In this nearly endless summer since April, it was always too hot to work in my attic except for a few days in between. Therefore, the “Jersey Circuit” rested in summer sleep. But in september it was getting cooler, and works on the track had a restart. Recently I had written that I wanted to take up work on the city. That´s, what I have done now. The buildings of the city must be created for reasons of space as half-relief houses. But because they are in the middle of the track, that's not ideal for the impression. I hope that it will be consistent when all work is done.
First of all, I took a hotel in St. Aubin on Jersey as an example, the Old Court House Inn; there are photos of it all over decorated with red flowers in flower boxes in front of the windows. My base for the building is an old hard drive tray of an personal computer:
and the back of the "French Café" by MiniArt (diorama kit in 1:35)
I have used scaled files using Scalescenes kits for the masonry and roof printouts, and because I'll need a little more roof later, I printed an English-style tiled roof on DinA3.
Cut out, glued on strong cardboard, edges blackened:
already it looks like roof:
Curtains printed and cut out, pasted on the window crosses which are printed on transparent film. Chimneys made of straw. The door comes from an accessory kit for the “French Café” MiniArt kit, the flowers are from the range of Noch.
Provisionally placed on the track, this will be the left boundary of the row of houses:
Bigger, because of the details ;-) :
The next building will be the right boundary of the row of houses, a corner house in which I want to house a drugstore / pharmacy.
Again, Scalescenes has done a good job for me, I downloaded the "Corner Shop" in 1:87 and then scaled it up. Scissors, scalpel, steel ruler and paper glue are my main tool. As with my other paper houses on the track I glue the cut parts on architectural board, so that the building later will be stable enough.
I also found a sign of a pharmacy on Jersey and printed it out, here already with the pins, with which it is fastened on the house wall:
A quick look at my workspace, then it goes on:
From the net, I have accordingly appropriate 1960s advertising downloaded, reduced, combined, printed and designed the "display" of the pharmacy. Both for the photography needs of the tourists who visit the Underground Hospital, as well as for those on the rough seas cooled by the crossing here:
The walls finished and put together, this time I experimented with the hot glue gun, because that eliminates waiting. Works amazingly well, I was afraid the Styrofoam layer of the architectural box might melt through the heat, but that did not happen:
The roof has been built after finishing the other houses, because the shape of the roof depends on the final location of the house.
Interrupted by my this years holiday in Italy, the town had to be built “ready” until the end of october, because I had promised the racers of the "Vintage 32 Days", to present a full-coverage landscape at this year's race, and with the exception of the harbor, which needs special attention, I have succeeded.
But look:
The semi-relief row of houses, which essentially should represent the city, is ready. The “parking lot” with the four racecars in the right foreground will later be completed with a complete building. But I was not able to make it until the last race weekend.
Well, after all, the landscape is pretty much "done".
Rock representation with Styrofoam, lawn with lawn carpet, hedges with Iceland moss or with black painted pond filter wadding, with flocking material glued on, pavement / sidewalks printed and glued with spray adhesive to the plates, curbs painted with enamel paint and black permanent marker, "straw bale" in race-critical areas made of foam, you know all this from my previous presentations.
Zoomed closer to the city:
Now in detail:
In addition to the already presented "Old Court House" are two "brick buildings" from the range of Scalescenes. In the “light blue painted" brick building there is a small shop (I found the shop front in the internet), and a post office. The house next to it from "natural" bricks houses the branch of "Mc Fisheries", a (formerly?) well-known English chain of fish shops first, which were later expanded to other ranges. The fish display in the shop window, as well as the matching awning are also found with some searches in the internet.
Here is just a fish delivery unloaded, the boxes of chilled fish are still to be made, and of course, the suppliers must also fall into the paint bucket...
Next to it is an Irish pub, again with a real model from Jersey, which I also approximated in color. Unfortunately, the pub on Jersey has been closed some time ago and now there is another restaurant in it. It did not bother me, because I had already downloaded pictures of the "Ha'Penny Bridge".
The building is made of the front of the already mentioned "French Café" by MiniArt. For the flowers I used the same material as the "Old Court House", the interior is again printed from an Scalescenes-kit, the dispenser was done with wire, a piece of polystyrene and bare metal foil.
Next in line is a formerly more posh building, which now has a Woolworth branch down below. The upper half of the building was designed according to a template from the net, the ground floor is completely "constructed" by myself. Window crosses and door again Scalescenes, and it was quite a fiddly job for me to cut out the white window crosses out of paper with a steel ruler and scalpel and especially then without tearing clean and just stick to cling film to represent the windows with it. My friend Peter, an experienced paper model maker, said: "Kinderkram" (“childs can do this”), but for me that was a bit more difficult.
At least the end of the row forms the Scalescenes “little corner shops”- building with the drugstore, now finished with roof and built quite tight in the rocks. On the roof therefore security bars are mounted (from the MiniArt kit). Even the customer's own parking lot is offered by the druggist.
The chimney pipes are all made of black drinking straws, as written above, so that the inside of the pipes are already natural colored, painted on the outside in different shades. The whole thing as simple as possible. Should be done as fast as possible.
A "standard timepiece" from the assortment of the Czech supplier
(not to be confused with the slotcar producer with the same name) fills the forecourt a little bit.
Now it goes to the further detailing. Maybe someday I'll go and make downspouts for the houses, but in any case, much more figures have to enliven the scenery. Street lamps, of which I have already made a trial, are made of brass lamps, which I bought years ago in a german slot shop. These lamps are inserted into an appropriate piece of brass tube for extension and soldered, then soldered a ground cable and secured in appropriate sockets (this again content of the MiniArt Kit "French Café"). In parts it looks like this:
Repeated 11 times, there will be a happy soldering....
On the day of the race itself there were sunny spells on the "city" through the rear roof-window,
The most action was again in the harbor chicane ....
To be continued...
(Sorry for mostly using Google translator)