East
CP section house Full size for HO scale: 3.5mm = 1’-0”; 1:87.1 Drawn by Ken Lawrence from author’s drawings
dows. Surprisingly, white glue provides a good bond between the plastic muntins and the card sash. The large border surrounding all doors and sash- es is for gluing to the inside walls. Before going any further, it is neces- sary to paint the window sashes and their muntins. I brushed on Floquil Mud to represent a beige color. After painting, glaze the windows by ce- menting clear styrene to the sashes’ backs. (Acetate makes poor glazing.) The doors are both identical, with
Windows and doors Let’s begin construction with the windows and doors. One-ply Strath-
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most exclusively throughout this proj- ect and the few exceptions to this will be dealt with later. Doors and their
each containing openings for a window and two lower panels. Prior to assem- bly it is necessary to paint the doors. The red which has become the stan- dard color for railroad-owned struc- tures on my layout is a mix of two parts Floquil Tuscan with one part of their Tuscan Red. The resultant color is similar to that used by CP on their structures. Next, “rub-stain” the doors and panels, which are both fabricated from one-ply card. This is accomplished using a small piece of cloth saturated with paint. Since this procedure can be messy, I suggest wearing latex gloves, available at most paint stores. Should you wish to achieve a more weathered effect, the paint may be thinned a lit- tle, but in my case it was applied at full strength. At this time, door window sashes and panels may be attached to the pre-painted doors from the inside.
Walls Begin construction by laying out all
four walls end-to-end on a sheet of four-ply Strathmore from the dimen- sions shown in the drawings. Scribe the individual boards with a hobby knife, then chase the cut with a needle held in a pin vise to spread the groove.
Fig. 1
more card is used for fabricating doors and window sashes. Figure 1 illus- trates the method I used for the win- dows which, with the exception of door windows and two windows on the north wall, are double-hung. They are simply cut from the card as two sepa- rate sashes, then overlapped when glued together. I used white glue al-
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smaller, single-hung windows will be handled in a similar manner. The window muntins are among the
few parts of this structure which are not scratchbuilt. For double-hung win- dows and the two smaller windows on the north wall, I cut down Grandt Line No. 5009 twelve-pane windows, and for door windows, Tichy No. 2506 win-
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