08-08-2010, 07:54 AM
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the encouragement! 
I will try and answer the questions that were asked............
The siding is Northeastern scribed sheathing with 1/16" spacing, the foundation was made from 1/8" spaced sheathing but it could have easily been made with two pieces of strip wood.
I found the sign at this link:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vi...freedom-pa
it is taken from an old blotter and i just cropped the part I needed.
The way I did the sign is pretty straight forward. I printed the sign on regular printer paper. Before cutting it out, I sanded the back of it to make it thinner. I cut it out and applied a liberal amount of adhesive with a glue stick. After gently pressing the sign in place I used a plastic toothpick (with a slightly rounded tip) and ran it in the grooves of the siding to push the sign into them...........and that is it.
A quick search of "gas pump" on the Walters website reveals tons of them. I will be updating the pumps for this project with some from JL Innovative, but in a nod to the picture, I will probably have a proto pump out back just rusting away :cry:
The switch machine......The Caboose ground throws, although out of scale, have never bothered me. Many awesome layouts have them. However, in this area, they look pretty bad!
They will be going away and will be replaced with something much less noticeable. I will not be doing any under the table stuff though....it will be very simple....more on that later.....maybe 
I will try and answer the questions that were asked............
The siding is Northeastern scribed sheathing with 1/16" spacing, the foundation was made from 1/8" spaced sheathing but it could have easily been made with two pieces of strip wood.
I found the sign at this link:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vi...freedom-pa
it is taken from an old blotter and i just cropped the part I needed.
The way I did the sign is pretty straight forward. I printed the sign on regular printer paper. Before cutting it out, I sanded the back of it to make it thinner. I cut it out and applied a liberal amount of adhesive with a glue stick. After gently pressing the sign in place I used a plastic toothpick (with a slightly rounded tip) and ran it in the grooves of the siding to push the sign into them...........and that is it.
A quick search of "gas pump" on the Walters website reveals tons of them. I will be updating the pumps for this project with some from JL Innovative, but in a nod to the picture, I will probably have a proto pump out back just rusting away :cry:
The switch machine......The Caboose ground throws, although out of scale, have never bothered me. Many awesome layouts have them. However, in this area, they look pretty bad!
They will be going away and will be replaced with something much less noticeable. I will not be doing any under the table stuff though....it will be very simple....more on that later.....maybe
Steve