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

[deemery]

On another note, I really miss your old "Favorite Music" thread from RRLines.
I think about it and other things that I miss from that now gone forum often.

Greg

Greg, funny you mentioning that thread.
I thought about it recently as well.
Maybe I'll post in the baggage car asking if it's OK to start a similar thread.

Baggage Car is the place for a 'favorite music' thread.  

dave

[Ensign]

Hi Dave, you know what they say "Great minds think alike"
Perhaps it would be better if you let Rick do that, since it was he who originally started that thread on the old RRlines forum.
I will give him a PM with your suggestion about starting one on the baggage car.
Thanks!

Greg

[friscomike]

Howdy Greg,

The detail painting is amazing and will complement the freight house.  Exceptional work, and I bet tedious.

Have fun,
mike

[Ensign]

Mike, thank you very much for your kind words!
Yes painting up those detail castings can indeed be tedious work.

Greg

[Ensign]

Hi everyone, well I have managed to get a little more done with this freight house kit that I have been slowly working on.
I have all of the LED lighting installed into the structure.
I was originally thinking that I would use 8 LED's but instead I ended up using 12 of them in total.



I was able to run the magnet wires between the walls like I had planned.



I then drilled a hole down through my platform for these wires to pass through.



I have not glued down the freight house to it's platform yet.
I also made up the platform canopy cover using 2 LED's to light that up.
I glued the magnet wires for those LED's to one of the support casting legs and painted the wires the same colour as I painted the rest of the casting.
So 2 more tiny holes will need to be drilled into the platform for those wires to pass down into as well.



I also decided to add 2 more LED's to the office desk and the workbench in the way of 2 desk lamps.
Using the smaller "Tichy" plastic shades.




So that's all I have for now, thanks for looking!

Greg

[Jerry]

To have your talent in lighting!!!!!  Just perfect Greg!!

Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Fabulous, Greg!

Cheers, Mark.

[Ensign]

Thank you so much! Jerry & Mark.

I started on the first roof today, and I switched out the old Campbell's shingles that come with this kit.
Instead using these ones from FSA that I had laying around.



These roofs are all fairly small so it should'nt take me to long to do them.
I will have to make a base up for this structure and a track to sit on.
Then I can hook up the LED's to the distribution board and then add in all of the details!
It's almost done!

Greg

[Jerry]

Nice looking roof Greg.

Jerry

[craftsmankits]

Greg, this is looking great.  Love the detailing of the white metal parts.  I purchased this kit just for the parts that came with it.  Can't wait to see it fully detailed.  Mark

[nycjeff]

Hello Greg, it's really coming together now. That's a lot of little wires to keep track of.

[Rick]

Greg, you are a master at lighting.
I like how you were able to run the wires between the walls.
Nice colors on the roof.

[Ensign]

Jerry, Mark, Jeff & Rick, thanks so much guys for your kind and encouraging words!

Mark, I can understand why you purchased this kit for the detail castings it has.
George was really a master at making beautiful looking kits & detail castings.

Jeff, I always twist the 2 wire leads on each LED together, that helps me to sort them out when it comes to the final hook up.

Rick, these hair like magnet wires really allow you to better hide them just about anywhere.

Thanks again guys!

Greg

[Ensign]

Hi everyone, well I am finally getting near the end of this FSM's freight house project.
I have finished building and shingling the 2 removable roofs.
Also installed the end canopy roof to the building and platform.
I have now also glued down the building to it's platform and the platform to a base that I built for this scene.
I still need to do some final scenery work with the track, and the final LED hook ups to the distribution board.
So here's how things are now looking.





I will post the final pics of this freight house with the lights turned on when I have everything finished off.
Thanks for your interest in this and for having a look!

Greg

[Rick]

Greg, it's looking good.
Nice job on those roofs.