Welcome to Henderson

[elwoodblues]

Time for a quick update.




The modules are now all set up and ready to be worked on.





A view of the town scene.  I had to look up old pictures to see where the buildings go.    The goal is to have lighting in all the buildings.  So far there is lighting in 3 of them.  One of the buildings is complete and the two other just require signs.  At this point in time nothing is glued down.  The asphalt road was glued down but has lifted up since then. Note to self, don't use white glue to glue plastic to wood.




Another view of the town scenes.

Thanks for looking in.

[Rick]

Ron, pretty much how I remember it from the RR-Line.
Will be nice seeing you work on this again.

[elwoodblues]

Ron, pretty much how I remember it from the RR-Line.
Will be nice seeing you work on this again.

Rick,

That is how far I got with this project on the RR-Line. 

[elwoodblues]

It's update time    Not a huge update, but an update nevertheless.




First thing up is re-gluing down the town streets.  I originally glued the streets down with carpenter's glue but that proved to be a bad choice.  The modules sat in my garage for a year and when I set them up at home they were already very loose. .  Removing the street panels turned to be very easy, one sneeze and I had to pick them up off the floor.  Before re-gluing the streets I sanded and scraped the old glue off.  This time around I used contact cement to glue down the streets.  I glued one panel and let it cure for 24 hrs to make sure that the cement didn't effect the plastic.  After waiting 24 hours everything is good and the second panel can now be glued down with confidence.






I decided to finish the town building first, one is completed, one only needs a sign attached, And the third one just needs exterior details.  This building is the F.W. Woolworth's five & dime which were found all over the place in it's heyday.





Looking at my old N scale stash I found these fire escapes made by Gold Metal Models.  I don't think these have been made for many years now.  I only need two of them but after I assembled the first one I realized that the other package I had were different so I assembled two of them.  I have another building that I can add the first fire escape on.





Signs to be added.... The F.W. Woolworth and the hotel sign are for the Woolworth building and the liquor/beer sign is for the bar.





The bar building where the liquor/beer sign is for.

Thanks for looking in.

[Jerry]

Hey Ron good to see this come back to life.

I really like the fire escapes & sign details.

Jerry

[Larry C]

Ron nice update. Looking forward to your continued progress.

[Philip]

  Nice work so far!

[PABOB]

Just found your build thread on the Henderson modules. Beautiful job your doing on it Sir. I will be following . Keep posting please. Bob.

[Rick]

Ron, nice to see you getting time to work on the modules.
Thanks for the update.

[elwoodblues]

Finally an update

I finished the F.W. Woolworth's and have started the next building.

First up finished pictures of the F.W. Woolworth building




Fire escape and signs added.





A view of the building with the lights on.

[elwoodblues]

Next up is Rexall Drugs. . . . . .

Seeing as this building is also front and center, this build will also have lights and a full interior.  The interior will include a soda/milkshake counter that drugstores use to have many many years ago.




Here is the shell of the building.





After determining there the lighted building will go, I painted the interior of the building where the light boxes go black.  The reason for this is to block any light leaking through the walls.





The front walls where the light boxes will go.

[elwoodblues]

In between working on the building I also started to correct the sidewalk colour.





I originally painted what I thought was a food sidewalk colour but as you can see it's to "yellow"





I repainted the sidewalk Vallejo "cement Gray" (model air 71.046).  It's still a little dark, but I should be able to lighten it up with chalks and pan pastels.

This is the last update for tonight.

Thanks for looking in.

[Philip]

Cool update Ron!

[Jerry]

Great update Ron.  Really like Woolworth's.

Jerry

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron,

Henderson is looking good.  The Woolworth building with lights is a nice touch. I'm looking forward to the Rexall build.

Have fun,
mike