That looks great. I did never see a metal building like that.

It looks great and right at home on your layout. Nicely done!

Hey guys...Thanks for all your comments...makes the effort worthwhile..

GEC...Just be patient, and use 5-min epoxy for assembly. Get a couple of heat sink "clips" from Radio Shack. They help in keeping things together while the epoxy sets up. And be sure to keep things as square as possible. Although in a roundhouse, there are probably not many square corners... Also epoxy tends to be kind'a messy, so I preferred to paint after assembly in order to be able to clean up any "messes" before painting. Good luck..!! and post pics when you get going...

Wow Gus, congratulations. It Looks great, you have captured the coloring of the building perfectly I think.
Just a very neat and factual looking building.

Steamtrains Wrote:Hey guys...Thanks for all your comments...makes the effort worthwhile..

GEC...Just be patient, and use 5-min epoxy for assembly. Get a couple of heat sink "clips" from Radio Shack. They help in keeping things together while the epoxy sets up. And be sure to keep things as square as possible. Although in a roundhouse, there are probably not many square corners... Also epoxy tends to be kind'a messy, so I preferred to paint after assembly in order to be able to clean up any "messes" before painting. Good luck..!! and post pics when you get going...

It looks like alot of the semi-finished pieced were soldered. I have no problem soldering, but is epoxy really better? I just figure since i'm going to be doing a whole lot more soldering in the near future, that i might as well solder the round house to while i'm at it.

GEC...The only pieces that I soldered were two small angular "beams" that support the wooden slats at the top. And I did that just to see what it was like. There's no way I could have soldered accurately all the sub-assemblies, and much less the final assembly. Once you start putting the sub-assemblies together there's no room to get a soldering gun/iron in there. (At least I didn't feel confident that I could do it accurately.) Resistance soldering might be an option. With epoxy, you have enough time to get everything lined up properly before it sets.

lol, Thats exactly the reason i figured soldering would be better, because it is fast. A good thing about the roundhouse seems to be that most of it's parts are "open". the way i figure it, i just need to keep making the roof support assemblies and go down the line. I have clamps and such that could hold the parts for me. Epoxy has always been messy with me, but then again, maybe I'm using it wrong.

When you come down to it, I guess one uses whatever one feels comfortable with. I've used epoxy for so long, it's like something I could do with my eyes closed - I built R/C planes for close to 25 years.... Whereas with solder, I tend to get a little messy....
So go for it..!! and post your progress....

The finished product looks sweet! Well done.

Thanks Kevin....I'm starting to make plans for the interior of that baby....Will get to it as soon as I find all the "junk'" I'll need for that....