A follow-along, step-by-step scratch building project
Part Three.
more square wood stock and the usual SHARP blades. For glue I start with "Tacky Glue"
followed by an application of ACC for added strength.
siding, one for the building and one
for the roof. Back to that later. The
sheet for the building is NOE 369,
3/16' siding which translate to boards
9 scale inches wide. You could use
wider or narrower boards, board and
batten, clapboard, whatever you like,
or whatever you have the most of, or
mix them as I did in LOU's canoes.
See picture 1.
made the side walls? Right, 3 1/2 inches. See how easy I am? We'll butt the end walls
to those to add a little bit more length.
Cut two sections 2 inches tall (8 scale feet), one has a cut out for a Grandt Line
5-panel door #3607, the other for an attic window #3722. Use whatever you like/have
on hand.
The two ends are 2 1/2 inches wide, 2 inches tall and 3 1/8 inches at the apex, this
should give you a 90 degree pitch roof. One end has another Grandt Line attic window,
the other on the bunker side is an opening that is a scale 2 x 4 feet and 2 feet from the
bottom. Now lets distress that wood using a different method than for the bunker.
boards would look alike, not what I
wanted. Draw the tip of a dull #11 blade
along the wood, varying the grain as to
closeness, direction and depth. Note that
boards above window openings don't
have the same grain as those below.
looked at it that I needed to do a little bit more de-fuzzing and that the thickness of the
broken boards was too thick. These don't really show all that much but you will note
that there are others on the sides that will, so I shaved off some material. Figs. 1, 3.
same 6 x 6 boards I used on the bunker. Note
the side walls fit INSIDE the end walls.
Bracing adds strength and will minimize any
chance of warping when we paint.
The roof is made of two pieces of NOE 356, 1/8
inch scribed siding -6 scale inch boards. They
are 2 x 4 1/4 inches. Note: the roof will be
attached to the building with the scribed side
down. The boards have been distressed using
the saw method.
been cut in for 1/4 inch or so to make it look like they are individual boards and not part
of a sheet, then in two of the lower corners I have bent a couple of boards so it will look
like they droop down. In picture 4 you will see that I pictured one piece of the roof with
the scribing down, just as it would be when installed on the building, but I cut out a
rectangle and glued it back in reverse. This will show through a torn part of tar roofing.
favorite method to insure everything is square.
I am a firm believer in dry-fitting and
measuring twice before cutting. Note the
corner brace also. Continue with the other two
sides and then glue both assemblies together.
The two pictures below show you what it
looks like so far, not glued together yet.
