Reposting from RR-Line.
31-Oct-2010: During WWII, the US Navy built a marine gear plant to the east of the B&M Eastern Route, opposite the main GE River Works complex in West Lynn. Into the 1960s it had a high chain-link fence with guard towers. I'll get to that eventually, but I noticed a cast metal kit from Stewart that would serve as a guardhouse where the road crossed the B&M from the main plant:
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It's a pretty simple kit, except that the kit roof wasn't going to fit without a lot of filing, and I didn't like it much anyway.
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The side walls interlock with the front and back. But the front and back stood a bit proud of the sides, so I had to file the edges down to where the cast-in block joints disappeared. I re-cut them with a razor saw.
The supplied roof (I think) has a large protrusion in the middle which kept it from fitting as either a roof or a floor. Rather than file it off, I decided to build a styrene roof with both pitch and overhang, as appropriate for the New England climate. Details follow.
28-Nov-2010: I made a new shed roof from Evergreen styrene. The pitch is about 1 in 8
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I used.020 V-Groove for the roof deck and side walls, scale 2x4 for the rafters and blocking at the back and .060 x .188 with the roof's angle filed on the top for the front. I scribed some grooves into the front to simulate individual boards.
That shack will be a jewel! Nice work adding the pitch.
Nice work on the roof.
James, that's a neat little structure. The new roof was well executed. Have fun, mike
That styrene roof looks better than the cast roof which is too thick.
George