tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064796956302169303.post3063207926309792166..comments2024-03-25T02:21:43.523-04:00Comments on 30Squares: The E. L. Moore Files: Grandpa Bunn's Feed and SeedJ D Lowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907821767203109311noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064796956302169303.post-82609203260046886542015-03-14T15:05:32.089-04:002015-03-14T15:05:32.089-04:00I made at least one more model with card clapboard...I made at least one more model with card clapboards before I changed to N scale. Once there, I decided to scribe the siding rather than to make it 3D. It's easy to overdo textures in smaller scales and I think I was successful. While I was at it, I also scribed in the window and door frames. Boy, that saved a lot of work.<br /><br />My photocopied shingles have the look of 3D while being perfectly flat.<br /><br />I have embossed balsa like ELM but, not having a wood burning pen, I used a pencil instead. On wood shingles, I first draw on guide lines, then press my steel ruler across to emboss the rows before I pick out individual shingles. One day I may try that for clapboard, but it better be subtle and spaced tight. <br /><br />I also used the pencil to carve in stones on tunnel portals, bridge supports and log cabin sides. I ought to buy a wood burning pen and try it ELM's way. He was able to make interesting texture that made it look like individually applied pieces.VBDihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02354416562358609303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064796956302169303.post-20379843567997589312015-03-14T13:42:09.502-04:002015-03-14T13:42:09.502-04:00I gave cardstock clapboard siding a try back in th...I gave cardstock clapboard siding a try back in the '70s. One day my father brought home a stack of Fortran punch cards. This Mineral City Depot : http://www.30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2010/03/mineral-city-depot.html was one of the projects from that stack. Cutting and gluing them in place made me crazy, but I hung in to finish the thing. Although, I never used thin card to make siding ever again after that :-)J D Lowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07907821767203109311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064796956302169303.post-60436343652172454772015-03-14T12:15:39.670-04:002015-03-14T12:15:39.670-04:00For a first scratchbuild, Bunn's is not an eas...For a first scratchbuild, Bunn's is not an easy project. But ELM had a way of walking you through construction hand-in-hand in a way that encouraged beginners. <br /><br />My first ELM building was Figet's Cheese Foundry. In my first attempt, I used 1/8" clapboard on an HO model because I couldn't find 1/16". Later I rebuilt it with cardstock clapboards and still made them oversize! I got fancy and stuck on Campbell's windows. Odd how I combined homemade clapboard with store-bought windows and doors. Well, at least I stuck with ELM's technique for corrugated siding. I made the back wall plain and later regretted it because I repositioned it on an NMRA module and had to detail it back up.<br /><br />On a later model (from his Dilly Clocks, actually a Bill Livingston copy), I went all-out and used index card clapboards, home-sliced stripwood for windows (complete with notched stools and cardstock aprons), and my first try at Floquil-painted ruling-pen muntins. I still stopped short of many roof details, but it gave me a boost to think so much was built from household scraps.<br /><br />But I agree, your first scratchbuilding success is, in its own way, like your first love. VBDihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02354416562358609303noreply@blogger.com