Introducing The PistonBroke Line

[OBJack]

Thanks for the comments Josh, When it comes to weathering I always look up your posts to see how you have done you builds and vehicles before I progress, and I know I gotta lotta learnin' still to do.

HOLY COW...!!!! That's a mighty fine lookin' gas station....I remember seeing a few of those waaayyy back in my time....

Hi there Steamtrains, Thanks for looking in Gus?.... it is nice to know it was recognised for what it once was/is, I too remember, but we might be giving away our age by admitting it, but we still got the memories huh?

I wish I had the skill and patience for craftsman kits.
Looks good.

Errr..Ed.. I don't know about that. Patience is not a strong suit of mine either, but my take on it is that it is a lot easier to build something someone else has written the instructions for, than to make up my own as a scratchbuild like you guys do, I would have no hope of doing some of the stuff that appears here.

Jack, I was going to post last week but I was speechless. The only thing missing is the chooks
Fabulous work.
Charlie

Sorry Charlie, my bad. here you go.....

Thanks for the house visit Doc, my "have a go mentality" is born out of necessity, no club within a 500km round trip, no fellow modelers close either, and if you mention you play with trains to grown -ups around here....well they tend to slowly move away... all the while keeping a wary eye on you as they herd their kids off in another direction. :?
I also rather like "tinkering about" with a problem, I seem to retain the solution in my mind a bit better that way.
and I think your observations of the pretty ladies at the bar somehow ring very true. :oops:

OK Back to Da Trains

Man there is a lot of finger fumbling fandangled things to do with these windows.

Now I realise how useless I am with these 10 digits I was given, they were obviously not made to construct HO gauge windows and door architraves.
Just wondering, all you other N and smaller scale modelers.... give me a look at your fingers ... I bet they are like Z scale size.....they gotta be smaller than mine otherwise you couldn't do it!

Anywho here is the latest effort in Kellys' boarding House

I was trying to make the posters look old and weather beaten, but I think I became more distressed
than the posters, So I went off to have a Bex and a good lie Down

No Such Luck

Late news:
Whoops! :oops: The large black "Boarding House" sign has distressed to the point of a break down .....
... so a quick repaint......

and this is the result

But by now the meds had worked wonders. hock:
.....but then So did a few hours today with kelly in her boarding house....

She is a two story building so.....

The story so far.....

I stained the floors and put some interior walls up

And I assumed this is how they sit atop one another

Then I threw a few walls against one another and added a bit of glue

That photo also shows that the roof trusses have been added

And a couple of other sides

Wowzzerrrs.... curtains no less ( they are my own deviation from the plans, getting a bit adventurous now..)

And

Now I have to go and build some stairs..... better load up on those meds..


Jack