Good morning everyone,

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Tom.

going to keep it short today, it's currently 75F and cloudy, but it's clearing up.  Managed a bit of bench time last night.  got the itty bitty soda counted stools painted and started working on weathering the sidewalk.  Plan is more bench time tonight.

Have a great day everyone.

Good morning Curt, Karl, ACLTom, Mike, Dave, Larry, Rick and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Curt.  Another SW kit? Sweet, enjoy I'm eyeing the trucks he is now offering.

Karl, hope the smoke doesn't get too bad.

ACLTom, twice in one week?  Have fun cutting the grass.

Mike, looking forward to seeing the finished water tower.

Dave, enjoy your day.

Larry, hope you make it to the bench today after the chores are done.

Rick, enjoy your hike today.

Currently 76F and slightly hazy here.  Well I got news yesterday that I'm going back to Canada a lot sooner than originally planned.  Apparently I'm needed to restart a division that has been left to languish for a long time.  I'll know more next week when the boss visits.  I got a couple of weeks left here and I'm not missing the June 7th meetup under any circumstances.  I've been looking forward to it ever since it was set up.

I did make it to the bench last night where I made 6 tiny winy itsy bitty stools for the soda counter and managed to paint the seat section.  I also changed pace and installed ground throws on the layout.  The original plan was to power them but after some reflection, I decided that seeing as the layout is portable, I didn't need the complexity of controlling motorized turnouts.

Have a great day everyone. 

Good afternoon, Rick, Philip, Mike, Curt, ACLTom, Larry, Jerry and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee Rick, hope you are enjoying/enjoyed your hike.

Checking in late today as the morning kind of got away from me today.

Currently 88F and cloudy here today.  No modeling last night as I ended up working late again yesterday.  Shouldn't have to work late tonight, so hopefully I'll get to the bench.

Have a great day everyone.

Tom,

Love the colour choices for the buildings.

Well this is going to be an interesting build.

Quote from: ACL1504 on May 27, 2025, 09:52:59 AMRon,

Great job. I was going to do the same to my #II Row with the Rexall in the turret corner.  Great minds I guess.

Tom

Tom, I hope you do, It would be interesting to see how you approach it.

Thanks for the comments Jerry, Rick, Tom and Mike.

Good morning Rick, Curt, Mike, ACLTom, Philip, Dave, Jerry, Karl, Larry and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Rick.  Laundry day?  sounds more exciting that yesterday's day.  

Karl, glad the Doc appointment went well but very sat to hear about brother's ex.  My condolences to you and your family.

Curt, sounds like your almost 100% again.

Currently 81 and cloudy today.  No modeling last night as I ended working late.  Will probably be working late tonight again so probably no bench time.

Have a great day everyone.

Good morning Karl, ACLTom, Curt, Rick and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Tom, have fun at the workbench today.

Karl, hope the Doc trip goes well.

Curt, hope the electricians figure out what is going on and it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to fix it.

Rick, shopping and the gym, sounds like fun.

Currently 78 and sunny here.  Yesterday some more time was spent at the bench and I posted my progress on the Henderson Thread.  I made the counters and hopefully tonight I'll bee able to make the stools required.  At least nothing needs to be perfect as it is N scale and not sure how much will be seen though the windows.

Have a great day everyone.

thanks for the kind comments Rick, Jerry and Larry.

A bit more progress was made today.




The floor and back wall glued together.





The pharmacy counted (in brown) and the soda counter (green) fabricated and in there general position





Another view of the counters.

Thanks for looking in.
 

Ouch Tom,

Been there, done that.  I have also done that with a bottle of Tamiya solvent which spilled on a bunch of plastic windows, it wasn't a pretty sight.

Good morning Curt, Larry, Dale, Rick, Karl, Jerry, Philip and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Curt, glad to here you are feeling better, sounds like your on the way out of the crud.

Larry, enjoy the new hedge trimmers.

Dale, enjoy your day.

Rick, great picture of Star.  As for the race, even with the mandatory 2 stopper, it was boring and predictable, easily the most boring race of the year.  Real sorry to hear about Karl O.

Karl, sounds like a very productive day in the yard yesterday.

Jerry, Have fun at the beach.

Philip, glad you caught the thief red handed.

Spent some time at the bench yesterday, finished the lighting and added the interior signs in the upper window.  I also started the ground floor interior walls and floor.  I also managed to post an update in my Henderson Thread.

Have a great day everyone.

 

Dale,

How many years have those shingles been installed?  I'd guess 10 years at least.

Great job on the roof.

Tom, the roof is looking great.

I like your choice of colours, once weathered, the concrete colour will like it was supposed to be there.

Making the signage for the upper windows.




The preprinted Rexall Drugs that I had were way to big to fir the upper windows so I made my own.

I did this in Excel, the hardest part was sizing the cells to match the window size.  Once that was accomplished, it was easy to import the images into the cells and then select the proper background colour.





The paper signs were then cut out and blued to a styrene backing.  One the glue dried they were cut to size and glued to the inside of the upper windows.





The side of the building with the upper window signs installed.  I forgot to mention that before I installed the sign I installed the window glazing.





The front of the building with the upper signs installed.

Now I just to figure out the floor plan so I can start building the interior.

Thanks for looking in.