Making a brick roundhouse into wood

[jwar]

Wondering if any of you have re-sided a Cornerstone roundhous to look like wood siding. If so what did you use ???. Hve seen wood sheeting at a doll house supply and the stryine at the LHS. This project is two monts down the line, just trying to get my ducks in a row>>>

Was going to scrach build a wood roundhouse, however my better half gave me this one for a present. Want it to resemble the wood WP Oroville Roundhouse. I worked there for a number of years and is close enough for a base. Thanks for your reply...John

[GMTRacing]

There is every kind of siding out there. If you want wood, Midwest Products makes clapboard and board and batten in basswood, and Plastruct makes several different styles in styrene. If none of thopse work there have been a bunch of articles over the years on making your own siding out of basswood strips. Hope this helps. J.R.

[ereimer]

interesting idea . you could try just buying one sheet of the 'wood' siding to see if you can add it to the building in a reasonable looking way . i imagine the windows might be a problem , how are you thinking of dealing with them ?

please keep us posted on how it works out . with photos if possible [:)]

[jwar]

GMTRacing. thanks, jotted those down in my to do book.

Eriemer. Im thinking instead of glueing the two sides that make a wall, just using the inner side as it has a ledge for mounting the roof, and the notches on the bottom for the floor, mounting the wood siding to the outer side. I think the windows will work.

If I can find somthing the full wall lenght would be a snap. I will add another sheet of ply over track to rest the roundhouse on, so that corner of my layout wont look to cluttered, Then I will have room under it to make a drop pit and a tunnel for the drop pit to raise wheel sets up to floor level. The unsightley thing is I will have to make a rather steep grade going to three turntable leads. will be a nine track roundhouse with a three track garden.

Im building a 38 in long truss bridge with a road on top of it now, then the Keddie wye bridge's has to be done before the roundhouse.

Thanks for you replys as It gave me food for thought, I think it will work, Take care...John

[dehusman]

If you want to do it right you will need to lose the kit walls and replace the windows. I would suggest Evergreen styrene siding. Are you doing board and batten or clapboard?
I have never seen a wooden roundhouse as large as the Walthers kit.

Anyway, the windows on the brick walls are made to be inset, because brick walls are 8-16 in thick. The windows on a wood wall will be closer to flush with the outside. Use the kit walls as patterns to cut walls out of styrene siding. You can modify the kit windows to sit closer to flush. Brace the inside with plenty of large strip styrene. At strip styrene around the windows for trim work.

Dave H.

[WickhamMan]

Another option might be to use a paper based product to produce the wood look you are looking for. Paper Creek products makes paper siding (pretty cheap) that you could just glue to your existing structure. That would avoid problems with window recession from the existing model. Here is their website.

http://www.papercreek.com/

They have a free download outhouse structure made of wood that you could use to test the process.

Good luck.

EdW

[jwar]

Thanks guys. was thinking about loosing the walls and starting over, great input as I think with all your help I can start gathering parts. I will have to scrach build it.

I cant remember if it was wood and batten or not, geeese, worked there for 6 years, It will come to me I hope. Was compleatly of wood and the upright support beams were 20 in. When WP moved itis employes to Stockton I went to SP. A few years latter I noticed a glow coming out of Sacramento on the swing shift, It was the House on fire, sixty miles away, burned untill the next day, sorry about that I degreeeeesed a bit.

The Oroville Roundhouse was 16 0r 17 stalls, 11 stalls could store 2 GP 40s, a drop pit on #10, the pit elevator was mounted on a carrage that rolled under #9 and raised up on #8 on rails, so that traction motors could be removed from a locomotive,dropped down, rolled crosswise through the tunnel and raised back up to the floor level, then towed with a three wheed crain car, to back of the shop extension to the traction motor repair area and wheel lathe.
I have figured out how to make the tread lathe, cant wait to start it but have a few other bridges to build first.

[orsonroy]

I'd personally scratchbuild it out of Evergreen styrene and either sell off the roundhouse or find someplace else on the layout to use it. But, if you're going to use the existing kit, why not just flip the walls around, sand them smooth, and then either scribe on wood siding or add scale 1x2's to make board & batten siding? The window and door openings are already there, and it'd be cheaper than making new walls (which is basically 2.3 of the kit anyway). And while you COULD use new windows (Tichy or Grandt Line), it'd be simpler to change the existing ones from sashless masonry windows to "conventional" windows with a little 1x2 and 1x3 material glued around them.

Just a few randon thoughts...

[Anonymous]

Besides all the great ideas here, you could build it, then call Sears and have them stop by and put vinyl siding on it for you. Maybe they could "install garage door openers" at the same time. (Tongue in cheek!). The Walther's kit can be a great help in supply "templates" and some of the locations for "blocking" for the roof etc..
Get those other projects done and show us your progress in pictures!!
Will