@BradFish1 posted:Neal, Did you scratch build Rose tower? It's magnificent!
Brad,
Thanks for you comment. The tower is a plastic Walthers model made many years ago. It sat on my layout for years in the molded plastic colors of yellow with brown trim, and maroon window frames. It is not precise replica of a Pennsy tower, but it certainly has that Pennsy look to it. Atlas bought the dies from Walthers, and I begged them to reissue it in kit form so I could easily paint it into PRR colors, but they never did. So I finally bought some very fine brushes and the correct colors of paint for the Pennsy, and repainted it by hand. It went a lot better than I thought with very little paint slop.
I did scratchbuild the interior since it is so visible with those large windows, and finally I weathered it with chalks. I never thought much of it before, but after reworking it ended up being one of my favorite scenes/structures on the entire layout.
