Sunday Scenic Showcase June 11, 2023

Cool scene Alan!

Just for fun this week, I started roughing out a model of my own house. I’m starting with foam core board pinned together. Once I’m satisfied with the general look, I’ll glue in strip wood framing, then cover with styrene siding, brick, etc. As with most homes in western PA, the ground around our house slopes significantly, so I’m building the entire foundation level and will contour the scenery to match the slope of my actual yard.

Nice Anthony. Lots of siding is available from evergreen for a project like this. You should be able to get your windows from Tichi. If you need anything you can't find call me.

7300 BEACH ST.

I built this back in 2010 and finally installed it on the new layout. The walls were spray painted with texture coating, a product I use in the early 90 on a Lionel layout. Hair pin decorative fence by Atlas has finally been re-issued again since. Many other detailed were found, scratch built or converted from something else. The windows are from Rusty Stumps, fire escapes are now available through several distributors. The building body was cut and made using MDF and the ornate trim is from doll house parts. Not a specific building, just made up from using Walther’s H.O. cornerstone series structures for ideas.

More work to follow until completed with back drops and wiring up streetlights.

Sirt,

Very impressive. So many details that you just don't regularly see modeled. I really like the entryway and the elevator. There is a one area of my layout where I am going to need a similar building to go over the tracks. Thanks for sharing.

Dave

Steve,

The work is spectacular. Enjoy every minute of installing these works of art on the new layout.

@SIRT posted:

7300 BEACH ST.

I built this back in 2010 and finally installed it on the new layout. The walls were spray painted with texture coating, a product I use in the early 90 on a Lionel layout. Hair pin decorative fence by Atlas has finally been re-issued again since. Many other detailed were found, scratch built or converted from something else. The windows are from Rusty Stumps, fire escapes are now available through several distributors. The building body was cut and made using MDF and the ornate trim is from doll house parts. Not a specific building, just made up from using Walther’s H.O. cornerstone series structures for ideas.

More work to follow until completed with back drops and wiring up streetlights.

Not many modelers would think to add the "Overhead Door" company logo...... Great work as always Steve.

Bob

So last week's office flat became a building this week.  Korber Double T walls are easy to slap together in no time at all.  Swallows 2 62' boxcars with ease.  While slapping blank walls together is no big deal, the rest of the tooling for these walls needs some work.  The molded in window openings are cocked to the wall for some reason and always need to be filed straight.  The short upper walls (for bumping out 20' walls under 32' ones) are too short to reach the roof panel of the bump out, so you need to cut your own that are long enough to close the gap. Total building length is about 58".

Excuse my mess.

NOT MY WORK.......but I thought everyone would enjoy seeing these excellent LEGO buildings from Manassas Railway Festival last weekend.

Have a great Sunday, everyone!

Peter

This is truly an amazing stream of posts. I learn so much from you all. Your level of detail is above and beyond. Thank you.