NH: Punch List Items (Part A)
Thanks… as always! Today was a punch list day. I took care of a bunch of the little things that I was hoping to not overlook. I started with the plumbing vent. I was a 3/32" piece of brass tubing treated with the chemicals to darken it. I installed it in the roof sort of over where the rest rooms lie.
I wanted to start gluing in walls and furnishings inside and started by gluing in the partition wall using medium CA. I then was going to glue the counter in using clear silicone caulk/sealant. I put the stuff on the bottom and then realized I wanted to put on the brass foot rails. So I wiped off the sealant and got to work on the rails.
Again, I'm using 3/32" tubing, although it should probably be smaller. I cut the pieces, polished them with steel wool and then filed flats where the connecting pins would be soldered. I drilled with an 0.032" carbide drill, and then soldered in brass wire of the same size. I used the RSU since it is always ready and does a job like this with no fuss.
After soldering I used my narrow nose Xuron pliers to space out where the 90° bend should go.
After doing this on all three rails, I drilled corresponding holes in the lowest board of the counter sides and CA'd the rails into place. Once all were in I trimmed excess brass sticking through and sprayed the entire assembly with Testor's Wet-look Clear Lacquer to keep the brass from oxidizing and give the counter more sheen.
I found out from Mini-etchers that they will cut additional stools for me using ply instead of solid maple. That should really help reduce the breakage problem I was having. So I will have to wait until I have them all before buttoning up the building entirely. But that didn't stop me from moving along.
The front window needed mullions as per Hopper's painting. I had some Chartpak graphic tape of an appropriate size in black. All it needed was some painting to make it BN Green. I did this by sticking the tape on a piece of plexi, and hand painting the green. It took four coats with force drying in between. For the last coat I let it completely air dry. It would have been an airbrush candidate, but it wasn't worth the clean up time it required.
I wanted to add a TV antenna to hang on the chimney. Again, I used both 0.032" brass wire and some 0.021" phosphor bronze wire. For each joint, again done with the RSU, I filed a small notch on the wire where it joined its neighbor to give a little more surface area to the joint. I used my MicroMark soldering block to hold the mast when soldering the first cross pieces.
Thanks… as always! Today was a punch list day. I took care of a bunch of the little things that I was hoping to not overlook. I started with the plumbing vent. I was a 3/32" piece of brass tubing treated with the chemicals to darken it. I installed it in the roof sort of over where the rest rooms lie.
I wanted to start gluing in walls and furnishings inside and started by gluing in the partition wall using medium CA. I then was going to glue the counter in using clear silicone caulk/sealant. I put the stuff on the bottom and then realized I wanted to put on the brass foot rails. So I wiped off the sealant and got to work on the rails.
Again, I'm using 3/32" tubing, although it should probably be smaller. I cut the pieces, polished them with steel wool and then filed flats where the connecting pins would be soldered. I drilled with an 0.032" carbide drill, and then soldered in brass wire of the same size. I used the RSU since it is always ready and does a job like this with no fuss.
After soldering I used my narrow nose Xuron pliers to space out where the 90° bend should go.
After doing this on all three rails, I drilled corresponding holes in the lowest board of the counter sides and CA'd the rails into place. Once all were in I trimmed excess brass sticking through and sprayed the entire assembly with Testor's Wet-look Clear Lacquer to keep the brass from oxidizing and give the counter more sheen.
I found out from Mini-etchers that they will cut additional stools for me using ply instead of solid maple. That should really help reduce the breakage problem I was having. So I will have to wait until I have them all before buttoning up the building entirely. But that didn't stop me from moving along.
The front window needed mullions as per Hopper's painting. I had some Chartpak graphic tape of an appropriate size in black. All it needed was some painting to make it BN Green. I did this by sticking the tape on a piece of plexi, and hand painting the green. It took four coats with force drying in between. For the last coat I let it completely air dry. It would have been an airbrush candidate, but it wasn't worth the clean up time it required.
I wanted to add a TV antenna to hang on the chimney. Again, I used both 0.032" brass wire and some 0.021" phosphor bronze wire. For each joint, again done with the RSU, I filed a small notch on the wire where it joined its neighbor to give a little more surface area to the joint. I used my MicroMark soldering block to hold the mast when soldering the first cross pieces.
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