Calamity Gets a New RR Station - Part 8

I was able to work in another work session on the Calamity RR station. I scrubbed the exterior walls to peel the paint and started mounting up windows and placing the interior frames. I also modified the exterior doors and the door frames. I seem to have misplaced the freight door so I may have to scratch build one to fit. The freight door is the only frame that I didn't get into place tonight. I have a lot of interior touchup to do and I was not careful enough with my paintwork and managed to stain some of my interior wallpaper, not quite sure how I'm going to deal with that right now. I'm sure I'll come up with something though.

Here are the pictures from tonight's work

The window frame finally in place. I see I'm going to have to do some exterior touch up as well.

The interior frame, definitely needs some extra work before assembly

Peeling the paint on the exterior walls

Windows in place

A modified door in place. I'll need to go back and re-paint the door.

Interior door frames in place

Working on modifying one of the doors

  

Finished walls stacked up. Maybe I can finally start putting stuff together. Still need to think about how to do the roof though.

Calamity Gets a New RR Station - Part 7

Sometimes this build feels like it will never end. I think that's partially because I'm working out a different sequence. Since I'm building essentially finishing the interior before assembly it feels like its taking a lot longer, but that means assembly will really pretty much be the last step in the process beyond a bit more weathering when everything is brought together. I was just thinking that I haven't even started to work on the platform that wraps around the station yet. I might break that out as a separate build. It feels like more progress was done last night because I was actually painting. I'm going to take everything with me to the monthly painting workshop (Dark Matter Games, 2nd Saturday of the month) and see what I can finish over there.
Here are the pictures from last night:

Painting is finished on the windows and I'm starting the peeling process. You can see some of that happening on the windows on the right.

First color is on. Yellow is the main color. This is where the importance of the weathering basecoat can be seen. Good coverage with yellow is difficult, but its working for me because I want it to have a fading color so you can see some of the weathering showing through, an affect that will be accentuated when I start peeling the paint.

Now the green is going on. I'll be trying to get a heavier peeling affect at the bottom edge, where shoes and boots will have thumped against the paint job.

And the white trim going on. I'll have to be sure to scrape it away on sections that need to be glued together. I'll also have to remove some of the wallpaper from the inside. I didn't completely think things through there and I covered up some plastic that should have remained exposed.

As an afterthought, when I did the wallpaper on the inside I decided not to cut out the portions that covered the windows and doors. This helped avoid getting paint on the inside where I didn't want it. Not that it completely helped as some of my weathering base managed to work its way into the inside anyway.

Calamity Gets a New RR Station - Part 4

I had to order the windows and doors I needed online instead of being able to use my regular local source. That's the problem with using S scale parts since the basic demand is low you never know when the restock is going to come in. The online retailer I used "claims" they have the parts in stock but the order has been "in process" since 6/24. So we will see what happens with that. We are going to get to the point where not having these pieces is going to bring construction to a halt. The good news is that the stone sheet that I ordered from Monster Modelworks arrived. The bad news is that I didn't check the thickness and its much to thick to just tack on to the tab that I left on the bottom of each wall. I'll have to cut the tab off and line things up a bit more carefully and I'll have to think about the bottom floor a bit more than I anticipated.

Today's construction revolved around getting the interior started. All the exterior walls have received their wainscoting and chair rails. I can probably start painting that now and then apply the wallpaper. I can move on to building the interior walls, I just have to decide how I'm going to divide the rooms up. 

On to today's construction photos.

Adding the wainscoting and chair rail. Hard to see with the white on white going on 

And the close up doesn't really help much

This is the front door to the waiting room, still to much white on white.

Ah, works better this way. Trackside door.

Adding the detail for the second floor

Again from the trackside, You can see how the second floor will basically be an A-Frame.

The waiting room, interior side, waiting for some paint now.

The Baggage room. I probably didn't need to add the wainscoting since the floor will be raised and you won't be able to see it.

The baggage room, interior side

The trackside wing. I still haven't cut out the windows since I need a third one to create the large window. That's definitely going to hold up construction

Trackside wing, interior.

Front wing, interior. Its interesting to see how the yellow of the stain can is affecting the auto white balance feature.

Front wing, interior

This is the laser cut stone sheet from Monster Modelworks. Looks great, although I managed to ignore that it is an 1/8# thick. I'll have to work out an alternative solution.

Calamity Gets a New RR Station - Part 3

Finally on to Part 3. I spent this time getting the main exterior siding into place. The station is mainly clapboard siding with some more vertical planking on the few spots where the second story is visible along with some board and batten work up in the eaves. Having three different styles of siding is really what attracted me to this station in the first place. I'm really liking how the building is coming along. I tempted to jump right in and starting putting it together but since I do want to have an interior I'll have to do that first. I also have to figure out where I want to cut the building so you can take off the 2nd story to get down to the first story. Originally I was thinking that I would have the second floor just slide out but I think the building is to narrow to make moving miniatures inside comfortable if I do that. I'm still thinking about how to do the roof as well, so lots of things to think about before I can actually do the final assembly.

As always the pictures with a few comments should explain everything that I did, well at least when I remembered to take pictures.

I cut the siding to fit and glued it into place right over the window openings.

I cut the windows out from the backside. Note that the sides of this piece still need to be trimmed a bit.

Here the process is repeated on the freight door side

A construction photo, this is the front of the bay window on the front of the building.

Another in progress photo

Front bay window. The clapboard is in place, windows have been re-cut the vertical planks have trim on both sides.

Door to the waiting room on the front side

Door to the waiting room, trackside

The windows into the freight/baggage room

The sides of the bay windows ready to go

Hard to see in this picture but the upper trim piece has been added to add separation between the clapboards and the vertical planks of the second story.

Second story vertical planks, freight door side

Second story vertical planks, waiting room side

A thinking shot. I need to add the vertical trim strips as well as the board and batten siding at the very top. I didn't want to make a mistake when I added the vertical trim since its a key component of getting everything to line up and provide as solid surface for glueing.

Testing fitting the front elevation. All the vertical edge trim has been added as well as the board and batten siding at the top of the bay window and both ends.

A view from the freight door side. The blank space a the bottom is going to be either a brick or stone foundation, I haven't decided on which type I want to use yet. I'm leaning towards a field stone since Calamity is a mountain town.

And from the waiting room side. The board and batten really shows nicely here as does the vertical trim pieces.