The boiler house is complete!
I haven't mounted it on the layout yet. I'll do that tomorrow. Today, I took it outside, and using image stacking software, made some deep depth of field shots in natural light.
As you can see, downspouts are on, as are the flashing and guy wires for the stacks. I soaked the completed gutter assemblies in "Blacken It" from MicroMark. This changes the brass color to almost look like aged copper, which I then smeared with Rub-n-Buff patina green cream. The finish that results is very believable.
I bit the bullet and re-drilled the stack which had the eyebolts facing in the wrong direction. This then allowed me to put the guys wires in the same pattern on both stacks.
To create a reasonable stack flashing using wine bottle foil, I needed to shape it to wrap about a beveled end. I took another piece of the pipe and sanded the same bevel on its end as the stacks. I then rolled the end over the foil and traced the curve it produced. I cut this out with a sharp #11 blade.
And here's the way it looked installed.
Lastly, here's a closeup of the downspouts on the main building side.
As I said, tomorrow I will install on the layout and take some more hi-res pictures. On the layout, the pictures will show it with the lights on. This was a nice project with lots of creative stuff plus a really neat building that works with the rest of the distillery complex.
Here's the SketchUp drawing that started it all. I changed the tall smoke stack to the installed stacks in this image.
