Wichendon Machine Shop (restart)

[deemery]

Dave,

You are doing such excellent work!  What will you put on the bookcases?  Books? 

Have fun,
mike

I need to come up with a way to make this look like lots of parts.  My concept is the supply part of the "Oil Well Supply Company" facilities.  I also need to make small probably tilt-out parts bins for screws, washers, etc.  The rest of the space will be boxes and related oil well 'junk'.

dave

[Larry C]

Dave those desks look difficult to assemble being soooo small; nice job.

[Philip]

Fantastic!

[jbvb]

Dave,

You are doing such excellent work!  What will you put on the bookcases?  Books? 

Have fun,
mike

In Dave's era, bookcases with large shelves would have been mostly for ledgers, survey documents, maps etc.

[deemery]

Oak furniture for the drafting room and storage area.  I'm using Green Frog tape because it has really good tack, I don't want the parts to fly away when airbrushing!


The chairs, in particular, are very fragile, and had that dark laser burn that I wanted to work out.  So first I primed with thinned Badger neutral yellow primer, sprayed at about 15 PSI (down from my usual 20-25 PSI).  That provided a uniform color over the laser-cut parts (tops and edges.)  Then after that dried, I went back with Liquitext fluid acrylic raw sienna, again thinned about 50% with Liquitex airbrush thinner and sprayed at about 12 PSI.  I wanted a light transparent layer. 

The result came out pretty good, I think. 

add I added papers to the tables/desks:


dave

[Philip]

 

[friscomike]

Howdy Dave, nice work on the color and desktops.  I especially like the drafting table.  Have fun, mike

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice Dave.

[deemery]

Howdy Dave, nice work on the color and desktops.  I especially like the drafting table.  Have fun, mike

All but the large counter came with the kit.

dave

[ACL1504]

Dave,

Fragile or not, you did a great job on the chairs.

Tom

[deemery]

Populating the shelves...  I found a good head-on photo of generic hardware store shelves (said it was AI generated, there's a watermark but for what I'm doing, that won't be visible.)  I figured out how to scale it to the shelf height, and then printed the image.  I cut pieces of styrene (1/8x1/8 or 1/8x3/16) to put behind it, having everything at the same depth helps preserve the sense of depth.


One shelf unit finished (done smaller so it looks like it does 'to scale' in the shop.)


dave

[Bernd]

Pretty neat idea. Looks great.

B~

[elwoodblues]

Dave, that is the approach I took for the interiors of my N Scale stores on my modules, I was very pleased with the results.

[jbvb]

Looks good from any human-eye viewing distance.

[PRR Modeler]

Outstanding Dave.