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mhlr
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by mhlr » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:36 pm
Heres a little restoration I'm taking up. I bought a Pub on Ebay, and its looking a little tatty, but Im going to redo the plastering (i think he used pollyfiller...) and refit the widows etc. And rename it!
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by steamyjim » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:36 pm
Nice looking building Pete!
Im sure after you have finished with it, it will look grand!
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by steamyjim » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:37 pm
You need a Mamod steam wagon painted up in the colours and name of the MHLRs local brewery to delivery 16mm scale beer
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by SillyBilly » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:27 pm
Looks a bit tatty, but I'm sure it'll come out of the workshop looking great
! How has it been built (ie. construction method)?
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by mhlr » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:46 pm
Jim, cheers, haha, that would be good if I cud afford one!
Will, it is tatty, but great base to work on, its ply with polyfiller on top!
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by steamyjim » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:11 pm
mhlr wrote:Jim, cheers, haha, that would be good if I cud afford one!
Will, it is tatty, but great base to work on, its ply with polyfiller on top!
Get a cheap crappy one on Ebay. Would need repainting so paint and rust isn't important
Could even convert to RC
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by mhlr » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:05 pm
no, not till I have some money about. I need to spend it on the railway first, scenery, stock, and give some to my dad for cemente n stuff
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by mhlr » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:01 pm
Well its been a loooooooooooong time since I last did anything with the pub. But today I had a start on it. It's been stripped of all the 'loose' plaster (pollyfiller!) and I took the signs etc off ready for replastering, painting etc.
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by ACLR » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:06 pm
that should come up a treat
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by Chris » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:25 pm
Will look great I'm sure. I still need to get a building or two.
Personally I think I would strip all the polyfiller off though.
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by cjallenby » Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:12 pm
A cheap way of getting is to look good would be to strip off the polly filler paint it with some old house paint (white or cream looks best.) then add some fine sand to the paint and put another layer on top. I have done this with my one complete (except lights and some interiors!) building. I even found fridge magnets and stuck them on to advertise various drinks. Before and after shots are below!
Before looking rather tired and a tad on the derilict side!
And after with sand tex paint and fridge magnets! Road surface needs improving though...
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by mhlr » Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:30 pm
Hmmm now there's a good idea! Looks very nice!
I haven't touched the pub since I stripped the polyfiller off, I will hopefully get around to finishing it this year
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by mhlr » Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:24 pm
mhlr wrote:I haven't touched the pub since I stripped the polyfiller off, I will hopefully get around to finishing it this year :lol:
...and indeed I have!
Will look quite photogenic once I have put some concrete down and made a road up to it!
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by taliesin001 » Tue Aug 03, 2010 7:06 pm
that looks fantastic, and very cornish
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by Narrow Minded » Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:01 pm
Looks great!
Are you going to do an interior? (Nice article about making simple building interiors with "Photoshop" or equivalent in one this months model railway mags if you're interested
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by mhlr » Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:44 pm
Hmmm, I was considering a bit of interior, but I went against it as you can hardly see inside in normal circumstances. The camera does tend to pick it up however, and if I fitted interior lights...
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by Narrow Minded » Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:04 am
I'll sort out the article for you - basically you print out the room interior, fold it up into a "box to sit behind the windows, install lighting and that's it!
Having said that, in 16mm scale it shouldn't be too much bother to knock up and paint room interiors from ply and bits'n'bobs. Not forgetting the
brilliant idea in the last issue of Garden Rail about putting up "curtains" with back lit cardboard cutout figures throwing convincing shadows on them!!!
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by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:05 pm
You finally got the pub in position! Looks great!
The railway which people forgot
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