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Getting the Inside
Been working on little details. Putting together the interior stuff mostly.
We have a living space for the agent and a small office.
The largest portion is for the freight. I found a desk for the freight room and put it in.
Painting all this freight takes some time as does laying out and building furniture.
The extra support in the middle is for a lamp for the freight room.
I will make one like I did for the saloon.
For the interior lighting I am going to try something a little different.
I will get into that when I get there, I am still mulling over it.
The other thing that I did was build it so that I could open and close the freight doors.
I did this only for photography. But it is cool.
I built door guards on the interior so that freight stacked up in there would not hinder the operation.
Got that idea from real life freight houses.
Then, the building was designed with a freight platform awning.
I wanted something a little more interesting.
So I added a walkway cover too. It snows... a lot.
My agent will not have to shovel as much.
So I had a hard time trying to figure the hip out.
I laid it out with paper. Then cut the original awning to the angle that I had figured.
I used some styrene that I had to fill in the original awning and cut the walkway awning from the same.
Then painted them to look like wood.
I was not too worried about detailing the paint as I did on the other parts,
as it will be not as easily seen.
I then glued it to the walls.
Hmmm, my angle was off just a bit, but I glues it up anyway. The cap shingles will cover it up.
As a friend of mine in the trades used to say, "Putty and paint what a carpenter ain't."
Oh, I also added a Grandt chimney. 
I decided that I didn't want a tarpaper roof as what comes with the kit,
so I ordered some shingles for Wild West Models. Cool, very cool colors.
They look mahvahlous. I will have to cut some flashing, then start shingling.
Until next time amigos! 
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We got you covered.
These Wild West shingles are rocking !
Fast, and look how cool they look.
My wife was surprised they were just paper.
She thought that I had cut all the wood and loaded them up myself.
Should have let her continue on the road... what a stud.
Wait, I play with trains, not much studley there I suppose. 
But I love the look of the shingles.
I also finished off the interior, can't see much, so I just gave the illusion of an interior.
I had bought a commercial bed frame to use, but it was WAAAAAAAAY too big,
so I built one that fit.
I scattered some papers on the desk,
and tried to print a photo of the "Reese River Reveille" (Austin's paper),
but it didn't print out so well at all...
I'll have to go back when I find my copy and take another picture and try again.
But there is a bedroom and office for the agent.
I also tried to stuff the freight room with believable freight.
I may have to look for a scale down the road.
The agent checks his watch as a customer looks over his barrel of goods,
that arrived on the morning train.
I am really sorry, I thought I was going to do some new gee whiz lighting on this. 
I had really thought that I would do some fiber optics for the lamps,
but they just didn't seem bright enough,
and I fell back on my old SMD LED lamp trick
(see page 5).
I built another "saloon lamp" for the freight room,
and found some new beads at the craft store.
They kind of looked like straight ahead lamp bases,
and built two table lamps using similar techniques.
The really great lamp is the dock light.
It was a 3D printed lamp at Shapeways. I liked it because it has "the look."
I cut some "glass" for it, painted it, and cut the chimney off the front,
mushroomed a fat piece of fiber optic.
I then drilled a hole in the back through the reflector,
and threaded an SMD through the hole.
Glued the SMD to the font and the fiber optic to the SMD.
Then ran the leads to my other poser supply (a 9v Battery for now)
and hooked them up. Nice... Gotta check for light leaks tonight.
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Steven
I have been catching up reading this thread.
It’s all great.
The building is nicely modelled with the lighting which is a lovely touch.
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To za Koola.
Uh oh! I found a new project.
In researching my ancestry I found that one of my great grandfathers, in Staten Island,
owned a substantial... wait for it.... BREWERY!!!
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So what do you need to do if you are going to ship barrels full of Lager?
A reefer.
So I began a project, was supposed to be easy, to strip lettering and re-letter,
a typical refrigerator to represent a car that he might have owned
(he didn't, but the what if was a cool idea).
If you have even read some of my posts,
you know that NOTHING in my model world is easy.
I am never satisfied with having what everyone else has, mine has to be different.
So this project morphed. I thought...
It needed to represent an 1880s reefer, the brewery began operation in the 1850s.
What if that reefer looked like a Tiffany!
I love the Denver, South Park & Pacific Tiffany reefers,
but I am not near Colorado and EVERYONE loves and has a Tiffany.
I couldn't have one,
but what if it was patterned after those cars with a different paint scheme...
Ok that works, so here we go.
I disassembled the car, which looks like a 1920s reefer,
and found some photos of these reefers.
I could only find photos of the 27' car, but got a drawing of the 26' car,
which is closer to the dimensions of the Bachmann car.
As you can see, the ladders had to go. So do the roof hatches.
Lots of work to do.
I took out my chisel blade and my cheapo whetstone.
Keep the blade sharp to avoid ugly making of the plastic.
I scraped the ladders down carefully then used 0000 steel wool to smooth it all out.
Be very careful that you don't sand down any details that you want to keep.
I then cut between the boards to show the separations,
and had to cut in two new grooves from where the ladder supports were removed.
I used a 90 angle to guide me and SLOWLY lined out the new boards.
I then took the back of the blade and depend and cleaned out the groove.
I also removed the grab irons from the end as the Tiffany cars had no end ladders.
New project, and I'm excited to try and figure out how I am going to letter it.
Stay tuned.
I know I still need to photo the depot,
it has been raining and I want to go outside to do it.
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Hey Si, Thanks!
It was fun to try and keep it minimal.
A challenge for certain and challenges are what makes this all so much fun.
I like the idea of a crane factory... Lots of Junque in, Kewl stuff out.
Breakfast With Tiffanys
In the last post you saw the reefer that I was using,
some kind of 1910-20s Union Line kinda thing, meh, not my style.
Much modification to do to make it 1880s.
I got the ladders and end grabs off and smoothed out.
But wait is that boogers on the car?
I asked around on another forum,
if there was a way to remove the lettering but not the paint.
The answer was GoJo hand cleaner.
I don't know if this is available in the UK or Oz.
But basically it is a "waterless" hand cleaner that is used,
when working on greezzey things in the garage.
Works wonders.
Holy smokes it is great for lettering on Bachmann cars too.
The stuff comes right off after a little time to soak.
I just used my finger to rub it off.
Now the graphics take a little more work, but they do come off.
Just need patience.
Not a whole lot of that here, but I am getting better.
It worked so well on the black lettering,
that I decided to quickly hit one of my next projects, another flat car...
Before...
After....
WOW! Five minutes.
GoJo... Whoda thunk ?!!
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Tiny Bubbles
It has been some time since I posted...
But that doesn't mean that I haven't been doing anything.
Spent a few months trying to come up with some kind of drawing,
and then stumbled upon a bottle that had a logo.
As I mentioned earlier, this is my great, great, great grandfather's brewery.
He came to the US as an infant.
Apparently at its peak it brewed 160,000 barrels of beer a year.
They shoulda had rail service.
Reefers in the 1880s were not common and were in their infancy of design.
Tiffany's patent was in use and the South Park's are the most well known.
So I went with that design. I like it and it is just different enough,
to make me have a unique looking (not Bachmann, even though it is) reefer.
Most reefers in the 1880s were run by private owners, mainly meat companies.
But I'm staying with the most famous Tiffany cars on the South Park narrow gauge.
The Union Pacific owned the DSP&P Railroad in 1881,
and the colors that I chose are Union Pacific's standard 1880 reefer paint scheme.
It is a lime green with dark green ends and lead red frame and roof.
I decided to paint the metal appliances black.
As stated before I had to remove the ladders and carve the details of he wood back in.
Then drill holes for the new grabs and stirrups.
Then I drew out a logo from the label that I found.
And had decals made to fit the spaces on the car.
And this is the layout as I designed it.
There is much more to do on the car.
But I am pleased at how it is progressing.
Next project is to find some good South Park trucks,
probably from Coronado in Arizona. They have everything.
I like where this is going,
I put the "Nawhar" in honor of my Dad who passed this spring.
He called my favorite places "Nowhere, Nevada."
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