Mile End Garage.

Nice structural work there Al.... The wooden joists have a nice bit of detail now you can see it after a wash.

I think you are right on track. The brick and Timber work rocks.

Hi Al,

Kudos Sir, I really don't know how your managing to stick with this with all it's flaws, I think I'd have stuck a couple of screws through it to hold it together, that or launch it towards the bin...

Please keep the great work up...

Andy...

Interior looks great, Al. Nice work with those washes.

Looks like it's quite tight in the annex - are you planning to complete all the interior before gluing it on?

Thanks guys.

Johnag wrote:Hi Al,

Kudos Sir, I really don't know how your managing to stick with this with all it's flaws, I think I'd have stuck a couple of screws through it to hold it together, that or launch it towards the bin...

Please keep the great work up...

Andy...

Oh! I thought about it Andy, have no doubt about that. But sheer bloody mindedness keeps me going on it!! LOL

RetiredMike wrote:Interior looks great, Al. Nice work with those washes.

Looks like it's quite tight in the annex - are you planning to complete all the interior before gluing it on?

It's already fastened to the base Mike. The inside of the two roof sections will be painted before attaching but the rest will be painted when I'm fully finished with the construction. Too many 'corrections' to do, to think about painting first.


The old 'Two steps forwards and one step back' strikes again. No sooner is one problem solved when up pops several more.!!! Oh Joy Of Joys!! LOL

I attached the gable end and then trial fitted the larger roof section.

The underside has some locating slots which match the the cladding on the gable end.



That's fair enough but when lined up, things go wrong at the lower end:





I plan on cutting out the blacked out section, which should, I think, correct both problems.

Giving you time to post and edit text LOL

Cheeky bar steward!!!   

OK long enough!
Go for it Al, I think that'll be a great fix.

Well it worked!!! At least well enough.







There is still a gap under the annex roof but it's much smaller now:



Gluing it down will bow the roof down a tad but I think that will be perfectly in keeping with the structure anyway.

That is quite a gap but still way better than what you started with. Nice work AL.

Methinks you have pulled that off nicely.

It'll look even better with a coat of paint on it as well

Thanks Buck and Colin.

I wanted a dusty type look on the inside of the roof, so, remembering Mike's Wonderful WWI ambulance, I gave it a brushing of the 'Snow' powder out of Tamiya's Weathering Master kit. Then some of the 'Rust' followed by more 'Snow'.

That's a neat clamp you have flattening out the roof Al.     Just hope you have fast drying glue.

Looks great Al    The weathering looks close to how I think it should look and the annex roof will be good, you won't even see the little gap or notice the slight bow.

Nice going Al.
Your making a silk purse out of a pigs ear with that building. Can't wait to see more brickwork
and timber frame finished.

Sometimes the flaws in a kit are THE challenge! You've done really well and changes for looks all seem good to me. Weathering can, of course, vary depending on taste and appearance one is working toward. Thanx!

Great work maneuvering all the bumps in the road.

I think you are on target with this one. I would have put it back in the box long ago. The dusty look for the rafters and roof is spot on.

Thanks everyone. Hopefully the worst of the 'Challenge' is over!!! LOL

Mike suggested that scoring the underside of the second from top row of tiles on the roof of the annex, would change the angle of most of the roof and make it look better!!

He was right, I think looks way better this way:

 

Nice one Mike.
That's looking fantastic now Al, massive improvements on the original going on.

I applaud the work you're doing overcoming the challenges this thing is throwing at you.
  

So, you're just 100 miles away, this structural alteration malarky seems easy to you ......
fancy a 1:1 scale job on a extension i'm contemplating eh, do ya ??
You know you want to   

Thanks boys!!

Colin!......... can you lip read?    

The annex roof is now permanently fixed in place:



I also added some styrene underneath the sides to give some depth. This still needs to be filled.

Skid wrote:
Colin!......... can you lip read?

I can.... . And that's a no then.... heh heh

Nice work mate.