Building A Memory - Schreiber-Bogen's "Pfalz im Rhein bei Kaub" Pt 2

I didn't spend a whole lot of time this week on the model, but did manage to get the roofs and towers around the wall perimeter finished. This was a fairly straight forward task. It starts by gluing in place a small tower, followed by a long roof, then another tower and so on. Total time now spent on the model: about 14+ hours. Here's a couple of progress photos and some tips. Enjoy!

Getting the roofs to hunker down into a good fit is covered below.

 I used a black felt-tip marker cover the exposed edges of all the roof sections as well as some other areas around the structure.

Kellogg's UK Paper Village - Gas Station

Today's Kellogg's UK Paper Village entry is the Gas Station - or Filling Station or Service Station or Tankstelle or whatever you're comfortable with. It's a nice structure having an attached garage with an opening door. The main building also features an opening door. Both of the doors open accordion style. There is also a separate pump island with two pumps attached. You'll notice in a couple of the photos that the building is a tad crooked. That's okay - for now - and will be corrected once everything is glued and braced, but I just want you to see what it looks like built-up straight from the package. The building measures 7" (17.8cm) L x 5 1/2" (14cm) H x 2 5/8" (6.7cm) W. Enjoy!

Building A Memory - Schreiber-Bogen's "Pfalz im Rhein bei Kaub" Pt 3

The "Pfalz im Rhein bei Kaub" castle is nearly finished. This past week I worked on the central tower. It went almost without a hitch EXCEPT for the very top roof section. It's a little piece with eight sides that, when glued together, is supposed to have a somewhat rounded shape. That little booger gave me fits!!! It was probably a combination of unsteady fingers, poor eyesight, old age, the stars weren't aligned right - something. Prior to gluing, each of the sections were rounded/bent by rolling them over a small round object (I used my wife's crochet hook). That SHOULD have made it easier to glue-up but it was simply difficult for me holding two roof sections together in an arc waiting for the glue to set up so that I could get on to the next section. Tweezers helped somewhat but they're made for straight objects and didn't work very well on the small curved forms. Anyway, it finally went together and here's a couple of photos to show this week's progress. Enjoy!

Kellogg's UK Paper Village - Butcher's & Grocer's

After posting the scans for the Kellogg's UK Paper Village the past few months, Toys and Stuff has been bringing you photos of what they look like all built up. These build-ups are straight from the package. No glue (except for one part on one building), and no bracing. Today's featured building is the combined Butcher/Grocers shop. It's quite common for model railroader's to give businesses quirky names and, I'm going out on a limb here, these building were probably intended for eventual use on a train layout (although they're just fine on their own). As such they too have some quirky names. The baker's shop is called "A. Bunn", the filling station is named "J. Winch" and today we have "Miss C. Flake" - aka Corn Flake - Grocers. The building measures 6 1/8" (15.6cm) L x 3 1/8" (7.9cm) W x 4 1/2" (11.4cm) H. Enjoy!

Building A Memory - Schreiber-Bogen's "Pfalz im Rhein bei Kaub" Pt 4

Well folks, the past several weeks has been interesting. I didn't know what I was about to get into when starting this project but it's finally finished. It's the most difficult paper model I've ever attempted, never having done more than simple four-walls-and-a-roof buildings. The project to-date has taken approx. 18 hours and the past few hours have really been a bear! The very last parts to assemble were 22 small dormers located around the perimeter of the structure and these were quite tricky for me as they were pretty small and required a little more agility than I have left at my age. To make matters worse I inadvertently sliced through a couple of what were supposed to be fold lines! Oh crud. Still, after a little repair work, everything finally went together and here are the photos of the finished castle. It measures 8 1/4" (20.3cm) L x 3 1/8" (7.9cm) W x 5 3/4" (14.6cm) H. Stay tuned because the next step is trying to put together a small diorama to display the model on. Enjoy!

Kellogg's UK Paper Village - Inn

Today being Thursday, Toys & Stuff continues its look at paper models. The past few months have been devoted to Kellogg's UK Paper Village, a terrific set of small town English structures some of which would probably fit in quite well in an American New England setting. First we featured scans of the set so that you could build your own. The past few weeks have been devoted to showing what they look like built-up. Today's featured building is the Inn, a beautiful thatched-roof structure with plenty of Old World charm! The photos show the building built straight from the packaging - no glue, no bracing - and measures 5 3/8" (13.7cm) L x 3 1/2" (8.9cm) W x 5 1/8" (13cm) H Enjoy!

Kellogg's UK Paper Village - Post Office

Here we have a nice little paper building from Kellogg's UK English Village series. This is the smallest building in the series measuring 2 1/2" (6.4cm)  L x 2 3/8" (6cm) W x 4 1/4" (10.8cm) H and, like the other buildings posted the past few weeks, is shown in built-up state directly from the package - no glue, no bracing. Next week Toys & Stuff will be featuring the last building in the series, the School House and Bookstore afterwards we'll try to figure out a nice way to display these little gems. For now though - Enjoy!

Building A Memory - Schreiber-Bogen's "Pfalz im Rhein bei Kaub" Pt 5

Progress on the "Pfalz bei Kaub" diorama has been slow going - mostly because I've been too pooped after work to mess with it! However, that being said, I did manage to get something done this week. I found a piece of MDF (medium density fiberboard) shelving laying about - I should have tossed it out a long time ago, now I'm glad I didn't - and it was pretty much right for what I wanted to accomplish.

This castle actually sits in the middle of a river on a rock. Some photos on the Web show the river exposing the rock and some show the rock nearly covered. I figured there were two basic ways to approach this diorama:

1.  Make a small base with just a hint of the rock showing and suggesting the water lapping up to the castle sides.
2. Model the exposed rock - along with the trees which had been planted on one end. This of course would require a larger diorama base.

The shelf piece I had found measures 11.25" (28.6cm) W x 28" (71.1cm) L and after looking at it, it appeared to be nicely suited for the larger diorama showing the exposed rock. Had it been shorter I probably would have cut it down even more and just gone with option 1.

  I printed photos of the castle  culled from the Web and used those to draw a rough outline of the rock on brown craft paper. It won't be exact, but I think it'll look OK when finished.

The pattern drawn on the paper was cut out and used as a template to cut pieces of .5" (1.3cm) thick Styrofoam. The Styrofoam was then glued to the shelf piece.

Hopefully we'll be able to get a little terraforming accomplished by next week. Until then - Enjoy!

Kellogg's UK Paper Village - School & Book Store

Toys & Stuff presents the last built-up structure from Kellogg's UK Paper Village - the School with attached Book Store. This is a nifty structure consisting of two buildings connected by a small archway and measures 8 5/8" (21.9cm) L x 4 1/4" (10.8cm) W x 4 1/2" (11.4cm) H. The building sits a little crooked as built straight from the package, but with a little bracing it should be okay. 

The level of detail and the nifty little touches on these buildings have made them a joy to put together. I've already started ordering materials to put together a small diorama, but goodness knows when I'll actually begin as I'm still working on the "Pfalz bei Kaub" diorama! Just stay tuned to this station folks! In the meantime - Enjoy!