2026-2026 Winter Challange - OVL Co. Maintenance Buildings

[ACL1504]

Ron,

Great looking door. I'm enjoying this adventure. Also, great looking walls.

Tom

[elwoodblues]

Ron,

Great looking door. I'm enjoying this adventure. Also, great looking walls.

Tom

Thanks Tom, Glad you are enjoying the adventure.

[Michael Hohn]

Very well done, Ron. 

[Rick]

Ron, I'm just getting caught up on your build.
It's looking very good.
Adding the bolts to the hinges was a very good idea.

[elwoodblues]

Very well done, Ron. 

Thanks Mike

[elwoodblues]

Ron, I'm just getting caught up on your build.
It's looking very good.
Adding the bolts to the hinges was a very good idea.

Thanks Rick,

While adding the bolts was tedious, it makes a huge difference in the look of the hinges and was well worth the effort.

[Philip]

Nice work Ron!

[elwoodblues]

Nice work Ron!

Thanks Philip.

[elwoodblues]

Got some more work done on the build so another update is required.  

Building the front rolling door.



Following the kit directions I distressed and stained the wood required.  The completed frame.




Half of the rolling door is wood slats.  The instructions show horizontal flats but Brett indicates in his instructions that maybe vertical slats might look better, so I made Vertical slats.




The other side of the rolling door has a sheet of corrugated steel.  I started out by cutting a piece to size and sprayed it with a matte spray to give the sheet some tooth to accept the paint and stains.  This shows the first coat of paint.




Unfortunately the matte spray did not work as hope and the paint and dies didn't stick, so using mineral spirits and chalks I have a corrugated sheet that has seen better days and will collapse when something hits it.




The door handle installed.




The completed door with the rollers installed.

[elwoodblues]

Installing the Doors



The front rolling door installed.  I dry brushed the rolling door with light rust (Vallejo Panzer Aces 301)




The side door installed.

[elwoodblues]

Prepping the Details


The first step is to prime the details, in this case, the details that will be placed inside the building.  The first step is to attached the detail parts to a paint stick.  This is done by using double sided tape.




The parts are primed a flat black.  The reason for flat black as it highlights the parts once painted.  Only one paint stick is shown here because I removed the painted detail parts on 2 of the paint sticks before I realized I forgot to take a picture. 




The primed detail parts.



Aleenes tacky glue was used to glue the detail parts to the 3/4" dia. x 1-1/2' dowels.  This makes painting the detail parts easier.  Aleenes tacky glue stays tacky which makes it easy to remove the detail part once the the painting is done.

Thanks for looking in.

[PRR Modeler]

Great job on the details so far Ron.

[elwoodblues]

Great job on the details so far Ron.

Thanks Curt.

[Jerry]

Well looks like your off to a good start with the details Ron.
Now comes the fun part picking colors!

Not on subject but F1 seems like there testing instead of getting ready for the March race.
A lot of changes seems some are okay with it others not so much.

Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Coming on nicely, Ron.

I really like the door runners.  A great detail.

Cheers, Mark.