The Assembly Of An Old Faller Cardboard Kit B-254
But what should I do? I wanted to have this duplex, so I acquired this kit as I discovered it on Ebay.
The assembly is a little bit more extensive as that of a plastic kit. First of all, I assembled the wall parts, which can be done with all-purpose glue or PVA glue. Next step was the application of semolina on the shell of building, to get a plaster structure.
Plastic parts like the windows or the roof could be stuck with normal plastic glue. The shutters, however, which form one injection-moulded part with the window frames, had to be painted before.
As the kit contained no gutters, I used those from an Auhagen set.
Principally, this was no scratchbuilding. However, descriptions of the assembly of kits like that can be found very rarely, so I decided to publish it anyway. Moreover, compared to today's plastic kits, more work is required, more has to be done by oneself, assembling such an old cardboard kit.
