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Looks good Andy.

You will appreciate this since you are modeling the area- my wife and I were having dinner in Davenport Press a few months ago when we see fire trucks outside and smell smoke. A woman had turned onto the tracks at Willis Ave because she was following her GPS and it told her to turn..... this was what was left of the car. The driver was OK, she got out of the car before the train hit it.

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Hi DJ,

Thank you for the kind words. I am currently working on a structure that will go in the industrial area known as "The Hole", in Mineola. It will be Kurtz Iron Works. RSJB18, I remember that fire. Scary stuff relying on technology instead of common sense . Attached are a few pictures of my progress. I used some lightweight joint compound to bring out the mortar joints in the brick wall. Next, I painted the cement areas. In the third picture I painted the roof with black latex paint, and then added some fine ballast for a gritty appearance. And yesterday I added the windows and doors. Soon I'll give the entire structure a diluted wash of black India ink. After that, I'll work on the loading docks. This kit is the Atlas Farmview Dairy structure, but I'm turning it into an ironworks. I'll add details in the surrounding area in the future. 

 

Andy

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Steamfan77 posted:

Hi DJ,

Thank you for the kind words. I am currently working on a structure that will go in the industrial area known as "The Hole", in Mineola. It will be Kurtz Iron Works. RSJB18, I remember that fire. Scary stuff relying on technology instead of common sense . Attached are a few pictures of my progress. I used some lightweight joint compound to bring out the mortar joints in the brick wall. Next, I painted the cement areas. In the third picture I painted the roof with black latex paint, and then added some fine ballast for a gritty appearance. And yesterday I added the windows and doors. Soon I'll give the entire structure a diluted wash of black India ink. After that, I'll work on the loading docks. This kit is the Atlas Farmview Dairy structure, but I'm turning it into an ironworks. I'll add details in the surrounding area in the future. 

 

Andy

Kurtz brickKurtz paintedKurtz roofKurtz windows

 

 

Very nice work! 

After some weathering and assembly, the building is on the layout. The weathering is pretty heavy, as this is a trackside ironworks facility. I'll set up the yard with equipment, etc., and lay down some ground cover to anchor the structure. I'm still deciding if I want to glue the building together, or leave it as is for easy breakdown. 

 

Andy

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Steamfan77 posted:

After some weathering and assembly, the building is on the layout. The weathering is pretty heavy, as this is a trackside ironworks facility. I'll set up the yard with equipment, etc., and lay down some ground cover to anchor the structure. I'm still deciding if I want to glue the building together, or leave it as is for easy breakdown. 

 

Andy

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Heavy weathering on the LIRR.... naaaaaah, never! The building looks spectacular, the weathering is very realistic.

I remember riding the old diesel powered trains on the port Jeff branch in the mid & late 90's. Talk about rust buckets! Many ppl were glad to see their replacements slowly appearing on the rails; sleek clean & quiet bi-level cars. 

Hope to see a video of some model oyster bay branch action soon!

I just skimmed through the whole thread.  Pretty cool.  Looks like you have trains running and are building models.  I’m kind of jealous.  Have fun.  I remember I built that same ramp and it was like $30 for a batch of wood and a pile of instructions for the simplest thing in the world to build.  That is when I decided scratch building is a better option.  I don’t need to pay an extra $25 for a six page instruction sheet for a simple loading dock.  And I think it came with magnets for some ridiculous reason, like to square something up. Anyway, I digress.  Nice layout.  Have fun building and running it.

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