Popovich Pipe Company by Bar Mills

[TomW]

Well I had an open space on my P&WV and Popovich Pipe looked like it would fit the spot nicely. Besides my sister in laws maiden name was Popovich and her dad worked in a steel plant. The box that the kit came in. .

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The interior contents and the kits finished picture that was included.

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Wall section of office building. NOTE. All of the contents of each building are individually packaged. This helped to keep each section together.

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This is the future space of the new pipe company. I had to remove the existing hand laid rail and move it about 1" toward the front of the layout to make enough room for the kit to fit.

[TomW]

The office building was the first subassembly that I took on. I used Floquil reefer yellow thinned with laquer thinner. I installed nail holes in the siding. The window where painted flat white. The building went together easily and the fit was perfect. For the roof I substituted Builders in Scale rolled roofing . The hard part was the window awning . It was not easy trying to get them to glue to the siding and keep square.

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Side view of the office

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Other side of office. The small boiler house building will be in the open wall area later

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This was the second part that I built. I just built all the subassemblies per the instructions. The doors are in about 4 self stick pieces. The roof jacks are of a cardboard on the roof. They were not fun. I only got three to go together right. I added nut bolt washer casting to the crane runway to anchor it to the building.

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This was the next small building. It sits on a loading dock on the rear of the complex. You will not even see it on the model except a very small section of the roof.

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I call this the fab shop. This is the front view, This also went together well. The resin walls were the first for me to work with. They are brittle and I cracked one. A little epoxy and it was fixed. I used red primer and then Polly Scle different reds and some craft paint reds to mke up the difference. A wash of Hunter Line stain (Creosote) was applied to the walls. I made a new cap out of styrene for the brick office addition . The roof needed some equipment. I used some from Walthers Roof to detail package.

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Building stacked together . Trying to see how they will look on the layout.

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The location on the layout between Bridgeville Brick and Universal Steel Co,

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Front of the overhead crane. The crane still need some weathering and I may add some electric wiring to power the crane. That's all for now I will post when I get some more finished.
Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,

Great location for Popovich Pipe Co. The structure looks fantastic and you did a great job capturing the feel of the scene as well. Again, great job!

Enjoyed out visit the other day!

Tom

[TomW]

Thanks Tom, I too enjoyed the visit. I can't  wait to put the final touches on this with all the pipe. After I finish this I am going to make some loads of pipe for some of my gondola cars.
Thanks again
Tom