Kit bash AMB ACL Depot

[PRR Modeler]

Looking good Tom. The colors go well together.

[ACL1504]

I forgot to mention this kit doesn't call for any interior bracing. I will brace the walls tomorrow. The walls in this kit go together in such a way that they can't be braced until all the pieces are glued together.

The front right wall section will be a little more tircksie than the rear wall. I won't be able to cut this one down until I get the left front and bay window walls glued together.

Here is an exploded view of this wall section and the wall parts.



Here is the wall all pushed together but not glued. The cut will be approximately where the square is shown on the wall.



Hopefully I have a little more tomorrow.

[ACL1504]

Looking good Tom. The colors go well together.

Curt,

Thanks very much. The white walls and green trim are the colors of the A& RR. Approximately 90% of the A&S structures will have the white/green look.

Tom

[ACL1504]

While the pine trees were drying, I spent time on the ACL station kit bash. I glued the two end walls to the rear wall.




I then glued the two interior walls to the front of the bay window. I added a brace in the rear so the wall remained square in the rear and front.





More in a few.

[ACL1504]

When dry, I glued the bay window sub assembly to the front left of the station.



Rear view.



Know what time it is?




Back in a few.

[ACL1504]

I needed to cut a piece off the long front wall to fit the smaller front wall on the new station.

I placed the long wall section in place and drew a pencil line where I needed to make the cut.




The wall section was cut and test fitted in place.



More in a few.

[ACL1504]

Fast forward here a bit and the new wall section was built and glued to the main structure.



Here is a comparison photo of the kit bash and the original ACL station kit.



More in a few.

[PRR Modeler]

Excellent modeling Tom.

[ACL1504]

This is where the small rural station will be placed.

[ACL1504]

Excellent modeling Tom.

Curt,

Thank you, much appreciated.

Tom

[MAP]

Looking really good Tom!  There's a lot of slicing & dicing going on here, but you're winding up with a nice building that fits the scene perfectly.

[ACL1504]

Looking really good Tom!  There's a lot of slicing & dicing going on here, but you're winding up with a nice building that fits the scene perfectly.

Mark,

Thank you for the kind words, Yes, I did feel at least like a wood surgeon on this kit bash.


Tom

[ACL1504]

Since I shortened the station considerably, I needed to make the same adjustments to the roof panels. These aren't chip board but very thin plywood.

Each roof end section has a slot for the tab on the end walls. This forced me to shorten the roof by making the cuts in the center.

I didn't take a lot of pictures of this work. Once the cuts were made, I realized I didn't account for the width of the pencil line in making the cut.

I glued each end roof section in place. This is when I discovered the gap in the roof sections. To fix the problem I added scale HO 3X3 strip wood to the gap.



I braced the heck out of the underside of the roof where this splice was made.





More in a few.

[ACL1504]

Normally I paint the under side of the eves the same color as the walls, white. However, in this case I painted this area with dark green.

The reason will be explained in a few.



The kit also has many eve brackets that fit into slots cut into the wall sections. Once the walls and eve brackets were painted, the wood swelled and the parts wouldn't fit. Here is what I did to get the eve brackets to fit into the wall slots.

I used a new Emory board and gently sanded each bracket at an angle as shown below.



Notice also I removed the small tab on the top of the eve where the sanded area is. This small tab interfered with the bracket fitting into the slot even after the brackets were sanded.

When placed in the wall slots, the brackets didn't fit snug up against the under side of the roof. I applied glue to each side of the eve bracket and used weights to hold them against the roof until dry.

I removed the weights to show the brackets.



More in a few.

[ACL1504]

When the eve brackets and the roof were dry and securely glued together, I added 26 rafter tails to each underside roof section as shown below.



Although the picture shows the station on it's roof, you can see the brackets and how they fit on the walls and under the roof.

This is why I painted the underside of the roof in the dark green. I could go back and paint the dried glue and rafter tails green.

Easy peasy.

After the rafter tails were added the end rafters were added.



Continued in few. It's that time again.