Juneco Two stall enginehouse

[cnrglen]

Well I colored the walls over the past couple days:
   

I started with staining the outer walls with an alcohol and india ink stain to weather it.

   

Then I brush painted the walls with Depot Buff. Not enough to fully cover the staining in places. I want the look of a weathered industrial building. 
I also took some time and airbrushed all the windows and doors in Boxcar red.

     

A painted wall with the doors and windows loosely fitted. I wasn't completely sold on the color choice I had made at first. I had briefly considered just airbrushing all the walls in boxcar red to match the windows.

[Amalynn]

I definitely think the red windows on normal wood looks excellent

[tompm]

Nice progress. The windows and doors look great.

[cnrglen]

Thanks. I think the color combination has grown on me so I'll keep it. I do think I should tone down/ weather the window and doors a bit though, probably drybrushing a lighter color would work.

[cnrglen]

Well this past week was a case of two steps forward, one step back. 
I started by staining the inside walls using testors stainFX pine:

   

Then I started to install the window and doors. I found that they were a bit too new looking so I brushed a bit of thinned umber on the frames.

   

Then the problem started to show
Since I decided on the color combination I noticed that almost all the walls had a slight bow in them but when I stained the inside, the bow became more pronounced.

   

So to correct this I added some extra stringers to the length on the walls, weighting them down with a steel block, by cordless drill and my cordless impact. This time I used Weldbond glue to attach the stringers instead of the Aileen's Tacky glue.
   

   

When that was done the walls were flat again. I'll stain the stringers later when the walls go up to ensure that they don't warp again. 

   

With that I finished installing all the windows and doors.

[cnrglen]

Just a bit more progress over the last night.

   

I airbrushed some boxcar red onto the main doors. After that dried I used my handy fiberglass brush to scratch the paint down a bit to knock down the wood 'fuzz' and it also makes a slightly softer tone to the paint. The pair on the left have been worked over by the fiberglass brush, the ones on the right are waiting their turn.

   

I also brush painted the large door's frames and finished off adding the windows and doors to the office wall.

   

I painted the office interior in depot buff. I'm thinking of adding a bit more framing around the windows in both the office and enginehouse. I have a feeling that the bottom joint between the windows and wall will have some light leaks when I light it so It's best to fix that now with some stripwood framing.

[cnrglen]

I added some interior framing around the windows:
   

I used a mix or 2X6 and 2X8 which might be a bit of overkill on sizing but this is a larger industrial structure. 
I also depleted my stock of both sizes so I'll have to add those to my future shopping list.

   

Then I could finally put the window glass in. I used a product called Gallery Glass:

   

A liquid that was made for stained glass and suncatcher hobbyists I just applied it to the indiviual panes and let it dry. I believe Goerge Sielios uses this product on his builds.
   

I did have an accident on the first window that I did. Some of the 'glass' got onto the front of the frames so I'll have to be creative and fix it.

[cnrglen]

A bit of a cheat to fix the window:
   

I cut a piece of thin siding to represent a boarded up window and stained it with some A&I.
With the walls now done, I can actually start building the structure on the base.

[Amalynn]

I really like that glass stuff. Could you use it to make passenger car windows, do you think?