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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
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 Posted - 02/04/2011 : 03:55:26 AM
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Hi Chuck,
Thanks for the tip on staggering the corrugated roofing at the joints ... I was not aware that it is done like that. Glad to hear about it, before I started on the actual roof of my Moose Air Lines structure 
As for the square shape of the test-pieces, I just did it this way as it would cost me less material for the test.
Cheers,
Jeroen
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DHM
Engine Wiper
129 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2011 : 12:30:39 PM
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"Already thought about the antlers myself ... even bought a H0 scale moose made by Preiser a couple of weeks ago ... have not decided yet"
Bull moose grow new antlers each year..and cows dont have any...so you could harvest the rack and still have a cow or antlerless bull to set somewhere in the scene....and anywhere would be prototypical
Don Miller
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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
103 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2011 : 02:41:41 AM
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Thanks Don,
Learning something new every day
Cheers,
Jeroen |
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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
103 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2011 : 09:42:33 AM
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Hi all,
Started working on some of the detail parts for my Moose Air Lines cabin. First of all I drilled a small hole in the parts and placed them on a couple of saté skewers ... which should make the paint job a bit easier.
Not quite sure if it needs to be done, but I decided to spray the parts with a thin layers of primer. The skewers also came in handy here ... I just place them on a leftover piece of MDF.
Finally I spent some time to give the detail parts the right colour. I painted them with acrylics and dry-brushed them with ivory white afterwards. The oil-drum took a bit more time, as I wanted ton give it a rusted look and feel.
A close-up of the oil-drum ...
Should have the cabin finalized in my next update.
Cheers,
Jeroen |
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jknapp
Fireman
USA
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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
103 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2011 : 08:54:15 AM
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Hi all,
I added the canopy on the font of the building and started working on the corrugated roofing. I took Walt's advice and sprayed the entire sheet, both sides, with primer. This works quite well, as it seems to strengthen the sheet a bit.
As the canopy and roof of the building needed to be in a relatively good state (rusted but not fully haphazard), I needed to ensure that all the pieces of corrugated roofing were the same size. So I created a template in CAD and taped strips of roofing with the right width on top of the the printed template ... this simplified cutting the roofing to the right size (16.5 x 12.5 mm) quite a bit ...
Dave suggested to add some antlers to the building, so I beheaded my Preiser moose ... I do agree that it looks quite good and adds something extra to the building ... ;D
I glued the peices of roofing to the canopy with Aleene's Tacky Glue ...
... and also started to put the corrugated metal on top of the roof. I first drew a line about halfway and started with the lower pieces of roofing.
Still need to cover the ridge and weather the roof and canopy, but should have the final pictures in my next update.
Cheers,
Jeroen |
Edited by - Koala Creek on 02/14/2011 2:21:43 PM |
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Ensign
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 02/14/2011 : 10:43:42 AM
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Hi Jeroen,Dave's suggestion of adding those antlers was a good one, they look great!
As does your Moose air lines building,keep up your great work.
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mark_dalrymple
Crew Chief
New Zealand
526 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2011 : 2:41:13 PM
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This is a very interesting project Jeroen.
I somehow missed some of the progress on it. Its all comming together very nicely.
Good to know about the problems with the modeltech boat - I have to build a few vessels myself one day. You seem to have overcome the initial problems very well.
One other thing I do with corrigated roofing that you might want to try next time. Once the pieces are cut to size (I believe before longrun iron, lengths up to 10' long were avalible and were normally a little over 3' wide - giving a visible width of 3' after the lap. Perloins were usually located at 3' centres for fixing - sometimes a little less or more) I use a compass to put small indentations in the groves along the nail lines on every second grove (being carful not to make holes). You only need them at the end (a little distance up the roofline - maybe 4"), and at 3' centres upwards. Where another row of roofing is to be overlaped, you do not need to indent a top row, as the roofing above (and its bottom indentations) will overlap. Once done the individual sheets are flipped and then glued in position. the indentations are now on the top of the corrigations and look like lead headed nails sticking up.
That was really hard to explain! Hope it makes some sense and is of some use.
I'm really enjoying your thread. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Mark.
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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
103 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2011 : 08:27:28 AM
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Mark,
No problem, I understand your explanation ...
An now a quick update and unfortunately not the final pictures yet.
I also covered the ridge with corrugated metal and weathered the canopy ... just a bit of rust left and right.
I only used two acrylics ... rust colour and burnt sienna
First I drybrushed parts of the corrugated iron with the lighter (and more orange) rust colour and I also added a couple of spots with a small brush. This to simulate new rust and rust coming trough. I used burnt sienna on a small brush to simulate the darker and older rust.
I am quite pleased with the result ... unfortunately I could not get it to show that well on the picture.
Cheers,
Jeroen |
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DHM
Engine Wiper
129 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2011 : 4:20:59 PM
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Nice building. The antlers look good...and very prototypical...the whole thing has the "looks right" feel about it...
Don Miller
Anchorage AK |
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Tyson Rayles
Moderator
USA
10252 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2011 : 5:30:37 PM
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 02/17/2011 : 6:49:11 PM
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It's taking shape very nicely, Jeroen.
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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
103 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2011 : 5:31:19 PM
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Guys,
Thanks for all the great comments!
Also have a bit of a question. Thought that the Moose Air Lines (MAL) cabin would have been visible from the air in the olden days ... the paint on the roof however faded during the years ...
Does this look any good and believable? Just want to know, before I continue with the other side and start weathering and rusting the roof.
Cheers,
Jeroen |
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 02/20/2011 : 5:41:07 PM
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I like the sign, Jeroen, but think the roof color somewhat lacks variety. If time has been able to weather the sign this way, it probably will have also weathered the remaining of the roof.
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Koala Creek
Engine Wiper
Netherlands
103 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2011 : 02:59:35 AM
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Frederic,
Yes, I agree ... once I have completed the sign on the other side of the roof, I will add rust and weather the both sides of the roof.
Cheers,
Jeroen |
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