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The Bier Garten-1934

I was in one of my favorite modeling hangouts several months ago – looking over the selection of 1:35 scale figures when I happened across an unusual rendition of Hitler.  Just the week before I had purchased one of the new VLS kits “Bavarian House” and thought the two would make a fine pairing with a little modification.

The Bavarian House is intended to be “part 1” of a two-kit offering from VLS (www.modelmecca.com).  Together they make a fine piece, but a little larger than I had room for in my office.  The kit I had was designed to have an open walled area that mated with the second kit.  As my intentions were a smaller little tavern, I had to overcome the gapping hole on the back of the kit by fabricating a duplicate of the first and second floor walls.  Fortunately, beam and plaster is rather simple to mock so within a day or so I had made the master duplicates and carved in the missing details to create the needed wall sections. As the little pub appeared a bit two small for a local gathering place, I also built an additional storage room extension to the back of the building.

The plaster kit was first glued together using my favorite glue for this task (Fabritac™), and seams were then gap-filled with common household Spackle paste.  I sanded down the dried Spackle and primed the building with flat white from Tamiya’s selection of spray can paints.  After this was completely dry, I came back with a sharp Xacto™ blade to reinforce the wood grain detail of the beams.