East Broad Top Locomotive Fueling Station - White Ground Model Works

[deemery]

Many thanks for the compliments.  "Finicky" is an apt description!  Even the basic wood slats required a lot of careful sanding for a "tight, but not too tight, and not too loose, either" fit in the openings.  And then there was the gentle nudging of each board slat to get the angle and spacing eyeball-even.  Lots of fiddling around with tweezers.

Dave, thanks for the tip about ACC on thread!  I used Hobby Express Extra Thick 15-25 sec ACC (a correction from what I wrote earlier), and I'm guessing the ACC you use for making stiff, straight thread is a less viscous, slower drying ACC.

No, the opposite!  I use the very thin stuff so it wicks into the thread and dries immediately, withOUT adding any bulk to the thread.   The thin stuff collects fine in the needle eye 'fork'.  

dave

[VagelK]

Many thanks for the compliments.  "Finicky" is an apt description!  Even the basic wood slats required a lot of careful sanding for a "tight, but not too tight, and not too loose, either" fit in the openings.  And then there was the gentle nudging of each board slat to get the angle and spacing eyeball-even.  Lots of fiddling around with tweezers.

Dave, thanks for the tip about ACC on thread!  I used Hobby Express Extra Thick 15-25 sec ACC (a correction from what I wrote earlier), and I'm guessing the ACC you use for making stiff, straight thread is a less viscous, slower drying ACC.

No, the opposite!  I use the very thin stuff so it wicks into the thread and dries immediately, withOUT adding any bulk to the thread.   The thin stuff collects fine in the needle eye 'fork'. 

dave

Got it. Thanks, again!

[friscomike]

  Howdy Vagel,

The fueling station looks fantastic.  I agree that wire looks best for the gates. They are excellent.

Have fun,
mike

p.s., what's next?

[VagelK]

Howdy Vagel,

The fueling station looks fantastic.  I agree that wire looks best for the gates. They are excellent.

Have fun,
mike

p.s., what's next?

Thanks, Mike!  I'm up in the air on "what's next."  I'm not so sure it meets the standards of this Topic on kit builds, but I have been having fun rehabbing old structures that I picked up over the years at model train shows or from dismantled layouts of old friends now no longer with us. 

Here are before and after shots of a prosaic hip-roofed brick building that has been a place holder at the diesel servicing facility of the Pennsy Motive Power Museum in Chambersburg (ex-PRR Cumberland Valley Branch) on my Path Valley Lines layout (I have extremely poor purchasing discipline for a layout set in the 1930s).  Note:  the sign on the rood is NOT a typo 





There's still a lot of landscaping yet to do.

The next rehab project will involve this well-known industrial structure (I think it was last offered by Concor, but might be mistaken).  It'll be the repair shop for the blast furnace complex at Richmond Furnace, where the PRR and the narrow gauge Blacklog & Shade Gap Eastern meet.  The 3-story building is the blast engine house for the blast furnace, and the fueling station I just finished is to the left of this area, if you recall from the layout tour thread.

[PRR Modeler]

The buildings fit the era you are modeling.

[deemery]

I enjoy seeing plastic kits get refurbished and restored, so keep posting!  It's often a different set of techniques than starting from a fresh kit.

dave

[VagelK]

The buildings fit the era you are modeling.

I enjoy seeing plastic kits get refurbished and restored, so keep posting!  It's often a different set of techniques than starting from a fresh kit.

dave

Thanks, guys.  Dave, I took your advice and started a thread, "Kit-built Structure Rehab - IHC Machine Shop."