New Project Church completed pictures July 26,2022

@Alan Graziano posted:

You cannot see the hours ahead of time I ponder projects like this.

When you do the pondering, are you mostly just working out how things will go together and how you can attach details?

Looking forward to the pics.....I'm sure they will be AMAZING!

Peter

Alan,

You already know I will be following this!

Dave

Billy,

I have to think about what materials are best suited for the model and how I will construct it. Buildings constructed of styrene have to be reinforced so they do not warp over time. I also think about the sequence of construction and even if I will pre- paint some assemblies or paint all at once. Basically, I will re-invent the wheel for every model. I can drive myself crazy sometimes. Eventually, I organize the thoughts and start kicking a— - on the project.

Alan, what are you using for the base and how did you "carve" the stairs?

I scratchbuilt a church in HO scale, and found it to be a lot of fun. I described the process on my blog: https://dandhcoloniemain.blogs...al-white-church.html

Looking forward to your progress Alan.

I often do my best pondering over a glass of single malt......

Bob

@Alan Graziano very helpful response! I appreciate it. I'll be watching!

Bob,Single Malt, Vodka it all works for pondering.

Ben, I will check out the video.

Joe, I made the base out of 060 styrene sheet. The steps are .125 inch styrene sheet cut to size. I used some Plastruct cut stone material on the sides.

David, I see you looking over my shoulder.

Here are a few progress pictures from tonight. I made the two round windows for the front and shimmed some of the other windows since they are not masonry type.

Looking forward to see if you do stained glass and how you do it. Vodka, single malt? How are you guys not drinking America’s native spirit,bourbon?

I made some progress on the church and after cutting in most of the windows, I put up the back and two side walls.

Alan, the church build is looking terrific.  Looking forward you watching your progress.

Alan…….really special!

Peter

Alan,

Watching this thread with interest, I done a church though not as complex as yours. I thought to metion what I did for the windows. I searched the net and found pictures of stained glass and down loaded a number of these, than sized them to fit and then printed them on velum paper which actually seems to be a semi transparent plastic sheet, looks very nice if you light the church.

Ray

Here are some pictures from yesterday on erecting the church walls.

Wonderful progress Alan!

Dave

Here are some more progress pictures. I finished all walls and roof frame and put some horizontal strips on the church simulating concrete. Some back ordered items on my Plastruct order may require some different covering materials.

Simply amazing!

@Alan Graziano posted:

Eventually, I organize the thoughts and start kicking a— - on the project.

That's the way I do it; lots of pondering and designing/redesigning in my head. Sometimes I don't even start until revision five in my head.

It's good for folks to remember that the first idea that comes to mind is not always the BEST idea. Some time spent thinking about it before taking action pays off handsomely in the long run.

I wish more of my bosses had realized that.

Here are the pictures if the stone and brick placed on the church walls. Next painting and brick detail.

Right after l got out of school, with an interest in ghost towns and old architecture, but far from the former, l made a trip west along the Ohio River in  s. Indiana photographing country churches.  But l decided l needed to dedicate the real estate to industry, to justify the railroad.  However, if l have room in my ghost or mining town, l should add a log church, even if bashed from Plasticville. Yours will be a unique and interesting church.

Thank you for sharing! Beautiful work!

Amazing…great work, Alan!!!

Peter

This is looking really great Alan.

Alan as others have said, this is a great build.  Such a wonderful display of your superlative modelling skills.  Do you use a hole saw to cut such perfect circles for the windows?

Fantastic work Alan!

Coach,

I use a two pointed compass for small circles and I also have a circle cutting tool I got from Micro Mark many years ago. I do not think they have them anymore.

Thank you all for the nice compliments and following this build.

The pleasure is all mine.

Here are some more updated pictures showing the window installations

Alan,

This is just grand! If you go outside and look up you're sure to see a smile.

Dave

It has been a while. I had to wait for some roofing. I finished it. Here are some pictures. They are not great. I will take more later. Thank you all for following this thread.

Alan, the green patina on the copper spires atop the towers reminds me of the original roof of the Jones Beach water tower on Long Island.  It was replaced around 10 years ago with a brown anodized metal roof.  Bad choice for the water tower.

The church looks great.  I see you painted the Spanish tile roof to match the copper spires.

Coach,

Get me an old picture of that water tower. Maybe I will build a model of it. Sounds interesting. I was not sure about painting the tile that color but I think it came out nice.

Very impressive work Alan!

I think it looks good.

It is very nice. Do you have any plans on lighting the stained glass windows? What are the windows made out of?, paper or something translucent?

Beautiful work, Alan!

Peter

Thank you Coach, Peter and Rich.

Csexcellent,

The windows are printed on Mylar sheet. I found the pictures under images of stained glass windows. I am pretty sure my customer will install lights. I will probably take some pictures with some temporary lights inside and post them in the next few days.