The Cheltenham granary
I sprayed some rubbing alcohol over it to act as a wetting agent, then applied diluted white glue and water using an eye-dropper in the classic track bal- lasting way. When dry, I was delighted to find that the plaster was secured solidly and that it also retained its grit- ty texture, which added to the charac- ter of the finished wall.
I finished each foundation wall by building the windows in place using pre-stained stripwood and microscope slide cover glass. (Obviously, the board- ed over windows do not have glass.) Some scribed wood siding produced a door, while a short length of flat brass bar stock was bent to create a handle. With each wall detailed, it was time to assemble the foundation. I wanted something that wouldn’t nick into the wood, so I put a thin smear of No More Nails® construction adhesive on the top of each foundation subassembly, then attached a side wall foundation piece under the corresponding wooden wall, adding bracing as needed on the inside of the structure. I then added the two end walls and finished with the other side wall. Bracing in the corners kept everything square.
This assembly technique resulted in recessed corners, so I applied another smear of No More Nails in each corner and added stones to fill them out. When dry, I carefully added dry plaster to one corner, then worked it in with the toothbrush while being careful to bury the styrene dams. I wet the corner with a spray bottle of alcohol (protecting the wood while doing this) and added a few drops of diluted white glue to the plas- ter. When dry, I repeated the process for each of the other corners.
Metal and tarpaper The rest of the construction is pretty
conventional, so I won’t go into great detail. I cut two triangles from sheet styrene for the peaked ends, 30 feet wide with a 10-foot peak. After cutting some S scale corrugated siding from Builders In Scale into 27″-wide strips, I attached them to the styrene with medium-thickness cyanoacrylate ce- ment. A wash of india ink and rubbing alcohol were used to dull the panels, and, after this was dry, weathering powders were applied for a rusty effect. At this time, a scrap of corrugated sheet stock was rusted up and added behind the loading chute opening to finish the trackside wall, while the fin- ished gables were added to the end walls with No More Nails and substan- tial styrene bracing.
I cut a pair of roof panels from .010″ styrene sheet, painted the edges and overhangs black, and glued these in place on the model. I built up the ele- 60
The peaks were made of styrene sheet clad with corrugated metal panels and glued to the tops of the end walls using No More Nails®. Styrene splice plates the gable end glue joints.
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Stones were glued into the corners and more plaster was applied, wetted and given the diluted white glue treatment. Some wood and styrene bracing can be seen inside.
vator equipment housing from .060″ styrene sheet for the walls with .010″ styrene sheet for the roof. It measures five feet in each direction and is clad with wood veneer (to represent ply- wood panels) and more corrugated sheet stock. I glued this to the roof in line with the chute opening on the trackside wall. Some stripwood painted
black finished the roof ends. Masking tape cut into strips 36″ wide by 30 feet long was applied with cyano- acrylate cement to create the tarpaper roof, which was then brush painted black and weathered using powers. With that, this distinctive granary is ready for my S scale module. Or maybe a new S scale layout?
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