Horwood Brothers Gas, Oil and Service - Rail Scale Miniatures.

[ACL1504]

When bracing the service bay building (middle structure), the bracing crosses four doors.

The bracing doesn't affect the doors fitting in the the openings but, I still wanted to remove the bracing from the door openings.

I cut a brace to fit, placed it on the rear and then marked where the bracing crossed the opening.

[ACL1504]

Yeah, I've had to trim mis-placed bracing a few times, including on the farmhouse.  You're making good progress.  Good luck at the Dr this afternoon!

dave

Dave,

Yea, "snit happens" and I appreciate the well wishes. All will be fine and I'll have my laptop in bed this afternoon.

Tom

[ACL1504]

I removed the brace and used a single edge razor blade to cut down vertically to the horizontal mark.

I then used a #17 Xacto blade and removed the horizontal portion of the marked area.



The brace is now ready to be glued in place.

[ACL1504]

The brace was then glued in place per the diagram template.



Done for this week, see ya'll on Saturday or Sunday.

[Zephyrus52246]

I don't believe I've ever built a kit where I didn't have to remove some of the bracing, usually due to my error.  You're making great progress.  Good luck with the surgery/recovery.

Jeff

[elwoodblues]

Tom,

Some more great progress on the build.  Like Jeff I've had to remove/modify bracing I've installed, also mostly due to my error.

[Jerry]

Tom good luck with the surgery today.

Anyone else would have left that alone but you being the precise builder that you are fixed it.  Nice job.

Jerry

[Yannis]

Wishes for a quick recovery Tom.

[Rick]

Tom, hope you are recuperating well.
Excellent progress and problem solving once again.

[ACL1504]

I don't believe I've ever built a kit where I didn't have to remove some of the bracing, usually due to my error.  You're making great progress.  Good luck with the surgery/recovery.

Jeff

Jeff,

Yea, I've made the same mistake in the past but, this time it was an error in the booklet.

The surgery and recovery is complete with the exception of the suture removal. The hardest part of the surgery was me having to stay in bed with my right ley elevated. I'm an old pro at this now.   Thank you for the well wishes.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,

Some more great progress on the build.  Like Jeff I've had to remove/modify bracing I've installed, also mostly due to my error.

Ron,

Thank you my friend. I think we've all had to remove bracing at one time or another.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom good luck with the surgery today.

Anyone else would have left that alone but you being the precise builder that you are fixed it.  Nice job.

Jerry

Jerry,

Thanks very much. Stuff like that gets to me and I feel the need to fix the fix! 

Tom

[ACL1504]

Wishes for a quick recovery Tom.

Yannis,

Thank you, it went very smoothly.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom, hope you are recuperating well.
Excellent progress and problem solving once again.

Rick,

Thank you for the kind comment. The recovery is now complete and the sutures will be removed next week.

I'm very happy to be back in the train shed and modeling mode.

Tom

[ACL1504]

The next photo shows the service bay with all 7 walls glued in place. The photo was taken from the instruction manual.

There are two interior walls that make up the service bay side walls. In reading ahead, I did notice an error in the instructions. Dario also suggests an order in gluing the walls together. I'll not follow his order and I'll get into that in the next few posts.

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The interior walls of the service bay are painted in two tone colors. This needs to be done prior to gluing the walls together.

Dario makes a suggestion as to how wide the darker bottom color is in the service bay. I just measured my own and drew a pencil line on the walls.

The next photo shows the rear and interior left wall of the service bay.

The interior wall is on the bottom.