The New Mill sides

left wall completed, right wall in process

The new mill sides incorporated some different techniques that I had not tried before.  The framing composed mostly of 8 x 8’s has been the same for all of the buildings and is just a matter of cutting accurately and gluing neatly. Easy to say, harder to do. It just comes with practice.

both walls completed with siding

Siding is composed of 2 x 12’s at the bottom in the horizontal plane, 3 strips wide, 3' total. The vertical pieces are composed of 2 x 10’s. The manufacturer suggested mixing the 2 x 10’s and the 2 x 12’s on the vertical plane, but I went with 2 x 10’s only. I didn’t think mixed width siding boards would look proper.
The siding needs lots of work before applying them to the frames.  I roughed them up with a metal brush to give them a weathered appearance. I followed by 400 grit sanding sticks. to lighten areas that I thought had stained too dark. The next step was to recreate a broken or faded yellow paint, mottled with age.  Here again my application was different then the suggested one. The recommended applicator was terry cloth. Looking around my own supplies I came up with artists sponges instead. These worked fine and gave me a very light mottled yellow look to the siding. I dipped the sponge into water first, then squeezed it out. I used a aged yellow acrylic as my color and after getting some on the sponge dabbed it against some cardboard to rid the sponge of most of the paint.  Then I applied what was left on my sponge to my weathered siding.
That was it. The siding takes time of course. It is board on board and care needs to be taken to get them right. 
Last, I came up with a feasible way to understand and correct for the space I have to put this model onto the layout. I had mentioned in earlier posts that there were space restrictions. That means I ain't got enough room for everything so I will have to make choices and compromises. That will be for next time. Stay safe and sane out there. We're all in this together.