Kit-built Structure Rehab - IHC Machine Shop

[Yannis]

Nice story Vagel, thanks for sharing and great job on the progress for the machine shop!

[ACL1504]

Vagel,

Great thread and love the story. Another shelf orphan save and reconfigured.

Well done..

Tom

[Michael Hohn]

The floor looks good, Vagel.

Mike

[VagelK]

Thanks, so much, for all your encouraging words.  Here's progress so far.

I find I can get ~ 3 sq in's of flooring fitted before the Aleene's loses its adhesion, and that's also about as much as my hand-eye coordination with tweezers can stand before I must run a train or two to relax 🤪. 

But I'm liking the results ... the randomness isn't as obvious as I thought it would be, but there are equal numbers of 2x10 & 2x8, with some 2x6 (and a few 2x4 fillers) in there.  I used 2x12 along the edges and here and there among the others.

This is the result of 4 x 1-hr sessions.  I think this might be pushing the envelope as far as "kit-bashing" goes.

[PRR Modeler]

The flooring really changes the building's look.

[Philip]

Looks great!

[Jerry]

Very nice flooring.  Are you leaving that color or making it darker??

Jerry

[VagelK]

Well, I finished the floor in the Machine Shop wing.



Jerry, I'm going to leave the floor color as is, with some boards showing more grime than others, except in the office (upper, right), where I'm thinking about a painted or stained planking where it's uniform 2x6's.

I experimented with framing the interior side of those flat window castings with 2x4's ... prototypically the framing should be only 1" thick, but I'm not displeased with the outcome.  I lightly sanded the pre-painted wood after framing the window in place to give it some age.



Next step:  painting the brick exterior before re-assembling the walls.  Note that the warping issue is resolved ... I was able to eliminate it by gentle flexing.  Whoopeee!

[PRR Modeler]

Vagel very nice job on the floor.

[elwoodblues]

Vagel,

The floor looks great as does the window trim.

[Jerry]

Great work.  I like how you did the windows also.

Jerry

[VagelK]

Thanks.  Had occasion to spend most of the day in the layout room today ... so was able to get the brick work done on all three exterior walls, using water-soluable artists acrylics. 



Start w/ base coat of dry brushed Barn Red, two passes to get good coverage of the gray primer (mortar).  Then Apple Cider & Crimson dabbed on individual, or small patches of 3-5, bricks.  I use the same fine details brush for both colors, go back and forth between the Apple Cider & Crimson, & don't wait for everything to dry after the dry brushing or when changing changing colors.  It goes pretty fast - the whole job took about 1-1/2 hours.



I had a sign for that big blank space to show you, but I tore it while cutting it from the printer paper, so it'll have wait for a future post.

With time to burn, I looked thru my stockpile of scale lumber & discovered some 1x4's!  So ... I'm gonna frame windows & doors with that & 1x2's razor-trimmed from them here'n'there.  Framed the windows & door on the front wall with them today, and I think you'll agree it's a big improvement on the 2x4 result from the last update.



Couldn't resist a bit of whimsy in that third pic.