A station for Clay Center

[Janbouli]

I wanted a nice station to go with the Tower from N-scale Architect , a few weeks ago I won Canaan station from Branchline on ebay Germany, although like the Tower it is not prototypical , I am going to use it for the Rock Island CC Line, it will be a station at an interchange of the Rock Island and the UP, in real they didn't have the one station , but on my layout it will be this Union Station

The box, you can see that this is not your average size N-scale kit.


Instructions , partly in color , with some nice prototype info and easy to follow instructions.




All the parts , at first glance very intimidating , when I'm done we'll know if it's a hard kit to do.

[Janbouli]

Let's start building

Started by taping the base to a lazy sue , this will make it easy to work on the kit from all sides. Glue the 2 base pieces together.


The inner walls glued to the base and to each other , with masking tape to keep things tight while glue dries. The inner walls are peel and stick , make sure the P&S is facing outwards.


The base makes it easy to keep things square.


Outer walls with 2 sprays of white primer.

[ak-milw]

looks like you picked a very nice one!

[S&S RR]

Looks like you are off to a great start!

[Erieman]

Jan,

I second John's comments. you are off to a great start. I have been in the real station. Years ago, while visiting a client in Canaan, we went to lunch there. Great little restaurant. Years later, some kids lit the station on fire. Quite a mess. About half the building burned. I believe that it has been rebuilt. nice quaint little town. Keep up the good work.

Frank / Erieman

[Janbouli]

Thanx Andy , John , Frank , on we go.

Outer walls painted Building Cream


Peel and stick the outer walls to the inner walls starting with the end walls.


Then the other walls.




Started assembling doors and windows , these are painted Rock Island Maroon, there's a lot of them.

[moonlicht]

looking good Jan
when are you going to finish it?
Cor

[GPdemayo]

Great start Jan...I'll be following along closely.
 
I just got that kit in HO a couple of weeks ago and got around to opening the box late last week...sure are a lot of pieces. I'm depending on you to get me over the bumps for this one.
 
Don't forget the photos...

[Janbouli]

I'll do my best GP, and plenty of photo's . As to your H0 build , I wonder if IKEA has a larger Lazy Suzan 

[Janbouli]

The windows for the first floor , peel and stick , 1 long frame where the rest of the windows is stuck to.


I was afraid it would be hard to get the windows in the openings , but that went quite well.


Hard to see , but added a piece of trim on the top of the windows.


This part of the build is actually a bit tedious, there's just so many windows, with every window consisting of 5 parts.

[Janbouli]

Some pictures of the progress with windows and doors. Each wall takes about 1 1/2 hours.

[bparrish]

Jan.......

This is getting to be just about cool...

Thanx
Bob

[S&S RR]

Jan

That's a lot of window castings.

[Janbouli]

Got most of them done today , starting on the platforms now, will have pics later on.

[John B]

That is going to be one big station