Thanks, Greg.  I saw a picture of this kit somewhere painted similarly and thought it would look good in those colors at it's place on the layout.

Jeff

Hi, Mark.  It's been a long journey.  Too long.  Getting near the end finally.

Jeff

Jerry, there were some times I wanted to hit those stairs out of the park with a bat.  Thanks.

Jeff

Curt, they were a real pain to do.  Thanks for the compliment.  

Jeff

Thanks for looking in, Philip.

Jeff

Thanks, Mike.  After posting, I noticed they were hardly visible.  Here's a pic of the guywires and a light fixture that have the castings where they attach to the wall. .  The guywires are actually close in color to the NBWs, in the picture the middle one looks green.   

Jeff

Morning all,

Headed to 85 degrees here later in the day.  I'll get a walk in this morning.  It's my off day between the twelve hour shifts, so I usually am quite lazy on Hump Day.  I do need to make a trip to the drug store later.  

Happy belated birthday to Karl. 


Jeff

Finally the front awning was build and added.  Then the guywire supports.  I use some NBW castings where they come out of the building instead of just gluing them on.  A hole is drilled into the building and then the NBW is slipped on and it's pushed thru.  I pre bent and cut all three to the same size before installation.  I also use the NBW castings on the outside shade lights where the wire goes into the building.  Except for the roof signs, I think the actual building is complete.  I haven't decided whether to change the sign or not.  There is still and outhouse to add and the details, but I can move the building off the workbench for now, before getting all those things painted. 

Jeff

Next up was the awning for the door on the back of the building.  I also reattached the loading dock stairs that got knocked off sometime I was working with the stairs. 

Jeff

Here we are a month and a half later.     Using the original stair landing templates, I made the railings in place before adding them to the stairs.  The drawing on the left I used to make the lower stair railings on the template and added them afterwards.  I then added the awning over the door/upper landing.  

Jeff

Morning all,

Heading out soon to the dentist this morning.  It's foggy and headed to 87 today.  Need to update my kit thread as I'm making (very) slow progress.


Jeff

Morning all,

Headed to 84 degrees later.  Will take a short walk this morning as I'm a little sore from my five mile one yesterday.  Here's my haul from the auction.  The first pic shows why I went to pick these up as the shipping of this volume would have been $$$.  The second shows the stuff.  Walther's kits which were in two lots, Red Caboose/Intermountain kits which contained several BREX reefers, Proto 2000 kits which I got for less than $10 apiece, a single lot of books, many of which I already have and will sell later (along with a few of the Intermountain cars), many Mini Metals/Athearn trucks, buses, tractors, a Proto 2000 2-10-2, and a single CB&Q brass reefer.  The last pic is all the reefers fresh from the paint shop, ready for action.

Jeff

Morning all,

Sixty seven degrees headed to 83 here.  Hopefully less muggy as we had major storms yesterday.  Fortunately after I got home after my road trip.  Dave, I have a Mustang Mach e.  Trip went well,  except that the first charger I tried couldn't "connect" with the vehicle.  Second did fine.  Pics of the haul tomorrow as the stuff is still packed up.  A walk this morning is on the agenda and I really need to work on the FSM kit.  

Jeff

Morning all,

Four day weekend for me.  Headed to 84 degrees with on and off rain today.  I'm not thrilled about the rain as I have a trip today.  Last weekend there was an online auction of a LOT of CB&Q stuff.  I won several items.  The auction house is only 2 1/2 hours from here, and I suspect the shipping would run into $$$ so I'm going to go pick it up this morning.  It's my first road trip with the electric vehicle where I'll have to charge along the way, so prior planning was involved.  Hopefully I won't have to drive through any bad storms.  

Jeff

Morning all,

Already out and got my hair cut.  Time to go out for a walk.  It "feels like" 92 here already.  A part of the "mulching kit" came off the mower Monday, I'll reattach it once I find the instructions.  

Jeff