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BigLars
Fireman
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 Posted - 12/24/2010 : 6:08:00 PM
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Karl,
Not sure I can tell which boards need switched out. You are going to have your whole town built before I finish my first building. Fantastic peeling white paint on the boards.
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UKGuy
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 12/24/2010 : 6:17:23 PM
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I doubt that Larry, unless I decide on a very small town.. 
Thanks for the kind comments, these are the boards.
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BigLars
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 12/24/2010 : 6:30:33 PM
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Karl,
The board on the right looks like it is a little more water logged than the others. I think leave it and have a missing piece of roof above that board. JMO
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Edited by - BigLars on 12/24/2010 6:31:36 PM |
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UKGuy
Fireman
USA
5427 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2010 : 6:50:31 PM
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I just cant do that Larry, it'll always bug me when I look at it.
Inventing a plausible background story to explain something never seems to work with me, I'll know it's different because I did it wrong, no matter how good the excuse. Besides at this stage it will be easy enough to pull out and replace.
The one on the right got 'tarnished' when I ran a steel brush over it after placement which darkened it too much.
On the other two the peel is slightly 'blurred' where as on the other boards the peel is nice and sharp, maybe the paint wasnt quite dry enough, though they were all painted together almost two hours before I peeled them, again not a big deal, especially for the peace of mind.
Thanks for the idea though.
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 12/24/2010 : 8:17:25 PM
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I agree that changing the one on the right is a good idea, Karl, and on the whole I'm sure you're already done with the whole change operation.
That being said, it seems to me that the two other incriminated boards, on the left, are a problem because the color under the peeling white has a more pinkinsh shade than the brown on the other ones, and I thought it might not be too difficult to touch these places with a thin brush and paint them the right shade.
Apart from that, I am as impressed as the others by the steady rythm with which you build models. A man who works so fast so well won't have the least problem finding a witty answer to my alien guess. You already are half an extraterrestrial modeller... 
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RDG_Rich
Section Hand
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Posted - 12/24/2010 : 8:45:54 PM
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Karl,
Is it possible that when you peeled the paint that the tape lifted some of the underlying board color? |
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UKGuy
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 12/24/2010 : 8:51:01 PM
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Originally posted by Frederic Testard
... and I thought it might not be too difficult to touch these places with a thin brush and paint them the right shade.
You have an excellent eye my friend for the subtle underlying differences.
I'm sure you have noticed through all the 'yellow' bass wood you have used that occassionally you get an orange 'stick' . I would assume that this colour difference is due to the fact that it comes from a knot, or growth ring or...something else in the original tree it was cut from. These darker strips dont seem to take stain as well, I would presume because the wood is denser and not as soft as the yellow bass.
I had a couple of these 'orange strips but used them anyway as I am unfamiliar with 'real' strip wood, (coffee stirrers and balsa is usually my thing).
I'm guessing...... that the greying agent (weather it) didnt penetrate the strip due to the density. although the surface colour was changed, when I did the tape peel this surface colour was removed along with the paint.
As I was able to get two pieces of siding from each strip and I now have two problematic boards next to eachother I would logically assume they came from the same strip, as that is the way I was working.
The increased density / reduced porosity of the more orange basswood is also presumably the reason for the 'blurry peel'.
So, bad peel result, not matching the underlying wood colour, they will be history very shortly.
Touching them with a small brush would work, except for the reasons I deduce above. If it didnt take the colour after three brush washes of "weather-it" in additition to being brushed with a brass brush between each application for the silver sheen, then it aint gonna happen now.
I did successfully do your suggested 'touch-up' in several other areas though so your thoughts and ideas were absolutely corret, unfortunately it just isnt gonna work on these two boards.
Well that was alot of typing just to say that " I've now learned to discard the orange strips"
I'll take you're final remark in the complimentary context in which you meant it, and I thank you. I'll work on the other half.[:-alien]
Karl. A
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UKGuy
Fireman
USA
5427 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2010 : 8:54:00 PM
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Yes Rich, I also think that that is exactly what happened, the stain colour hadnt penetrated as well as the other boards and was just sitting on the surface.
They will be 'fixed'.
Thanks for looking and the response.
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 12/25/2010 : 07:37:07 AM
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And what about using a steel brush in some places?
(Not for these two particular - and soon to become famous if we go on speaking of them - boards, but as a general approach to differentiate weathering).
You're perfectly right about my last sentence which was meant as a compliment.
(By the way, it seems that the flying saucer was split in some manner when it entered the atmosphere and the other half was found near Näsum, Sweden).
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UKGuy
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 12/26/2010 : 10:55:10 PM
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Thanks for the compliment Frederic.
A steel brush will be (and actually was already started to be) used along the bottom edge of the boards, these will then be darkened to simulate rising damp/rot.
Sign info at :- http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28158
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Edited by - UKGuy on 12/26/2010 11:17:14 PM |
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UKGuy
Fireman
USA
5427 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2010 : 11:42:06 PM
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dallas_m
Fireman
USA
3003 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2010 : 12:24:24 AM
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Roof is a little shiny  ... (yes, I know) ...
But DANG, that's all looking so good ... and the sign is a definite winner. |
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Ensign
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 12/27/2010 : 09:14:12 AM
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Hi Karl,I love the sign! This whole structure looks kinda like something Troels Kirk would have built.
I guess you could say it has been built in the Kirkish style,very fast and very beautiful!
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BBLmber
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2010 : 10:53:59 AM
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Hey Karl, put in a dio with some roofers finishing up as if someone is getting the building ready for a new tenant.
Everything is looking great.[:-thumbu][:-thumbu]
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onl26
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2010 : 3:58:01 PM
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It looks fantastic my friend and I'm very honored.
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O'Neill's Wheels
