Rich, that's good to hear!
Take it easy buddy!

Greg

Rich, I'm very sorry to read about your recent stroke.
I hope that you will have a full recovery, and that you can return to your model building passion soon!

Greg

Dave, it's a wonderful looking structure, both inside & Out!
You should be very proud of yourself with this one.

Greg

Hi Ron, thanks very much!

Greg

Thanks! Gary.

Greg

Larry & Mark, thanks for your posts and kind words in them!

Greg

Thanks! Philip.

Greg

Dave, this indeed looks like an interesting structure to model.
I would go with Mike's suggestion about using styrene as a backing & bracing it with stripwood.
Best of luck with it!

Greg

Rich, I think your walls look great!
I can't believe you still have all of those Floquil stains.
You lucky duck, I'm on my last few bottles of the stuff and will miss them when they are gone.

Greg

Mike, thanks very much!
Yes George really packed a lot of character into this kit.

Greg

Hi Steve, thank you for your kind words and for your wonderful build that you so kindly provided for us here.
It was very helpful to me in my journey of building this kit, and I even used your idea of the 4 barrels loaded onto the skid ready to be hoisted up.
Your photos were so much more clearer to see than George's old B&W photos provided in the kit's instructions.
As for the lighting, I love to do it especially with the LED's. They now allow you to put lights into places that I never would have imagined with the old grain of wheat bulbs.
I also found those gooseneck lights to be a challenge to do at first.
I have since discovered it is way easier to get the soldered LED & magnet wires into the tubing before you bend the tubing into the gooseneck shape.
I can't even tell you how many hours I wasted trying to feed those magnet wires into a gooseneck that had been bent into it's shape before getting those wires into it.
So much easier feeding the wires into the straight tubing first, and then bending the tubing after that.
Thanks again for your help!

Greg

Guys, thank you all so much for your very kind words regarding my work on this model.
I really appreciate reading them!

Here is another night photo, this time showing the backside of this structure & scene.


Greg

Hi everyone, I thought I would share with you my latest completed model of this classic "Fine Scale Miniatures" kit The Chippy Hollow Hardware Co.
I did not do a build on this kit simply because it was already done here in the past by forum member Steve Custer.
He did such a good job with it, I saw no reason to do another build thread on this kit.
Here is the link to Steve's build of this kit.
https://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=4795.15

So I decided to build my kit not as the Chippy Hollow Hardware Co. but instead the John Allen Monuments & Statuary Co. to honor one of the great model railroad builders of all time John Allen.
One thing that I also did a little different from Steve's build of this kit was to add LED lighting to it.
So here is how it came out looking, I hope you enjoy the pics.



Here's how it looks with the LED's at night.

Thanks for having a look!

Greg

Here's the interior now of the Antique Emporium.



Bob also gave me his scratchbuilt using styrene private business car No.326 Named "Armitage" in honor of Al Armitage ( Due to the fact that Al mostly modeled using styrene himself) that he had built for his "Lower Paxton & Northern RR".
It also featured a full interior with a kitchen & dinnig room.
He was also kind enough to make my wife & I, it's very first guest passengers to ride in it!



Finally here is a Christmas scene that I made up for Bob and photographed as a thank you to him using all of the models that he gave to me.
Bob used this scene as a Christmas card that he sent out to his family & friends.


Greg

Quote from: Rick on November 21, 2025, 08:48:36 AMGreg, thanks for letting us know.
My condolences to his family and friends.
He was a great modeler.
Greg, if you have time, could you please post pictures of the dioramas you have so those here can see his excellent work.

Rick, I would be more than happy to share some images of Bob's fantastic models that he so kindly gave to me.
First one is Cooker's repair shop with an incredible detailed interior.
This one is constructed of wood, Bob liked to use mostly styrene when building his creations.





This one he named after me the Shinnie Antique Emporium.
This one also features a full interior.
Also an interesting note regarding the interior, Bill Gill had donated to Bob some Avon containers that their product once came in.
The washing machine and the chest of drawers up against the wall as well as the rocking horse next to it on the left wall are made from ceramic containers.




Bob also had a clever way of doing his interiors that made them easy to view & photograph.
He would place the whole interior into a drawer that could be pulled out of the structure.



I have reached the maximum number of attachments allowed per post.
So I will continue this in another post.

Greg