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The station is shaping up very nicely!
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Thanks guys,
I would hate to take a picture of my while shop at once. Its usually a pretty big mess. I usually have about 3 different things going in at once.
I have poured many a gallon of resin at that bench.
Ty
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Hey I forgot to show ya'll.
Have you ever messed up and strip planked the wrong side of a wall... Well i did it... I did not realize it until I started putting it together...
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Well the next thing was was trying to figure out was what I was going to do for roofing.I thought about corrugated roofing. I have the crimper for it. I decided I would try to make some ribbed roofing. I do a lot of vacuum forming. I decided to make a mold to pull my roofing out of plastic..
I too a piece of lite plywood. I started to make groves so I could lay in brass square stock to make the ribs.
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Once i got the grooves made I decided to trying pulling the plastic onto the ply with just the grooves in place ,no brass piece. It turned out out pretty nice.
Once pulled I cut out the sheet.
I then cut the roofing to the correct length and the cut out each section so I could sheet the roof as you would in real life,sorta..
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I was then sheeted the rook and and painted it and gave it a light weathering..
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I next moved to putting the large sliding doors on. Of course I won't make them functional. I got the Doors from Scale Art Models. But I added handles and I needed rollers for the top of the door. So I made 1 roller and then a mold so I could make copies..
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I found out if I were going to simulate the door rollers and add the side roof, I would have to raise the roof by 1/4". That was easily fixed by adding 1/4" wood to the top of the walls..
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Here Is the side roof built and installed. I have not added the supports yet...
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looking really good!!
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Thanks Bill,
Well the next thing I started working on the deck that goes around the Depot. That would have been a lot of planking. So I decide to make up 2 decks and make a mold so I could pour them out of resin.
I made one master 2.5"x 8" and the other 7.5"x 7.75". I added the grain to the wood and also nail holes in the final product. After they were finished I made a mold of each. After about 5 hours I was able to remove the mold and pour some the new decking. Here are a couple pic's..
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Next I made a master set of reinforcements for the bottom of the decks. They were made with molded in wood grain. I did a 8" straight and 2-90 degree parts.
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Once I had my reinforcements made I went back and placed the whole Deck upside down. I then went about placing the reinforcement along the perimeter of the deck. I also used regular wood to tie the joints together.
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Once I had it all connected. Installed the legs. I painted the whole thing with Floquil Earth. The added Rembrandt chalks. I had built a base for the depot with the Foam Board.
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I installed the Chooch Enterprises Flex Stone to the base. I then made a master to use for the stair stringer and made a mold. Once cured I poured several. I made the stringer Long so i could make different size steps in the future.. Once done I figured how tall I needed the steps.
I cut the stringers and applied the steps..
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