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Issue 86
Contents
The pier that leads from the bathhouse to the sea.
Picture 1 shows the contents of this issue
Using a kraft knife, separate the beams and smooth the edges with sandpaper. Using wood glue, attach the beams into the holes along the long beam as shown in picture 2. Attach the second long beam to the tabs on the cross beams. Fix the cross beam “A” into the remaining slot, both edges will protrude slightly higher.
Attach the boardwalk on top of the assembly using wood blue and clamp all the parts and allow to dry, pictures 3 and 4.
Now to the painting.
Before we get underway, painting the pier, I scored the wooden planks and posts to give a more realistic old wood look. I also heavily scored the lines between the planks which will make them look like they have placed individually.
It is recommended painting the post first before attaching then to the boardwalk.
Mix up a brown paint, you can use the magazine guide if you wish, however, I mixed up a medium brown and painted all the assembly with this colour first.
Once dry, I used different shades of brown, grey and a little green to the top planks and the posts to give it a more rugged look.
Pictures 5 and 6 show the assembly complete and painted.
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Issue 87
Contents
The First and Second Floor Windows.
Assembling the Windows
Take the vertical and horizontal strips, and glue them together as shown in picture 1. Make sure the bevelled side of the vertical strips are facing outwards. Once dry, paint the inside of the window frame white. I also spray painted the plastic windows white to take away the plastic look, picture 2.
Apply double sided tape to the edges of the windows. Note the tabs have a bevelled edge. The bevelled edge is the front of the window. You will also notice that the rear of the window has round marks from the manufacturing process, the tape goes this side, picture 3. Take off the protective film on both sides of the plastic glass and stick them to the windows using the double-sided tape.
Place both windows into the frames as shown in picture 4.
The next part of the assembly is quite straight forward. Take one of the two window surrounds and attach with quick drying glue the lower moulding at the bottom of the surround. Note, it is bevelled, so hold it in place until the glue is set. Next attach the cornice at the top in the same way, followed by the windowsill to the lower moulding. Attach the pediment details, again with quick drying glue. Do the same with the first-floor window, before attaching the window frame assemblies to both the back of the window surrounds, using quick drying glue, pictures 5 and 6.
Picture 7 show the complete assembly for this issue.
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Issue 88
Contents
The Exterior Wall and Rope Ladder
Take the exterior wall parts and a ruler. Place the ruler along the back of the wall lining up each seam and bend the wall carefully, picture 1. As you can see, I used a mini clamp to hold the ruler in place whilst bending the wall. Move the ruler and clamp to each plank in the wall until you have bent all the seams as shown in picture 2.
Using wood glue secure the exterior wall in place along the frame from issue 74 and clamp in place until the glue is dry, picture 3.
Now do the same with the second part of the exterior wall, gluing in place as before, picture 4.
Using a craft knife, cut the two fixing plates and glue them inside the frame where the exterior walls join, picture 5. Picture 6 shows the assembly complete.
Note: I will show how to sand and paint so the joints do not show in a later update.
Assembling the Rope Ladder
First, take the four dowls and cut into 24 pieces, each 24mm long, picture 7. Cut the template into two parts along the blue dotted line, picture 8. Glue the two parts together and place a strip of double-sided tape along the template and place the 24 dowels in place as shown in picture 9.
Leave the end of the rope about 30mm from the end and using quick drying glue apply a little to the end of the dowl and wrap the rope around as shown in picture 10. Do this all the way to each dowl along each side of the template, leaving around 30mm of rope at all the ends, picture 11.
Once the glue is completely set, peel back the rope from the template.
Picture 12 show the rope ladder complete.
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