Pipes & Paint

Just needed to add paint and pipes to finish up the Fireball Distillery.

I used a gray/gold blend for the exterior paint with blue trim.  

I painted the distillery tank blue as well - leaving the pipes made from sprues in their original gray.  After adding some signage the distillery was done.

To totally complete the scene later on I'll add a truck and trailer and a couple of figures on their smoke break in front of the office.  

In no particular order, the pics:

And the front view of the finished product:

Next time:  Bridge Approach

Fireball!

Back to the north end of the layout and the continuation of construction on the Fireball Distillery.

After relocating the road between the building and the cliff face, I also needed to make room for the distillation tank.  The tank is located in the V formed by the siding and the mainline.

In this phase, I've used a Life Like Mount Vernon manufacturing plant - customized to the shape of the site - for the distillery main building.  There is a small office attached to the front - with the loading dock between the office and the road.

The distillation tank - to be connected to the main building with overhead piping - completes the facility.

Next time:  Pipes & Paint

Passenger Station Wrap Up

With site prep complete up at the Fireball Distillery I moved back to the south side of the bay to finish up the passenger station.

At the end of the last session of work the building was done - but platforms, the clock tower and detail work needed to be finished.

First up, I built the clock tower from scrap styrene:

The next step was to put in the passenger platform supports and roofs

And finally, adding passengers, signs and other details to round out the scene

With that, the passenger station is now complete.

Next time:  Fireball!

Fireball Rework

Jumping over to the other side of the bay for a bit to rework the Fireball Distillery property lines.  Have decided to put a narrow, rickety old highway bridge across the bay.  I want the road line to continue from there to the north end of the layout - right in front of the tunnel and across what is now the Fireball property line/factory location.

Steps logged in this set of photos:

1. Remove straight track and replace with a curved section
2. Remove all of the original subfoundation
3. Put in a road subfoundation made of two layers of BBQ skewers
4. Build the road on top of that from styrene
5. Built a ramp down from the road to the loading dock - with a smaller retaining wall between the road and the truck parking lot
6. Take apart the existing factory and test fit the walls to the new property alignment.  The distillery will fill the property line - with the siding going inside the building as before.

Next time:  Passenger Station Wrap Up

Passenger Station Re-Revisited

With site prep complete I moved on to the building itself.

As noted before, the building is a modified Life Like Police Station with roughly 1/5th of the front/rear walls removed so it fits between the siding and the main.  In line with the renaming of the fire station, the passenger station has now been renamed Metallikahmish Bay Station.

The city of Port Pacific will be located on a separate module.

To match up the platform side of the building with the front, I raised the wall on the platform side and added the same detailing as is present on the front wall roof line.

I also cut out a big doorway in the platform side of the building and added freight doors.

The small door/windows on the same side of the building will lead to the Iron Horse Restaurant - an homage to the cafe of the same name that went out of business in Seattle in 2000.

The building was repainted in dark green and gray with white detailing and tan doors.  To add contrast I painted the platform a dark gray.

Finally, I added a clock tower using a wind up Chairman Mao watch I picked up in Hong Kong as the clock.

Fuzhou, China is the sister city of Metallikhamish Bay, and the clock (complete with waving arm) was a gift from Fuzhou in honor of the Metallikahmish Bay Centennial in 2004.

In the wrap up phase I'll mirror the rooftop detail on top of the clock tower, add platform roofs and passengers and mark off the loading zones in front of the building.  Finally, I'll paint up a couple of city busses and a couple of taxicabs to complete the scene.

Photos:

Next Time:  Fireball Rework

Passenger Station Revisited

When I stopped work on the Passenger Station the building was complete save for exterior detailing, side doors and a clock tower for the top.

The building also still needed passenger platforms, benches, passengers, wagons, luggage, etc.

Before I got to that the subfoundation underneath the west platform had to be filled in to reflect a solid concrete slab in the cliff face.

 

On the track side of the building I removed the ballast and plaster cloth between the subfoundation and the track.  I then used styrene to build a paved transition from the subfoundation right up to the outside rail of the track.  The transition was then painted gray.

Next time:  Passenger Station Re-Revisited

Metallikahmish Bay FD : The Rigs

To wrap up the Metallikahmish Bay F.D. I did some final touch up paint and added lights to the roofs.  The last step was to add decals specific to each piece of apparatus.

Here are the vehicles:

Chief 1

Engine 3

Snorkel 65

Marine 1

Engine 5

Rescue 51

Air Unit 2

Truck 5

Engine 51

 Mobile Command 1

Snorkel 67

Engine 67

Truck 3

A few notes: 

*  Engine 3 parks in the 2nd row behind Engine 51 in the north bay.

*  Mobile Command Unit 1 parks in the 2nd row behind Engine 67 - also in the north bay.

*  Marine Unit 1 and Engine 5 are parked outside on the north side of the building.

*  Rescue 51 parks in front of Snorkel 67's bay as it is currently listed as a reserve or 3rd alarm unit.

*  The Chief parks on the end of the building between the north and south bays so as not to impede units leaving from either bay.

*  Air Unit 2 is based on the roof.  Also on the roof, both the pilot and copilot/EMT have come out of the double doors and are walking quickly to the helicopter for a call.

Finally, some photos of the station with the rigs parked and a train on the Canadian Pacific viaduct across the street.  

The Metallikhamish Bay Fire Department is now complete and ready to respond to emergencies big and small.

Next time:  Passenger Station Revisited