Painting and Detailing Bricks and Mortar | The Cassidy Tires Rebuild 1 | CCMR At The Bench #15

In this series, we take a nondescript warehouse and build in story and character. Here, we'll get it up to standard by aging the brick and concrete.

[brooklyngraham]

Yes! At the bench. Love the weathering on this building. You can see the years piling up with every stroke of the brush. Dust… every model railroaders nemesis. I’ve come up with an interesting solution. A small static mop with the moa fronds does the trick as long as you stay on top of it. I’m binge watching so it’s on to part two. Thanks for posting, as always. 😊

[nutball]

Amazing transformation with some fairly basic coloring techniques. Great job! Looking forward to the next installment.

[melkitson]

Your attention to detail is phenomenal, as is your patience. The end results are worth the time and effort that you put in. Best wishes and thanks.

[danielfantino]

Hi Eric, good to see you back.
A comment say those old buldings should see a new life in résidential condos.
Here an example.
That 7 story building is one of them.
Here some historical facts.
Old industrial neighborhood along Lachine canal, ancestor of actual St Lawrence seaway. On south shore once CP followed it with myriad of customers. On the north CN did the same. There was a rotating bridge ( now replaced) over the canal with CP passing below. Today a bike path. To serve clients, CN had a diamond crossing its double main lines. The leg going east is still in service. The west one and canal´s line is gone. That explain the buildings wall curve shape.
I invite all of you to continue your visit from 84 to 144 St Augustin street. In days when transportation was on foot or behind horses carriages, all those industrys served by ship and train needed workers. So they lived close by.
If you would see St Augustin street homes on a layout, all of you would complaint about non prototypical and a joke.
The 84 Google it in 84 St Augustin, Montréal. You´ll see it in Flickr with a 1959 shot. Quite different house with with wood walls covering and a door and balcony on second floor with now gone CN switching tower.
84 is ugly with its triangular shape. Same for the next two adjacents ones. With plaster wall and different foundation location, closer to the street, aong lintel above window, remnant of once big garage door.
96 with skylight windows and metal roof. Those tiny houses in a low income mills workers era.
102 stones foundation with air vent. The large opening goes back to days when horses were parked in stalls in backyard. It´s still there from Earth perspective. 102 is newer with a more modern approach. It was builted on a lot where former homes, probably destroyed by fires. It´s no more a single family home. Bigger two story can house now tenants and fresh immigrants working in nearby mills. Notice the more expansive facade bricks and cheaper ones on the sides. An economical way to give a more luxury look.
110 to 126. 4 survivors tiny one family with a more common rural look. Builted in pairs, still spiffy and well maintained. So the same and different with windows skylights.
Then, the shock of the
"future" with freshly builted cubic style. The
"orange" one, very narrow plot with a roof access, different facade materials. And with 144, new sidewalks, hence lighter concrete color. But orange is younger with asphalt patch on sidewalk and street for water and sewer pipings.
I stop here. I think to build that street. May be some look alike omissions, but for sure a big discussion subjects with those so different houses. Ok, here a bit extreme, but who said that unprototypical can be believable ? Except one, they are all narrow, 11 of them in 300 feet of street.
Hope you´ll take the time to visit them. They can be colorful, with extreme changes as centurys passed and good neighbors to your railroad served industrys.
For a huge condo project you have the Redpath sugar refining in Montreal from 1854 to 1980. The plant expand with always more brick buildings addition. Sugar cane was received via ship on the canal. Boxcars for shipping bags of sugar and even in their own tank cars for the liquid syrup (Model Power made them in HO scale). They even had a huge railyard of coal storage, today R R Donnelley is location
(Earth 1548 rue St Patrick). Opposite was CP track with modern concrete sugar silos.
The type of Eric´s buildings can be modified infinitely. From rusty metal on top of brick walls. Why not a freshly shiny replaced one ? Outside emergency stair case. Far more work but better looking than an enclosed boxy addition. And where else your emoyees can go out to smoke ?
Nice work Eric. Pretty sure more additions will come. Endless fun project.

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[carlvitko]

Excellent weathering work my friend, that model really represents Chicago factories, I can think of several that are very similar. It's too bad we're losing more and more of our manufacturing history, i can remember living in Cicero all my life watching them demolish the old Western Electric plant. My heart kinda sunk when they knocked it down, now that would have been a building to model. Now i heard they want to knock down the old Damen silos. Slowly history being obliterated.

[kahunatiki]

Hi Eric,
An excellent video with fantastic weathering options to truly elevate the quality of the model. Definitely another one of the things I need to do and want to do as I make my second pass on many of my buildings that I did in my Michigan city area of my layout . Thank you as always have a good week.
Scott

[folkertvanwijk]

Great video! Looking forward to part 2

[pacificcoastminiatures]

That concrete turned out great! I'll return to this video when I do some more work on my own buildings - some of my background flats have the same style of wall.

[stevetandysr.]

Always nice seeing your work in progress . Thanks for allowing us to ride along .

[jeffhacker]

I thought brick was easy until I tried it once. I watched this very carefully because your results look right.

[luvindemtrains]

Really nice work so far. The age is very evident. Love the music...Mr. Rogeresque.

[cprtrain]

Superb video. I can't wait for your next videos.

[andrewpalm]

Well, this video was timely, Eric--spookily timely as I'm currently building a plastic brick background building for a photo diorama/micro-layout in HO. On my last major structure I could use apply and wipe with craft paint for the motar because the motar grooves were deeply etched in laser-cut wood. But the current structure has smaller bricks with very shallow motar joints between them. And they'll be even shallower after painting the brick. I have some Buff Tamiya paint so I can test your method. I also have Tamiya panel liner, but I suspect it will be too thin for this application. And I'll experiment with the pencils I have, too. So thank you very much and Cheers from Wisconsin!

[Perfusionist]

Eric, I enjoyed this and may try some of your ideas as I add structures to my HO urban areas. Thanks for sharing.

[JB-udvm]

That looks great. Always so nice and inspiring to see fellow N scalers go in depth with detailing and such, I hope I'll manage to do the same sort of detailing on my planned layout. By the way I just subscribed earlier today and there's a new video already. :D Looking forward to part 2.

[cbrailroader]

Wonderful painted and weathered building! 👍

[tvbatman]

Looks beautiful. Wish you did HO, but I realize it's a space concern. I just can imagine what detail you could do in that scale.

[thomasmccaskill]

A master modeler at my club used earth tone color pencils to do his brick work and he said when you cannot get anymore color on it spray dull coat on it and keep going the dull coat give back the ruffness to take the color of the pencil

[yamo]

Looks serendipitously awesome!😅 really nice work though, as usual, can hardly wait to see the next installment. I'm going to have to try your techniques, I have never thinned paint down that much, and was not thrilled with the results

[jeffherdz]

A shame that the Developers cannot leave buildings like that alone, and turn them into Condos. Nice weathering job.