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Okay, so here's another short update...

 

The Sculptamold wasn't dry enough yesterday to do any sanding so I did some more work on the station project. Added some more interior walls and started messing around with trying to make my own stairway by using the notching tool and fixture like I did for the roof rafters.

 Interior 0.3

 Here's the rendering with the stairs, flooring and interior paneling.

 Interior Rendering

 

I'm going to build a stairway to the second floor that is accessed by the side door next to the store room. I've been making a rendering in CorelDraw to get the ideas down before building them out of styrene. I'm going to have to fabricate waiting room seating. Anyone have any ideas?

 Stairway 01

I'm doing the stairway using a similar technique as I used to make the notches in the shed roof rafters. 

 

I also decided that instead of painting the inside walls I would draw them in CorelDraw, glue them to thicker stock and then install them into the station. This would be done after the exterior is painted and the window glazing installed. The double thickness, plus the styrene walls should prevent light leakage to the outside. There will be a ceiling and floor between each story. After sticking the printouts onto the heavier stock, the windows are opened up with the #11 blade.

 NY&O Station Interior Walls

 

Some slight adjustments are needed to fit these inside the walls since the plans I used were actually the plans to cut the exterior walls. I used .040 thick novelty siding from Evergreen for these walls so these drawings are at least .080" too wide.

 

I also found and downloaded a parquet floor tile that I imported into CorelPhotoPaint and then sized and copied over and over to get a full sheet of flooring. This was printed out on glossy photo paper. I will initially size the flooring to the floor plan I've previously drawn and then final fit it to the station's plastic floor. This file is attached.

 

I made additional interior doors; these at 30" scale width. I did something different with these. I used spray glue instead of the MicroMark PSA liquid glue. I adhered them to the Styrene and cut them out using the #11 blade. Before applying glue, I cut out the centers. This made a much cleaner installation with no excess glue to clean up.

 

I also cut the little center raised panels differently by spraying them before cutting and cut them on a poly bag. This worked pretty well also. To make sure they were not going anywhere I used some Tamiya flat spray. Unfortunately, this released some of the spray glue so I went back and used some light applications of thin CA to seal them. Some of the manila file folder stock started delaminating in this method. This might be a draw back in using this material, versus real Bristol Board.

  

Today, the Sculptamold was dry enough to sand and I used the Black and Decker Mouse to do it with a coarse pad. I then went back and put a skin coat of DAP pre-mixed joint compound on the road edges that align with the table edges, the road surface at the back of the city, and the ramps leading down to the RR Tracks. When this is dry tomorrow, I'll give it a quick sanding and then it will be ready for paint, weathering and ground cover.

 

Here's the grade crossing with the joint compound applied.

 City Blend 16

 

It really looks like a mess, but should look nice when the tape is removed...I hope. The picture does show the smoother surface with the joint compound application in the area just abutting the track.

Parquet Sample

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  • City Blend 16
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