St Nicholas Church, Hurst, Berkshire

[Philip]

This is the second kit designed by a lady named Anne Hoskins (the first being a row of Berkshire cottages). It was issued as part of the church's 900th anniversary celebrations in 1983. Anne later went on to publish a series of simple colour-printed kits under the "English Village Designs" banner.

As you can see, it wasn't what you would call a complicated build but I don't think it suffers from that fact. Instruction number one is to paint all the pieces before cutting them out. What? Me? Put a paintbrush in my hand and a life-and-death struggle ensues. So I left it as it was.

The church's website: Hurst: St Nicholas -
A Church Near You

[SCEtoAUX]

It actually looks very good like that. Nice job.

[sander1942]

Philip,

Looks fine as is...nicely done.

[Vermin_King]

Good night, where would you even start on painting...


I think that if I would build it, I'd have done the same. Interesting roof on this

[rockpaperscissor]

Charming! Well done.

[asettico]

Beautiful building, Philip!
And it's very nice also with the original colours.
One of the reasons why I liked paper models is for not having to paint!

[Philip]

Thank you all for your comments, everybody. It's much appreciated. And for my next trick...

[Devilracer]

Nice model, I used to drive past the real one every day on the way to work!

[Viator]

Beautiful church and a very pleasant model, I feel a scent of centuries while looking at this noble architecture. Thank you very much!

[Kevin WS]

Great model and as the other's have mentioned it's great unpainted.

When faced with a situation like this, my solution is to scan the model and run it through something like PaintShopPro or Gimp. This assumes familiarity with the use of a program like this, but my painting skills suck!