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BEULAHS HOUSE OF ENCHANTMENT #490

Started by madmike3434, December 27, 2010, 08:39:07 PM

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madmike3434

Here is a link to my photobucket account that holds pictures of my pilot build #490 of Tom Yorke #119 KIT . I re-named toms pool hall and bordello kit #119 as BEULAHS HOUSE OF ENCHANTMENT.

http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x169/madmike3434/beulahs%20house%20of%20enchantment/

I changed many things on the original kits design ;, the 3rd story addition with dormers, the extended upper porch/balcony with complicated stair system. The side barber shop pool hall with laser cut front wall. All wood walls were laser cut, something never offered in a yorke kit. A detail pack with many special details was also included. I also offered both laser cut windows and also grandt line windows to choose from.
The stone walls are all hydrocal as is the  foundation castings.



madmike3434......mike lynch


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Ray Dunakin

Very nice. I always liked Tom Yorke's stuff.

Visit my website to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

Ray Dunakin's World

madmike3434

This was always one of Tom Yorkes most sought after kits along with his #117 Rubbles Depot.

The other thing i always liked about Tom kits after building so many of them was discovering where that particular kit walls had their origin.
  For Instance the pool hall & bordellos stone walls except for one , all started as kit #114 the power house machine shop.  Only the wall behind the main part of the building was new.
The rubbles depot #117 actually got its origins from kit #108 The Depot, with rubbles receiving a new rear wall and the tower section along with the foundation casting.

One thing i have found is that a specific glue called HOUSEHOLD GOOP which is a silastic contact cement really bonds to hydrocal like nothing else i have ever tried. It allows you to pick up the assembled 4 walls and handle the structure without fear of it coming apart in your hands like white or other glues.  I also found that a piece of 1/4" square basswood inserted into GOOP greatly increases the strength of the bond.  The GOOP remains slightly elasticy and flexibal .

mike

madmike3434

thought i would post a couple of pictures to the thread
mike

madmike3434

and a couple more

madmike3434

pool hall barber shop ....inside stairs are the original entrance to bordello upstairs.

The outside stair system using bantas laser cut system was a large change by me from the original kits design.  I also made the balcony 2 feet wider than original to accomodate the new stairs.