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Super User 428 posts Michael Graff Graffen Super User 428 posts
Michael Graff Graffen

I built the Blair line church kit.
http://www.blairline.com/church/


I started it two days ago.... ????
It's a rather good kit, but the roof material sucked. I replaced it with Campbell shingles instead.
 

The lack of a bell bothered me, but I solved it by 3D printing a bell and fastener.
 

I weathered it by painting white acrylic over stained wood that I had soaked with mineral spirits.
 

The roof is painted tan and then I brushed on burnt umber oil paint that I wiped of while wet.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Michael Graff, cultural heritage advisor for the Church of Sweden.

"Deo adjuvante labor proficit"
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Michael Watson Regular poster 497 posts
Michael Watson

Great job !

I think you did a fantastic job of building and painting this structure. The weathering is perfect for a rural church. Nice job on making the bell to add to the detail. I do hope you light this so that those beautiful stained glass windows can shine through.Thanks for sharing you painting technique to obtain that great look.

Michael
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musgrovejb Prolific poster 1,736 posts
musgrovejb

Very Nice

Great model!

Joe

Modeling Missouri Pacific Railroad's Central Division, Fort Smith, Arkansas

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLENIMVXBDQCrKbhMvsed6kBC8p40GwtxQ

 
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Douglas Meyer Prolific poster 2,073 posts
Douglas Meyer

Are bells with exterior pulls

Are bells with exterior pulls common in your area?  The area I model has the pulls internal in the bell tower.

-Doug 
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rickwade Prolific poster (deceased) 6,447 posts
rickwade

Very nice!

I really like your church.  There's one in Mt Dora that looks very similar.

Rick

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BB New member 4 posts
BB

Exterior White Finish

Could you please expand a little on how you accomplished the white exterior.  I have a couple of craftsman kits that I would like to do in white, and your finish looks great!

 

Brad
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Deemiorgos Super User 7,338 posts
Deemiorgos

Very realistic and a tad

Very realistic and a tad eerie; it could be used in a scene from the "The Walking Dead" or "True Blood". ; )
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Greg Williams GregW66 Prolific poster 1,305 posts
Greg Williams GregW66

Puts me in mind of one of

Puts me in mind of one of mine. Great job! I need to build one.
Greg Williams
Superintendent - Eastern Canada Division - NMRA
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Wabash Banks Regular poster 471 posts
Wabash Banks

Great job!

I like it a lot! Love the stained glass. Was it part of the kit?
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Warflight Prolific poster 3,008 posts
Warflight

Beauty!

Very nice indeed! I like it, but then, I have always been fond of old churches. I've been looking for an HO scale synagogue that would fit into a small shtetl (small Jewish community in the late 1800s, early 1900s) So far, the only synagogues I can find are either a plastic kit of a famous synagogue in New York (WAY too big, and WAY too modern) or a kit made of paper being sold by a Russian eBay vendor. (it could work, if only it wasn't paper) The goy have their Christmas trains... I want a Chanukkah train this year (a steam engine, done in blue and silver, painted with a white Mogein David on the side, and a chanukiah (a Chanukkah Menorah... eight trees and a shamash, unlike a Menorah, which is six, and a shamash) as a smoke stack! I wanted to paint a "Santa" figure in blue and white, with a talit, and call him "Hanukkah Harry", and have a bunch of little Prieser "rabbi" figures instead of elves, but, my roommate (also Jewish) put his foot down on that (even though our rabbi said it would be HILARIOUS!) I will have my "Menche on a Bench" however... He's way better than Elf on a Shelf... Menche on a bench doesn't tattle to nobody, because "snittshes bakumen stittshes" (snitches get stitches)
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Louiex2 Frequent poster 561 posts
Louiex2

Synagogue Plans

Here's a link to details, photos and plans for the Woodbine Brotherhood Synagogue (Woodbine, NJ) from the Historic American Buildings Survey at the Library of Congress.  The building is 36' x 56' and one story tall so it might be a good starting point.  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/nj0044/

I've built several structures from plans found at the Historic American Buildings Survey- it's usually my starting point for research for scratch building projects..

Lou in Utah.
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Louiex2 Frequent poster 561 posts
Louiex2

Very Nice Work

Graffen,

Excellent build- especially the finish and exterior walls. You should do an article for MRH on how you achieved such a realistic finish.  I hve the similar BEST Bodie Methodist Church kit started but getting the exterior to look right is one of the things that has the project stalled. 

Keep sharing your great work.

Lou in Utah
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Warflight Prolific poster 3,008 posts
Warflight

Ooh! Nice!

That could work!
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