03-16-2017, 07:13 PM
Very quick update for tonight, as there isn't a lot to show.
Today I've mainly been working on turning the Handy Company background flat into a full on building after widening the centre board. It started out as white foam board, as can be seen in earlier photo updates, and has ended today looking like this:
![[Image: 32666656703_13dcb4971e_c.jpg]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/718/32666656703_13dcb4971e_c.jpg)
After I'd finished putting the texture papers on it, I noticed that I hadn't added the cinderblock foundation strip like I had on the existing building, and adding it on to the building now would still leave the papers on the two halves of the structure out of alignment. As such, I'm going to make a small "foundation" for it out of a further few strips of foamboard and simply wrap that in the cinder block texture papers. This will however, make the newer half of the building a good inch taller than the other half, so I've added more corrugated steel papers along the back edge of the new building so it will simply look like the roof on that part of the building has been raised up at some point in the past.
I've also been working on a crossing keepers tower, based on a a set of plans for a Milwaukee Road prototype found in a 1964 issue of Model Railroader. It still needs additional handrails on the top of the steps, but otherwise it's done.
![[Image: 33482979145_f49c0debee_c.jpg]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3899/33482979145_f49c0debee_c.jpg)
![[Image: 33327013682_812f3ebee6_c.jpg]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3893/33327013682_812f3ebee6_c.jpg)
![[Image: 33099520130_ff458bedaf_c.jpg]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2884/33099520130_ff458bedaf_c.jpg)
I've also built a couple of freight car kits from Accurail and Roundhouse, a Soo Line combo-door boxcar and a KCS rib sided boxcar.
Finally, this arrived in the post today...
![[Image: 33439618786_8b18cff2e3_c.jpg]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/731/33439618786_8b18cff2e3_c.jpg)
Hopefully I'll have time to fit a decoder at some point tomorrow. Either way, weathering this one up is going to be FUN!
Today I've mainly been working on turning the Handy Company background flat into a full on building after widening the centre board. It started out as white foam board, as can be seen in earlier photo updates, and has ended today looking like this:
After I'd finished putting the texture papers on it, I noticed that I hadn't added the cinderblock foundation strip like I had on the existing building, and adding it on to the building now would still leave the papers on the two halves of the structure out of alignment. As such, I'm going to make a small "foundation" for it out of a further few strips of foamboard and simply wrap that in the cinder block texture papers. This will however, make the newer half of the building a good inch taller than the other half, so I've added more corrugated steel papers along the back edge of the new building so it will simply look like the roof on that part of the building has been raised up at some point in the past.
I've also been working on a crossing keepers tower, based on a a set of plans for a Milwaukee Road prototype found in a 1964 issue of Model Railroader. It still needs additional handrails on the top of the steps, but otherwise it's done.
I've also built a couple of freight car kits from Accurail and Roundhouse, a Soo Line combo-door boxcar and a KCS rib sided boxcar.
Finally, this arrived in the post today...
Hopefully I'll have time to fit a decoder at some point tomorrow. Either way, weathering this one up is going to be FUN!