Project - banta modelworks # 6149 - O scale

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Project

The Union Bank Building front only
banta modelworks 802 258-3869
On30/O scale # 6149
7 1/2" tall; 4 5/8" wide
2 5/8" deep including sidewalk
# 6149 $ 64.00
421 Hopkins Road
Dummerston Vermont 05301
www.bantamodelworks.com 
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Notice the 4"x4" Machinest 90 degree Angle Plate that everyone should have

on their workbench - I have only one as I am a bit of a tight wad.



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Notice marble weights (from trophies) I dug up in my backyard!
Yellow weights are from a fabric store - for working with fabrics but I do not recommend them as they seem to leak a bit of sand.
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AK Interactive Pipettes, small size, Ref: AK614 $ 3.95

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This is the first of a series of banta's fronts-only kits. Its interior box is made of plywood. I plan to paint my model white for two reasons. First, white is a very popular building color so it will be true to the prototype. I just completed a bantaworks front and painted it green so I need to stay away from colored buildings. Second reason is I don't want my finished model to look like the photo on the kit box - don't want the building to be too recognizable to visitors. Hopefully a different sign will get me some way along in that direction. As Tony Koester recently wrote, we don't want visitors commenting "nice Union Bank Building".

 Oh, $64.00 for a front only - ouch! My frugality is on display in this posting. In fairness to banta modelworks, as the proprietor explained, these laser kits just don't pop out of the laser printer. Laser printing is a time consuming process with each kit taking quite a bit of time to be produced by the laser cutter.

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I have been quite happy with Weldwood Multi-purpose Spray Adhesive (Indoor/Outdoor) to adhere the photo of liquor bottles to foam core to form a cool interior. Weldwood adhesive does not seem to clog the nozzle as other brands do.

 I intend on removing the sidewalk as I already have one in place on my O scale town of Waipahu.

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