Walther's Union Station

[Anonymous]

I am thinking of purchasing a Walther’s Union Station kit, and I was hoping that a few people who have built the kit would be able to give me their opinions on the quality and the detail of the kit, as well as some recommendations for painting and weathering. I greatly appreciate any input.

-Nat Taggart

[Anonymous]

HI, i have just joined and started browsing around, came across your question. I have just finished building the station, but I have not done the decals as yet. The model is great and impressive. Detail is good. I found the parts were clean (except for the sprues of course). The assembly is quite easy, the only fiddly part I found was the pillars. Hope this helps, Happy railroading and have a nice day.

-Mac Wilkinson UK

[Pruitt]

Interesting -

That kit looks a lot like the CB&Q station in Casper Wyoming. I've been playing with the idea of getting one and modifying it.

[dehusman]

Its a model of the CB&Q station at Omaha, NE (currently abandoned).

Dave H.

[davekelly]

I have two of the kits with the idea of bashing them into a larger structure. Right now I'm just playing around with photocopies of the various wall pieces to determine how I'll accompli***his. From my initial inspection of the kits they seem excellent. Hopefully someday I can post a pic of the results.

[Pruitt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dehusman

Its a model of the CB&Q station at Omaha, NE (currently abandoned).

Dave H.

That explains why they're so similar!

[JCasey]

I had a hard time finding one. Every place I tried had them on backorder with no known delivery date. I finally found one through ebay from nickspics. He shipped it on the 29th so I should be seeing it soon. I will let you know what I think later. By the way. it also closely resembles Lackawanna Station in Scranton, PA, which will fit well on my Erie Lackawanna layout I am working on.

[Anonymous]

I built one this past Christmas (2004) in N-Scale. The parts are very clean and straight.
It went together easily. My only assembly suggestions would be the same I would suggest with any structure kit (especially plastic):
1. Assemble the walls FIRST, clean and fill any imperfections in the joints, and then
spray paint it all the final color. This makes the whole thing look much more professional.
Otherwise, you'll see the corner seams and that spoils the realism.

2. Spray the window castings, scrape the paint off the glue points, and put them in.

3. Paint the whole inside black or a dark color. I use Tamiya Gun Metal, which I like better than
black because it's a bizarre gray/black mottled color that darkens the interior without
making it look like a "black hole."

4. Put a black or dark gray "view block" of styrene
or mat board inside, so you can't see right through the whole thing. I like to put it
diagonally across the inside, so you can't see through from any side.

5. Give the whole thing an overspray of DullCote before you put in the window glass.
You can even DullCote it AFTER you put in the glass if you prefer. This will frost the glass,
but that's sometimes a good idea, especially if you aren't detailing the interior
(but painting everything black inside and using the viewblock works well that for that).

It comes molded in reasonable colors, but it will look a lot better if you paint it.
I used Tamiya spray paints. The Testors military colors also work well. Even if you
don't have an airbrush, you can get good results with these because they are atomized
pretty finely. I chose a white-gray concrete looking color, and left the windows a dark gray color.