire, is a county from the Agatha Christie novels.

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Just a short mocked up street scene.

 

The new building is an almost built as it should be kit from Bachmann Spectrum range. US variety store but I'm thinking perhaps a Woolworths?

 

 

 

I've been drawing up  shop front for the grey corner building which once finished I'll get printed

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1 hour ago, rovex said:

Just a short mocked up street scene.

 

The new building is an almost built as it should be kit from Bachmann Spectrum range. US variety store but I'm thinking perhaps a Woolworths.

100% a Woolworths! I've the same kit in my stash and it was bought purely to do that with it, lends itself to it without doubt.

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42 minutes ago, Red Devil said:

100% a Woolworths! I've the same kit in my stash and it was bought purely to do that with it, lends itself to it without doubt.

Looks quite like the 1921 Birmingham "Bull Ring" Woollies (actually in Spiceal Street.)

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Not sure how well these will look on here.

 

This is the shop front facade for the corner building.

 

I've uploaded them to shape ways and emailed the pdfs to work so I can print them off, resize them and produce a mock up on the model. Still need to create the shop window frames.

 

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Shop facade and frames have arrived today.

I've tacked it together with masking tape. Obviously will need painting (although I do like the mottled grey colour) and shop contents creating and some general fettling to make it all fit properly.