2026-2026 Winter Challange - OVL Co. Maintenance Buildings

[elwoodblues]

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

Thanks for the comment Mike.

[elwoodblues]

Ron it looks great great so far.

Thanks Curt, your comment is very much appreciate.

[elwoodblues]

Looking good, Ron.

Perfect rafter tails and fly rafters.

Cheers, Mark.

Thanks Mark,

With the jigs that Brett made for the kit it was an easy process cutting them to size.

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron,

Nice work on the siding.  The colors look great. Rafter tails add a lot of character to a structure, and your application looks terrific.

Have fun,
mike  

[Philip]

The deck and bldg are looking great!

[elwoodblues]

Howdy Ron,

Nice work on the siding.  The colors look great. Rafter tails add a lot of character to a structure, and your application looks terrific.

Have fun,
mike 

Thanks for the kind words Mike.  I agree that the rafter tails add a lot of character to a structure. 

[elwoodblues]

The deck and bldg are looking great!

Thanks Philip, your comment is much appreciated.

[Larry C]

Ron nice closing on the walls. You assemble buildings the way I do and they come out nice and square. Nice trick for doing rafter tails; I may have to borrow that idea since I hate doing those.

[ACL1504]

Ron,

Very well done. I really like the individual board coloring. Coming along nicely.

Tom

[elwoodblues]

Ron nice closing on the walls. You assemble buildings the way I do and they come out nice and square. Nice trick for doing rafter tails; I may have to borrow that idea since I hate doing those.

Larry, thanks for the comment and you cab borrow the rafter tail trick anytime.  I tend to add rafter tails that when I want to make the roof removable. 

[elwoodblues]

Ron,

Very well done. I really like the individual board coloring. Coming along nicely.

Tom

Thanks Tom,  I have to figure out what I did 15 years ago when I started building the kit how I coloured the boards as I have 2 more kits that are part of the diorama and I need the colouring to match and/or be complementary.

[elwoodblues]

Another weekend, another update.........

As mentioned in an earlier post, I seems that I misplaced the doors for the kit   , so the only option is to scratchbuild them.





There are 2 doors required for the kit, a double door at the front and the single door at the side.  because these are simple items, I drew the doors on graph paper, tape the graph paper to the workbench and then tape wax paper over that.





Next step was to tape down a square down to keep everything square.





after cutting the boards to size I used another square to hold the boards in line.  I used scale 1" x 3" pre-stained strips that were leftover from a previous project.  The stained pieces closely match the building so I'm calling it a win.  





Additional 1" x 3" piece cut closely to length and glued to the top and bottom of the doors.  Once the glue dried the doors was flipped over and additional 1" x 3" pieces was glued to the top and bottom.  Once this was dried the top and bottom were trimmed to size and then cut into 2 doors.

[elwoodblues]

The double doors for the front of the building.





Using the same steps above the side door was constructed.





The final touch was to add door handles which were bent using .015 brass wire.  Once formed the door handles were blackened.

Now the doors are ready to be installed.

[elwoodblues]

While waiting for glue to dry making the doors I did a little more work on the roof.



I added a ridge pole to help support the roof.  I added 2 "rafters" in the middle of the roof.  Seeing as I'm planning to add lighting (will be soft yellow light as the light source will be kerosene lamps) the "rafter" will give me a route to run the wiring. 





The other item accomplished was to add blocks to the underside of the roof to align it when installed.  I tend to make the roofs removable on the buildings I build,  This allows for detailing the interiors and to change the lighting if they burn out and need to be change.  This was a requirement before LED's became commonplace.

Next up, adding tar  paper to the roof.  That should be fun.

Thanks for looking in.