Filling In The Gaps At Waterbury.....by Don Janes
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This is an overall view of the new buildings place in the Waterbury scene. |
After spending over three months in Arizona this past winter it was good to get back to some modelling when I got home. Before I left in Dec. I had been working on my Waterbury, VT. scene. Back in the fall I traded a structure kit to George for a small diner that he built from a FOS kit. I really liked the look of it and thought it would look nice on my layout. I also purchased a new FOS kit, Hollis Pest Control. I really liked the lines of the structure and thought it would make a nice addition to the Waterbury scene. It came with signs for an auto repair shop also so I elected to use it as that rather than a pest control business.
Once construction of the building was done I set to work laying out these foreground structures. Since I wanted to make the scale model of the actual Waterbury station be the focal point of the scene I didn't want to hide it with other large structures so I placed these two buildings in the scene so the station would still be highly visible. To date I have the base scenery for the scene finished. The two structures are removable so I will finish the background scenery next as I need to reach over the foreground to complete it and I don't want to damage the foreground buildings. The scene is finally coming together and it has been a lot of fun to work on.
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Here is a street side view of the repair shop. Lots of additional scenery and details still need to be added. |
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The parking area is painted Grimy Black with cracks added to represent fairly new asphalt. That is the Waterbury Station in the background. |
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This view of the structure shows the interesting roof lines and various structural outcroppings. |
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Here is another view of the parking lot. The chain link fence is from Alkem Scale models and is the best scale chain link fence I have ever seen. All the outside lights on this structure are working SMD LED's. |
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These two photos show the neat little Pancake House that George built. The wood fence id from Bar Mills. My three year old grandson loves the pancake shop.
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Thanks for the tip about Alkem chain link fencing. I just installed some Woodland Scenic chain link fencing and am unhappy with it. It will be removed and replaced with the Alkem product. Looks great on your layout!
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