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I always liked these MTH buildings and got one last week. This is just about done and was repainted and detailed to be a sort of generic street level warehouse business. I reworked the front a bit for dual roll up doors and added some extra detail here and there. 

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Norm great job on your building.  I love the character that you give your buildings.  Good color choice for the brick, I too am wondering what you painted it with.

Regarding Hamm's Beer, that really brings back a lot of memories for me.  I grew up in Northwest Iowa and it was a leading beer in those days.  I loved the dancing bears in their TV ads "From the land of sky blue waters".  I can still hear their jingle with the Indian tom toms beating.  I am in the process of making a Hamm's Beer billboard to place along a highway that runs beside my Mississippi River for an Iowa state trooper to hide behind for a speed trap.

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Here's what I used. I used the matte clear over the base color (primer) before spackling the mortar, then bombed matte clear over the spackle. This keeps too much of the color bleeding into the mortar and then preserves a bit more of the mortar color when doing the acrylic washes and final weathering. Hope that makes sense - it goes color, clear, spackle, clear, final wash, highlights, drybrushing, etc.

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Thx Stephen. I am using Berkshire Valley and San Juan Car Co. insulators, Keil Line (now Scale City) transformers and spool insulators, and sometimes Keil or BV lampshades. I have some Wiseman parts that are very similar to PSC that I used on other poles. BV makes some smaller transformers that are pretty nice too. Someday I will model those square transformers that are still common in Pittsburgh. I wish there were more detail parts for utility pole modeling such as larger insulators. 

Here's a neat photo gallery of Duquesne Light poles:

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/co...r_lines/album/943864

Norm,  incredible transformation !   The building, the scene, the details all are exceptional.  Thanks for sharing some of the techniques and supplies you use.   You have a gift for making these models and scenes as real as any I have ever seen.  It' inspiring, and fortunately motivating.. makes me keep changing and improving my methods to try to achieve ever better results.    

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