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11-20-2014, 08:23 PM
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Modified Clever Models Bike Shop
I'm building the Clever Models bike shop for a client. He asked me to change the name from "McElder's Cycles" to "Holz & Mueller." I found an appropriate font in an old sign painters' manual, fooled around with it in GIMP and got something that looked fairly authentic.
I made the front door first, which is five layers -- from bottom to top: tissue paper, transparency, and three layers of printouts glued to various thicknesses of cardboard. Moved on to the clapboard siding, which is the most difficult part of the model. I made three printouts on Canon matte photo paper. I glued the first printout to some thick cardboard from the back of a pad of watercolor paper. The other two printouts were glued onto some heavy cardstock. Then I sliced them up into clapboards -- each being 1-1/2 slats wide. Then I painted the edges of most of them with neutral grey gouache. The slats with the lettering had to be edged first with neutral grey and then carefully with dark grey. Glued the door in place, then started gluing the clapboards in place with a thin Sobo glue. Then I glued in the two side support pieces, and finally added all the decorative signs, some of which are printed on glossy photo paper to simulate porcelain signs, while others were printed on cigarette paper. By my reckoning, this facade amounts to about half the work I need to do on this model. PHEW! 
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11-20-2014, 08:49 PM
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It does look good. I particularly like the way the bicycle repair shop sign looks. The clapboard siding looks really good also.
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Last edited by elliott; 11-21-2014 at 08:45 AM.
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11-21-2014, 08:23 AM
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Agreed with all of the above, very nice work.
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11-21-2014, 10:06 AM
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Thanks, everybody!
Here's a link to the Clever Models original so you can see how I modified the signage. The kit comes with two different facades, and a third that's blank, so modification is pretty easy.
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11-23-2014, 07:25 PM
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Model Finished; 3D Pictures on My Blog
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Linear Mode
