FSM Chippy Hollow Hardware

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling Steve.

[Oldguy]

Very, very, very nice.

[Bruce Oberleitner]

What an awesome modeling job!  Thanks for sharing it on the forum.

[postalkarl]

HeySteve:

All I can say is WOWIE!!!!! what a beautiful job you are doing on this kit. It is one of my favorite FSM kits and yes I have one.

Karl

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!


I added the bumper to the track. This is from Peco. I sprayed it with gray paint and weathered it with some chalks.


I started working on the roof of the canopy. I wanted some areas where the tarpaper had worn away exposing some wood so I cut some pieces of the cardstock and added wood filler.


I decided not to use the construction paper included with this kit. I wanted to experiment with some black tissue paper for tarpaper. You can see where I tore the paper before I installed it.


I glued the paper down with some white glue spread out thin with my finger.


I covered the whole roof and added some tears to the paper with the blunt end of some tweezers.


I added the canopy supports, the framework and the 86 rafter tails.


I knew it was going to be challenging to glue the canopy to the platform. It's very top heavy so I drilled out the center of the posts, cut down some T pins and glued them in the holes. I used foam for the base of my diorama so I wanted the pins to go through the platform and into the foam.


I stuck the platform into a piece of foam to work on it. I also ended up painting the paper again with some Apple Barrel Pavement after this picture was taken. The primer I originally used started to get some sheen to it once I handled it a bit.


I weathered the roofing paper with some chalks and glued the canopy in place.



I'll finish detailing the roof once I installed the signage.

I took a lot of inspiration for this build from Brian Nolan's version of the kit. I liked the office he added to the left side of the structure using a Master Creations Office kit. My next step is building a small building in a similar location. I won't be using the Master Creations kit only because I already have one very close to where this kit will be installed on the layout.

Thanks for following along.

[engine909]

Mr. Nolan would be proud to have his name mentioned with your outstanding modeling.
ed

[vinceg]

Wow - those rafter tails are perfect. I mean perfect. Amazing. Love the NBW castings, too. Great stuff, thx.

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Steve.....

[PRR Modeler]

Excellent modeling Steve.

[ReadingBob]

Wonderful modeling Steve!  Simply wonderful!     

Apple Barrel Pavement you say?  I need to get me some of that.   

[craftsmankits]

Beautiful build.  Thanks for sharing, and please keep us updated.

Mark

[S&S RR]

Fantastic modeling!  I think it would be more prototypical if one of the rafter tails was a little warped or slightly out of place.   Great work.

[engine909]

I appreciate John's comment on rafter tails. If you do just one it looks like you screwed up. So how many do you do? Always a modeling dilemma.

[cuse]

That is some really fine modeling...even the tiniest details like NBW castings hold up to close up pics. Really great!!


John

[vinceg]

Steve,

I remember when Chippy Hollow first came out. I saw the ad in MR and decided not buy it because I thought it was not interesting....too toy-like. Your build seems different. Looks very real and plausible. Really beautiful job.