Someone turned on the lights

 Got the lighting done inside, would be cool to make some welding lighting eventually.

Construction Equipment weathering

Due to the Barrie train show I now have three Norscot made Catapillar models, though they say they are n scale I would put them more at 1/144 with the excavator being the closest to scale. When I got them they had that diecast toy car look all shiny and clean, needing serious weathering.  Sadly they are missing the glass to the windows which if you look at the 906 below makes the cab look incomplete. Another issue is all the filled in sections around the armatures and implements that needed drilling out and some cylinders that aren't attached to the arms they are controlling like on the 315 excavator. For the weathering I used washes of black and brown craft paints, after saturating the model I would let it sit till almost dry then wipe off the most of the paint, this would allow for it to get into the tight comfined spaces to help bring out the depth. After that I would dry brush in light rusty and dusty colors to really make the model stand out.

A busy weekend

Mar 2013 Finally catching up on this blog, its been a busy weekend on the layout, march break is starting and I have some free time from college, started by adding a tree fort and swing set then moved on to extending the stream across to the other side of the layout and finished up with building the interior to the heavy equipment shop. So here we go...

 I used the small shed that came with the house to start with then added some bits, the swing was a pain in the ass to put together.

More stream making

 mmmmm toxic nastiesness effect, looking good. This is from the polyurethane melting the ground foam looks like oil leaching.

I'am currently enrolled in a heavy equipment apprentice training course so I have been wanting to make a model of a shop for a while now. So first thing to do was take out the garage doors and build a wall splitting the shop from the office. Then build some internal I beam structure with a shop crane and garage door rollers, followed by the toolboxes and some tools.

 Painted with some details added

 Test fit with the 315 excavator

 starting the milling machine

 Eventually I'll add some internal lighting

 I removed the lower roof for a better view inside.

A little light

Feb 2013-  Ive had lights on the layout for a long time now, but rarely ever have them on. Inside some of the building I have little 12volt grain of wheat bulbs and the street lamps are from busch all powered in parallel off a used 14volt power transformer. Thankfully I havent had any issues of melting plastic but I still have work to do in this department filling holes in and under in the buildings where light can be seen coming through and painting the back drop inside the buildings.