09-14-2009, 12:39 PM
Well, I've been pecking a way at this for some time now, making a bit of progress, throwing away and redoing just about everything several times. I did take some progress pictures, but some of them are meaningless now, and a few others didn't turn out too good, a testimony to my picture-taking skills. So, just to bring things up to date, I took these pictures the past few days and kind of laid out the components that I used.
About five or six years ago when Model-Expo was going out of the train business, I bought up several Bachmann Car Repair Shop and Locomotive Repair Shop kits just for the parts. I know they were under $1.50 each and knew I could use the material someday. This is where I got the material for the roof facade, glass doors and windows. I also used the brick from the loco shop for the bottom of the walls. The top cement blocks are from a sheet of Evergreen styrene with 1/8" squares. The roof is a piece of .062 ABS and I used balsa wood to trim it and give it thickness.
This is where I am right now with the walls and roof:
Now this is how I got to the roof. Installing the upper roof trim will be my next step:
The walls and windows are all cut down from the Bachmann kits while th rock trim has been cut from a Pola loco service shop. I've got some corner blocks glued in place right now to keep the walls square and to give me something to glue the roof to when the time comes.
About five or six years ago when Model-Expo was going out of the train business, I bought up several Bachmann Car Repair Shop and Locomotive Repair Shop kits just for the parts. I know they were under $1.50 each and knew I could use the material someday. This is where I got the material for the roof facade, glass doors and windows. I also used the brick from the loco shop for the bottom of the walls. The top cement blocks are from a sheet of Evergreen styrene with 1/8" squares. The roof is a piece of .062 ABS and I used balsa wood to trim it and give it thickness.
This is where I am right now with the walls and roof:
Now this is how I got to the roof. Installing the upper roof trim will be my next step:
The walls and windows are all cut down from the Bachmann kits while th rock trim has been cut from a Pola loco service shop. I've got some corner blocks glued in place right now to keep the walls square and to give me something to glue the roof to when the time comes.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD