Small Finnish Post Office
There are no Finnish buildings
available on the market, but a Dutch company Artitec manufactures high quality resin building
kits, and they also offer some Norwegian and Swedish buildings
(eg. Vafoss, Nyåker and Solbacken). With small changes they
are also suitable for Finnish landscape. The kits are much more
higher quality and more detailed, than usual model kits (Faller,
Pola etc.) They are also relatively easy and fast to build, this
project took only one week's evenings. The kits can be ordered
from: http://www.hobbyworld.nl/.
There is no similar station in
Finland as the Vafoss-station above, but it can be easily converted
to a Finnish small town Post Office. Only the Norwegian style
roof must be changed to a Finnish type tin roof. This can be done
with Evergreen's sheet no. 4521, metal roofing, spacing 4.8mm.
ARTITEC model kits are made using
a plastic (resin) cast technique, under vacuum conditions.
The parts are cut apart and the
additional film is sanded away. The job is more easy as one could
expect, and it took only 2-3 hours to prepare all parts.
It is instructed to paint the walls
after assembly. However I painted the walls and other parts first
and only made some finishing painting and weathering after assembly.
Separately painted window frames are glued on the walls.
Because the Evergreen roof sheet
is much thinner and weaker than the original roof parts, I made
two ridge beams of balsa wood to support the roof.
It is instructed to glue one half
of the roof at the time with cyano-glue, but I glued the both
sides at same time with a white glue to be able to adjust the
positions.
The signs are placed on the wall.
More information is available on the web site of Finnish Postmuseum.
You can create the signs by printing
the picture above. Download a hi-resolution picture from here.
Finally a loading dock and a letterbox
are added (when they are placed to the landscape).
