I wasn't going to bother to paint the inside of my Atlas RH, but the more I look through those big windows I've decided I should do something. It's hard to find color pics. Most are B&W. The common thing I see is white walls sometimes with a very ugly industrial green going about 6' up from the floor and cation yellow painted around the base of any support beams. Anyone do anything like this or have any other input? Pics would be great!
Depending on the 'history' of the RH you are doing it could be anything from the colour arrangement you already have in mind to a grungy mangy mess of a RH I have---there was one I saw that was just painted an eggshell white---I don't even want to think about how long that job lasted!!
If it is based on a prototype it would be painted based on information that would/could/should be gleaned from any Historical Society that would have the colour chips
Then again---a few RH's were just left with the wood etc exposed---or just sealed with some such----
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Grungy dark, gray, but the roundhouses I have been in showed signs of having been whitewashed (the cheap watered down paint that Tom Sawyer was painting the fence with). Reefer white comes close to the tone, but it is never "pure" -- probably even when freshly applied over a surface that was likely not cleaned or primed. And the whitewash would also perhaps be only as tall as a man with a brush on a stick could reach.
Dave Nelson
Think cheap.
Think fast and easy maintaince.
Think about big dirty engines requiring much loving care and labor.
I have never ever seen anything inside a industry clean except maybe those large rock/sand tubs around the common soap/water sink inside the lockerrooms.
NO one has time to attend to these walls or have the inclination to keep payroll for people to clean em.
A dirty shop with good running engines is a happy shop. A clean shop with queens not running is not a happy shop.
If shop must be cleaned, they take down the two inch fire hose and crack open the main a little bit, a quick sweep of the walls will get most of it down towards the bay doors or floor drains. Usually reserved for when mad mad super knows that big big boss is coming to visit.
This one was dark grey from the floor to about 6' up the wall, and the rest was white - well, fairly white. The photo is from the early- or mid-'80s.
Wayne
Most were probably painted with whatever color the paint shop had a lot of and didn't need for patching up rolling stock or locomotives. Light colors would probably have been preferable to help with the lighting.
The two roundhouses I remember in my home town were brick so they were not painted.
In the days of steam, especially, the walls would soon become sooty black.
As mentioned earlier, the interior painting was typically done with "what's available" paint. This could be the ever popular boxcar red, to whitewash (?) to whatever. In any case, it would soon be very dirty with all the nasty stuff that goes with the territory.
I would certainly paint the inside - probably a darker color, and weather it a lot. In any case, the paint will keep light inside and eliminate plastic kit views when one looked thru the doors/windows.
Mobilman44
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This is my Atlas roundhouse. It's my first building interior.
Since I also installed interior lighting, I was concerned about "glow-through" in this model. The walls of the Atlas are thinner than those of most models, so they really needed a light block. The first thing I did was spray paint the insides flat black. In retrospect, that probably wasn't necessary, but it didn't hurt. Next, I downloaded a "cinderblock" pattern, put a bunch of them end-to-end in a Word document, and printed them out. I used cardstock rather than regular printer paper, so it's more substantial and provides a better light-block. I used this home-made brick paper to cover the insides. Hard to see, but I even downloaded era-appropriate pin-ups for above the workbench.
Here's another view:
I wanted the light color, rather than a dingy look which would probably be more correct. The light walls reflect light better, and make the structure more visible inside.
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Hmmm...Never thought about using paper brick pattern inside.
I followed the manufacturer's recommendation on this craftsman kit from South River. Flat black to the base of the windows and eggshell white on up. I'm guessing this was for practical purposes. The lower level would be more likely to get dinged up so the black band would hide a lot of that while the upper white walls would reflect light better which would be better for the workers. Where my roundhouse is positioned, the interior is barely visible but it's still a nice touch. They recommended a similar treatment for the interior post-and-beam structure but I decided it wasn't worth the effort and just painted the whole thing a basic gray.
By far the most common interior color for anything owned by a railroad - roundhouses, stations, shacks, cabooses, passenger cars, etc. would be a light green....about the green Kalmbach uses on the left of our entries to show how many entries we've made. Tamiya "cockpit green" would be a good choice - green was also used for the interiors of airplanes, their "gray green" is good too.
What is interesting is that there is a wall every three bays of the roundhouse. A natural break, same as the kits.
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_136/f_05358.gif
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When the Field BC Roundhouse was downsized from around 18 stalls to 2 stalls and the boilerhouse. The boiler house was in use right until the roundhouse was finally demolished.
Smithers roundhouse pix.
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A roundhouse with no turntable
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_77/d_08123.gif
Roundhouse without a turntable; turntable without a roundhouse:
http://www.rmli.org/greenport_roundhouse.png
Dave
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steemtrayn Roundhouse without a turntable; turntable without a roundhouse: http://www.rmli.org/greenport_roundhouse.png
Interesting!! Any idea as to where & when? 18something?
lvanhen steemtrayn Roundhouse without a turntable; turntable without a roundhouse: http://www.rmli.org/greenport_roundhouse.png Interesting!! Any idea as to where & when? 18something?
Here:
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