It’s the end of the holidays and I managed to get a few more things done. Back to the grindstone now and no time for modelling.
I started by using my twisted wood to do the roof with dips. I used thin balsa strips for the lathes and bent them into the dips. They ended up getting mostly cracked to fit but I did want to keep the undulations. I forgot to take a photo without the lathes on so this is when I remembered:
First I put on normal copy paper strips stained with a dark india ink and IPA mix. I used card glue from Deluxe Materials to glue the strips down:
I then stripped sections off to get the worn out beat up look:
I then used tissue stained with the IPA mix as patches:
You can see the dips in the roof:
I’m thinking of putting in some eaves pieces of wood to cover the gap you can see from this angle:
I got a lovely box of goodies from BTS to make the insides for the saloon. I love the piano:
All it needs now are the people (who are hopefully mid-Atlantic as we speak):
