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

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Mike,

Well, I am to please and keep everyone on seats edges. 
 
Tom

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Tom great job on those angle cuts and trimming.

Larry,

Thanks very much. Gotta do what works best.

Tom

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Howdy Tom,

The trim work is exceptional.  Good luck with the power board location. I'd be looking to locate it behind a faux wall on the back of the structure.

Have fun,
mike

Mike,

Thanks very much. The power board location has been solved. The faux wall is where it/they will be located.

Tom

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Hi Tom, I have used a diagram from my Horwoods kit to show you how I think you could work with 2 LED distribution boards instead of just one.
You can easily daisy chain the 2 distribution boards together and still only use the one power supply to power both.
The conecting wires for the distribution boards can be run under your layout/structures.
All of the other magnet wires for the LED's can be run internally within each structure.
Also give you more space on the boards to add more LED's to light up the interiors if you choose to do so.
So the red lines shown on the diagram indicate interior walls that I added to my Horwoods, and the green boxes represent the LED distribution boards.
The distribution boards will be hidden behind the added interior walls, and easier to hook up from above when the time comes to do that part.
I will be more than happy to answer any other questions that you might have in building this wonderful kit.

Greg

Greg,

Your response/comment is perfect and solved the separated structure issue. Using two boards was something I didn't think of doing. Thank you for that and I'm sure I'll have questions as I move forward.

Again, thank you.

Tom

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I painted the sidewalk pieces with full strength Floquil Aged Concrete.



I cut out the roof panel from the cardboard supplied in the kit. I felt like it was to flimsy for my use. However, Dario does show where the builder can use 12X12 roof supports.

I found a piece of cardstock from the "stash" box and cut it to fit. You can see how thin the kit roof cardboard is in the next photo. My piece is on the bottom.

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I used the kit roof panel as a template for cutting the newer thicker roof panel.

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New roof panel test fitted, nice and tight, but not so tight is can't be removed.



Same picture with sidewalks in place but not glued.

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When I cut out the canopy roof panel, it was an obvious "no fit"! I went back and checked if I glued the canopy walls together correctly.  Apparently I did, so I'm not sure what happened.

The canopy fit perfectly on the building. I would think that if I did it wrong, it wouldn't fit on the front of the building. Not an issue that couldn't be fixed though.

I'll just say I cut a new canopy roof panel from the same material as the main structure.

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I also finished drawing in the grids for Horwood Bros. base.

I used Elmer's White Glue to seal the cardboard.  It will be left as is until tomorrow when the glue is thoroughly dry.




The white glue dries clear. When it is dry, I'll paint the road and parking lot.



Done for today.

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Great job so far Tom. Will it be done by Saturday?

[Rick]

Nice to see you back it Tom.