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

[Ensign]

Hi Tom, everything your doing is looking wonderful!
When I built my Horwoods, I used a method that used 2 layers when it came to the roofing.
I had fully documented it in my RR Lines forum build, but we all know what sadly happened to all of that stuff.
I wish I still had my Horwoods diorama to show you what I mean, but I sold it to "Little Canada"
However I have since used the same technique on other structures I have built.
So for the first layer you can use styrene or cardstock whatever you choose.
This first layer ends up being the ceiling of the interior.
You can mount all of your LED's to the underside of this layer where you plan on having lighted interiors.
Then feeding all of the magnet wires for those LED's up through that first layer, and then running those wires to the LED distribution board, as shown below in this structure.

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I then add the second layer in this case scribed wood flooring over top of the magnet wires.
In your case it will be the cardstock roofing panels provided in your kit that you have already cut out.
Instead of wooded flooring your upper panel will have the gravel roofing material.
On my Horwoods I glued the first panel with the LED's in place, and left the gravel roof panels loose to allow me access to the interior to allow me to do the final magnet wire hook ups to the distribution board/boards.









This method allowed me to place LED's where I wanted them to be for interior lighting.
Also allowed me to run all of the magnet wires over to the place that I had the distribution board placed.
I cut away the first layer leaving an opening where the distibution board was placed.
The second/top layer hides all of that stuff when you are finished, and it worked reall well for me on my Horwoods in the end.

Greg

[Pennman]

Tom,

It's always a joy to watch the Master at work.

Rich

[KentuckySouthern]

Sure some fine looking modeling being done here. 

 

[ACL1504]

Greg,

Thanks very much for the suggestion. I really like the idea of a second or sub roof. As you said it can hide the wires as well.

Also, gluing the sub roof/ceiling to the kit is also excellent. I'm looking forward to me getting that far.

Thanks very much!

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,

It's always a joy to watch the Master at work.

Rich

Rich,

Thanks for the very kind compliment. I hope it turns out as a Master Piece.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Sure some fine looking modeling being done here. 

 

Karl,

Thank you, very generous comment, much appreciated.

Tom

[ACL1504]

I glued down the sidewalks and used weights to hold them down until the glue dried. I also used the same thickness of strip wood so the weights were level and not sitting at an angle. I wanted the sidewalks flat while drying and didn't want to find them glued and not level.



I wanted a few flowering plants in the triangle of the corner sidewalks.



I didn't have any pink or violet flowers. Here is what I did to make them.

I rubbed a #2 pencil eraser on the layout to get the pink. I used a magic marker to stain some of the pink eraser purple. This is the mix I glued in the flower triangle.

[ACL1504]

I positioned the showroom building where I wanted it and glued the sidewalks in place using the same method as the others.



I glued the two pillars to the gas station canopy. I made sure they were both perpendicular.

[ACL1504]

I then glued the pillar base in place. The weight helps hold the base in place while the glue dries.

[ACL1504]

I'm almost ready to add the stucco to the buildings.

[Rick]

Excellent creativity on adding the colors to the flower bed.
That is one impressive looking building.

[Michael Hohn]

Very nice.  A remarkable model even at this stage of construction.

Mike

[Jerry]

Tom love those flowers and the way you made them.

I didn't realize how big that building was.  Wonderful work and tutorial as usual.

Jerry

[Zephyrus52246]

Lookin' good so far, Tom!  Nice touch with the flowers.  I suspect it'll be awkward trying to stucco and paint the structures in place or are they just set on the diorama? 

Jeff

[ReadingBob]

Creative way to make some different colored flowers!