Buffalo Canyon Mining Company in On30

[friscomike]

Howdy folks,

The adventure continues with another non-revenue structure, the railroad's water tower and maintenance shed. While I would like to build the Sierra West version, it's all done for you except for all that detail painting.  I wanted to try a new technique for making stones for the water tower base and creating the tank.  

I had planned to scratch-build the maintenance shed until I saw Inter-Action Hobbies' CPR Shed #3.  I liked it so much that I ditched the scratch-build shed plan and purchased the Inter-Action kit with the interior detail option. Its construction technique is different from any I've built before, so it will be a treat. I may add a hand car to the build if I find one I like.

Here is the vendor's photos of the kit.





The kit comes with all the details seen in the photo.  The price was good, too.

Here is a layout of some of the kit parts:


The kit comes with mostly laser-cut parts of laserboard and basswood.  It has nice 3D-printed details and a lighting kit, not bad at all.  The instructions look to be thorough with lots of photos, steps, and tips.



I spent the afternoon painting walls in preparation for assembly and hope to post photos of progress tomorrow.

Have fun,
mike

[ACL1504]

Mike, Howdy,

Wow, what a great looking structure. Love the weathering and interior details. That burglar screen over the window is top notch.

Keep having fun my friend.

Tom 

[PRR Modeler]

The kit has everything included. Your build looks great. I look forward to a night shot Mike.

[nycjeff]

Hello Mike, I've really enjoyed catching up on your structure build thread. Some very nice modeling indeed.

[Rick]

Mike, that a good looking kit especially the interior details.
Like Tom, I think the screen over the windows is unique and looks good.

[Jerry]

Mike this looks like a really nice build coming up.

A lot of nice details included.

Jerry

[Larry C]

Mike great looking kit; enjoy and have fun.

[friscomike]

Howdy folks,

Tom, Curt, Jeff, Rick, Jerry, and Larry, thanks for following along.

The last couple of days have been painting the walls of the maintenance shed.  The Inter-Action Hobbies kit uses construction techniques that I have never seen before.  You can see an example in the first photo.  

The walls shown are the inside walls painted to look like tar paper.  You will notice tan overlays that are guides for constructing the walls.  After gluing them to the black walls, you simply glue the already cut-to-size studs, plates, etc. onto the overlays.  Neat!



Here are the reverse sides of the walls painted in Buffalo Canyon Mining green applied in two shades with a sponge. I plan to weather the structure.



The trim will be a weathered wood-gray like the depot. 



That's it for now. 

Have fun,
mike

[Rick]

Mike, that is a different way of building kit walls, but I like it.

[PRR Modeler]

Easy Peasy! I like the color.

[Jerry]

Mike that looks great.  Nice way to build a kit.

Jerry

[Philip]

Gorgeous build! The potbelly stove is also cool...... just don't touch it.

[friscomike]

Howdy folks,

Rick, Curt, Jerry, and Philip thanks for following along.

Today I assembled the sides and ends on the boxcar (still in the clamps) and started weathering the shed walls.  I don't have photos of those individual projects, but I do have a photo of my workbench with all the models in process.  The shed walls have weights on them while the weathering dries. 



Have fun,
mike

[robert goslin]

Howdy Mike.  Nice work of the framing and walls.
I like the green colour, so should fit well with the little depot.
Great pic of the work bench.  I also generally have a couple of projects on the go at once.

[deemery]

I always like seeing photos of other people's workbenches...

dave