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My finished small barn or shed almost ready for a new home on the White River Division |
Last month I picked up this small barn at our local flea market. Not
sure what make it is, but it was a brightly coloured plastic model that
I got for a couple of bucks. The vendor had about a dozen of them and
they were all in with his N scale built up structures. To me it looked
too big for N scale and too small for HO but I got it anyhow.
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The walls are painted. I decided to add a door track and some hinges at that point. The whole project took only a portion of a morning to complete. |
Once home I took a few measurements and decided it could work as a small
HO scale barn or shed. It came with about half a tub of glue all over
the joints and sides...guess someone did not want it to come apart. I
painted the roof Floquil Jade and the walls Tuscan red. The only
addition was a door track and hinges. I used Bragdon powders to weather
and dull it up a bit but it was not sticking well to the roof. I tried a
few more shades of rust and brown but I think I will have to airbrush
some additional weathering over the mix...that will make an interesting
mess. Some PanPastel white is brushed over the walls and roofing. I
added big signs to the ends to hide the glue that missed the joints. I
also added a few smaller signs to the front and back. I think it turned
out pretty good...other than I will have to work on the steel style
roofing. I am thinking of adding a wall stack and put it to work as a
shop outbuilding...George Dutka
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These signs added are copies from my Bar Mills kits. I weathered them up a lot. |
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I did not seem to be able to get the rust powders to stick as well as I would like. Since it is metal roofing it will get a n airbrushing of rust shortly. The Cockshutt spreader sign is a local Ontario product. |
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