RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award........
A minimum of $100 and a Dremel Rotary Tool Kit with a variable-speed Dremel 3000 rotary tool and acces- sories are awarded to the monthly winners of the RMC/DREMEL KITBASHING AWARD. Entries must consist of at least two photos (high-resolution digital pic- tures should be at least 3,000 pixels wide; color slides or 5″×7″ or 8″×10″ prints are also acceptable) and a short text. Models must use at least 50% commercial compo- nents; unused entries may be held future editorial use.
concourse was on the east side of the street. Beginning in the 1950’s passen- ger traffic fell off dramatically and in 1968 the railroads that owned the sta- tion demolished the concourse building to make way for office towers. My HO scale model of Union Station represents half of the interior of the old concourse terminal building and was created using old photographs of the interior as a guide. I did not have any scale plans or blueprints, so I had to es- timate the station’s proportions. I used
The author modeled the heavy stonework, steel columns and massive chandeliers of the old Union Station concourse building (left). This late-1920’s postcard shows the South Riverside Plaza end of the station concourse (above). The author modeled this end of the building using cast stone- work and trusses, along with original kit parts (below). A Tuscan Red PRR observa- tion car awaits passengers on a stub end track alongside one of the station platforms (right). HO scale figures are attached to clear plastic sheets that can be moved if needed. One end of the concourse and parts of the roof are left open to allow visi- tors to view the inside of the building (bot- tom right). Note the working chandeliers.
an HO figure to help me do this. Since most of the original pieces in the kit were too small to correctly capture the look of the station, the kit was modi- fied accordingly. Several pieces with the stone pattern were used to make a tem- plate and mold from which multiple
pieces were cast. The mold making and casting material came from Bragdon Enterprises (
www.bragdonent.com). In most instances, these cast resin pieces were used back-to-back to make the walls, with the window openings cut to size. The doors and the woodwork
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