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Another Scale Garage. This time for keeps.

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Here's a build thread I didn't think I'd do again. I'll give a little of the back story. I sold my scale garage last year because at the time, our house was sold, we'd put an offer in on another one, and there wasn't room to put it. I thought that was that, but the new house fell through, and so did our sale, so we just decided to stay put and either move in a few years or just stay here permanently.

 

I'd boxed up most of my RC stuff in storage and have gradually been reintroducing it. I've got a few M-chassis builds planned this year, and I have liked looking back at my previous build pics that were taken in the scale garage. So, here comes another one. I'd forgotten how many hours goes in to making these things...

 

My wife now has part of my garage with a desk to work from home so room is a little tighter than before. The garage will therefore be a little smaller than before:

 

 

I started by drawing up the panel sizes.

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My local hardware store offers a free cutting service, so I got them to cut the pieces. A quick mock up for size.

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The cardboard will eventually be an opening for a 'store room' with some shelving in. No real function other than to make the pics a little more interesting.

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Onto the base. As before. I routed out some lines to replicate concrete expansion joints using a straight edge and my dremel.

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Then filled them in with some dark wood filler. Only reason for this is so that when the grey top coat goes on the joint lines will look a different colour.

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Masked the joint lines, and primered the base.

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And, a couple of coats of 'concrete grey' to finish off.

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A little weathering using the 'dry brushing' technique.

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The rear and side panels are painted using some old magnolia emulsion paint I had spare. Then a coat of green for the lower part. Masking tape coming off.

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On to the first part of the weathering. This is just a simple wash made from 5% brown acrylic paint mixed with 95% water.

 

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Then the same but with black paint.

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Also used black on the white parts.

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Once dried, I used some various sanding blocks and sticks to start adding non symmetric detail. The wash is good to start with, but once dry it can look very 'uniform'.

 

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And here's it is after the first round of weathering using various paint colours and some 'dry brushing'.

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Next job was to make a 'concrete' looking lintel to go over the store room door cut out. I started with some thin styrene, and just battered it randomly with a metal scribe and a screwdriver.

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More black wash.

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Glued in place. Before and after weathering.

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And a before and after pic of the walls.

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Next job, skirting board. Luckily I had enough left from the previous garage. This is just 1/12th scale dolls house skirting, that's cut, stained then glued in place.

 

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I like the last door I made and wanted something similar, but this one needs to look older. I started with a piece of 3mm hardboard the correct size, and then glue on individual strips of wood. Each strip has been scored, cut and had the edges roughly sanded using a sanding wheel in my dremel to make them look old and used.

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Using a 3mm thick metal rule to replicate the gap between the two doors.

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And, the outer frame is then glued on top:

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Coated in some wood stain. Once this has dried, I'll start dry brushing some more weathering details in.

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And a little 'extra scale detail'.

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Just waiting on the middle pair of hinges to arrive. That's where I'm at for now. More coming soon.

 

 

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59 minutes ago, Nikko85 said:

Amazing. Where do you get 1/10 porn mags btw? Asking for a friend.

Buy some, scan them and print them out at 1/10 scale. However you have to buy them first... 🤷

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9 minutes ago, alvinlwh said:

Buy some, scan them and print them out at 1/10 scale. However you have to buy them first... 🤷

Dont you find them in hedges? Deposited by the Hedgeporn Fairies? Thats what used to happen pre-internet.

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1 hour ago, Nikko85 said:

Amazing. Where do you get 1/10 porn mags btw? Asking for a friend.

You should tell you friend that looking at a mag that small will make him go blind even quicker.

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Was the size determined by available space or other criteria. Also is it a fixed feature or can it be broken down. Great job so far.

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Awesome work once again @toyolien, definitely something that’s on my ‘one day’ list 👏 👏 

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14 hours ago, Nikko85 said:

Amazing. Where do you get 1/10 porn mags btw? Asking for a friend.

Thanks. Wouldn't know owt about the mags though.

5 hours ago, Busdriver said:

Was the size determined by available space or other criteria. Also is it a fixed feature or can it be broken down. Great job so far.

Yes, size is determined by the size of the only spare space/shelfg in my garage. The first garage I built, when I was building 10th scale crawlers, was 4 feet wide, and took a lot of stuff to make it look full. It could fit 5 scale trucks in at once. But, as I'm mostly building m-chassis cars this year, this one will be a much better size. This was my scale crawler garage.

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5 hours ago, Juhunio said:

Awesome work once again @toyolien, definitely something that’s on my ‘one day’ list 👏 👏 

Thank you sir. I find it very theraputic building it.

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Brilliant work @toyolien, love the attention to detail as it takes it beyond scale modelling construction and into real little individual works of art with all the weathering. The concrete lintel and the staining around it is just genius bud. Seeing each piece come together and integrate with the rest is so great. The more detail on the steps you take the better imo!

Looking forward to the next installment:)

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Another great build from you @toyolien.

Thanks to you, one of these has been on my list to do but I still need a 1:1 garage / playroom for it first!

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6 hours ago, ThunderDragonCy said:

@toyolien Sorry to hear about the house move. This build is fabtastic. The detail is amazing. Chapeau Sir! 

Thanks Cy. We think it's actually a blessing about the move. Especially with all the price rises and energy bills etc. The new house was a little bit of a stretch...

6 hours ago, Kol__ said:

Brilliant work @toyolien, love the attention to detail as it takes it beyond scale modelling construction and into real little individual works of art with all the weathering. The concrete lintel and the staining around it is just genius bud. Seeing each piece come together and integrate with the rest is so great. The more detail on the steps you take the better imo!

Looking forward to the next installment:)

Thanks for the kind comment. I do get carried away with the details sometimes. Before I know it, it's midnight, and I have to pack it in for the night....

2 hours ago, Badcrumble said:

Another great build from you @toyolien.

Thanks to you, one of these has been on my list to do but I still need a 1:1 garage / playroom for it first!

Thank you. You should definitely do one. It's a lot of man hours, but taken step by step it comes together great.

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Very nice evolution! (of garages and of your artistry/modeling skills)

The unexpected benefit of the house situation is that it allowed you to start fresh, drawing on all your experience from the last garage while going in a new direction with this new one.

And the new one looks great!

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11 minutes ago, Alangt4 said:

Wow awesome stuff!

Thank you.

Just now, El Gecko said:

Very nice evolution! (of garages and of your artistry/modeling skills)

The unexpected benefit of the house situation is that it allowed you to start fresh, drawing on all your experience from the last garage while going in a new direction with this new one.

And the new one looks great!

That's a good way of looking at it, thanks. As much as I enjoy doing this, it'll hopefully be the last one I do, and I'll just add to it over time.

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Only a little more done today.

 

Firstly a nice vintage looking work bench using some strips of beech wood.

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Again with this, I used the dremel to 'roughen' up the edges so that they looked well used.

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Then added some more random damage using a few different tools etc.

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A couple of uneven coats of dark stain.

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And here we are. A 60 year old workshop bench.

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This is a pen pot that I've had for a while. It's the perfect size for this garage.

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It looked too 'new', so I scraped it up a little and added some weathering and rust.

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Here it is next to my metal fridge magnet, that I also weathered up a little.

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That'll do for tonight.

 

 

 

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If not moving leads to another scale garage then maybe it was for the best. Will Dirty Richard grace the wall once more?

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20 hours ago, J@mes said:

If not moving leads to another scale garage then maybe it was for the best. Will Dirty Richard grace the wall once more?

@J@mes I had thought about whether or not to add Dirty Richard, and to be honest I'm not sure. I'm kind of thinking that he's had his time, and someone new should grace the wall. But, if I can't find a suitable candidate, then maybe he'll make a come back. We'll see...

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Not a great deal of progress over the last few days, but I've been doing a few odd jobs trying to get some of the fixtures and fittings finished up.

I'll just post up some quick pics, and short descriptions as there's a fair few.

First up a strip light for the little store room. I just used some scraps of styrene and an LED strip light. Nothing special.

 

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Next. A small metal working bench.

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This one is something I spotted whilst googling some tool box designs. It's a 1/12th scale cantilever style tool box that you build up out of some very thin brass sheet. I was a little concerned that it was a little beyond my abilities to make it look real, but I just took my time. I did have to use my magnifying light though...

Here's how it was delivered. It came with some great instructions.

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After cutting and folding the pieces, it started coming together.

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And here it is completed. I'm quite happy. Perhaps I should have painted the pieces before assembly, but as I'm going to weather it, I don't think it'll matter that much.

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A couple of coats of etch primer.

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Two top coats, and some weathering.

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Another quick one. I've had this a while, but it needed finishing.

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And lastly for now. I mixed up some acrylic paint to dry brush some mark lines where the doors would rub the floor when opened and closed.

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Marking out where the lines would appear.

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Not a dramatic effect, but you get the idea.

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Thanks for looking... again.

 

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Lovely work @toyolien, when the weathering is added it really brings the pieces to lifeB)

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Thank you @Kol, much appreciated. I really enjoy the weathering. It definitely makes stuff look 'old' which is what I'm trying to achieve 👍

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Fantastic work @toyolien Had 100´s of hours of fun myself using photo etched parts, back in the day when i built 1/35 military vehicles.

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@toyolienI  love that cantilever tool box, it's like the real one I use in my RC shop.  :D   Nice work on the lamp and everything else.

Also thanks for the idea on the RC boxes.  I made a couple (I got a little carried away.. :ph34r:) of the SandScorcher one for my little Billy's ClubBug display today.  

 

I'm going to attempt making a rolling oil drain pan next..  I'm sure my wife will give me another "C"  again.. lol

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11 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

@toyolienI  love that cantilever tool box, it's like the real one I use in my RC shop.  :D   Nice work on the lamp and everything else.

Also thanks for the idea on the RC boxes.  I made a couple (I got a little carried away.. :ph34r:) of the SandScorcher one for my little Billy's ClubBug display today.  

Thanks. I really enjoy making all the little parts. I kinda get lost in another (miniature) world for a while. Very therapeutic. Your boxes look great too :o)

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On 3/19/2022 at 6:57 PM, toyolien said:

Thanks. I really enjoy making all the little parts. I kinda get lost in another (miniature) world for a while. Very therapeutic. Your boxes look great too :o)

I’m no where at the level you’re at, but I think I know what you mean by getting lost in the miniature world!  :D 

Thanks on the box, I’m going to try to make a few more to display with my actual RC car just for fun.  Might do them in a slightly larger size 1:8 scale (?) so that I can actually see them.  lol 

Next up for me is a rolling oil drain pan and a wall clock for Willy.. will see how those go.. :ph34r:

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