Sewall's Foundry using RailroadKits castings.

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

Looking just gorgeous. Keep them thar pjs a flowing.

Karl

[Mark Dalrymple]

Really cool technique on the weatherboard painting there, Steve.  They look very realistic.

I'm not sure how the broken sash window would get in that position...

Cheers, Mark.

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

Oops I meant pics.

Karl

[GPdemayo]

Hey Steve:

Oops I meant pics.

Karl

Spell checker didn't catch that one Karl.....

[craftsmankits]

As all ways, beautiful work.  Looking forward to your progress.  Mark

[ACL1504]

Steve,

I love that weathered look on the substructure. I have many of the AK paints but not the 3rd. gen color. Also, I'll be using the mineral spirits and tape method on a future build. Thanks for the clinic.

Tom 

[SteveCuster]

Thanks for the positive comments everyone!

Tom, I recently started using the AK 3rd gen and I love them. I don't typically use them for painting walls, mostly for castings. The coverage is really great, it usually gets it done in 1 coat.

Just a little update today. I got the roof on the shed and started working out the placement of the structure on the layout.


Roof is on..


I decided to not add any sort of loading dock the the area under the stone overhang. I made these bumpers from wood, NBWs and a few tire castings I cut in half.


Some vines were added to hide the seams.

I'm not going to do much until I can glue the structure down. This is unfortunately one of the scenes I need to complete on the layout. I started adding the scenery where it will sit but I can't progress until it dries. I'm going to try to finish painting some of the detail castings and build a few trucks I would like in the scene.

Thanks for following along.

[Keep it Rusty]

Great work, Steve. Enjoying this one come together.

[Jerry]

Excellent work Steve.  Looking forward to the placement of this beauty.


Jerry

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

It’s coming along nicely. Keep the pics flowing.

Karl

[nycjeff]

Hello Steve, another very nice build. I'm looking forward to see what you do for the support columns.   Jeff

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!

Over the last few days I installed the structure on the layout and started to work the scenery in around it.


First step before I could install the structure was adding the concrete under it. This is done the same way I had done in my previous builds...plaster of paris smoothed out with a wet sponge and some really light sanding with some fine sand paper to level it out. I colored it with Parisian Gray Chalk paint and weathered with charcoal briquet dust.


My pavement wasn't completely level so I need to shim up the backside of the structure.


I had to do a little bit of adjustment and filing to get the brick pillars to fit correctly. Looks kinda boring to me now but I'll fix that with a vehicle and many details.


Backside..obviously lots more details coming.




This is how it ended up fitting in the overall scene.

Thanks for following along. I started work on a couple vehicles and I need to finish some of the details then I can complete the areas behind the tracks and start working on the very foreground of this area.

[deemery]

That looks great in its position, I'm looking forward to seeing how you detail it.


dave