House at Mattawamkeag-Finished

Wednesday night, I finished my model of the house that will be located by the tracks in Mattawamkeag. For the most part, I have already documented the construction of this structure on the blog. All that I did last night was finishing the porch. I started the porch on Sunday, but did not get any work done until Wednesday.

The porch was built almost entirely out of scale lumber. The frame for the porch and the support posts for the porch roof were all made out of 6 by 6 lumber. The roof trim was made out of scale 6 by 8s. The floorboards were constructed board by board out of scale 1 by 6 lumber. Inch thick scale lumber is very thin! 

After assembling the porch, I painted the frame and the posts white, and painted the floorboards grey. I then drybrushed black and brown paint on the floorboards to represent where people would walk across the floor to reach the door. The roof was built and painted to my usual method. I then did some light weathering on the whole house.

Overall, I am quite pleased with how this house turns out. I think that it looks like a typical Maine house. It will be a noce addition to Mattawamkeag when I get my layout based on Mattawamkeag built. 

Looking at the front of the house.

The back side wall of the house. Note the flashing around the chimney on the roof.

The rear wall.

The front side wall, with the porch.

A detail view of the porch. The staircase was scratchbuilt from scale 1 by 6 and 6 by 6 lumber. Note the weathering on the starcase and between the staircase and the door.