BarMills Lighthouse

An overhead view of my completed lighthouse model. I added a bit of detail to the row boat interior.

I recently competed my BarMills lighthouse. It is a smaller model than I thought it would be. I realized that when seeing the Christmas kit display at Springfield back in January. It will work well in the foreground of my waterfront scene. One does not want a huge structure out front off the shores. If it was on shore and midway back in the a display a larger model would work better.

One addition I made to the kit was adding 1 by 2 stripwood to the rooftop seams. They looked kind of messy without something added. Most of the painting was done with MIG colors while the roof and light structure is done with a spray can coat of Camo Coat dark brown followed by some AK rust steak then PanPastel raw umber shade. More on this structure shortly...George Dutka

The seams of the roof looked a bit rough so I added wood strips to the seams.

MIG Rail Center paints which is formulated for engines and rolling stock are used to paint most of the lighthouse and the rowboat. A bit of weathering is applied to the red and white using Bragdon soot. The soot has a bit of two different rust mixed in by mistake when I dropped by four color box. Even with the lid closed the colors do get into the other sections. The mix is kind of a neat mix that I have been using on a few of my models. The red on the row boat is left clean for now.