Triang No.42

Introduction to Triang No.42

This model was produced between 1934 and 1936, it was the largest house in a series of three. 14 inches [35.5 cms] deep 21 inches [53.5 cms] high

The house and roof have been over painted, the windows have also been repainted and are very rusty. It has original wallpaper throughout but is very tatty and has stickers and crayon marks in most rooms.  I do not think I will be able to keep the wallpaper, but might be able to save enough to do one wall. One thought I had, was to scan the paper and copy and print it using my computer.  With only one and a half window inserts missing, they should not be hard to replace.

Top right room showing the top of the staircase.

Bottom middle room. The wallpaper is very tatty, and has various stickers which can’t be removed without damaging the paper, the floor paper is not too bad and could be carefully cleaned.

Bottom right room showing the staircase, this has a very interesting wallpaper, seems a strange pattern for a downstairs room, it looks more like a child’s bedroom wallpaper.

 

Top middle room.

Top left room.

Bottom left room.

The front door has been over painted and the door knocker is missing, but the little ring is still there, as is the letter box and door knob.

 

Windows and Beams

The windows are very rusty and distorted, then need repainting, not all the shutters are there and the ones that are there are very worn.

The frames have been stripped of there blue paint, and have been treated with a rust gel.

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The metal Triang windows have been taken apart, they were and were quite rusty, especially on the inserts in the grooves where the plastic fits in for the windows.

The frames and the beams have now been painted brown.

The window inserts are hung on a string line and sprayed, each one with several coats of radiator paint. As the radiator paint is matt, they were given a coat of silk spray varnish.

I use a matt water based model paint for the frames as this it is very easy to use and gives a good finish. Then they were given a coat of antique pine varnish. New plastic windows have also been fitted into the inserts.

The beams also had to painted brown, I had to make three new beams out of thick card, as the old ones had split too much to repair.

The brown paint I use needed to be sealed with varnish, the best one I use in Antique Pine silk as it gives a nice finish.

The triangular beam also needed to be painted brown, the other side shows part of the triang label, perhaps it is part of a cardboard packing case, as it is not wood.

 

 Painting and Finishing

The three front panels have been painted on both sides with county cream emulsion. With other houses I have painted, I varnished them with antique pine varnish, I did this on one panel, but it did not cover well and was a bit patchy. So I mixed some county cream paint with the varnish and the result was very good and the colour was much better.

The front panels have now been painted and nailed and glued into place, also step and piece above the door. The windows and door have been fitted.

All the edges of the roof have new paper parcel tape, and the roof has been painted with brick-red paint, then a coat of antique varnish to soften the colour.

I have started to paint the green on the base, it will take a few coats to give it a good finish.

The outside of No.42 is now finished apart from the chimneys. The inside is not decorated as I want to reproduce the wallpaper which was originally there, it may take sometime. The shutters were the last fixture to fit. The paper shutters I made, were glued onto card, which was then fixed next to the windows on the front. I clipped the ends off of small nail heads and drilled small holes in the cardboard and fitted the heads in.[The shutters in the picture look a bit blue, but they are green.] This house still has no internal decoration or furniture at the moment. The Triang furniture looks a bit odd in it as the ceilings are high, but the rooms are a bit small for 1/12 furniture.