Today, I have made a roof out of styrene with 220 grit sandpaper glued to it, and I painted it with Velspar Blindfold. Here is just a test fit, I have added a few more roof supports. I am also building a partial floor for the center door with roof […]

more work on the warehouse


I have been stagnant for a while, no work on either layout for months, and I got tired of it. Today, I started to build a concrete warehouse, and I plan to model a door open….the question is which one… I am going to place it on the rear of […]

working on Toltec again…



But everything else is coming along nicely. I need to fix that angle on the roofwalk. I have body mounted a pair of beta test Micro Trains scale couplers. The caboose has the long shank couplers. Not only did I have to drill and tap the hole, but I also […]

my masking sucks…


Mineral Red it is! Tomorrow I plan to paint the ends and bay window ends Daylight Orange and the interior zinc primer green….at least one of these will have a solid orange bay windows, since they were delivered that way.  

no more Chessie Yellow….


Over the last few days I have been filling the holes in the roof of the six Model Power bay window cabeese. I used the mounting pins for the roof walks, and filled with contour putty. I used a pair of hobby knives to trim the mounting holes and make […]

Filling holes