2026-2026 Winter Challange - OVL Co. Maintenance Buildings

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron, The dock looks terrific.  I like all the colors.  Have fun, mike

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the comments Larry, Dave, Curt and Mike, they are very much appreciated.

Larry, Dave is right, except for the front edge the board ends all ends on a joist.

[Pennman]

Ron,

Sorry, I've been absent. Everything looks really good.
Nice color on boards, and that's really busy work putting them all on.
Nice work.

Rich

[Rick]

Ron, dock looks great!

[elwoodblues]

Ron,

Sorry, I've been absent. Everything looks really good.
Nice color on boards, and that's really busy work putting them all on.
Nice work.

Rich

Thanks Rich,

only took 3 sessions at the bench to complete it.

[elwoodblues]

Ron, dock looks great!

Thanks Rick, hopefully I'll have another update today.

[elwoodblues]

More progress on the build to report.




As stated previously I had already built the 4 walls for the tool shed probably 15 years ago, before I started traveling for work.  Don't ask me how I finished the boards as I'm getting old and my memory isn't as good as it used to be.  The good news is that I stained all the wood in the kit.





When I assemble buildings I start by gluing the walls together in 2 "L's".  Over time the walls had warped So I added some stiffeners along the top.  They were stained a dark brown so that they will be pretty much invisible once the building is completed.





The 2 "L's" glued together.





The building glued together.  Once the glue dried and the clamps removed I noticed the ends had a slight warped too so I added some bracing to remove the warpage at the top.  I also noticed that the Doors are missing, which I assume that will show up once the build is finished.  In the meantime I'll scratchbuild new doors from the remaining stained wood from the kit. 

[elwoodblues]

The next step is to construct the roof.  But before I start I need to decide whether I want to leave the doors open with a detailed interior or not.  In the meantime I'm making the roof removable.







First first step is to cut the end rafters and rafter tails.





Once the end rafters were glued in place I glued the 2 end rafter tails in place.  Once this was done I cut a piece of styrene and taped it in place, this let me line up the remaining rafter tails.  Once the first side done the procedure was repeated on the second side.





The rafter tails installed.





The roof installed on the building.  The fit is seamless. 

Next up is making the doors while I figure out if I want to do an interior or not.

Thanks for looking in.

[Jerry]

Ron it looks great.  Nice save on the walls be warped.  
Coloring and the missing boards show a used building.

One question should that one window be so it swings out instead of in?

Jerry

[Rick]

Ron, you could have left those walls outside for 15 years and they would have aged naturally.   
Wall colors are very good and nice job fixing the warps and getting the walls together.

[Michael Hohn]

Nice job, Ron.  Just enough variety in shades among the boards.

[PRR Modeler]

Ron it looks great great so far.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking good, Ron.

Perfect rafter tails and fly rafters.

Cheers, Mark.

[elwoodblues]

Ron it looks great.  Nice save on the walls be warped. 
Coloring and the missing boards show a used building.

One question should that one window be so it swings out instead of in?

Jerry

Thanks for the comments Jerry.

You are probably right about the window, that it should open out, but I remember growing up that one of the camps on my grandmother property had windows that opened inwards.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.   

The actual reason is that the window frame was built so that the widow mounts inside the frame so the only way to open the window is to the inside. 

[elwoodblues]

Ron, you could have left those walls outside for 15 years and they would have aged naturally.   
Wall colors are very good and nice job fixing the warps and getting the walls together.

Thanks for the comment Rick.

Your right Rick, If I had the foresight to think well into the future, I might have left the walls outside to age naturally.