Rich & Jerry, thank you both for your interest in this and for your kind comments!

Greg

Philip, Curt & Jeff, thank you for your encouraging words!

Greg

Rick, thanks very much!
On another note, I really miss your old "Favorite Music" thread from RRLines.
I think about it and other things that I miss from that now gone forum often.

Greg

Hello Jerry, Tom & Jim, thanks for your posts and for your interest in this build!

Jerry, your right I should be doing an update with this build.
However my wife & cottage keep getting in the way.
I just got back from the cottage on Monday evening, so I do have a little something to show you.

Tom, thanks for sharing your freight house topic with us, it looks wonderful!
Real nice to see that you included lighting in your build of this kit 45 years ago.
I wish we still had the old line of "Floquil" paints available, my stash of them is now running out.

Jim, I'm glad you found this build and thanks for your nice comments.
Yes lighting structures up has become a requirement for me now.

So now here's what I've been working on before I headed to the cottage last week and all day yesterday.
I decided to paint up all of the wonderful FSM's castings that come with this kit.
The kit's instructions have little black on white labels that you can cut out and attach to the parcel boxes & crates.
I used different colours of markers to give them some colour.
I think that idea really paid off in making them pop a little more.
Here's a group photo of all of the castings that I completed painting.



That's all I have for now, thanks for having a look.

Greg

Rich & Tom, thanks so much for your posts and your kind words within them!

Rich, I also found LED's confusing when I started to use them.
However after building some of the "Rail Scale Miniatures" kits that had lighting kits designed by "Ngineering" for them, I found that I got better with each kit that I built using them.
So now I'm using them on most of the kits that I build, with excellent results.

Tom, I bought this kit 40+ years ago as well. It's kind of sad that it's taken me so long to finally getting around to building this kit.
Back then grain of wheat bulbs were the way to go. It was the best we had at the time for scale model lighting.
Using LED's now is the best we have for scale model lighting.
Tim owner at "Ngineering" has always been very helpful to me, in answering any questions that I've had regarding the use of LED's.

Greg

Hi Jeff, nice to see that you've joined the Modelers forum!
Thanks for making this build your very first post.
The real good news for us Canadians is, it's completely tariff free!

Greg

Curt & Philip, thanks for your encouraging words!

Greg

Dave, you attention to detail on this project has very insightful for me.
I still have a roundhouse machine shop I need to complete.
So you are teaching me a lot of things when it comes to the inner workings of one.
Keep up the great work!

Greg

Tom, once again you have built another beautiful looking model & scene to go with it!

Greg

Thanks! Rich & Jerry.

Rich, when it comes to using resistors I sometimes use them depending how bright you want your LED to shine.
The distribution boards that I get from "Ngineering" are designed so you can hook up your LED's with or without using resistors.
If I did not use this distribution board from Ngineering, I would have to use a resistor as part of the LED hook up.
Also If you choose not to use a resistor while using one of these distribution boards the LED will be lit up at full brightness.
By adding different strength resistors to the board you can dim the LED to the level of brightness you like.

Jerry, I always look forward myself to seeing how the completed model looks with it's lights turned on!

Greg

Hi everyone, well I have managed to get a little more done on this kit.
I have glued all of the walls together and have also made up and installed the 4 exterior gooseneck lights.
Also painted and glued into position the window and door castings.
Here's how the freight house looks sitting on it's platform.
I have not glued the freight house to the platform yet, I still have a few more interior lights to do.



Using LED lighting with the hair like magnet wires really allows you to do things that just would not be possible using old style lighting with bulbs and heavier guage wires.



I plan to run my wires for the LED's down the middle wall of this freight house a through a hole drilled into the platform so that the wires will all be under the platform.
I then will cover those wires with another scribed wood wall panel to hide them all.





So that's all I have to report for now, thanks for having a look!



Greg

Gregory, thanks for your post and for your interest in this.
It's funny how we all have these kits waiting on our shelves for decades to be built.
I am now in my sixties, so I'm thinking I better get building them before I run out of time to do so.
Even then I don't think I'll ever build all of the kits I have now collected over the years.
Though I will try to do so!

Greg

Hi Bernd, It is indeed tough taking care of 2 places!
Especially when one of them is over a hundred years old(Our house) and the other one(Our cottage) only allows you 6 months at best to work on it.
Our cottage is a three hour drive away and it's boat access only, so that makes it a even harder task to get stuff there.
It's on a lake called "Go Home Lake" I call it Go Home Tired lake.
Anyways it will be nice to have you following along, in what spare time we manage to find this summer.

Greg

Hi Ron, thanks very much!
I'm happy to have you watching.

Greg

Jeff, I am more than a little late to be commenting on your wonderful build of this classic FSM's kit.
However I must say you've done an amazing job of bringing your kit to life!
I really like the green colour that you painted your walls, gives it a completely different look from the really weathered & rundown version that George has built of this structure on his layout.

Greg