Mediterranean Church Part Two

Hello There! I have had some time to continue the various projects I have in progress and the latest is the Church from ,(formerly), Shellhole Scenics.

I had some resin walls, which I had kept, 'Just in case' and these were going to make a surrounding wall for the church. I had some 90 degree corners and plenty of straight sections. I have used just boiled water to bend resin items in the past and fortunately these items were made of a resin that allowed me to do that.

I needed a pan of just boiled water and a pan of cold water as I found that when I bent them to the shape I required they tried to return to their original shape. After a while I was able to obtain a manageable curve with an opening for a gate, which I will make from plasticard later.

The figure is for scale. I felt that the walls were a little small for 20mm figures which had been stuck to a one pence piece and had an added, thin piece of magnabase, for storage. I added a shim of 4mm thick plywood to raise the height. This will be hidden by scenic flock and plaster later. 

Moving onto the roof, this had two problems. The first was the release agent, used in any resin casting. It had left a residue of a fine, grit like finish on some of the surface. It appeared as a fine bead, like a shot blasting bead, adhering to the surface. This can be viewed on the left hand half of the roof here. It had to remover mechanically. While doing this you could see some air holes in the casting. These were filled with a suitable filler. In this case from Humbrol.

The other problem was the roof was a little lop sided. One long edge was 8mm thicker than the other. I rectified this by gluing a length of square plasticard to each end and cutting it into a wedge shape, in situ, to  level the roof up. 

The walls of the church also had this fine bead on the brickwork so this was also mechanically removed. This gave me the opportunity to spot any further air holes in the casting and fill them.

This was typically a case of you think you have found them all an then you spot some more.

The first part of this build is here. Next I will start with the first assembly, priming and first coats of paint.