It is Sunday and I found this day an excellant chance to get some sun without the 90* plus temps of the last two weeks. I moved my modeling out side.
Working in HO today I finished two Tyco flats into log cars, painted primer red, and the better half came out with some giant pruning shears so I could cut a maple tree sapling from the center of some sort of bush she planteed.
The little tree yeilded several nice log for the cars.
I would as soon kill the bush and grow the tree.
So I am making a structure kit I got on ebay, a Life Like "Hand Car Shed"
A little kit bashing and very modest weathering ( I want at least a couple biulding on the layout to look as though they AREN"T about to fall down.)
I may get two buidings out of this kit.
So I didnt accomplish any great progect but I had a good time and got to enjoy my favorite obsession, that is spraying paint all over the back yard.
On the kit, I painted the roofs green and the other one, it has two structures, red.
Windows and doors green and the building I left yellow and a little weathered with a bit of gray and some of that rubbed off with a paper towle in a downward motion.
I use paint in the cans, Testors and k Mart cheap stuff.I keep about a dozen colors on hand.
Shed for a steam donkey in the works
A lumber shed, I am making lumber for it here.
Later the box car will set on a siding with others being loaded.
I saw a pic of about 1913 of that at tthe WVP&P at Cass, W Va.