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#16
Kit Building / Re: Bar Mills Delancey St - Rickett's
February 18, 2020, 03:27:47 AM
The walls braced up.

The bracing along the top edge of the side walls, that will support the roof, are exactly to the measurements given in the instructions.

The gap at the bottom of the front wall is where it will overlap the built up store front.

Jim
#17
Kit Building / Bar Mills Delancey St - Rickett's
February 18, 2020, 03:22:30 AM
I actually started this kit back before Christmas, but put it aside over the holidays, and then for the Challenge build.

I have mixed feelings about this kit. Not just Ricketts, but the whole set. I love Bar Mills kits, I've built several, and always have fun doing them. Their instructions can sometimes be a bit erratic, or scattered, but if one reads them all before hand, it's not a problem. And they usually contain some of Art's humor.

Delancey St comes with 70 pages of instructions, broken up into sections for each building. But you almost have to read them all through before you begin, as there are bits here and there that might pertain to one of the other structures. With all that, they admit that the instructions are not complete, and refer you to several 'How To' videos for further info. There were supposed to be 7 videos, one for each structure and one for the overall diorama, I believe. That would work fine, I guess, if they had actually done it that way. But they only did one each for 4 of the buildings, a part 2 for 2 of those, and one on the scaffolding. One building was missed altogether. As for the videos, they basically just consist of Atr and Jack Ellis talking about the individual kit, pointing out a few things you might not notice at 1st glance while building it, and a bit on techniques. Overall, an experienced modeler could probably build the kit just fine without the videos, and I don't feel they would help a less experienced modeler all that much. 

Perhaps this large a kit just took way more time for them to do up, and they had to do it this way to get the kit out the door without a lot of delay.

Ok, so that being all said, here's the 3 pics, of the kit parts and the instruction sheets showing the built kit.

Jim
#18
I think Jaime is one of those media "influencers"

Was in a small hobby shop last week, not far from here, there was 1 of these kits and 2 of the other in stock, and decent prices. The guy working there saw me looking, said they had had 5 of each, on the shelf for a while, then sold 7 within the last several weeks.

Wonderful job on the kit, Jamie.

Jim
#19
Dan, really nice build.

Love the mods you made, and the color scheme.

Great to see a more 'common' type structure being built, they tend to get over shadowed by all the big 'interesting' type kits.

Jim
#20
Really nice, Jaime.

Paper kits are big in the UK. Some packaged, like the Paper Creek ones, most downloadable, ranging fro free to a few dollars.

I've done a few, over the last few years.

Jim
#21
Wow, nostalgia city!

One of the 1st 'craftsman' kits I ever did. Learned a lot from George's instructions, back then.

Super nice build, Jaime.

Jim
#22
How to make a background model a foreground model :)

Looks fantastic.

Jim
#23
Kit Building / Re: Sierra West Loco & Service Shops:
February 18, 2020, 02:28:39 AM
Karl,

As always, amazing work. Thanks for sharing.

Jim
#24
Beautiful, Mark.

I avoid waterfront scenes, I'd have to do them at ultra low tide, my water modeling is the pits LOL

Jim
#25
Kit Building / Re: FSM Chippy Hollow Hardware
February 18, 2020, 02:25:50 AM
Great looking, the decking came out especially nice.

Jim
#26
Nice build.

Watching to see it finished, this is a kit I'd like to build at some point.

Jim
#27
Kit Building / Re: FOS Bandits Roost
February 18, 2020, 02:22:50 AM
WOW!

Just catching up with all the builds.

George, you are amazing. You are on of those people blessed with a artist's sense, to go with your building skills.

Love this build.

Jim
#28
Looks excellent, love the wood texture and coloring.

Jim
#29
Just catching up.

Incredible detail work, Bob.

Jim
#30
Good to see you getting back into building, Greg.

Really nice work on the kit, gonna steal, I mean borrow, that second floor method :)

Jim
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