new project

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Well the Get Off Your Duff challenge has done just that to me. While posting some of the finished pics for that challenge I was somewhat embarrassed by the way that the smaller roundhouse in Riegelsville looked. It was a completed structure finished by someone else and never improved on. Well It just wouldn't do, so I started on the rebuild. This building ( known on the road as the switcher barn ) represents the pre-first world war portion of the engine facility. When the USRA took control of the railroads It deemed that some facilities needed upgrades, this was one. It and the sand house are all that remain from the original SH&D design. The round house was shortened to three stalls and a new, larger one was erected next to it, along with a new turntable and coaling tower. To get this one going I removed all the windows and glazing so that they could be primed for painting. I also wanted to match the brick work to the larger round house. So just like the first one I started with a wash of a off white mortar color.    

I then started to dry brush the brick color over the walls.     This will take a few coats until it looks right.