Gazzas Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Wow! That really looks great! I really like all of the detail you've added, and I'm pretty amazed that a lot of that exists as kits. Gaz mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 Shawn: lol. I'm a neat freak so my area of operations is usually clean. I'm a pig while I'm workin' but I always incorporate the clean up into whatever job I have. Gaz: Thanks man. I find more new things every day I work with this scale. Shawn M and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 Ok folks. I've been rackin' my brain trying to figure out two of my problems with this build. First off , the floor was just too dang clean. I tried dirtying up the paper based flooring with ground up brown and black pastel rubbed into the flooring but it wasn't enough. As you all know, it would just rub off. Then my thoughts turned to some 1000 grit sandpaper. . Now that............might just work. So I started on the first two rows of tile and lo and behold.........it was just what I wanted!! You can see the difference between the first two rows and the rest of the flooring in the following photo: So I sanded the whole floor and put some more "dirt and grime" on the walls: This is also going to be an "inside" display with the only outside reference being seen through the window in the back of the shop so I had to put terminating ends on the sides and tops of the walls. I was at odds on how to accomplish that until this morning. I grabbed some black Evergreen styrene sheets that I had and started measuring, cutting and gluing. Before: and after (I'll be installing a door to hide the doorway wall innards): Shawn M, Jeff, Gazzas and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Joe, That's a great improvement! Changes the entire complexion of your garage. Do you regularly clear the cobwebs out of your garage? Looking really good! Gaz mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Joe, That's a great improvement! Changes the entire complexion of your garage. Do you regularly clear the cobwebs out of your garage? Looking really good! Gaz LOL! Thanks Gaz. Well fellas I've spent a ton of time working on the base garage and have made some satisfactory progress. For starters I installed the door into the opening but it didn't look right without the door trim around the opening so I cut some Evergreen into strips, painted and cleared 'em, installed them and weathered them some without going overboard. I'll be doing this with the window opening as well. I also put together an old Chevy Truck advertisement into a picture frame by taping the photo onto the back of some clear Evergreen styrene and then masking and painting a frame onto the front of it. Getting back to the door I dirtied it up a bit and threw a couple of performance decals on it just to give the shop some character. Door handle and lock were painted with a Molotow Chrome pen and installed. Lastly, I decided to throw something oddball in. In my office is a file cabinet with a fishing advertisement sticker on the side of it and I thought and decided I could throw it on the wall in between the shelves of my storage shelving that's going to go into that corner for a subtle addition to the shop. Here's the sticker in my office: Here's the shop after installing all of what I've talked about here this morning. Notice the sticker made into a decal on the wall as well. Shaka HI, Jeff and LSP_K2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Joe, Now it's really starting to look realistic! Gaz mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Thanks Gaz! More coming tomorrow...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Thanks Gaz! More coming tomorrow...................... ............or later. lol Got a little more done and thought I'd have some fun today. I have more signs but was careful not to overdo it. The sign over the door made me laugh my ass off. Actually.................BOTH did. Look closely. In the foreground are the Evergreen strips for the window trim. Gotta make some diagonal cuts in the ends in which to butt them together, prime and paint 'em up and get 'em on the wall still. Shaka HI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The signs are totally funny! Being a fisherman, I like the bumper sticker too! mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 this is really coming to life now mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssculptor Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I finally got a professional tool box like you find in a real auto gas station garage. Heck even my daughter has one of those, It is in her living room. That's my daughter, a chip off the old block head. But when we had the fire 2 years ago nothing much was moved out of the garage so I left it there. But it got packed in by all the other stuff shoved in there and I could not get to it. In the mean time I had all these other tools spread all over the house so when we moved to the temporary home I bought another metal box of drawers, but not as big as the garage original. Then when we moved back into my rebuilt house I got an even smaller box so I could keep a minimum of necessary tools in one place, the main floor of the house. Now I have the really big box in the garage, the medium size box in the basement and now the smaller box in the first floor of my house. I have lots of tools. I like lots of tools. Tools is good. mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Thanks fellas for the good word. I just keep chipping away at this thing and sooner or later I'll get done with it. ssculptor: I've got a couple of boxes. One was for my dealership ( which is now in my garage) and the other is the "house" tool box. You can guess which one I don't want anybody's clubs in around the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 Well gang...............I started thinking about how I could go about the outside of the walls but didn't just want to put something directly over the walls because the window and door wouldn't be spaced in any plus it'd be really hard to cover what is already there without damaging the walls that I already have in place. So I came up with an idea. I cut out a piece of plexiglass the dimensions of the walls and cut out the window area for the back wall and will cut out the door area for the side wall so that both items are spaced in from the outside of the walls. Wall trimming in progress: and the outside of the wall now covered in a textured brick pattern covering from Dollhouse Miniatures. I've still got a little clean up to do but you get the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-10LOADER Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 You spelled Excetions on the sign over the door incorrectly, it should be EXCEPTIONS. Steve mustang1989 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 (edited) You spelled Excetions on the sign over the door incorrectly, it should be EXCEPTIONS. Steve Heya Steve. Think about that for a sec. That's part of the joke my good plastic buildin' brutha. Edited February 2, 2018 by mustang1989 A-10LOADER and Gazzas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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