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 Posted - November 12 2013 : 10:51:09 AM
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This is a Model Power "Small Freight Station". Not a Tyco, though I do like some of the Tyco ones, but needed something smaller for my rather tiny layout. It proved to be a relatively easy model to bring out some detail on.
One of the first things I did was to make a different foundation to reduce the size of the footprint some; a piece of wood with a little cardboard glued on to bring it to the right height.
The platforms were made from folded cardboard covered with scale lumber and then the wood was stained.
I thought I'd add the detail of a pot bellied stove inside, and I did put it inside, but for all that, you can't see it.
The double doors were easy to cut in half with a razor saw and then mount as if they were opened.
The roof looked like it was covered with tiles which didn't seem right for the materials used on stations in the steam era in this neighborhood. I used paper "wood shingles" and then stained them. I shaved the tile detail from the peak of the roof and then added a strip to look like flashing covering the seam. I found in glazing the windows that just a couple smidges of Elmer's glue will hold them and actually disappears pretty well.
A while back I had purchased a bulk package of Model Power unpainted figures. At the time, I was disappointed that some of them didn't seem to scale and it seemed that few of them would fit the "Victorian steam era", but a little knife and paint work and maybe they'll pass from a distance.
 /tyco] 
I want to go back and change the evestrough a bit; not sure why they made the bottom of the pipes a larger diameter, but I want to change that so it's just one diameter pipe. I think the roof pitch is less steep than typical Victorian era buildings, but it will work for now. I ended up getting these pictures out of sequence, but you get the idea.
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 1:57:45 PM
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quote:| I want to go back and change the evestrough a bit; not sure why they made the bottom of the pipes a larger diameter, but I want to change that so it's just one diameter pipe. Originally posted by Barry - November 12 2013 : 10:51:09 AM
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I have seen downspouts come down into a sort of clay field tile that carries the water away underground, but only rarely. That appears to be what the kit downspouts depict. Given how atypical that is, it would look and feel more natural just to have the usual kind that dumps the water on the ground, so your plan to make it just one diameter is a good one.
I really like how you built that kit. To my eye it looks more natural, therefore more convincing, than the original concept of the kit.
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 8:40:30 PM
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Tyco Pizza Hut... Yes, Ben... I have the sign, it's in another bag with the other signs...
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 8:57:50 PM
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koool Walt I needs to find one at the train show 
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 Posted - November 12 2013 : 10:35:53 PM
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Great job on the station Barry! I like how much custom work you did on it. I'm in the middle of assembling an N scale station at the moment. Aside from a scratchbuilt platform, custom paint work is about as far as I'm going with it. Maybe I'll add an interior later on. 
Also, what was your method for painting the figures? They look pretty real! 
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 11:42:19 PM
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| Thanks for the comments. It amazes me how much detail gets packed into the N scale items. I fumble around trying to put an interior in an HO scale item . . . and that's with a magnifying lamp. Which is how I painted the figures. A tip I've gotten, but haven't truly tried yet is to thin the paint a great deal and use various "washes". So far, because I haven't thinned the paint enough, my "washes" are essentially to go back and touch up where I "colored outside the lines". I tried to keep the flesh tone thinner this time, but it could have been thinner yet. And I need a greater variation in tones; guess you need to be a makeup artist as well. My daughter use to have this boyfriend who would spend hours painting "miniatures" (e.g., dragons, weird lizard warriors and such) and they would look incredible. No brush marks. No thick paint. An almost photographic transition of hues. I'm certainly not there, but I don't see much of that in any model railroad photos. Yeah, Shaggy, I need to wack those downspouts off and the shame of it is, I cleared off the dining room table and carried the station upstairs and set it on the layout . . . another side-track.
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Posted - November 13 2013 : 11:04:42 AM
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| hi barry great work,love that roof,ken
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 12:14:57 PM
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My BOTW:
I picked up yesterday a set of 21 various kit built structures. Most seem to be of the Canpbell quality or better:
Sean
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 1:03:09 PM
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quote:This is a Model Power "Small Freight Station". Not a Tyco, though I do like some of the Tyco ones, but needed something smaller for my rather tiny layout. It proved to be a relatively easy model to bring out some detail on.
One of the first things I did was to make a different foundation to reduce the size of the footprint some; a piece of wood with a little cardboard glued on to bring it to the right height.
The platforms were made from folded cardboard covered with scale lumber and then the wood was stained.
I thought I'd add the detail of a pot bellied stove inside, and I did put it inside, but for all that, you can't see it.
The double doors were easy to cut in half with a razor saw and then mount as if they were opened.
The roof looked like it was covered with tiles which didn't seem right for the materials used on stations in the steam era in this neighborhood. I used paper "wood shingles" and then stained them. I shaved the tile detail from the peak of the roof and then added a strip to look like flashing covering the seam. I found in glazing the windows that just a couple smidges of Elmer's glue will hold them and actually disappears pretty well.
A while back I had purchased a bulk package of Model Power unpainted figures. At the time, I was disappointed that some of them didn't seem to scale and it seemed that few of them would fit the "Victorian steam era", but a little knife and paint work and maybe they'll pass from a distance.
/tyco]
I want to go back and change the evestrough a bit; not sure why they made the bottom of the pipes a larger diameter, but I want to change that so it's just one diameter pipe. I think the roof pitch is less steep than typical Victorian era buildings, but it will work for now. I ended up getting these pictures out of sequence, but you get the idea.
Originally posted by Barry - November 12 2013 : 10:51:09 AM
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Barry,
Damn nice work on that Model Power station!!!!! Impressive what can be done if thought a bout a bit before "engaging" into it........
~John
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Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 7:26:35 PM
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| sean,love those cambell kits,more so the interior details,ken
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 9:28:54 PM
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Ken, Sean, yes, I have to say, those old Campbell kits AND FSM kits are AWESOME..... I have a loto f the interior details and working on getting more as FSM isn't all that far from me in Peabody, Mass......And working on getting down to pay George a visit! I have sought after seeing his Franklin & South Manchester, since, it was in MR's Great Model Railroads in I think 1992!
Been told he selling off "left overs" of interior details by the bag full for $5. I'll be coming home with a bunch! IF that's the case!
~John
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