Thought I would give an update since I have actually been working on something. This is a kit that I actually bought at Caboose Hobbies in Denver when we lived there. Up until about three days ago it has been four scale wood walls. I think I cut out the walls and glued them together about 10 years ago. It has a ways to go still before it is finished, but it is starting to look like something.
The original kit was just a generic little country station. I had the idea of turning it into a Texaco. The graphics on the two signs are ones that were done on the computer. You can sort of see in the box illustration that there was no lean to on the right hand side and that they positioned the workbench towards the front of the building. I moved the bench to the rear and added a Coke machine. The lean to frame will get a corrugated tin roof once I have the groundwork and details in that area completed.
There will be all kinds of details on this side of the building as well and I have a bunch of computer generated artwork to put on the building wall. The bicycle is a metal pre-painted casting.
This tractor came in a set of John Deere 1/48th scale tractors that I picked up somewhere. It was way too shiny and new looking, so I have "grunged" it up a bit.
Still want to do a little more to it.
Still want to do a little more to it.
Here's a portion of the space that will become my ten foot "point-to-point" layout eventually. Right now it is where I am keeping my test track, rolling stock and supplies.
The engine and passenger cars are a set that I bought at the hobby store probably about 15 years ago. They are made by Bachmann. The small diesel engine and cars in the foreground are scratchbuilt. The engine was built on top of an HO mechanism and the cars are all created from scale strip and sheet wood and commercially available castings for details. The caboose actually has an interior.
I have a couple of styrene jigs that I created to help me form the car frames. I have one for a 22 foot frame (like the cars in the picture above) and a smaller 14 ft. frame.
As you can see here I have couple of 22 ft. box cars started as well as flat car. I also have frames to make a stock car and a refrigerator car. The two smaller cars on the left and the14 ft. frames are intended for some MOW (maintenance of way) rolling stock.
As you can see here I have couple of 22 ft. box cars started as well as flat car. I also have frames to make a stock car and a refrigerator car. The two smaller cars on the left and the14 ft. frames are intended for some MOW (maintenance of way) rolling stock.
Once I build all these cars, I will probably be done scratchbuilding rolling stock. For one thing, the layout doesn't demand a ton of rolling stock because of it's size, but I also have some ready-to-run Bachmann cars. Below is a "ready-to-plant" finished structure from Woodland Scenics. The design is an O Scale version of a small backwoods station that they sold years ago. The original kit was made up of white metal castings. The footprint of the platform base is actually a little big for my layout, so I intend to remove the station from the platform and build a new one that will be more in keeping with my layout design.
Well, that is about all for this update. Hope you enjoyed! - PM