Hello All,

Today I opened and sorted through the different parts of the kit. I fixed a broken resin wall, and started detailing the wood walls.

Afternoon All,

I finally recieved this kit today. I placed everything on my extra table and glanced thru the 127 pg instruction manual. Tomorrow I'll get started on it.

I decided that I wanted to try a KIR kit to see if I wanted to try a larger kit.

This is a simple and small kit. I plan on coloring and weathering per the instructions. I'll probably start spraying the base coat tomorrow.

Good Morning,

For breakfast is coffee, cereal, milk, OJ and soda.

Today after chores will be train room time. Events have prevented getting there the last 2 days.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning All,

Today for breakfast MOH has made homemade donuts with coffee, juice and soda.

Started out the day with a walk at a very pleasant 60F. Yesterday, I worked several hours on the kit and we got final approval from the city inspector so all the holes in the walls can be fixed. We're at 56 days for the 1 day plumbing job.

Today is errand day so probably no train room time.

I hope everyone has a good day.

This has been in progress for 2 weeks on RR-Line and I'm transferring the photos of my progress up to today.

Good Morning All,

Currently 55F and gray in Central FL with rain forecast for later.

Today I have the usual chores then I want to ship Dad's trains off to his brother. Right now they are sitting in the middle of the train room floor.   Dad also wants to go to Sam's Club for some reason. I hope I make it to the train room today. Fingers crossed.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning All,

Hopefully some train time today. Had a possible exposure from youngest grandson so we got tested which ended up being negative but wasted 3 hours.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Afternoon All,

Unfortunately I don't have a decent picture to post of the structure but it appears to be 3 main buildings and some small attached sheds. Today I started on the Tichy window frames. I first painted them with Rustoleum Kahki. After that I used a makeup sponge to put on the red highlight color followed by 2 coats of A&I. To finish up today I sorted the different size wood strips. Tomorrow I plan on A&I'ing the wood strips and start on the bag of detail parts.

The colors that I am using are:

Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black for the interior and mixing winto the red.
Tamiya XF-5 Flat Green for the walls
Tamiya XF-7 Flat Red with Flat Black mixed in for wood trim and walls.

Good Morning all to come,

I can't believe I'm the first poster today. Some chores then trying to track down a intermittent short on the layout.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning All,

I can't believe I'm the first poster today. Chilly start here at 47 F. Today is the last day of the 2021 hurricane season...Good riddance. Taking Dad to the DMV this afternoon and will do some layout time this morning.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning,

Taking Dad to VA today to pick up new hearing aids. I'm not happy with the static grass I put alongside a dirt road so I need to remove it.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning,

Didn't sleep well last night. Today I have chores then hopefully some layout time. Back out to Dad's tomorrow.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning All,

Spending the day at Dad's.  Yesterday I ballasted another 10 ft. of mainline. I have about 15 ft. left, unfortunately most of it is 3 tracks wide.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning All,

I can't believe that I'm the opener today and it's later than 8 am. Going to Dad's today, we found someone that is taking all the books (at least 500+). That means they don't have to be boxed up and moved by us.

Had a great time at Tom's yesterday with the SBG. I needed it badly.

I hope everyone has a good day.

This is my current build started back in January. The pictures today are of a hill I had to build for the mine legs to sit on.

In the first photo the brown section is plaster cloth covered WS risers. I then used cardboard strips attached by hot glue. The wood faces came in the kit but bracing and NBW's (in kit) had to be added. I stained them in Hunterline Creosote stain. I added two flat pieces of wood painted in MM Aged Concrete to simulate "footers" for the wooden legs.

In the second photo the stripes are covered with plaster cloth, painted and ground cover applied.

Good Morning,

I can't believe I'm first. Brothers are driving down from VA and will be here tonight. I'm getting blood drawn then meeting Dad for breakfast to talk about facilities for Mom then I'll be at the hospital today.

I did manage to run a train yesterday for about 10 minutes.

I hope everyone has a good day.

I've completed the buildings that I wanted to build before starting the layout. I purchased heavy duty adjustable feet and attached them to the painted legs and have painted the beg bracing.

Greg DeMayo helped me out by producing a CAD drawing of the benchwork that I use to determine what lumber I need. I have purchased the wood for the first 2 modules that go against the left wall of the trainroom. Unfortunately the humidity and rain the last 2 days have stopped progress since I need to build the modules in the driveway.

Afternoon All,

I started out with the hydrocal walls by spraying them light gray. Afterwards I used wet weathering powders to randomly paint stones then did a heavy (intentional) wash of Tamiya German Gray (grimy black). I want this kit to look very dirty but not falling apart.

Hello Everyone,

I built 3 small kits prior to this (BTS Company House, AMB Company Houses (3), and Blair Line Truck Coal Dump). I decided to start small since I haven't built anything in about 6 months because of the layout tear down. The plan is to build all my major structures then start on the layout. I don't do very well jumping from project to project.

I have been working on this kit for about 10 days now and it is by far the most complicated kit that I have built but I love the look of it and B.T.S. did a great job putting it together. They even pre-drilled the NBW holes! I figure I still have about 10 more days to go with it. I hope you enjoy the build as much as I do.