Nelson's Pharmacy

[Bober]

Great scratch-builds, Bruce!
What really caught my attention was the fantastic weathering on the fence out back. Super realistic detail!

Your going to love this one Gnatshop but it took all of ten to fifteen minutes to make the fence! Here's what I did.

1.) Fence is a plastic fence from Central Valley and is spray painted with grey primer and set aside to dry.
2.) The fence was then drybrushed with acrylic raw sienna paint. That's the same paint I used for the trim work on Nelson's pharmacy.
3.) Various brown colored chalks where then brushed onto the fence. Some of the chalk actually blended with the wet paint on the fence since it wasn't totally dry when I started adding the chalk weather.

Now some of you may know that this is another George Sellios method. It's talked about on Allen Keller's first video on the Franklin and South Manchester RR. Why re-invent the wheel when George has already figured out a fast, easy and fantastic looking method for doing fences. You could do the same thing with a basswood fence if you wish. Give it a try!

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[Bober]

The Nelson's main sign was made by sandwhiching two signs together on top of three pieces of piano wire. Once that was dry I carefully drilled some holes into the building and then glued the sign into place.

Clever use of some wire and paper. Good job.

Jaime

Thanks Jaime!
It just goes to show you that sometimes you can make cool details out of some very cheap stuff. Local modeler Bob Parrish had a model in our Roxybury Roofing contest last year that had bunches of toilets in the yard (i.e. it was a plumbing repair joint). When I asked him how he got all those toilets in the scene he smiled and said that they where blobs of plaster carved with an Xacto knife to make the correct shape. Please note the businesses slogan "A good flush beats a full house".

Just goes to show you we have a creative bunch of folks out here in Boise!

Bob Parrish's Roxybury Roofing model

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[jimmillho]

Outstanding Bruce. So fantastic yet so simple, I love it.

Jim

[gnatshop]

Thanks, Bruce, for the info on how you did the fence!
I'll definitely be trying one of my own, with a sign that says 'Bober's Fence Company'!

[bparrish]

Bruce...

Fun structures......... It's also fun to know the boys that you named these after.

Great build......... thanx
Bob

[jan kirkwood]

Bruce, great buildings and super pictures,

Thank You

Jan

[Bober]

Bruce...

Fun structures......... It's also fun to know the boys that you named these after.

Great build......... thanx
Bob

Just wait till you see the structure that's going to have YOUR name on it Bob! You don't get off the hook that easily!

BTW, I have managed to get the two bridges placed on branchline. So when would be a good time to swing by your place to borrow that bridge abutment mold of yours?