Jacobs' Landing Light Railway in On18

[PRR Modeler]

Great looking hoist and details Larry.

[Larry C]

Mike thanks. Never thought about doing the bands that way; let me know if
it works for you.

Curt thank you so much.

[Jerry]

Howdy Larry,

The second floor looks great. The size of the floor joists looks strong enough to support all those barrels.

I fear barrel bands are the nemesis for most of us.  I've been wanting to try a new technique by mounting the barrel on a dowel, holding the paint brush fixed, and rotating the dowel and barrel around.

Have fun,
mike

Mike the way I do it is with a cut off toothpick.  Insert and turn the pick and hold the brush steady.
And it works every time.

And my hands have that shaking problem to!! 

Jerry

[Rick]

Larry, nice job on the hoist, second floor and ladder.
Will there be doors on the openings?

Instead of painting the bands, try using a brown or rust colored marker.

[Philip]

Looking great Larry! Hardly see a trolley type lift like that anymore.

I painting my barrel bands with a leaded pencil or paint the entire barrel a rust tone first and then come back with a fine brush and cut in to color the wood. Sometimes it doesn't matter because I'm shakey jake. My hands are slowly heading South.

Done what Rick said with a pointed brown sharpie and works great. Silver works great on exhaust & such!

[Larry C]

Jerry thanks for the tip; nice to know I'm not the only one
w/ some shaking.

Rick thanks and I do like the marker idea; makes sense. No doors.

Philip thank you and I like the lead pencil idea as well. Time to 'speriment before I glue
down the outside barrels.