Horwood Brothers Gas, Oil and Service - Rail Scale Miniatures.

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I finally found time between doctor visits to get a little more of the Horwood Bros. build.

I pulled out the pieces that make up the sky lights. These are laser cut pieces and needed to be "cleaned up" a bit.

I've mentioned in the past on other builds that the laser leaves a little "kerf" on the sides of laser cut pieces. This kerf is also at a slight angle. When trying to glue "kerf" edges flush to other pieces, it leaves less surface space for gluing.

The next photo shows the brown kerf on the left and the sanded kerf on the right.



Also, I wanted more gluing surface in the corners. I cut and glued small lengths of HO scale 4X4s to the inside of the four corners on each of the four sky lights.

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This next photo shows the skylight frame on top of the skylight box.. It barely touches each side.



Notice the next photo that the skylight frame fits fully across the boxed frame. The pilot frame is not the same as the actual kit frame..

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In order to have more of a gluing surface on the boxed skylight frame. I glued HO scale 2X2 to the inside of the gabled ends.

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I also lightly sanded the top of the skylights to remove the "kerf" and thus giving me a flat surface in which to glue to the frames in place.

Sanded box on the right.



I painted the skylight parts with Floquil Old Silver. When cured, I'll weather them with A&I.



I also cut the eight panes of glass, acetate panels, to be installed after the weathering process.

 I'll then spray a flat finish on the completed skylights to dull the glass and give it a dirty look.



Done for today.

[Ensign]

Hi Tom, I think the smaller front & back walls of the skylight, get glued to the outside edges of the peaked walls instead of in between them like you have done.
That way the skylight windows will fit perfectly like the photo shows they should.
I was wrong regarding my suggestion above.
I just went and checked my kit's instructions and it shows it going together the way you have done it with the sidewalls in between the 2 peaked walls.
I also know that my skylights came out looking like the instructions show in the photo that you posted.
So you could just shorten those sidewalls a bit to give you a much better fit for the windows to look exactly like the photo in the instructions.

Greg

[Rick]

Tom, I'm very happy to see you back in the shed and modeling.

[deemery]

Tom, I'm very happy to see you back in the shed and modeling.

What he said!!!

dave

[PRR Modeler]

Excellent job  on the skylight Tom.

[Pennman]

Tom,

Yes, excellent work on the skylights and everything in between, it all looks
superbly constructed.

Rich

[Jerry]

Tom good to see you back on this project.  Looks great.

Jerry

[Larry C]

Tom nice to see you back at it. Skylights look great.

[Philip]

Great work on those tiny skylights!

[elwoodblues]

Tom, glad to see you back at the workbench.  The skylights are looking great and I see you found another practical solution to the problem.