Model Power Silverado Station Project!

[Trainman440]

Hi!

You must be really bored, because you are reading a forum on a guy building a structure....

For the past two evenings, I have been working on assembling a Model Power Silverado Station kit!

PS My first time using an airbrush!

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Here's what I modified:

1. I painted the roof a grimy black, the walls Oxide red, the inside of the walls black, and the concrete bricks concrete color. 

(no pics, sorry)

2. I modifed the roof light by painting the rim yellow, and removing/replacing the molded white light with a real light! (I also added incandecent bulbs inside for building lighting). 

I originally used a bigger bulb, but it stuck out too much and I couldn't fit the roof on with the big bulb, so I tried to bend it, and broke it. That's why you see a smaller bulb inside a bigger glass bulb thingy...

3. I replaced the original poster/ads & signs with my own that I found on the internet and shruck the pics down to size. Luckily, my parents FINALLY bought a color printer, so I got the posters & signs in color

Original:

Notice how each picture is not ideal. I model 1950s so no Amtrak, Pepsi sign too big, the poster with "car" is boring, they spelled "toilet" as "toilett" (never seen a restroom with a sign saying "toilet"), I wish the office sign didn't have an arrow, etc.... The 2 I cut out on the bottom are okay, but I didnt really like them. 

New:

 

I decided to name the station as "Stanton" to memorialize one of my favorite movies "Unstoppable"! I got some old ads(cigarrete, beer, Coca cola, etc)

4. I cut down the unrealistic base. The base is sloped, and since I cut off the front and the back, the porch/woodenplatform is floating. When I add it on my layout, I will make sure to raise a few places to make it not look "floating"...

I followed the steps to build the station.

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Final results:

The light:

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Things I should of done that I forgot/was too lazy to change:

1. I didn't add a matte finish after I painted

2. I should of sanded some of the posters or sprayed a thin layer of white to make them look worn. 

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This project can still be improved, by adding an interior, and weathering it. 

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Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed my little project! Thanks for looking!

Comments/criticism is welcomed!

Charles

 

[RR_Mel]

I’m impressed!  Good looking station!  I’m not bored, this is a lot better than reading about Bluetooth.

 

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

[mlehman]

Charles,

I agree with Mel, nicely done. I was looking at one of those kits the other day as having potential for bashing, as your example shows.

[RR_Mel]

Your project really impressed me Charles, so much I went online to find a kit.  There isn’t much information available on the kit, the only size I could find is 12” x 10”. That seems too large for a small HO station.  Is that the size of the box or the built up station?

 

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

[Trainman440]

The station is small(look at the pic with the station next to the box).

I trimmed the base so mine isn't 10"x12", but instead roughly 6.5"x5"x3"...

The box is roughly 12.5"x8.5"x1.5". 

The kit contains 125+ pieces so maybe that's why the box is big. 

FYI The kit also includes a sprue full of shovels, picks, wheel barrows, sacks, boxes, etc

Charles

[RR_Mel]

Thanks Charles!  That helps a lot, that will easily fit in the space for my station.  I made all of my structures to be easily removable.  I have two stations that I can set in place and this will be number three.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

[UNCLEBUTCH]

[quote user="Trainman440"]You must be really bored, because you are reading a forum on a guy building a structure

We who are builders, would disagree,, You really took the care of the ''toy look''

I also just got my airbrush,your job looks way better. What paint did you use?

[MonkeyBucket]

Cheers for posting your pics and ideas mate...Great to see what others are doing with there models.

I just picked up the Walthers valley growers Grain elevator Kit...Looking forward to tweeking it.

Happy modelling

[chutton01]

There only a few (rectanglar) windows on the model, I see no reason why you couldn't mask them with painters-tape (blue, green, frog yellow, whatever) and give the station a few coats of dull-coat for a matte finish.

Also, "Toilett" is close to German "Toilette", and these sort of kits were normally produced in Central/Eastern Europe in the past.

Finally, the extra detail parts including with these Model Power (and AHM and Pola etc. - whoever had the molds and dies that week) were often the most useful parts...

[Trainman440]

Thankyou everyone for the positive comments!

UNCLEBUTCH

I also just got my airbrush,your job looks way better. What paint did you use?

 

I bought a cheap MASTER air compressor, and a economic, but professional Badger 105 Patriot Double action airbrush :D

The only paints in Modeltrainstuff in abundance is Model Master Arcrylic.

I used denatured alchol as a thinner...

As said in the OP, 

Walls & Chimney - Oxide Red(Boxcar red is almost the same)

Roof - Grimy Black

Stone sides - Concrete

Everything is in molded colors...

Hope this helps :D

Charles

[ATSFGuy]

Bravo Trainman440!

I tip my hat off to those of you who are able to scratchbuild models and kits and turn them into something unique.

I'm sure I would have a hard time trying to glue all those small pieces together.

BTW, what era are you modeling?

Nicely done

[John Busby]

Hi Trainman440

Always good to see what some one else is up to.

A well done job, I think I would have gone for a brick red for the chimney.

The facilities sign well over here that is what the sign would say toilet with the male and female pictogram's on the sign and the disabeld one as well.

I think that clearly illistrates the choose signs carefully to make sure they fit the area modeled and the era.

regards John