2025-2026 Winter Challenge - Feed Mill

[friscomike]

Howdy Mike,

The barn looks great.  Nice work on the paint.  Do you apply shingles before or after you glue on roof cards?

Have fun,
mike

[Michael Hohn]

Howdy Mike,

The barn looks great.  Nice work on the paint.  Do you apply shingles before or after you glue on roof cards?

Have fun,
mike

mike,

Thank you.

I will be making a metal roof (actually, styrene.)  However, when I do shingles or slate, I apply them after the roof cards (subroofing) are glued in place.

Mike

[elwoodblues]

Mike, the weathering looks great, a well used building that still has worth.

[ACL1504]

Mike,

Wow, it looks great and weathered nicely. Great job.

Tom

[Michael Hohn]

Thank you, Ron and Tom.

[Michael Hohn]

One of my favorite steps in scratchbuilding is adding trim along the eaves.  It's fiddly, but gives the model a look of finish far out of proportion to the volume of material.



Meanwhile, I took a rectangular base from an old project, turned it over, made sure it was withing the size allowed, and did some cutting to create a trapezoid.  The odd shape is because of of where it will be joined to my layout.



The lower right corner is still wet.

Over the next few days I will be alternating between adding the roofing and doing scenery.

Thanks for looking in.

Mike

In the photo you can see where I glued down a sheet of 1/8"cork to provide a little relief. The metamorphic rock bookends guarantee the cork edge is flat.  The result with a section of code 70 track:



I shaved the cork down to  make a smooth transition:



I ballasted the track after covering much of the area with actual dirt.  I then added electrostatic grass in a fall color, some Woodland Scenics "Burnt Grass" and a little shrubbery: