Fine Scale Miniatures kit #150 "Old time" Freight House

[Ensign]

Hi Bernd, It is indeed tough taking care of 2 places!
Especially when one of them is over a hundred years old(Our house) and the other one(Our cottage) only allows you 6 months at best to work on it.
Our cottage is a three hour drive away and it's boat access only, so that makes it a even harder task to get stuff there.
It's on a lake called "Go Home Lake" I call it Go Home Tired lake.
Anyways it will be nice to have you following along, in what spare time we manage to find this summer.

Greg

[Bernd]

Hi Bernd, It is indeed tough taking care of 2 places!
Especially when one of them is over a hundred years old(Our house) and the other one(Our cottage) only allows you 6 months at best to work on it.
Our cottage is a three hour drive away and it's boat access only, so that make it a even harder task to get stuff there.
It's on a lake called "Go Home Lake" I call it Go Home Tired lake.
Anyways it will be nice to have you following along, in what spare time we manage to find this summer.

Greg

Greg,

Same here, three hour drive to the St. Lawerance River. The cottage is on the main land so no boat trip.

Always liked following you on the RRL forum. Have learned much from your modeling techniques.

Bernd

[GPdemayo]

Looking forward to seeing this one come together Greg, I've had good intentions of starting mine for a couple decades now.....

[Ensign]

Gregory, thanks for your post and for your interest in this.
It's funny how we all have these kits waiting on our shelves for decades to be built.
I am now in my sixties, so I'm thinking I better get building them before I run out of time to do so.
Even then I don't think I'll ever build all of the kits I have now collected over the years.
Though I will try to do so!

Greg

[Ensign]

Hi everyone, well I have managed to get a little more done on this kit.
I have glued all of the walls together and have also made up and installed the 4 exterior gooseneck lights.
Also painted and glued into position the window and door castings.
Here's how the freight house looks sitting on it's platform.
I have not glued the freight house to the platform yet, I still have a few more interior lights to do.



Using LED lighting with the hair like magnet wires really allows you to do things that just would not be possible using old style lighting with bulbs and heavier guage wires.



I plan to run my wires for the LED's down the middle wall of this freight house a through a hole drilled into the platform so that the wires will all be under the platform.
I then will cover those wires with another scribed wood wall panel to hide them all.





So that's all I have to report for now, thanks for having a look!



Greg

[Pennman]

Greg,

We are all thankful that you are at it again!
Especially when you show your expert detailing with regard to lighting effects.
This reminds me of your excellent thread on the old Railroad Line Forums "Gooseneck Lighting".
I always enjoy reading your threads and one can gain a lot of insight from them.
You make lighting a building look easy, although it is difficult for some of us to understand.
Why some folks use resistors and some don't? Anyway, your build is taking great shape.

Rich

[Jerry]

Just beautiful done.  And as usual the lighting will be the highlight!!

Jerry

[Ensign]

Thanks! Rich & Jerry.

Rich, when it comes to using resistors I sometimes use them depending how bright you want your LED to shine.
The distribution boards that I get from "Ngineering" are designed so you can hook up your LED's with or without using resistors.
If I did not use this distribution board from Ngineering, I would have to use a resistor as part of the LED hook up.
Also If you choose not to use a resistor while using one of these distribution boards the LED will be lit up at full brightness.
By adding different strength resistors to the board you can dim the LED to the level of brightness you like.

Jerry, I always look forward myself to seeing how the completed model looks with it's lights turned on!

Greg

[PRR Modeler]

Excellent modeling Greg.

[Philip]

Nice start Greg! 

[Ensign]

Curt & Philip, thanks for your encouraging words!

Greg

[Jeffb]

Hi Greg,
Just catching up with you on this build thread. Thanks for posting. I'll be following along on this one. I always learn from your builds. Looking good so far!

Jeff Betcher

[Ensign]

Hi Jeff, nice to see that you've joined the Modelers forum!
Thanks for making this build your very first post.
The real good news for us Canadians is, it's completely tariff free!

Greg

[Pennman]

Greg,

Thank you for the explanation on the lighting. It always takes me longer to understand
some things when I'm not used to doing them. I'm sure I will succeed now that the
"Teacher" is back! I will have to see what I can come up with.

Rich

[ACL1504]

Greg,

Enjoying this thread. I built my freight house some 40+ years ago and had to settle for the old "grain of wheat" bulbs.

Ngineering is wonderful for getting the correct items to "correctly" light the structure.

Excellent job on this one sir.

Tom