Hi Jace; I tried the Walther's brick paper - sadly, it doesn't look much more like insulbrick than it does like brick itself. Among other things, it lacks the recurring patter of different colored bricks, repeated in each insulbrick panel. Clever Models offers printed insulbrick texture, or you can find pleanty of images with an internet search. Don Spiro had an article in RMC a few years ago on using embossed plastic brick sheet to model insulbrick. He actually cut it into the correct sized panels, colored the bricks in pattern and applied the panels individually over the existing model siding on a plastic house kit.
Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 4/10/12, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: From: JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Altoona Model Works Reamer & Green Mill To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 10:13 AM Ah, just so--the Russell drawings mention it was resided. I'd guess the original shiplap siding was either red or grey, the most likely choices. One does doubt it was the cream of the pilot model; white might be possible, although that tended to be a bit more expensive for so much area (although come to think of it, the feedmills in my hometown of Attica were two out of three white). I've often thought of using some of the old Walthers printed brick paper to represent that very common cheap residing on structures--it looks as realistic or unrealistic as the prototype. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > I was wondering whether my memory was even worse than I thought, as I'd > > remembered the mill as being barn red.Happily, a discussion of the kit on > > the BR&P chatlist led one member to note that there was a photo in one of > > the MorningSun E-L books (volume 2, New York State) showing the mill; I > > checked and found I was not yet gaga... > > > > Jace Kahn > > > > General Manager > > Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > > > > > Jace, Your memory is correct on the barn red, but that was from the > > Insulbrik siding which covered the original shiplap siding. I have no idea > > what the original siding color was. > Bud Rindfleisch > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Attachment(s) from Edward Sauers included below] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Group, > > > > Have added photos of the completed mill. Contact me at Edsauers@... if > > interested. > > > > Thanks > > > > Ed Sauers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Attachment(s) from Edward Sauers > > > > 4 of 4 Photo(s) > > > > > > > > > > revised reamer & platform 013.JPG > > > > > > > > revised reamer & platform 012.JPG > > > > > > > > revised reamer & platform 009.JPG > > > > > > > > revised reamer & platform 011.JPG > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
