Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Juhn,

The high trestle, the warehouse and Chippy's! It just can't get any better than that! Love it all.

Tom

Thanks Tom


I guess I'm on a roll - actually have four projects going at the same time and it's working just fine.  I'm also working on the wiring for the upper level. Crawling on the floor pulling wires isn't as easy as it once was.

[deemery]

I guess I'm on a roll - actually have four projects going at the same time and it's working just fine.  I'm also working on the wiring for the upper level. Crawling on the floor pulling wires isn't as easy as it once was.

I have A LOT more than 4 projects 'stopped' at the same time :-)  When I get home, I'll post a photo of my Downtown Deco flat, it's a nice starting point.


dave

[S&S RR]

I guess I'm on a roll - actually have four projects going at the same time and it's working just fine.  I'm also working on the wiring for the upper level. Crawling on the floor pulling wires isn't as easy as it once was.

I have A LOT more than 4 projects 'stopped' at the same time :-)  When I get home, I'll post a photo of my Downtown Deco flat, it's a nice starting point.


dave

Dave


I would like to see what you did with it - this structure is going to be in the background so I'm trying not to get to carried away with detail.  The viewer will be 4 feet from it and there will be many structures and details in front of it.

[lynn boyd]

John  it  took  me a few days off and on but I managed to review your  entire thread and  its absolutely amazing and so  many  neat projects you went  through. My wife is on me steady  to put some kind  of  flooring down in  my layout rooms,  its a  disaster, yours is so nice and neat and organized. Mountains  are amazing.

[S&S RR]

John  it  took  me a few days off and on but I managed to review your  entire thread and  its absolutely amazing and so  many  neat projects you went  through. My wife is on me steady  to put some kind  of  flooring down in  my layout rooms,  its a  disaster, yours is so nice and neat and organized. Mountains  are amazing.

Hi Lynn


First, since I noticed you are just starting to post on the forum I want to welcome you to the forum.  I have made some great friends here and I know you will too. 


Yes - I have many projects behind me on this layout but even more yet to do - I hope you will follow along. A word of caution on the flooring in my train room.  It was very expensive.  It is the repurposed flooring from our kitchen that I saved when we remodeled the kitchen.  Our kitchen has tile flooring now, and new cabinets, and new granite countertops (I saved the sink cutout for a layout table), and new appliances and well you get the picture. $and$and$and$
So be careful when the wife asks you to put new flooring in your train room - she may have talked to my wife.


Make sure you check out some of the other layout threads here. And again thanks for stopping by.

[S&S RR]

The last couple of days I've been under the weather - head cold.  So progress has been slow.  I managed to get some painting done on the warehouse wall castings.





I painted the wood doors earth color and the window molding chocolate brown.

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Next step was to add the mortar for the bricks - I like using a higher gray for this and then toning it down with Alcohol & Ink.

[S&S RR]

I'm using the frosted glass inserts that came with the window castings. 

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Here is a progress picture of the brown brick castings with and without the cement and mortar.

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And finally, here is the red brick wall castings at the end of the day.  I little touchup and they will be ready to assemble.

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And here are the brown brick wall castings at the end of the day.  I need to do some touchup on these also and we will be ready to start assembling the structure.

[deemery]

John, here's my DD flat next to a Monster Modelworks flat.  The doors were painted with burnt umber.  These sit behind the roundhouse.


dave

[S&S RR]

John, here's my DD flat next to a Monster Modelworks flat.  The doors were painted with burnt umber.  These sit behind the roundhouse.


dave

They look great Dave.


The more I look at mine and where they are going to be located I think I'm going to weather them like they are at the edge of a steam locomotive yard. They will be about 4 feet from the viewer and behind other structures.

[S&S RR]

Today, I got back on the trestle project - added 2 more bents and more cross bracing.

[S&S RR]

I also did some weathering of the walls for the warehouse. To me these walls look much better with steam engine crime.
First here are the red brick walls.