Gormo`s Bench ( Building a Market House from a card kit. )

G`day Folks,
Well I got out into the shed this afternoon determined to build something.
So I`ve had a SuperQuick kit for some time now waiting to be built so I thought I`d have a crack at it.



We start with the inner walls carefully removed from the main card. I am following the instructions to the letter.



The center columns are strengthened with a small card insert. Mini pegs hold the parts until the PVA sets.





In the meantime I start preparing the main outer walls. Cutting out the window apertures and the arch inserts.




The main walls safely removed and now ready to be glazed.




Windows cut out and left with enough spare material for gluing.


Windows now fitted in place




Now the inner walls are centered over their respective columns on the main outer and glued into place.
I leave them weighed down for a while to ensure a good bond. It`s also important to align the bottoms of the columns carefully to ensure that the building will sit square.



Now we start preparing the main back wall by exactly the same process.




More to follow.......Gormo

 

Continuing on we add glazing to the main back wall






And then the arch inserts have to be fitted. These are strips of thin printed card that have to be cut out accurately and glued up under the arches.




I use a fat pen to roll them into approximate shape rather than bending them in my hands. It makes for a better result.





This is not exact but it`s well on the way to fitting first go without fudging about too much and making a mess.





If you glue under the arches first and then place the liner in between the arches and then just slide it down into place and press it home with your fingers.





I will touch up the white edges of the inserts with a felt pen and all will look as one.





The back wall has also been completed.




Now we start assembly proper by bending the first right angled corner. This glue joint is critical so I`ve made sure everything is weighted and held securely until the PVA goes off......probably overnight because it`s a wee bit cold out in the shed now.



More to follow.......Gormo

 

The project continues until the dropping temperature nudged me back indoors to the warmth.
Now the large main wall has had it`s two right angled bends applied and set.






Next stage is gluing on the back wall, which will have to be set in place correctly and held fast until the glue sets. I did that this morning and it was left until late afternoon before I released it and carried on with more of the build.
So here we are now with the four walls set in place and sitting square on the table surface.





The inner floor with stair access has now to be dealt with. The printed floor faces downwards to the under part of the building and the small printed strip on the right will be attached to the back of the larger card as a backing for the stairs.





The strip has now been glued in place and the stair support bent down to an appropriate angle to meet the floor under the building. The paving base that came with the kit is not ringing any bells for me, so I may make a replacement that better suits the site where the building will be placed.




You also have the option with this kit to fill in some of the arches, if you so desire, so I thought two arches directly next to the stairs would be logical and appropriate.
You just have to stick two parts back to back to give a double sided brick infill.





I made a thin center line of PVA along the inside of the arches and then pushed the infills into place.









The next stage is fitting the stairs. They had to be released from a sprue and they need a bit of a tidy up.





The stair rail is then glued to the stairs.




More to follow.......Gormo

 

The floor is now set into the building by applying a bead of PVA around the internal diameter of the walls on top of the arches. Once the floor is in place, it`s weighed down until the glue sets.





Then the stairs have some glue applied to the back of them and then placed in position.




This corner of the layout is the intended location for the building and at this early stage I think it will fit in fairly well




More to follow......Gormo

 

No Toto,
You would need a good stretch to see anything inside the building, however I may fit an LED to the underneath to light it up at night and possibly mask the windows to light the the top floor.
I`m still pondering that one. The building is easy enough to light and the wires can run down the insides of the corner columns.
Of course the kit comes with market stalls as well so that may be a nice touch and add possibilities for some cameos to bring it to life.
Gormo

 

Thanks Sir TophamHatt,
The kits are surprisingly robust, however their detail may not suit everybody. That said, they are easy enough to kit bash and improve the look of them.
Gormo

 

Oh c`mon Paul......you know you want to do it..............
Gormo

 

Thanks Ian,
We`ll see how it turns out.?...



Today so far, Ive cut down the paving base that the building is supposed to stand on. I felt the footprint was too large and would clash somewhat with the cobble stones in the area where the building will be placed. Now the paving is just slightly larger than the base of the building.





This is just the building placed on top and not yet fitted permanently. I have a couple of things to do underneath which are non standard so I still need the access.




I`ve also found an image that I have re-sized to suit the walls of the building. These images will be printed out and glued behind the windows. The idea being that when the building has internal lighting, these images will act like a back lit screen and suggest you are looking at the interior of the building.



the images printed out and cut out.





And now gluing them in place.




Testing with a torch tells me it works although the room is not dark enough to appreciate the full effect.




Well dinner is nearly ready........so more to follow when it`s done
Gormo

 

A bit more done this evening.
We are now up to the guttering and attached soffit. I am not a great fan of this roll your own guttering and on models I`ve made in the past, I`ve replaced it with home made guttering made from umbrella struts.
That said, I thought I should at least try it out and see how it goes.



So the method is such that you cut out the part, score along the score lines and then start folding and rolling the guttering until it looks like the picture from the instructions below.





Well call me useless, call me stupid, call me what you like.......I can`t get the stupid thing to do what I want without it looking very amateurish indeed....
I am a patient man, but rolling these little suckers pushes me over the edge. Give me the umbrella struts, which are the right shape to start with and I can cut them and paint them and glue them on, plus I`ll add some down pipes as well....

So I removed the soffits and fitted them to the building and I`ll add the guttering when the building is fully assembled.





Moving on to the roof assembly. The roof simply has to be folded and glued.





To strengthen the joint, a small strip of paper is glued up underneath.





The roof valance sits atop the walls, however it is first fitted under the roof section. This piece is plain card on the non printed side,so I used my water colour pencils to paint the under side and the edges to improve the look of the part.




On reflection I thought the painted underside would actually look better as the topside because it has that uneven weathered look to it, whereas the smooth underside makes sense as it would be less exposed to the elements.





The executive decision was made and I followed through with the plan and glued the valance to the roof.





Parts test fitting together only to show how we`re going.





Testing with the torch again down through the hole for the clock tower




Well that`s it for today folks......it`s quittin time.......time to put the horse in the barn.....takes the boots off and have a beer.....Eeehah !!!


Gormo

 

Thanks Paul,
....well maybe........food for thought there
Gormo

 

G`day robmog,
I`m open to all ideas, however I do not have a 3D printer.
This kit ultimately, will be more of a background building, some 3 feet at least, away from the viewer, so I`m not too concerned about the level of detail.
Gormo

 

G`day Folks,
Well we`re getting into the nitty gritty side of the build.....the little parts.....the careful cutting of small parts and trying to fully comprehend the instructions and the drawings.......this is not an easy walk in the park, so patience required.....and if it gets frustrating...just walk away for a while.

Below we have cut out and ready to go,....ridge capping...clock tower frame....bell tower frame....clock faces....louvres for bell tower ...formers and base plates.





The ridge capping was scored to create a fold line and the edges coloured with water colour pencil....then glued in place.




The clock faces were added to the clock tower





Then the walls were glued around an internal former





The bell tower was given a similar treatment whereby the louvers were set in place and then the walls glued around and internal former.





The bell tower roof was then folded and glued in place.




Test fitting the parts.




Before all of the above parts can be joined together , I intend to fit and LED into the clock tower and an LED inside the top floor of the building and possibly one or two on the outside walls of the building. So I need to carefully insert the LEDS and more importantly , allow enough wiring to travel through the building so it can be terminated under the baseboard. Resistors can be added under the baseboard and even daisy chained if necessary to reduce the light intensity.

More to follow......Gormo

 

G`day Folks,
Away we go again onto the final furlong on the home straight.
Dress up pieces ( optional ) being added now around the building. This trim above the arches looks quite nice to me.










Now we drill some holes in the base of the clock tower former to allow us to feed the LED wires through.





The LED is centered as close as possible in the tower and underneath I have secure the LED legs to the card with some of this new 5 second set resin that is about these days. The resin goes off when exposed to an ultra violet light ( supplied with glue gun )





Once the clock tower was wired and sorted the bell tower was glued on top.




Then using the same methods, I fitted an internal LED for the upper floor of the building.







Then I cut out some white card to match the inner dimensions of the the upper floor. The card will serve two purposes. Firstly to assist with light bleed from the building and secondly, to provide a more reflective surface for the LED to bounce off in the upper level.








Then the complete roof section was fitted permanently to the building




More to follow

 

The base is next to be fitted, but first it needs a hole punched through in the corner to allow the wiring to pass through and below.





Once the wiring had been fed through the hole , PVA was applied to the bottoms of the columns and the building was pressed down into place on the base.





So here we are....any further updates on this building will be covered on the GCJ thread




















So that`s it folks, guttering, down pipes and placement on the layout will be continued on

https://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/inde...erford-junction-part-two.6/page-95#post-81016

Hope you enjoyed the run through build of this little building........they call them SuperQuick.....but I would challenge that description.....

Gormo