Welcome to Henderson

[Rick]

Ron, that fire escape looks great.
Sidewalk color is much better now.

[ACL1504]

Ron,

Henderson is looking great. Every city/town should have a Woolworth store. Looks great.

Tom 

[elwoodblues]

Cool update Ron!

Thanks Philip

[elwoodblues]

Ron, that fire escape looks great.
Sidewalk color is much better now.

Glad you like the fire escape Rick, I think It gives the building a lot of character.

The sidewalk is still a little to dark for me but it's something I can fix easily.

[elwoodblues]

Great update Ron.  Really like Woolworth's.

Jerry

Thanks Jerry, glad you really like the Woolworth store.

[elwoodblues]

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

Thanks Mike,

So far all the buildings I have completed have lights.

[elwoodblues]

Ron,

Henderson is looking great. Every city/town should have a Woolworth store. Looks great.

Tom

Thanks Tom,

When I was growing up the was a Woolworth in every town/city (I think I'm getting old).

[tom.boyd.125]

 Ron, Your Henderson module is off to a great start. Had to look at it twice, looked like HO scale but was not expecting N scale. Saw the Reid Brothers Cumberland Valley layout twice when we lived in Illinois and the scenery on it was fantastic. Will follow along with the project here....Tommy

[elwoodblues]

Ron, Your Henderson module is off to a great start. Had to look at it twice, looked like HO scale but was not expecting N scale. Saw the Reid Brothers Cumberland Valley layout twice when we lived in Illinois and the scenery on it was fantastic. Will follow along with the project here....Tommy

Tommy,

Thanks for following along.  The Reed's Cumberland Valley has been one of my favourite model railways.

[elwoodblues]

Another Sunday, another update

Did some work on Rexall Drugs today.

First up was glazing the windows on the second floor.




First thing I needed to do was to cut a piece of acetate for the turret windows.  Seeing as this is in N scale the turret diameter is small so I cut a piece of acetate to size to fit the curvature as best as possible and insert it through the bottom of the turret.  It took me 2 tries to get the acetate cut to the right size.





The acetate inserted in the turret,  while not perfect it's close enough.





Next up is adding blinds to the windows.  Needing to keep the surface as tight as possible to eliminate any light leakage from the light boxes I decided to paint the shades on the acetate.




The window blinds installed on the windows.

[elwoodblues]

Now that the windows on the upper floor are done it was time to turn my attention to the second floor light boxes.




The light boxes were constructed from .020 black styrene cut to size to the window openings where they are to be installed and are 3/16" deep.




Itsy-bitty teeny weeny LED's were then attached to the light box and glued in place using ACC glue.  The hardest part was threading the leads through the #75 holes in the light box.





Once the glue had dried I tested the LED's with a 3v coin battery to make sure that the LED worked.





The light boxes glued in place.




Let there be light.....

In hindsight I should have taken the time to add a second coat of paint to the window shades to make the opacity consistent through out the window.  I'm not sure if I will go through the effort to remove the light boxes to add another coat of paint to the window shades as I really don't think anyone will notice when the whole town is lit up.

That's it for tonight, thanks for looking in.

[Rick]

Ron, nice job on the glazing, shades and lights.
I agree, probably no one will notice the shades after the whole town is in place.

[jbvb]

Looks good.  I'm going to look around my layout for places that will benefit from them.

[Jerry]

Great job all the around Ron.

I'd never be able to work in that scale hands to big eye sight to poor!!! 

Jerry

[Larry C]

Ron great job on the buildings. I couldn't imagine going from On30
to N scale and detailing to boot.