Welcome to Henderson

[deemery]

That kit was fiddly in HO, I can't imagine doing it in N scale...  The results look great!

dave

[ACL1504]

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).

Woolworth and McCrorys!

[Philip]

  Totally cool!~

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron,

Henderson is progressing well. The window light boxes are a clever addition. It's easy to forget this is tiny N scale.

Have fun,
mike

[elwoodblues]

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.

Thanks Rick,

The problem with the shades is that I know that a second coat of paint should have been added to the window shades.

[elwoodblues]

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

Thanks James,  there is a surprising amount of work involved for a kit that only has 4 walls and a roof.

[elwoodblues]

Great job all the around Ron.

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

Jerry

Jerry,

I'll agree with you there, working in O scale is a lot easier on the eyes.  I use 3X magnifiers when working in N scale.   

[elwoodblues]

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

Larry, before I changed to On30 I was modeling in N scale building craftsmen style kits and doing a lot of detailing.  you could say this is a blast from the past.

[elwoodblues]

That kit was fiddly in HO, I can't imagine doing it in N scale...  The results look great!

dave

Thanks Dave, the hardest part is getting the walls square.  I used a sheet of sandpaper taped to my workbench and a chunk of 2 x 4 angle to keep everything at 90 degrees to each other.

[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).

Woolworth and McCrorys!

Never heard of McCrorys in Canada.

[elwoodblues]

Totally cool!~

Thanks Philip

[elwoodblues]

Howdy Ron,

Henderson is progressing well. The window light boxes are a clever addition. It's easy to forget this is tiny N scale.

Have fun,
mike

Thanks Mike,  It's just like modeling in O scale except everything is 4x smaller.

[elwoodblues]

Can't believe that it's been over a month from my last update.   I guess I better start posting.  

The lighting and interior for three more buildings are complete.  So without further ado let's get started.




The light added to the light box which was made from .020 black styrene.  I use pre-wired nano SMD LED's (0402) for the lights.  I used to do the wiring myself but now I buy them that way as the cost isn't worth the work involved.




Light box assemble ready to be installed.  Even though these building are not front and center I did add a rudimentary interior backdrop on the back of the store front light box.  In this case it's a restaurant.





The light box installed in the building.






The interior of the grocery store.

[elwoodblues]

So, do the lights work?  Inquiring minds like to know.




The Grocery Store





The Pawn Shop (Every town needs/has a pawn shop)





The restaurant/diner




The buildings all in a row.





And a shot at midnight.

Next up for these buildings will be adding signs which will complete the construction of the buildings.  Once that is done there will be only one building left which will have a full interior as it will be front and center.

Thanks for looking in.

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron,

Wow, the light boxes look great. They make me smile with the detail in those windows of such small buildings.

Have fun and persist,
mike