Fixer Upper Part 3

I have finished it up.  I have added the chimney and the exterior staircase.  The stares and railings are Central Valley products.  The rest is just sheet and strip styrene.  It really helps New Havenize the scene.  I am also working on the Thermos building as well as figuring out what to use as ballast.  I discovered my cheap source of material has magnetic bits, and that is bad as it can get into motors and such.

Fixer Upper Part 2

I was able to get a new cast resin roof from the Hobby Gallery and I painted it using craft paint and then weathered it with pan pastels.  I repainted the brick on the tower box car red, the wood trim, widows and doors Pullman green and the cement weathered concrete.  I painted the interior a dark gray to town it down from the white.  For mortar I uses DAP fast and final spackle.  I heard about using this on the Mike and Scotty Pod cast.  I have a bit of touch up to do, add a some details and build the exterior stair case.  New kits are still available from the Hobby Gallery.

Bridging the Gap

I need to pick up  new roof for my tower as the current one is missing a big chunk out of  corner.  Steve from Hobby Gallery will have one at the Springfield show, so I do not have to wait long.  In the mean time, I have constructed a Rix concrete overpass to continue the road on the upper area of Norwich If that area looks familiar, it is John Pryke's South Boston from the large layout he had in Acton MA. I built the bridge bet the instructions and the base coat of paint is Krylon Camo Khaki.  It still needs to be permanently placed and weathered.  I still have more work to do in the area, so I will wait to permanently place it.

Fixer Upper

Like the popular HGTV show, it is possible to get an inexpensive, or in this case free, building and make it into a nice looking model.  I was given this built, but in need of TLC, tower a few years ago.  I have just started the process of upgrading it.  I started by removing the upper set of window castings on the end of the tower.  To get them to fit the kit, the had been put in at an angle and did not look so good, replaced the upper sill with thinner styrene and now the window fit.  I need to replace to roof and upgrade the paint.

The upper front windows fit fine and did not need reworking.

Here is one end with the upper windows reworked.  The

casting has a decent size crack, not a huge issue in the brick,

but the door will need a bit of a patch 

I have a couple of Branchline laser kits that need some rework as well.  More diamonds in the rough.