Hedley Junction

[sailormatlac]

You have a great eye for super-detailing .... It is amazing how much difference tiny additions like scale brackets for the downspouts make. Will you be opening up any of the dock doors?

Thanks for your comments Scuba. We always think superdetailing is about overcrowind the building with lots of anecdotal details, but in fact, most of the time, it's just about doing correctly some architectural features to enhance any structure. Downspouts, roof flashings, chimney conduit, electrical wiring and some ventilation intakes are all you need to do. Most of them, as you see, are done with available material: wire leftovers, sprues, plastic rejects, paper and cardboard. They don't need any particular skills. Honestly, I'm far to be a great modeller, making full of mistakes here and there. Just watching careful picture of actual buildings and replicating what you see. I think these details bring a lot of life to any structure with a fair amount of weathering.

As for the open door, I thought about it and it would be nice but I won't do it. This bashed structure is held together with 1/4" masonite. Cutting it for a door could do more harm than good! It probably would warp badly. Anyway, I don't want to model an interior to be honest. Anyway, when I walk the street, I rarely see open doors. Most of the time, they are closed, except on large warehouses were a lot of activities happen. My goal in this project is to depict a derelict station in the mid-70s just before the end of regular service. It won't see a lot of action except for change of crew, a few maintenance work and maybe some minimal Budd RDC service.

Just like any other place all over North America, my prototype railways (CP-CN) saw a lot of service cuts between 1972 and 1978 when most remaining passenger service in Quebec City area were discontinued and parts of the infrastructure removed, leaving only a squeleton of freight movement. That's what we're trying to model, the last glamorous years in eastern Canada railroading, when both companies tried to modernize themselves. It's a colorful era with contradicting paint schemes, rundown grandeur of dying industries and railway infrastructure. Also a great era where new car design are together with older technologies. Reminds me of Doctorwayne 1930s era layout where you can find exactly the same kind of melting pot of evolving rolling stock.

Matt