SierraWest O'Neills Fabrication

[donatode]

Steve, I'm all eyes.....

[ACL1504]

Steve,

The walls and doors look wonderful. Very well done.

Tom

[martin.ojaste]

Has anyone thought of doing interior detailing for the kit?

[SteveCuster]

Thanks for all the nice compliments everyone!

I made a bit more progress this week.


I finished siding the tower, all the techniques are the same as the addition. The freight door is made from adding individual boards to a laser cut frame. I makes it very easy to add as much weathering as you desire just by how much you damage the boards. All the windows and doors are colored with ivory craft paint dabbed on with a very stiff brush over laser cut wood colored with krylon camoflage and weathered with chalks.


You can see how weathered I made the door better with light behind it.


Here is the other wall.


This is the sign for the tower. I sanded the back of it, then cut it out very carefully with the sharpest scissors I could buy. I believe they are stenciling scissors from Michaels craft store.


I glued the sign over a stripwood base.


After the glue set I ran my xacto knife between each board. I added some chalk to the sign to tone it down. In the past I've used A&I to weather signs but it does have a tendency to make them illegible, chalk is easier to add weathering but retain the ability to read what the sign says.


Here is the sign attached to the building. I haven't weather the 2 vent castings yet. I blackened them with Jax Pewter Black and buffed them with a nylon brush in a dremel, I will weather them with chalks when the epoxy sets.


All the walls are glued together. It took some work to get the corners to look right.

M&K Railway - The welding shop has a full interior. I think a full interior of the main buildings would be nice for an O scale version, Brett might need to charge $1000.00 with all those castings though.

Thanks for checking in. Hopefully I can make some more progress this weekend.
-Steve

[Polux]

Magnificent work. Looking very good

Can I ask, when you said chalks is the same like pastels...?

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Polux.

I'm referring to the artists soft pastel sticks from Rembrandt.
http://www.dickblick.com/products/rembrandt-soft-pastels/
I bought a whole assortment of earth/rust tones. I use a razor against the side of the stick to create a pile of dust, then I use a fairly stiff brush to apply some of the dust to whatever I'm weathering. The pigment is so strong that you don't need a fixative. Check out www.sierrawestscalemodels.com under craftsman university there is a couple videos and links to using pastels to color and weather castings.

-Steve

[EricQuebec]

Very interesting technic on the sign, Steve.
Thank to share it with us.

Eric Quebec city

[Polux]

Thanks Polux.

I'm referring to the artists soft pastel sticks from Rembrandt.
http://www.dickblick.com/products/rembrandt-soft-pastels/
I bought a whole assortment of earth/rust tones. I use a razor against the side of the stick to create a pile of dust, then I use a fairly stiff brush to apply some of the dust to whatever I'm weathering. The pigment is so strong that you don't need a fixative. Check out Sierrawestscalemodels.com under craftsman university there is a couple videos and links to using pastels to color and weather castings.

-Steve

Thank you very much for the info and the link, Steve!!

Thanks again

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone.

I made a bit more progress this weekend.


I colored and weathered the concrete dock casting, the instructions call for a layering of different grays to give the dock is weathered appearance. I made a bit of a mistake weathering it, I added several layers of chalk and when weathering some rust stains using chalk/alcohol wash I completely overdid it. I then tried to use some clean alcohol to thin and tone it down, it created a gray/black/rust wash over the front of the casting. I ended up really liking the look, it brought out all the detail in the casting. I was going for a pretty heavily weathered concrete look so it worked out.


I also added some junk to the top of the dock roof.


I mocked up the tower to the siding and found the wall on the main structure was warped pretty bad leaving a large gap. You can't see it in the picture but it was about 1/32 of an inch, no good. The wall warped because I used a A&I wash over it after I added all the siding, I wanted a pretty heavily weathered wall. I stepped outside of the instructions on that one, not a flaw in the design of the kit.


I pulled the corner braces off and added some bracing to try to pull it back again. It worked fine.


The tower isn't glued on yet but everything is mocked up. I will further correct the minor gap near the peak when I glue everything together.

Thanks for checking in.

-Steve

[ak-milw]

Looking great Steve.

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

More very nicely done work. Grat job on the sign. Like all the junk ion the roof.

Karl

[S&S RR]

Steve


Great work - I'm really enjoying the thread.

[Polux]

Great work Steve; I love colour of this build, is excellent

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone. Should have some more pictures today or tomorrow.

-Steve

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

beautiful work. Keep the photos coming.

Karl