Cook's Lumber

As usual. well done my child.

Al

Gee .... thanks, Pop!

Jim

Really nice, with that roof treatment.....were you able to approximate the remembered

Cook's Lumber, for was the kit that close, or did you go with the kit?

I pretty much went with the kit; it was so darn close to what I remembered.  Of course, my sense of size and proportion have been pretty distorted between a 6-year old and a 63-year old!  But, it fits perfectly into the blank area on my version of Espanola (currently being upgraded) and will always remind me of those days.  I even found a poster of "Mr. Spudnut"  [a local favorite; making potato flour doughnuts] for the back side of the lumber shed.  My modificatons were mostly in color and adding interiors to all of the buildings, including opening the doors and outfitting the shed with the table saw, as well as LED and microfluour lighting.

Jim

"Mr Spudnute"The best donutes I ever ate back in the fifties.

Al

I always admire your work Jim... always first rate!!!  Tell me, how to you color the corrugated iron roofing?

Dwight,

Before I forget to say so, thanks for your kind words and support.

I have a 2-step approach  I lay out the individual scale 4'x8' corrugated panels and spray them with gray auto-primer.  Then, before the primer is dry, I mist the various panels with dark tan, brown, and boxcar red, all from spray-cans.  As the primer dries, the other tones tend to mix and spread, giving a nice rusty appearance.  Once the panels are mounted [about 48 hours after the panels are dried], I then brush them with a combination of weathering chalks, usually rusts, dirty grays, and browns.

Jim

Thanks Jim... one more question - the tarpaper.  Is that Paper Creek?  If not, who makes it?  I'm looking for some and just discovered Paper Creek is out of business and no longer produces the stuff.

Dwight,

Yep ... the tarpaper is Paper Creek.  When I found out that they were going out of business a couple of years ago, I started buying up sheets of the stuff (in all possible colors) at various train meets.  I have enough for a few more buildings.

In the meantime, I have asked my friends, Thom and Dave, at Clever Models to make a comparable product.  They have a texture called "distressed tarpaper" (in black) as well as tarpaper sheets in red, green, brown, and black.  Different from Paper Creek but after paying $1.99 for the download, you can print as much as you want.  I have asked Thom to produce the distressed versions in green and red, also.  We shall see.

Jim

Thanks Jim.  I'll give them a try.

Beautiful work.  Thanks for sharing.

You should also consider posting this on the "Scenery Forum."