02-11-2024, 07:02 AM
Some progress:
I painted the base and drew out the footprint of the structure.
The main enginehouse floor comes in two pieces. The larger piece was warped, probably from being in the plastic bag instead of the boxes they used to have. I ended up gluing and tacking it down to the base to ensure that it would stay flat. I'm not too concerned with the tacks showing as the ones around the sides will be covered by the interior framing plus all the cast metal details included in the kit and the others are between where I'll lay the rails so a bit of creative weathering will fix that.
The smaller square on the right is the office floor.
After the glue dried I stained the enginhouse floor with testors StainFX oak and the office with Pine.
I then glued the rail bases onto the floor, these were painted with Poly-s' railroad tie brown.
When the rail bases were glued down I used the height of the floor and rail base to determine the size of ties that I would need to match. I glued in the ties for the two enginehouse leads and the full length on the car shop lean-to. THe last thing I did was add the thin strip of masking tape where the wall for the car shop will go.
When the glue for the ties dries, I'll ballast the ties and add the preliminary scenery ground cover before adding rails.
I painted the base and drew out the footprint of the structure.
The main enginehouse floor comes in two pieces. The larger piece was warped, probably from being in the plastic bag instead of the boxes they used to have. I ended up gluing and tacking it down to the base to ensure that it would stay flat. I'm not too concerned with the tacks showing as the ones around the sides will be covered by the interior framing plus all the cast metal details included in the kit and the others are between where I'll lay the rails so a bit of creative weathering will fix that.
The smaller square on the right is the office floor.
After the glue dried I stained the enginhouse floor with testors StainFX oak and the office with Pine.
I then glued the rail bases onto the floor, these were painted with Poly-s' railroad tie brown.
When the rail bases were glued down I used the height of the floor and rail base to determine the size of ties that I would need to match. I glued in the ties for the two enginehouse leads and the full length on the car shop lean-to. THe last thing I did was add the thin strip of masking tape where the wall for the car shop will go.
When the glue for the ties dries, I'll ballast the ties and add the preliminary scenery ground cover before adding rails.