It was a very productive long week-end in regards to train stuff. Since completing the station, I've had a renewed passion in all things modeling. So much so that I placed an order for some more structures. Specifically, Vollmer models 7642 and 7641. The first one is a restaurant. It looks identical to the railroad man's corner house, but with awnings. The other one is a railroad man's house. I ordered two of each to sit on each side of the cathedral for symmetry. The plan is to place a large market square in front of the cathedral, which means moving the cathedral back. Unfortunately that also means I have to replace the benchwork with a longer one. The colour scheme of these new structures also needs to be rendered more subtle. They are red coming out of the box, which conflicts with the copper green roofs of the station and cathedral.
.Speaking of colour, the new copper green roofs on both structures turned out very well despite my poor painting abilities. Thank goodness the Tamiya spray paints are very forgiving. I wanted to replicate the look and feel of Canada's parliament building. The glaring difference is that the parliament building architecture is Gothic, whereas my cathedral is Romanesque and the station is Baroque. Not only are my trains a mix, but so are my buildings. If my trains and layout was a dog, it would be part akita (Shinkansen), part shepherd (ICE) and part poodle (TGV).
As I indicated in the previous post, I had to build a brand new platform to accommodate the station. This went quicker than I had expected and I'm pretty happy with the results. There was a minor mishap with me spilling the bottle of solvent on my workbench. Some of the solvent soaked the platform, but fortunately it was only on the surface covered by the building. As a result, I am now very careful where I place the solvent. Ordinarily I'm a very cautious person, but I'm a klutz at four in the morning.
The only complexity was assembling the steps. I wanted to make sure each step was equally spaced. So I built a little jig to make this a breeze. Being a novice at all this, I was pretty proud of myself for coming up with this template all on my own, although I'm pretty sure professional modelers already know about this technique. However, I've never seen any postings on this so I thought I'd share this with other novice modelers.
I also finished the awnings for the station. However I think I'll only keep the front awning. The back awning doesn't seem to match the track platform terminal layout. Design of the ceiling structures for the track platforms are on hold, while I work on the city centre. Stay tuned!
.Speaking of colour, the new copper green roofs on both structures turned out very well despite my poor painting abilities. Thank goodness the Tamiya spray paints are very forgiving. I wanted to replicate the look and feel of Canada's parliament building. The glaring difference is that the parliament building architecture is Gothic, whereas my cathedral is Romanesque and the station is Baroque. Not only are my trains a mix, but so are my buildings. If my trains and layout was a dog, it would be part akita (Shinkansen), part shepherd (ICE) and part poodle (TGV).
As I indicated in the previous post, I had to build a brand new platform to accommodate the station. This went quicker than I had expected and I'm pretty happy with the results. There was a minor mishap with me spilling the bottle of solvent on my workbench. Some of the solvent soaked the platform, but fortunately it was only on the surface covered by the building. As a result, I am now very careful where I place the solvent. Ordinarily I'm a very cautious person, but I'm a klutz at four in the morning.
The only complexity was assembling the steps. I wanted to make sure each step was equally spaced. So I built a little jig to make this a breeze. Being a novice at all this, I was pretty proud of myself for coming up with this template all on my own, although I'm pretty sure professional modelers already know about this technique. However, I've never seen any postings on this so I thought I'd share this with other novice modelers.
I also finished the awnings for the station. However I think I'll only keep the front awning. The back awning doesn't seem to match the track platform terminal layout. Design of the ceiling structures for the track platforms are on hold, while I work on the city centre. Stay tuned! 
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