Started this kit tonight, took less than 2 hours to get this far. Braced the interior walls, primed the exterior walls with gray primer. Dry brushed on the green paint, put some “white” on a sponge and splotged / textured the green paint, weathering it. Glued on acetate onto the interior walls over the window areas. Somehow, in the last several kits I started putting the acetate on the interior walls AFTER I glued the walls together, and finally realized I was doing it a bit ass backwards – it’s a lot easier gluing them onto the interior walls when the walls are laying flat, and not connected together. Then glued the walls together, and made sure they were square while the glued dried.
This will be a two evening project – three at the most. Have to stain/paint the corner posts and glue them on, there are only four of them. There’s less than a dozen windows and a side door along with a garage door. They’ve been primed but still need to paint them a contrasting color. This will take much of the second evening, doesn’t sound like much, so I should be able to glue the three roofs down, and shingle them up. After that, just stain and glue on the detail parts like exhaust fan(s), chimney, vents, stack of tires, and weather the signs and glue them on the walls.
Easy peasey. This kit comes from KC Workshop, costs $40. It has a sister kit called “Goober’s Garage” ($85); a somewhat larger kit which is on the list to do. I think I did a pretty good job for my first KC Workshop kit, the instructions (half dozen pages, not a whole lot of pictures) are pretty minimal compared to the Bar Mills kits that have double or triple that amount.
