4.19. Christian's House and Josh's House
Christian's House
Christian's house began life as Foxx and Vollmer Attorneys from the Mountain Vista Railroad, which was an American Model Builders Yard Office, #609.
For its current incarnation, I've extended the house in classic Colonial fashion using parts from American Model Builders Two Story Section House, #628.
Here's the house with its new extension, added 2 June 2021:
The next day I installed windows and doors, painted it and added shutters from a Model Power plastic house kit, which I hit with a light India ink wash to bring out the detail. Then I made a foundation from Monster Modelworks laser-etched stone sheet.
Josh's House
This is the same as Josh's House on the Mountain Vista but without the B&W television and the rotating TV antenna. It's a gently-modded Branchline Laser-Art's Finley House, #825.
The main modifications I did were to the foundation. I always disliked Branchline's choice of using peel-and-stick plastic stone applied over the siding—which is done on quite a number of their kits—so I shortened all of the walls and made a new foundation from strip styrene topped with their grossly-oversize plastic peel-and-stick roofing material. There wasn't enough room in its spot on the layout for the front porch, so I patched all of the holes and added "concrete" (styrene) steps. Finally, for the roof I used Slater's Plastikard brick embossed sheet.
Work on Josh's house began around 20 April 2020, and was completed on 11 June 2021. Here it is nearly done and posed next to Three Daves General Store/Phil's Barber Shop.
By 11 June 2021 all it needed was a chimney.
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Christian Davis (below left) has been an enormous help during the last few years, and has become something of a son. Josh Surkoski (below right) is a fellow modeler who has been part of my cheerleading squad ever since we met at a CRHS Rail-B-Q.
