I made a punch list on Apple Numbers to keep track of all the little bits that need to be completed on the Boiler House and started ticking off the completed items, and today I completed quite a few. First up was putting in a door to the distillery with framing around it and the back service door.
This door was not a fancy laser cut affair of a pre-made Grandt Line door. It was scratch built using some sheet styrene with an appliqué of manila file folder paper. I lost the box of Grandt Line doors when building the train station. I had just watched a fellow make a large scale model of a Boeing 777 entirely out of manila file folder paper. It is absolutely astounding and if you haven't seen it, search it out on YouTube. He even has working oleo struts in the landing gear using the same material rolled up tightly. I was so inspired of using this ubiquitous raw material that I scratch built all the doors from this. You need a nice sharp #11 blade. Then I found the Grandt Line doors and didn't use the paper ones. So I had this one laying around and put it to use. The framing is strip wood. It's kind of crude, but will be invisible when the roof goes on.
I finished up the relief valve. I put the apparatus into the boiler house and figured out where the piping should enter the distillery, marked it and drilled the wall to accept the pipes. I then added a stub end to the steam line to meet the wall opening, and then put the condensate line to the side of the receiver.
It was finally time for painting. I've taken this interior as far as was necessary based on visibility, and I was anxious to put some color on everything.
I'm using Tamiya dark green for the apparatus, yellow for steam lines, royal blue for feed water lines, bright green for condensate, and orange for blow down and relief lines. I got as far as the green, yellow and blue lines. The Tamiya paint appears to have some adhesion problems on the PVC. I got some green coming off while masking a section for the feed water check valve which I could remove prior to painting. The tape didn't pull the paint (Tamiya masking tape), but it was just when a toll touched the surface.
The exhaust flues are going to be covered with spiral wrapped aluminum foil to simulate the galvanized steel insulation wrapping these big pipes. That's why you see the green paint only partially covering the big pipes. I'm also thinking about shooting some Tamiya clear gloss top coat. I'm not sure... Monday, I'll finish the painting and install all the equipment in the building. The trusses will come next and then the roofs will go on. I'll spot the location for the flue continuation on the roof, and bevel the flue's end to match the roof pitch. They'll be the last thing to go on.
