Sunday Scenic Showcase February 26, 2016

This was this weekends project, finishing the atlas roundhouse extension to accommodate my large steamers. 

This is a scow...perhaps a barge to land lovers. Workmen are using it to do some waterside repairs to the wharf. It's nothing fancy obviously, and it is a scratch build as is my usual preference. Using mostly scraps and general junk I have in abundance. The basic body is a piece of pink foam cut and sanded to shape. Great little project requiring mostly junk as mentioned previously. One photo cover it all.

Bob

I've been working on this for a friend.  There is a thread here in the scenery forum that shows the various steps to get to this point.

Ben, Bob, and David,

Really nice work.

Alan Graziano

I am providing some before and after shots of some of the scenery progress I made over the last couple weeks.  

Here are some photos of my 95% completed Downtown Deco Metals bank.  I added some details, and repurposed the structure as a produce store.   Water tank, AC unit, security gate, and electric meters are from River Leaf Models.  Corrugated on stairwell is from Stoney Creek Designs.

Extremely nice stuff on here today! Might want to level up that Deco roof top water tank.

WM #1290 PS-5. Machine shop scrap filings over MDF and Styrofoam. Metal purchased by the pound on ebay!

More scenery work has been done. Also added some figures.

I am currently working on one of the 3 switchman shanties I have from River Leaf Models. I have made some modifications to more closely represent the prototype I restored last year.  The ceiling on the prototype is vaulted, so I cut out the center of ceiling panel from the kit and glued it to the wall tops. I used the base to clamp the ring to allow even pressure. For the other two kits, I cut out some corrugated plastic to use as clamping jigs for the wall panels. I used wood filer around the inside perimeter to blend the ring to the wall sections, then with a mixture of paint and sand, painted the interior and the underside of the roof. I use a light wash of Lamp Black and water to darken the paint. I glued the roof to the ring, and used the same paint to do the roof exterior, but using a heavier wash to show years of weathering and wear. When I was giving Andre all the measurements, I forgot to give the dimensions for the recess in the blank wall, so I cut the solid outer panel to the dimensions from the prototype. I'll have more progress photos next Sunday.

Don

I don't have much to share this week, I really haven,t spent that much time in the train room but with what little time I did spend I spent it working on the city flats.....

My wife is going to use her vinyl cutting machine to make some signage for the fronts and windows when I'm ready, I can't wait. 

Paul

Superb work all of you  wish I  had 10% of your talents .....

Some really excellent stuff again this week, lads. 

I've spent the week faffing about, trying unsuccessfully to find some printed corrugated iron for my new building.

That tank/bar looks like it has an interesting story, Alan.

SIRT posted:

Extremely nice stuff on here today! Might want to level up that Deco roof top water tank.

WM #1290 PS-5. Machine shop scrap filings over MDF and Styrofoam. Metal purchased by the pound on ebay!

Very nice SIRT. I check, the tank is level. Just my lazy photography angle....and the front chimney leans the slightest bit.  Good eye

Great work Jeff. Must be the slanted roof.

Nice work everyone.

Really enjoy the postings

Steve

Max,

Evergreen has a few styles of corrugated styrene you may want to consider.

The tankie bar was a 60 th birthday gift to the owner of the construction company that I work for. There is a lot of personal things that went into that model that made it very special.

Alan Graziano

Builders in scale has real metal corrugation.  So does Stoney creek

Hi Alan

Yes, thanks.  I've looked at them, but none of them fit.  Then I thought I'd go back to my traditional photographs.  I've spent several weeks looking at various sites, but none of them will fit either.

I can probably get the roof panels out of MRS, Clever Models or Scalescenes or any one of a dozen either sites, but the walls have other challenges.

I'll probably go for breeze blocks or something else that I can cut and paste into pages which hide the joins.

I reckon the Tankie Bar would have gone down well.  

jcovert posted:

Builders in scale has real metal corrugation.  So does Stoney creek

Thanks, Jeff.

High quality work this week. I really enjoy this thread !!

Supoib !!

Might be a little late to the party, and off topic a bit lol.

Did some weathering recently, sorry for the bad quality.