Somewhere on the Rio Grande...

Here is some details on the base of building :





Here is the building of the entrance :





An here is the final view : with the name of the building (3mm SLATER) :

 

Here is the same pieces painted :

 

Here is the first face built :

 

WOW !!!!

Such detail...impressive

 

Thank's !

Another picture on witch you can see the sturcture trought the glass :



Here is the complete stucture before putting-together :

 

Very nice. Fantastic. Beyond words.

 

Thank's a lot guys !! :funny:

First i have filled a very little bit the base of each letters (slater's 3mm ones). It is particurarly nessessary for the "O" witch bring every angles but not the one you want LOL ! :teeth:

Secondly i use a plastic strip ( .040"), placed betwen each letter during the few seconds the glue dry, as a spacer and as a set square. After drying i remove the spacer and place it for the next letter. By the same way i use two card of 2mm sticked together (4mm large) to make the spacer betwen the words.

It's take some time to do that, but there is no difficulty and the result is quite good i think.

Here is a view of the structure of the second face. It is a lateral one, so it's have heavy reinforcement crosses like on the prototype.

 

That is simply awesome! I'm assuming you are doing a kind of modern day "if d&rgw still existed?" if not, and you want to stay prototypical google currigan hall... it was around at that time

 

Thank's shifty !

If my Data are correct, merger betwen D&RGW & SP occurs in 1989, and CCC & Ligth rail opened in 1990 . I think a one year distortion is acceptable. Lot's of Rio grande engines keeped theyre scheme during some years after the merger. And i love SP and UP too.
I fall in love at first sight when i saw a video of Light rail comming out of the fantastic CCC underground station. This building have also a wonderfull architecture and blue bear is an emblem of the city. So It was a nice challenge to tempt ! Model railroding is fun!

 

HD Video update ... in (poor) english, but you will seen the shape comming slowly ...

 

This is not a model its a work of art. WOW!

 

Many thank's artic train !!

The lastest pictures of the work of this day :

 

Way to cool !!

 

Simply outstanding. I hope my scratch building will get to your level.

 

Thank's Peter, you are doing a very good job on your layout, your work is very fine to !

Here is the first test in place on the layout : You will see the connection to light rail Bridge, and how the main lin leave the foreground to staging trougth the base of the building.

 

First run of FEF3 on the layout today.

 

Hello all.

Today installation of the first track of the turntable. Here is the first test :



I have modified the look the walthers turntable : Weathering of the pit, painting hand rails and cab, Rio Grande decalcs :