This board has been too quiet lately...did everyone freeze to death or something? Well, the reason this thread is titled how it is titled is because this evening I finished work on Arrowhead's Convenience Store, and with some "borrowed" graphics off the 7-Eleven Corporate web page, I now have a 7-Eleven for the residents of Augsburg to visit. Pictures will follow, once it thaws out enough to go get film...Wednesday night we got to -18 and highs have been near zero. Heat wave this weekend, might get all the way to +10. WOW.... Jeff Augsburg & Concord R.R. (a fictional shortline in Central Illinois) http://www.pegnsean.net/~revnjeff [ 25. January 2003, 04:36: Message edited by: RevnJeff ]
I'm working on an Atlas Roundhouse to replace my Walthers Roundhouse with. I like the fine lacy look of the Atlas one and it has a more Northern Pacific look to it. One thing missing... they forgot to include the chimney's so I had to make some out of scrap styrene. I found a neat trick to make the bricks look real, I painted the brick walls with Woodland Scenics Concrete Road paint, thinned 50/50 with water, and when it dried I sanded the walls with a 320 grit foamback sanding sheet. Then I just blew the dust off and the mortar looked fantastic. At the same time as this project, is the reworking of my turntable to look more N.P. prototype. I painted it black instead of silver, and put a wood deck on it. I still have to solder up some brass wire handrails as well as put the TT Operator,s cab back on. To finish off that module, I replaced all the Atlas code80 track with Peco code55, and I parked a mess of those Classic Metal Models cars out front to look like their was somebody home. Pictures this weekend, weather I'm finished or not!
