So I thought I'd share a few small projects I'm working on that don't really merit a whole thread to themselves.
The first of these, a swimming pool, was the easiest. I took an old plasticville swimming pool, painted it, used some more realistic looking water, then added a layer of water-simulating plastic sheeting over top:
Next I'm making a Plasticville Frosty Bar (or, in this case, Fro Bar) into a lemonade stand. The lemon will sit over top as a novelty sign & the interior of the stand will be detailed and LED lit. So far, I've gotten it cleaned-up and starting painting... so just getting started. Updates to follow:
Next, I've been converting a Lionel light tower into a rusty water tower. This project is about 80% done - here's my progress to date with more to come:
The tower itself consists of a light tower base, with a French fried onion can, and a cut-down roof to a lionel water tower. The "railing" of the light tower was covered with scale-size metal roofing material. The onion can is covered with a printed water tower sheet metal pattern (glued in place), with some dry-brushed rust over top.
Here, local vandals have been inspired by Joe Diffie to scrawl their love in John Deere green, in letters ~3 scale feet high:
Decided the roof looked better in silver:
...and added a red warning flasher to the top:
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inally, I've been working sporadically on an MTH trailer. I'd previously detailed the outside, but am now going back to LED-ify the interior light and add Christmas lights to the exterior:
First, I removed the existing light mount, popped out the bulb, and drilled through it so I could insert a pre-wired LED in its place. Pretty handy way to re-use the existing mount. Here it is before I removed the original bulb:
Here's the exterior as originally improved. I added better skirting and did some light weathering, then put some "curtains" inside:
New to the outside is a stringer of Christmas lights, which should look wonderfully tacky year round. Blue tape is temporary while the glue dries:
Christmas lights and the interior light LED and wired to the same 12V feeder:
