Just finished the Nail Brothers Salvage

MMR283 May 22, 2022

  1. MMR283

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    Just finished a Baz Models of the Nail Brothers Salvage. A big thanks to Robert Ray for such a wonderful structure. It was a lot of fun putting it together. I used Builders in Scale silver wood on the siding. Brandon chaulks was used for the roof weathering. Ammo paints and Rust pigments are used for the junk pile inside the yard!
     

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  2. JoeS

    JoeS TrainBoard Member

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    Nice job on the kit. It really was a fun one to build. I’m surprised you were able to still find one. Those kits were very well constructed. Easy to build. And they fit any layout.
     
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  3. JoeS

    JoeS TrainBoard Member

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    Oh and I’d like to see more pictures of your layout it looks great!
     
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    I had my layout featured in the Jan/Feb issue 2022 of Ztrack magazine! Lots of photos!
     
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  5. Hardcoaler

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    Dang, that looks great! I love the signage. I'm so looking forward to some kitbuilding on my new N Scale road when the time comes. It's been 25+ years since I've built a structure.
     
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    MMR,
    Nice job on the building! Your layout looks interesting.

    Scott
     
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  7. rray

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    Nail Brothers was one of my favorite kits. Here's the history of the name... In 1971, I started at a new school, Gus C Robertson Jr. High. There was a kid named Lane Nail in my woodshop class there. He was pretty good at cutting and gluing, so I hung around him in class. I asked what his dad did for a living, and he said we own the army surplus store on Washington Blvd.

    I had been there before with my dad looking for wool camping blankets, so I knew the place. It was a white 2 story wood building closer to the train tracks in the Irvington 5 Corners area of old brick shops, diagonal the tracks from the pickle factory. Very interesting old structures were still there in those days.

    So the next year, in 8th grade, Lane Nail's little brother started 7th grade at Robertson, and his name was Rusty! Huh? Wait Lane Nail, and Rusty Nail? That's funny, if you hammer a nail in, it is a freshly "Lain Nail" If the nail stays in the rain too long it becomes a "Rusty Nail".

    Well, here it was 40 years later, and I am making up funky laser kits that I want to use the laser to pre-age the wood, with broken boards, and knot holes punched out of boards, and I remembered the seedy 5 corners district of Irvington as it was in the 70's, the old Pickle Factory, the Army Surplus store that Lane and Rusty Nail's dad owned, so I named the kit Nail Brothers Salvage, Lane and Rusty Nail Proprietors, because of their funny names. I actually lived 3 blocks away from 5 corners at the time I made that kit too!
     
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    Very interesting story, and funny at that!
     
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