Morning all,

Headed to 50 degrees today!  

Patriots lost due to no offense, but they had a great year. 

Work on the tower kit continues.  Slowly.  

A bit of whimsy on the layout tour. 

Jeff

Interesting use for that type of brush.  Nice effect on the walls.

Jeff

I agree with Rick on the tarpaper roof.  Great coloring on the wood as well. 

Jeff

Morning all,

Super Bowl LX!  Go Patriots!  I would never have thought at the beginning of the season they would make it this far, but  here we are.  I suspect Seattle will prevail, but it's all gravy considering the last couple of seasons.  

It's 27 here, headed to 41.  

Work yesterday was busy again.  But, I'm now off for the next two plus weeks.  

This was an interesting train turner at one of the display layouts at the Narrow Gauge convention.


Jeff

Yes, Dave, we have a lot of influenza A still in Iowa.  Hopefully will start to go down now.  A lot of kids with strep as well.   

Jeff

Morning all,

We broke freezing yesterday!  I was at an exhausting day at work, but when leaving it was 33 degrees!

It's already 38, headed to 40.  Maybe the siege is over.  

I have a dermatology appt at 0730, better get moving. 

Jeff

Beautiful work.  Very nice weathering/rusting.

Jeff

Thanks, guys.  

Curt, it is painted to match an FSM station that I built many years ago.  One of my interchange railroads, the Rock Island, had some in buff with brown/maroon trim, so it could be used for that as well.

True about the clamps, Mike.

Jeff

Morning all,

Eight degrees this morning, we will almost get to the freezing mark later today. 

I got the kit sides assembled, we'll see what happens next. 

This modeler must have gotten tired of people asking how he did the water on his layout, so he had a step by step guide.  

Jeff

Taking off the clamps came the moment of truth.  It looks like a building!  Placing it on the layout, you can kinda see inside, but as it's dark, I think skipping detailing the interior won't make any difference.  It wouldn't end up looking as nice as Tom's anyway.  

Jeff

Finally , it was time to glue the walls together.  started with two and thought I could add the other two, but one didn't seem to fit, so after the three of them dried, I scraped off any residual glue on the fourth piece and tried it again, and it fit.  The center floor and the top piece made it square easily.  The top piece isn't glued in place. 

Jeff

Glued them from the back with a slight amount of weight on them.  

Jeff

Of course this led to the edges possibly being seen and so I needed to paint them as well.  Used this dandy clip set to hold them.   My phone gave me a warning I hadn't seen before.  "Clean the camera lens".  I tried.  I even took it out of it's case.  The case covers the lens and over the 2.5 years I've had the phone, it's getting a bit beat up.  I thought some of the recent pictures were a little fuzzy.  I've ordered a new case.

Jeff

Originally I used some heavy paper and painted it, but it curled.  Trying to flatten it out made marks, so I went back to using a manila folder and painting the edge.  I cut the shades for two of the walls individually for each window.  As they are all lined up, I cut the other two walls as a single piece, using the window carrier sheet as a guide to size. 

Jeff

I decided to add shades inside the windows.  This was common on several towers I saw online.  I thought green or a tan color might work.  I have these color sheets to test.  I wish I'd indicated what colors the unmarked greens were on the sheet.  The ivory was too white and the buff (the same color I painted the interior) seemed too light as well.  I used the German Uniform green. 

Jeff