I've been doing more structure work on the modules, starting to fill in the city area. The latest is a Downtown Deco N scale Palace Hotel Card Room kit:
This is a deceptively complex project. Since the walls don't have windows cast all the way through, you have to paint the recessed window locations black before anything else, but then you have to paint and weather the walls, which have several different textures, plus add the mortar, and finally paint the Card Room sign using the stencil provided in the kit. Just finishing four simple walls and the roof took a week. Another issue was that the walls don't match dimensionally out of the box, so you have to trim and sand them so they'll fit.
The laser cut windows and doors don't fit the cast openings very well, either, but with everything together, the overall appearance isn't too bad. I still have to add a few more signs and details. I've done a number of Downtown Deco HO kits and have two more HO on order. The N aren't really up to the HO quality.
GATX 45605 is a tank car I kitbashed 40 years ago from three Atlas N beer can tank cars, which was about the only way you could get a longer modern tank car at the time. It still looks pretty good.
The building in the background is a
Trackside Scenery BF-07 building flat to which I've added more depth via foamcore, plus roofing via downloadable texture off the web. I'm slowly adding other details like roof ducts to create a more 3D effect.
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