Building a Shed for Mattawamkeag
Sunday evening, I said that I would post more details about the construction of the shed. I didn't get around to that yesterday, so here it is.
The shed followed my usual construction methods, for the most part. I started constructing the shed by cutting out walls from Mt. Albert Scale Lumber scribed wood sheet. I used the .060 width between scribes for this project. Htis type of siding is a pretty close match to the prototupe shed, appearence wise.
I then assembled the walls, using 6 by 6 inch scale lumber for trim. To construct the doors to the shed, I glued scale 1 by 8 lumber board by board to the shed wall. Since it is meant to represent two doors, I differentiated the doors by building one on a slight angle, as if it was falling of of its hinges. It turned out that one door had to be 5 boards wide and one door had to be 6 boards wide. This happened because I initially thought I had, and measured and planned for, 6 inch wide boards rather than 8 inch wide boards. I decided to leave the doors as the were, as this is the sort pf thing you pften see in buildings in Maine, that is, things are mismatched.
Hinges and a lock for the door were then made out of styrene strips.
When I built the roof, Instead of just gluing each of the roof halves to the structure individually, I taped the bottom of the roof halves together using masking tape. I then applied masking tape to the top of the roof, simulating tar paper. When I went to glue the roof onto the structure, the roof halves folded natrually to the roof line, as the masking tape formed a hinge. I got the idea for taping the bottom of the roof from the latest Railroad Model Craftsmen magazine.
I the painted the structure red following prototype photos, and then gave the shed a fairly heavy coat of weathering.
The shed followed my usual construction methods, for the most part. I started constructing the shed by cutting out walls from Mt. Albert Scale Lumber scribed wood sheet. I used the .060 width between scribes for this project. Htis type of siding is a pretty close match to the prototupe shed, appearence wise.
I then assembled the walls, using 6 by 6 inch scale lumber for trim. To construct the doors to the shed, I glued scale 1 by 8 lumber board by board to the shed wall. Since it is meant to represent two doors, I differentiated the doors by building one on a slight angle, as if it was falling of of its hinges. It turned out that one door had to be 5 boards wide and one door had to be 6 boards wide. This happened because I initially thought I had, and measured and planned for, 6 inch wide boards rather than 8 inch wide boards. I decided to leave the doors as the were, as this is the sort pf thing you pften see in buildings in Maine, that is, things are mismatched.
Hinges and a lock for the door were then made out of styrene strips.
When I built the roof, Instead of just gluing each of the roof halves to the structure individually, I taped the bottom of the roof halves together using masking tape. I then applied masking tape to the top of the roof, simulating tar paper. When I went to glue the roof onto the structure, the roof halves folded natrually to the roof line, as the masking tape formed a hinge. I got the idea for taping the bottom of the roof from the latest Railroad Model Craftsmen magazine.
I the painted the structure red following prototype photos, and then gave the shed a fairly heavy coat of weathering.
The masking tape hinge for the bottom of the roof.
Masking tape for tar paper installed. I cut the pieces of making tape in half lengthwise, so as to make them a more realistci width.
The finshed shed. Note the sagging and mismatched doors.
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