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 Posted - February 13 2016 : 6:52:02 PM
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For this week I would like to show off the very first HO scale building I ever constructed, an "Aunt Milles House" kit from AHM. I was in the third grade at the time and it became my favorite structure on my layout. Recently I rediscovered this building while cleaning out a closet at my parent's home. Needless to say it was dusty and dinged up and not exactly assembled with much skill.
I decided to resurrect this building with a complete rebuild. After gently disassembling the original building, I replaced the damaged and missing components with parts from a new kit and finished it off with a new paint job. (The color is Penn Central Jade Green).
The rebuilt house is now installed on my latest HO scale layout.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 7:43:24 PM
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That away Scott. Nice to see you made such good use of a older building.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 9:57:54 PM
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And it looks great. Restoring older stuff is so much more rewarding than
buying new.
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 11:51:55 PM
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The building is nicely done, but the real treat is the use of detail parts: the mailbox, mower, cat, woman sweeping, etc.
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 12:16:39 AM
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| Nice work Scott. I like it all including your clean paint work and the color choices for the house.
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 10:43:30 AM
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I love that you still have your first house! Great tribute to your childhood.
My first house was.....Aunt Millie's house also! And I still have it also. I remember it on my layout as a child, next to 'Ma's Place.' I made a clothesline with paper clothes running from the back to a pole.
As good as your 'adult' layouts get, I still think the ones from childhood are the most special.
Thanks for posting this. It brought back memories.
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 4:21:14 PM
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My BOTW is a Bachmann Union Pacific caboose turned into a mobile home, basically. 
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 5:02:43 PM
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My building of the week is the house that will be used on the farm area... 
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 9:08:26 PM
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Hmm... That looks like it shares parts with Srenchin's kit.
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Posted - February 15 2016 : 6:30:33 PM
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I like that color Strenchin. That caboose looks like my
home, after I get done paying city taxes.
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Posted - February 17 2016 : 4:16:16 PM
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I should be paying my taxes, but after drifting into an antique shop I had to
have these for $24 for my 1860's 3.5 x 3.5 layout. I had virtually nothing to
do with building them, I'm not that good. Author unknown. Hopefully I can glue
the chimney back on without lousing it up. Please see "Layouts- constructions
and operations" as I have a few questions...
By the way, the antique shop has several other pieces of this nature, in an
Old West theme, by the same modeler at similar prices: a "Kang's Saloon",
a rather nice rooming house (a bit on the large side), a depot, and assorted
Old West shacks and shanties. Let me know if interested and I will arrange
to obtain and ship them for you. They are delicate, so I will have to buy peanuts
and a larger box, so that I would have to ask for those costs, in addition to
shipping, as well as the price of the structure. PM me if interested.
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Posted - February 17 2016 : 11:10:08 PM
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| Looks like you got a super buy there Jeff.
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Posted - February 17 2016 : 11:31:41 PM
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Heh, heh, I swiped them off your old layout when
you weren't looking!
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Posted - February 17 2016 : 11:34:34 PM
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quote:Heh, heh, I swiped them off your old layout when
you weren't looking!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 17 2016Â :Â 11:31:41 PM
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Jeff, Did that antique store have any light poles??
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Posted - February 18 2016 : 3:37:51 PM
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My botw this week is a Suydam Wells Fargo station. It has been the simplest kit yet, but had to
make some modifications here and there.
Now to get the stagecoach assembled and we can start getting some new blood in here.
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Posted - February 18 2016 : 8:25:56 PM
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| I wants ALL the Western buildings!
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Posted - February 18 2016 : 9:43:02 PM
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quote:My botw this week is a Suydam Wells Fargo station. It has been the simplest kit yet, but had to make some modifications here and there.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â February 18 2016Â :Â 3:37:51 PM
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That sign directly on the siding is especially nice. How was it applied?
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Posted - February 18 2016 : 10:14:42 PM
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He didn't. The sign is not directly on the siding, it's a separate piece. And looking at an unbuilt kit, the piece comes with the sign already painted or tampographed onto it.
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Posted - February 19 2016 : 12:33:49 AM
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Actually, the sign was a separate piece that I had to trim and then attach to the front of the
buildling. I use Gorilla Gel Super glue to assemble my buildings as they are wood/cardboard
and plastic.
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Posted - February 19 2016 : 08:07:30 AM
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quote:Actually, the sign was a separate piece that I had to trim and then attach to the front of the buildling.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â February 19 2016Â :Â 12:33:49 AM
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Now that I look more closely, the grooves between the boards on the sign don't all match up with the grooves between the boards on the siding. I wasn't looking at it right.
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Posted - February 19 2016 : 1:42:41 PM
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And you really weren't looking at the side-on view right.
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Posted - February 19 2016 : 5:20:03 PM
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Well it sure fooled me. I thought someone had hand painted the thing right onto the siding. Yes, with a brush. 
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Posted - February 21 2016 : 10:56:22 AM
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quote: quote:Heh, heh, I swiped them off your old layout when
you weren't looking!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 17 2016Â :Â 11:31:41 PM
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Jeff, Did that antique store have any light poles??
Originally posted by walt - February 17 2016 : 11:34:34 PM
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NOPE. Walt had already been there. 
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