In the rural areas served by the Augusta & New Arcadia, old wooden buildings are very common. This new kit from Walthers Conerstone seems to fit the setting and made a nice, simple project for a couple of evenings.
The kit is made with an advanced plastic injection technique, where to colours of plastic are fused together, making the assembly much faster. On the other hand it makes custom painting more of a challenge.
The base in front of the house probably is supposed to look like cement, but in order to backdate the building, I placed a boardwalk there. I had several weathered strips of wood left over from a O scale kit, and by cutting them in half, they provided plenty of suitable boards.
The kit comes with a number of decals for use as signs – they are easy to apply and adds a lot of character to the building. I applied the decals before weathering the walls with two brown washes and a light tan drybrush, which makes the colourful sign seem more faded with age.
I also used the Micro Sol solutions for the first time for making the decal appear to be painted on the walls – it worked surprisingly well.
The kit also included a LED light as well as window boxes, but I put that aside for later. Lighting model buildings takes up so much time, that I usually skip it.
The kit builds into a very nice model. Its architecture seems to suggest a wide possible construction period, perhaps from the middle of the 19th century and some decades into the 20th. Or what do you think?
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