This is looking great. I think those bigger poles for the gas pump island look a lot better than the original ones. Great work!
Ok Mike, following this build but I have a question. All these old stations had a name, like Ernie’s DX or like Chip’s Texaco. So do we have Mike’s Shell “Gas and Go”....... inquiring minds want to know.....
Started working on the pumps, only need 2 but did all 4 and I'll pick the best 2 to go on the layout. Might even set up a service pump in the back, who knows. Decals tomorrow (later today actually).
Homing in on it. Inspiration. Please disregard the height of the posts, the tape surrounding the building is throwing it off.
Still a bunch of details to go and some weathering, but here's Brownie's Shell: Thanks for all the comments and support.
Ok, New project, going to finish the Dunn Lumber building for Renton. Here is the prototype: I'm using the Pikestuff office and warehouse kit 541-0007. This won't be precise to the prototype, as I need it to fit a specific location and of course it will be served by rail. I've carved out a large section of the warehouse for open delivery by rail. As such I need to finish the interior walls. A little 010 styrene, a few strikes of the hobby knife and some Starbond CA and it looks like it came this way out of the box. I then cut the concrete floor out of 030 styrene. Before heading out on this nice day to paint the floor, I masked out the perimeter of the building so the Starbond will easily adhere later. I then finished all the interior walls. Here it is with a coat of primer. Tomorrow I'll mask the building for final painting and begin building the racks. Thanks for checking in.
Because you'll be able to see much of the inside of the building, including all the score marks for additional door openings and injection tabs from the mold. I don't want the viewer to see those.
Today's update, I finished all the trim and interior walls. I know I said that yesterday, but that included one interior wall left unfinished because it faces away from the aisle. I decided to trim it out after all. Why leave one wall unfinished? Once done I took the building outside for another coat of primer. I'm going to give it 24 hours to dry. Here's how it sits in its future home. While the building sat, I began trimming the areas around the Kenworth Plant with 1/8 inch cork. This does a couple of things, it provides a uniform surface for the asphalt, and raised the floor of the building above rail height so I can put in ballast and it will resemble sunken track. Tonight I glued it all in place, needless to say it took some creativity: Finally tonight I started fabricating the rack system for the sheet goods and stick lumber that will be inside the warehouse. This is Plastruct styrene. My most recent order was a disaster, more on that another time. A standard 32 ft rack needs 7 uprights. These are connected with lateral braces and cross bracing. That's the next step. Thanks for checking in.
Michael, you missed a spot where you have cans stacked on your layout. Haha, just kidding. I had the same stack up the other day. Joe
A quick update, pulled all the weights and exposed the new Kenworth cork subsurface. Then set up a jig in my magnet gluing device for the lumber racks. Now it's dinner and these get to ferment until later. More soon.
Not too bad. How does the magnet jig in your previous post work? I need to work on my jig-construction techniques.
