2026-2026 Winter Challange - OVL Co. Maintenance Buildings

elwoodblues · January 24, 2026, 12:19:05 PM

The stained ties ready to be installed.

elwoodblues · January 24, 2026, 12:20:33 PM

Quote from: GPdemayo on January 24, 2026, 11:37:45 AMLooks like a neat project with some interesting kits Ron. Have fun and I'll be looking in.....

Thanks Greg, Glad to have you follow along.

Mark Dalrymple · January 24, 2026, 02:23:01 PM

There are some nice variations in the staining, Ron.

Cheers, Mark.

Jerry · January 24, 2026, 02:35:19 PM

Ron I like that variation of the stains.

Not to bother you with off season questions?? Any thoughts on the F1 changes for the coming season???

Jerry

Rick · January 24, 2026, 05:02:20 PM

Ron, you definitely got nice color variations on the boards using the three different stains.

ACL1504 · January 24, 2026, 05:18:01 PM

Ron,

Stained boards look great. Well done.

Tom

PRR Modeler · January 25, 2026, 09:11:09 AM

Ron nice job on the subtle color differences.

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 10:32:19 AM

Quote from: Mark Dalrymple on January 24, 2026, 02:23:01 PMThere are some nice variations in the staining, Ron.

Cheers, Mark.

Thanks Mark, I think the key is keeping withing the same shade spectrum.

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 10:39:03 AM

Quote from: Jerry on January 24, 2026, 02:35:19 PMRon I like that variation of the stains.

Not to bother you with off season questions?? Any thoughts on the F1 changes for the coming season???

Jerry

Thanks Jerry,

You can bother me with off season questions anytime.

I think the F1 season will be interesting this season with all the rule changes. I think I'm going to miss the totally red Ferrari's (I think there is too much white), no more lime green Kick Sauber's although I like the Audi paint scheme. Still haven't seen Cadillac's paint scheme yet.

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 10:39:38 AM

Quote from: Rick on January 24, 2026, 05:02:20 PMRon, you definitely got nice color variations on the boards using the three different stains.

Thanks Rick

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 10:40:06 AM

Quote from: ACL1504 on January 24, 2026, 05:18:01 PMRon,

Stained boards look great. Well done.

Tom

Thanks Tom

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 10:40:41 AM

Quote from: PRR Modeler on January 25, 2026, 09:11:09 AMRon nice job on the subtle color differences.

Thanks Curt.

Larry C · January 25, 2026, 10:59:53 AM

Ron it's interesting seeing how others distress and stain their wood; never thought of using 3 different sizes so I may have to "borrow" that one. If your concoction was clear I'd say it was moonshine. Lol. Nicely done.

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 11:04:54 AM

Worked on planking the loading dock last night.

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Managed to plank 6-1/2" of the loading dock which means I have 13-3/4" to go.

This is turning out to be a slow process as I have to match board thickness with each row. In order to keep the colours random I threw all the boards in to a container and just randomly picking them.

I guess the easy way out would be to have cut the boards the full length of the loading dock, but I believe doing it with random length boards make a more realistic structure.

Thanks for looking in.

elwoodblues · January 25, 2026, 11:10:01 AM

Quote from: Larry C on January 25, 2026, 10:59:53 AMRon it's interesting seeing how others distress and stain their wood; never thought of using 3 different sizes so I may have to "borrow" that one. If your concoction was clear I'd say it was moonshine. Lol. Nicely done.

Larry,

I find it interesting how other do things too. Feel free to "borrow" it any time. The concoction was one created from Mike Chambers from the old RR line forum. I have the recipes written down somewhere.