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Bill, very nice tree lot there. That's what I'm aiming for. I also have some electrical wiring I need to hide and got started on that.

Sean, that's the goal.

Started on the workers shed, painting the walls and base and then weathering it with some light dust / dirt around the bottom of the walls. I already had on hand some Com-Art dark rust airbrush paint that I'd try out. Here's the as-molded part color and a painted test piece. It looks fairly red in this picture, but it was just sprayed and the booth led lighting really enhances the color.

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Here are all the walls after airbrushing with the dark rust, and then hitting them with Dullcoat to seal in the paint and take off any sheen.

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Airbrushed the shed base with Com-Art smoke color as I'm going to place one of the burning trash barrels on the deck and ash and soot would be tracked all over that area by the workers. I realize anybody with two brain cells would not likely put a hot, burning trash barrel on a wooden deck, but... I need to hide the wiring.

Detailed the window trim with flat white paint. Also painted the window frames with Testors drab olive. The Lionel kit does not come with window glazing so I glued on to the frames some scrap window glazing I had leftover from another kit. Since I'm going to light the interior of the shed, all the wiring I'm going to cram in there would be visible. So to obscure the wiring I rubbed the glazed windows with 220 grit sandpaper to make them opaque and give them a cold, frosted look as well.

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Lightly airbrushed the lower portions of the walls with Com-Art soft dirt color, as this shed is in an unpaved empty lot.

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Assembled the shed. Hit it again in some spots with the soft dirt paint to blend in the walls and base better. Left the area around the trash drum colored with smoke. Just visible in this photo, I've lightly touched up the roof with white for snow and frost.

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Getting to the electrical stage now.

All these led lights are from Evan Designs. Epoxyed a warm white Mega chip to the shed's ceiling. Inserted the flickering red led mentioned previously through a hole I drilled in the shed's base and placed one of the 55 gallon drums over it. To get all the wiring into the shed, I needed to cut a hole in the base inside the shed. This Lionel kit has a non-functioning light for the shed, so I replaced that with a gooseneck led light, painting the shade a flat forest green color. The gooseneck light mounting tube is fairly long and would have hit the sloped roof of the shed. So before installing it, I very gently bent it downward to avoid hitting the roof. Once I had clearance, I epoxyed it in place.

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So here's where I'm at. Testing the led gooseneck light.

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Now with the burning tree trimming drum. Placed an Arttista figure a bought, #1398, Man Ice Fishing, next to that burning drum to get warm. It comes already painted and works perfect there in that setting. That figure comes with a thin wire fishing pole that I did not use for obvious reasons. Placed one of the bound trees and the other worker by the shed to see if this collection of stuff comes together scale wise. Looks appropriate I think.

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Next, on to the tree lot base.

Tom

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