@Mark Boyce posted:
Mark, I haven’t had much input on your street design, but I like the flow of this one. It seems to fit the area with a nice, smooth transition. Will it be brick also?
Gene
Thank you, Jay, Gene!
Gene, yes it will be brick. I will see if I can continue the brick on down the slope to the grade crossing. I may have to make a section off the layout and glue it in place if I find I am not able to make the transition from level to down with the roller.
Last evening I scored the brick where I wanted to remove it and pealed the unneeded section off with a putty knife. Today, I made a base for the slope down to the grade crossing. In addition, I painted white over the board and batten wall sections of the Bar Mills garage kit I had sprayed with gray primer. I made a light coat of white with some gray shining through. I think it looks pretty good. Just now, I glued the sections together. There will be a brick addition to the right side of the part I have been working on.
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@Mark Boyce posted:Thank you, Jay, Gene!
Gene, yes it will be brick. I will see if I can continue the brick on down the slope to the grade crossing. I may have to make a section off the layout and glue it in place if I find I am not able to make the transition from level to down with the roller.
Last evening I scored the brick where I wanted to remove it and pealed the unneeded section off with a putty knife. Today, I made a base for the slope down to the grade crossing. In addition, I painted white over the board and batten wall sections of the Bar Mills garage kit I had sprayed with gray primer. I made a light coat of white with some gray shining through. I think it looks pretty good. Just now, I glued the sections together. There will be a brick addition to the right side of the part I have been working on.
Hey Mark sounds like you have a great plan for your road project. I think your Bar Mills garage has a good start, I like the paint job nice and Suttle.
Thank you, Mike! I’m not much for the pealing paint look, but am assuming it was quite a few years since the walls were painted. The photographs that came with the kit show the brick section painted white. My thought is, why would they paint bricks on a garage? I’ll decide later if I want to paint that part a brick color.
Mark, the paint job is looking authentically good.
I've seen quite a few older brick structures where the brick had been painted white at some point. Besides maybe wanting a clean sterile look for car service customers, in warmer climates before air conditioning, the white (reflecting more sunlight) would keep the interior of the building cooler in the summer.
Thank you, Steve! You have an excellent point! This building certainly wouldn’t have air conditioning.
