Excellent Andy !! Love the details.
Tom
STEAMFAN77,
The building and interior details look great. You are very ambitious.
MELGAR
Fabulous work!
Peter
That looks great!!
Ah! Now I see what the little room is! The details are great as is the whole model! It looks great in place trackside!
Stunning job! Something for me to try in the future.
Great work Andy! You really have outdone yourself on this.
Dave
Thank you guys! I appreciate the kind words. I have a few more details to add, and I’d like to get some lighting in this building. I need to paint some tools and make a work table for the section gang.
Andy
I added some fascia (the trim under the roof) to add some detail, make the building look more like the prototype, and hide a few sins 
. I'll give the whole building a black wash to blend everything a little more, and give the right level of grime.
Andy
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ANdy
Any updates? Hopeful;ly you are well.
Steve
Ditto.......
Hi guys, thanks for asking. I am well and I hope you are too. I’ve been painting some accessories, and have been planning to build a table, and some lockers for the section house. I’ll also add lighting at some point.
Andy
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Hi Andy,
I just caught up with your build, and I am most impressed. It's always great to see a high rail layout so beautifully designed and realized. I love that it is so clean and spare. I know you have a lot of structures to add, but I hope you will preserve some of the openness- I think it really gives it a sense of space and distance.
I especially like the simple light blue walls for the same reason. One's eye imagines the scenery extending on into infinity. Maybe that is why I've always enjoyed layouts in that stage where the track is laid but no scenery is done. Your eye fills in the rest. It lets the engines and rolling stock be the stars of the show.
I have seen too many (99%?) modelers who make beautiful buildings and often pretty good 3D scenery and then paint the walls with foliage, mountains and clouds and the results are never up to the level of the built scenery- often glaringly so. Realistic painting is a different skill set and not as easy as it looks. Sometimes less is more.
Well, sorry, your beautiful layout inspired a little rant. I look forward to following your progress.
Will,
Thank you for your kind and insightful comments. I am leaving open spaces as much as possible for the reasons you mentioned. Thanks for looking and sharing your thoughts.
Andy
I made a simple table from styrene for the section gang to go inside the house. I made some grooves in the top to simulate wood grain that you’ll be able to see better when i paint the table. I will add a workbench of sorts from Berkshire Valley Models, and I’ll add some lockers.
Andy
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Added a few more details to the section house. I put some chairs with the table for the crew, some lockers, a work table on top of a couple of oil drums, a lamp and a few books on the desk, and a brass lamp and lantern courtesy of Andre from Riverleaf Models. Thank you Andre! I will add a coal bin for the stove. I already have the shovel. I will call Evan Designs on Monday to order the lighting.
Andy
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Andy,
Don't forget a calendar on the wall and maybe a phone...maybe several buckets/barrels of spikes and wooden pallets, too?
Tom
All good ideas and additions Tom.
Andy
Andy,
This is some neat stuff. Even though I won't detail all of my buildings to this level, I feel like there should be some level of detail if a model is closer to the edge of your layout. If you're not going to do the inside then the structure itself should have it. When I watch all of these videos with HO and even N scalers doing this kind of detail, I say there is no excuse for me.
Great work man, keep it coming.
Dave
Thanks Dave! I haven't done all of my buildings to this degree, but I'll circle back around to them.
Andy
Great looking details, Andy!!
Thanks Mark! I know it’s been a while since an update, but small things take along time 😁
Andy
Andy, great work on the interior details.
Tom
Thanks Tom, I still have a few more to add.
Andy
Andy
Stunning detailed work keep up the good work
Mike and Aidan
Looks great Andy.
SIRT- very nice diesels.
Bob
Looks great.
Dick
Thanks for the kind words guys. Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. The layout has not been accessible for a while. Having some some issues with the basement. I’ll be back at it in a month or so, I hope.
Andy
Andy,
Sorry to hear about your basement. Look forward to updates when you're able to get back to the layout.
Dave
Thanks Dave!
Andy
Hope you get things straightened out soon Andy.
Bob
I'm sorry you are having issues with the basement, Andy! On the one hand, basements are ideal for layouts. On the other hand, a lot of problems can happen in them. I hope all is resolved soon with little cost. Our older daughter and her husband have had a bad time with their 100+ year old basement, while the 1888 house I grew up in had relatively few problems even until we sold the house last winter.
Thanks Bob, me too! Mark, so far it has been low cost, I hope it stays that way.
Andy
Started work on the drug store from River Leaf Models. Taking my time and adding some additional detail with the brick work. I added a few different colors of brick. I like the results so far.
Andy
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Andy,
That looks pretty sharp. Explain a little on the faux stucco part, if you could. Is that a self-adhesive piece that comes with the model?
Tom
Very nice looking work, Andy!
@Steamfan77 posted:Started work on the drug store from River Leaf Models. Taking my time and adding some additional detail with the brick work. I added a few different colors of brick. I like the results so far.
Andy
Well done!
Peter
Thanks Tom, Mark, and Peter. Tom, it’s actually cut into the piece as part of the building. I painted the area to look like concrete. I might add a billboard or two.
Andy
Great work on the drug store Andy. Looking forward to more updates. The brick and stucco coloring is excellent.
Tom
