The Carolina Sandhills Lines in HO Scale

[davefoxx]

I finally found a spray bomb of matte white paint, so the base color is applied.  Once the white paint has cured and I can safely mask it, I’ll spray a dark gray on the roof for the undercoat of the roof shingle decals and a dark green for the doors and for the brickwork below the windowsills.





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[Philip H]

The Ghost of Stations Past

[davefoxx]

The Ghost of Stations Past

Hahahahaha!  Hopefully, that will be rectified soon.  I bought some dark green and dark gray spray paint yesterday.  And, "Yippee!," I found my Tamiya masking tape last night.  If I can locate the left over decal paper for printing decals, I should have everything I need to finish the station.

Total cost now stands at $53.24 ($38.30 (including $9.95 shipping) for DPM windows and doors from MBK plus three cans of spray paint at $4.98 each from the local home center).  Everything else was scrounged out of my parts box.

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[eja]

Total cost now stands at $53.24 ($38.30 (including $9.95 shipping) for DPM windows and doors from MBK plus three cans of spray paint at $4.98 each from the local home center).  Everything else was scrounged out of my parts box.

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Not to mention all that "free" labour involved.

[glakedylan]

those photos really capture the scene and bring it to life
the 3d view of track and structures in the photos really jump of the page
excellent work, barister, excellent work!

G

[davefoxx]

A base coat of a dark gray paint and a clear gloss coat have been applied to the roof.  This is prep work for the decals that I’ll make for the asphalt shingle roof.  The masking of the gray paint isn’t perfect, but I don’t anticipate that to be a problem.  The color is only there to back up the decals that won’t be completely opaque.  When I built the N scale station, I applied the decal roofing over light gray paint, and the shingles came out too light.



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[davefoxx]

I did a LOT of masking on the north end of the station to try the dark green paint, and I’ll likely do one facade at a time.  This is Rustoleum Hunter Green, which we’ll pretend matches the SAL green applied to its stations.  It’s darker in the photos than to my eye on the actual model.  While some pictures show white doors on the prototype and some show green doors, I’m going with all green doors, as well as below the windows.  It will need minor touch up where the mortar joints and corners leaked.  Not a huge deal; I’m learning as I’m going.





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[Dave V]

That scratchbuild is coming along very nicely!

[davefoxx]

That scratchbuild is coming along very nicely!

Thanks, DV!

[davefoxx]

Paint’s drying, so JFRTM!



Noteworthy is that I cleared the layout of any rolling stock or motive power that was later than very early 1970s.  I’m presently running SCL in the era before marketing schemes such as Family Lines System or Chessie System appeared.  A bonus is my layout is no longer log jammed with freight cars.

Okay, okay, my automobiles are a little anachronistic at present.  “There’s nothing to see here.  Move along.”

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[davefoxx]

I applied the dark green paint to the front facade.  It will need some hand-painted touch ups around the doors and in some of the mortar joints.





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[davefoxx]

While waiting for paint to dry on the station, I started relettering Seaboard Air Line GP9 No. 1900 into Seaboard Coast Line No. 1053, just like the prototype after the merger.  No. 1053 is in the Split Image scheme, which is the old SAL scheme relettered until the engines could get into the paint shop for a full repainting into the SCL scheme, like that of No. 1025:



Obviously, I still have to fix the numberboards.

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[davefoxx]

All right!  The same MicroSol treatment took the white numerals off the numberboards without much damage otherwise.  Now, I can lay down the white background and black numbers without the old “1900” showing through.  Unfortunately, I have the black numbers but not the correct size white background.  Will need to order decals.  Until then:



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[davefoxx]

Oh, and by the way, here is the BEFORE picture:



Now, in the interest of full disclosure, this Geep has been one of those “hell” projects where nothing goes right.  From the beginning discovering all sorts of detailing errors (Athearn advertised these as correct for specific road numbers but, for example,  a winterization hatch on a SAL loco?!) to programming challenges back when I DCCed it to replacing parts when I dropped it, now the latest challenge is what I believe is a bad motor.

The real reason I even attempted destroying another decorated shell was because this GP9 suddenly started running poorly several weeks ago.  It stalled, but the sound didn’t cut out.  Then, after spinning over the motor, it ran again, but would sputter and hesitate.  Again, the sound wouldn’t cut out.  I could also smell that ozone odor, so I’ll try to replace the motor.  Last night, I discovered that a LHS has the Genesis motor in stock, so I’ll give that a shot.

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[davefoxx]

Decals are applied to the numberboards on the short hood:





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